Auction firm Warwick and Warwick is visiting the county next week to offer valuations of old postcards, stamps, coins, cigarette cards and medals.
Experts will also give advice to collectors on how to sell their treasures.
The company says many people do not realise that collections of old picture postcards, especially street scenes with trams, early […]

A station wagon that Frank Sinatra bought so he could drive anonymously around Hollywood has sold for £5,700.
A Manchester dealer purchased the wood panel-effect Chrysler estate car, owned by the star between 1985 and 1991, at Brands Hatch racing circuit in Kent.
It was the last vehicle that Sinatra drove before he got a chauffeur, according […]

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has postponed a new 3G auction which would likely raise 2 bln stg, the Times reported.
Mobile companies had complained that the auction was premature and badly thought out and the regulator acknowledged that the ‘wide range of issues’ raised necessitated further consultation, the paper wrote.
The sell off has been pushed back […]

Capeplates.co.uk reports on the latest series of private number plates that are being released on June 5th 2007. The arrival of the 57 series of car registrations will see thousands of new private number plates entering the market and demand for the best personalised car registrations is expected to be high. The most obvious combination […]

A REWARD has been offered for the return of a £1.5million haul of valuable antique statues snatched in a raid on a flat in Bournemouth.
Burglars entered a first floor flat in Studland Road, between noon and 11.20pm on Thursday, May 17, and stole 12 Art Deco statues as well as cameras and electrical equipment.
Now police […]

Bonhams became the first international auction house in the world to hold a sale dedicated to South African art outside of South Africa. Enthusiastic bidders packed the saleroom at Bonhams in London, 101 New Bond Street as three world record prices were smashed by some of the country’s major artists. The total price achieved for […]

A bar of gold bullion worth more than £1,000 has been sold at Humraz Auctions for just 1p.
The auction winner, 36 year-old Paul Myring, a retail manager from Bishop Stortford, could not believe his luck when he won the gold bar with the lowest unique bid.
“It is incredible that no-one else bid 1p. Every […]