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A piece of Scotland’s motoring history is to go on sale at an auction of collectors’ automobiles in London.
The 107-year-old Argyll car is one of the earliest models built at the firm’s first factory in Bridgeton, Glasgow.
The car, which has a five horse-power engine and a top speed of 25mph, is expected to fetch as [...]

A bicycle which was ridden by Princess Diana when she was a child is due to be auctioned next month.
The Tracker bike will be sold by auctioneers Keys at Aylsham, Norfolk, on 18 May.
The auction house says the Princess of Wales, who died 10 years ago, used the bike when she lived in Althorp, Northamptonshire, [...]

Neil Banwell brought the Sea Harrier for under £10,000 on the auction website.
The jet, which led the first attack on Port Stanley airfield in May 1982, can’t fly as it came without its £250,000 engine.
But father-of-three Neil, 39, plans to restore it to its former glory and pick up a cheap used engine from aircraft [...]

Chris Martin is auctioning off his favourite Dolce & Gabbana jacket to raise funds for humanitarian relief in Africa.
The Yellow singer’s black jacket will be one of a number of celebrity memorabilia items going under the hammer as part of a 10-day eBay auction to aid Oxfam.
Sir Elton John and actress Sienna Miller have also [...]

Nicholas Kyprianou of Thornton, who created false service histories to make the mileage appear genuine, was prosecuted by Leicestershire County Council’s Trading Standards and was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court.
Kyprianou was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for supplying six second-hand cars, all of which had false mileage readings.
Over 300,000 miles were removed from the [...]

A painting by cult “guerrilla artist” Banksy has sold for £288,000 at auction – a new record for the artist.
Space Girl and Bird, which sold for 20 times its estimate, was commissioned by Blur for their Think Tank album cover.
It was sold to a telephone bidder from the US. Earlier, a Banksy self-portrait showing an [...]

One of the most rare and sought-after whiskies in the world is to go under the hammer at Bonhams in London this week. A bottle of Johnnie Walker 1805 – one of only 200 in existence – is expected to fetch between £12,000 – 16,000 at Bonhams’ Sale of Fine Wine and Spirits at 101 [...]

Shrewsbury auctioneers Hall’s has been dealt a blow after a bid to relocate its auction house and offices from Shrewsbury town centre to the new livestock market was rejected.
The Welsh Bridge-based firm had wanted to relocate to Battlefield to provide a purpose-built fine art and general sale room and offices next to its livestock market [...]

The top lot, an oil portrait that could be of fellow artist Lucian Freud or Bacon’s lover George Dyer, went to a telephone bidder for £470,000. It had been estimated to sell for £18,000.
Among the items were three studies of dogs, one of which went for £305,500, including buyer’s premium, against an estimate of £3,000.
Four [...]

Google has aggressively tried to buy its way into the market dominated by eBay’s (EBAY) PayPal service since launching last summer. Google recently reported spending nearly $60 million at the end of last year to promote Checkout, mostly in the form of coupons offered to consumers to give it a spin. In addition, Google cracked [...]

Only a few weeks ago eBay announced a new feature called “Markdown Manager” for its eBay Stores subscribers. The free tool allows sellers to offer discounted pricing by putting Fixed Price and Store Inventory items “on sale.” Based upon this brand new eBay feature x-percent.com is one of the world’s first websites to list only [...]

During a reverse auction, a customer allows suppliers only a short window of time to bid down the price on their products or services. The practice was pioneered by automotive and aerospace buyers, which used reverse auctions to procure commodity parts. Today, many large companies use them to buy everything from paper clips to their [...]

A collection of previously unseen paintings, letters, diaries and photographs from artist Francis Bacon’s “famously chaotic” studio goes on sale today.
The sale, by Ewbank fine art auctioneers in Surrey, comes in the same week as the 15th anniversary of Bacon’s death. He died on April 28 1992.
Its appearance on the market will arouse interest among [...]

New homes were found for 61 popular classics at H&H’s Spring sale at Buxton last week (April 18). They ranged in price from £40,700 for a 1958 Jaguar XK150 SE Drophead Coupe to £700 for a 1984 Jaguar XJS Coupe