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Middle-Earth history works edited by Christopher and two copies of The Hobbit with interesting links

This jersey dates from between 1886 and 1890, making it not just the oldest Middlesbrough FC shirt but possibly the oldest Football League shirt extant.

The Franco-Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey bridged the gap between Orient and Occident and is regarded as the first exponent of modern Turkish painting

With Arsenal still setting the pace at the top of the Premier League as we went to press, several lots offered at Graham Budd’s (24% buyer’s premium) sale on March 7-8 acted as a reminder of the club’s formative days.

Middle market Old Masters, longstanding family ownership, market freshness... what’s not to like?

Sold at the high-estimate £3500 at a Kent auction was a German facsimile edition of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

In the 007 collecting scene Dr No (1962) is usually the film poster buyers are most keen to say yes to.

This polychrome advertising plaque features a portrait of Ninon de L’Enclos, a notorious courtesan who scandalised France by numerous affairs with prominent statesmen and church notables.

On November 26, 1976, the Sex Pistols released their first single, Anarchy in the UK.

Shown here is the original 15ips (inches per second) tape of, by repute, Rod Stewart’s first recording on June 18, 1964, together with a second copy.

“A very rare and early item of cricketing history” is how Knights Sporting Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) describes the large silk handkerchief shown here.

Gold has become the standard to aspire to at the Olympics but for the first version of the modern summer Games it was silver.

Richard Beale, the owner and managing director of London coin auction house Roma Numismatics, has been arrested in New York in connection with the sale of a record-breaking classical coin.

Stourbridge saleroom Fieldings Auctioneers has had a change in ownership.

This exceptional George I walnut and feather-banded architect’s desk was hammered down at seven times its low estimate.

A version of one of Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s (c.1564- 1638) best-known compositions, 'The Tax Collector’s Office', will be offered at auction after being discovered behind a partially hidden door in a home in northern France.

An original owner of considerable military renown made the difference when a c.1820 gold fob seal came up for auction in London on March 14.

This mid-18th century Maltese walnut and marquetry bureau cabinet was the top lot of the du Boulay Collection at Duke’s.