Salthouse Mills is back up for sale through London auctioneer Erinaceous Auctions on Friday with a guide price of £2.25m.
It comes after it failed to sell during a similar auction run by Barnard Marcus with a guide price of £3m last month.
The property was originally priced at £6.5m just five months ago.
An online advertisement […]

On Saturday, auctioneers will attempt to affix a price to a seemingly priceless piece of history.
The 345-year-old Bray House, located at 100 Pepperrell Road, is Maine’s oldest home, built in 1662 by shipwright John Bray of Plymouth, England.
From its beginnings as a two-room house with an attached lean-to, the house grew into a mansion […]

It was announced in the budget that the government will begin to auction radio spectrum currently used by the Ministry of Defence in 2008.
A study of the spectrum allocated to the MoD will be completed in May 2008. This will identify how much spectrum the MoD can spare. A full plan for the sale of […]

A new world record price was achieved today (21 March 2007) at Bonhams’ salerooms in Knightsbridge London. One of the world’s most significant archaeological discoveries of recent times of a scientific instrument fetched £138,000. It sold to an anonymous telephone bidder after a lengthy battle against a number of buyers present in the room.
The incredibly […]

A conman who funded a £700-a-week cocaine habit by selling fictitious goods on internet auction site eBay has been given nine months’ youth custody.
Mold Crown Court heard how Timothy Franklyn, 20, of Denbigh, raised £13,000 for his habit after offering fake £1,000 holiday vouchers for sale.
He admitted eight deception charges and asked for 13 others […]

Bonhams is selling a piece of fishing history – a monster 30 lb pike landed in Hickling Broad, Norfolk in 1956 and subsequently mounted by the leading taxidermist of the day, J. Cooper and Sons of Hownslow. This fine cased pike almost four foot in length is estimated to sell for £4,000 to £6,000 at […]

Sir Henry Segrave, who was knighted for his record-breaking achievements on land and water, was the first human to exceed 200mph on land. During his tragically short life, he smashed both the World Land Speed Record (no fewer than three times) and the World Water Speed Record. He was the first to hold both land […]