International

The gun Pat Garrett used to kill Billy the Kid has been sold for a world auction record for any firearm at Bonhams in Los Angeles.

As the Silent Generation passes and Baby Boomers choose to divest, large deposits of once fashionable art and antiques are heading for auction in the US.

Collection now up for sale was owned by soldier killed in Korea but kept safe by his brother

Apple founder Steve Jobs rarely signed autographs so a signature from the man behind the Apple computer, the iPod and the iPhone, is in hot demand.

Away from London, some exceptional coin sales coming up in Europe include a number of outstanding British issues.

Regulators hold their own distinct appeal for collectors who like their aesthetic and are interested in their historic horological function as precision timepieces.

New York sale maintains run of high JK Rowling prices while Dr Seuss surfaces also in UK

Estimated at €50,000 but sold for €405,000 (£346,275) in a sale held in Turin by was a 1482 edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia.

A recent sale in New York was led at $65,000 (£47,100) by a disbound but rare example of the work of Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-95).

On September 14 Sotheby’s New York will be offering a select auction of early Meissen porcelain that includes pieces created for the collections of Augustus the Strong, who founded the famous factory.

The American Flyer 'G Fox & Co' boxcar is one of the “most desired trains a collector can own” according to Philip Weiss from the eponymous auction house in Lynbrook, New York.

The late songwriter/record producer Aaron Schroeder (1926-2009) built an international music-publishing network with Abby, his wife and business partner of 49 years.

Robert Souch of Souchebys Antiques in New Zealand has been in the business for more than 30 years and says he has to be “eclectic to survive” in the South Island. He sells a wide range of antiques and collectables but art, musical instruments and ceramics are his three specialties.

More than 200 lots of paintings, furniture and works of art from a number of different consignors will be on offer in Cottone’s auction on September 18.

Nearly 200 items of Al Capone memorabilia are coming to the market for the first time after being consigned to a California auction by his granddaughters.

Auction Team Breker is holding its first sale of the autumn season on September 24-25 in Cologne.

George Eliot’s much-admired novel 'Middlemarch…' made its first appearance in a parts issue in 1871.

The record for American ceramics – previously held by Salisbury’s Woolley & Wallis – was smashed this month by a ‘Dave the Slave’ jar.