The compass which helped to create the legend of Lawrence of Arabia, steering him across the desert on a camel during the Arab revolt against the Turks in 1916-18, was sold yesterday for £264,000, together with a cheap watch and an inscribed cigarette case.
The startling price at the Christie’s auction - paid by an anonymous […]

A 100 million-year-old stingray fossil failed to sell when it went up for auction.
The fossil, valued at £10,000, was in the first Scottish sale of fossils and minerals in Edinburgh.
The 2ft-long fossil is the same species which killed crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, 44, on September 4 when the barb of a stingray pierced his chest […]

Christie’s launched extra October sales,and this year is offering art valued at 30 million pounds.
It aims not only at wealthy buyers vying for top lots like Peter Doig’s “Pink Mountain”, valued at 500-700,000 pounds, or Marlene Dumas’ “The Cover-Up” (350-450,000 pounds), but also at younger collectors looking for less expensive art.
Christie’s is also concentrating on […]

A top London gallery owner and international auctioneers on Wednesday announced plans to cash in on the booming contemporary art market ahead of an annual fair that attracts hundreds of collectors to the city.
Jay Jopling, one of the world’s leading gallerists who works with contemporary art stars like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, opened a […]

Internet auction house eBay will make changes to its site after discussions with the UK’s Information Commissioner and civil rights group Privacy International.
ZDNet UK has learnt that eBay has agreed to make changes to its Web site to make it easier for users to close accounts and track personal e-commerce transactions, following a complaint by […]

A collection of watercolours attributed to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was sold for 118,000 pounds (224,000 dollars) at auction in Britain Tuesday.
Two protestors, one dressed as Hitler, stormed the sales rooms at Jefferys auctioneers in Lostwithiel, a small town in Cornwall in south-west Britain, but were removed by security guards.
The collection, which was discovered in […]

Ofcom has announced the six companies that have qualified to bid in the forthcoming auction of radio spectrum for wireless radio services.
The companies bidding for the 4 megahertz of radio spectrum are: AirRadio Ltd; Arqiva Ltd; Motorola Ltd; The Joint Radio Company Ltd; T-Mobile (UK) Ltd and Ventura Team Spectrum One Ltd.
A sealed-bid auction is […]