Volatility has hit the trade for straw with few new-crop supplies available.
Demand for available straw has outstripped supply with few end-of-season stocks available. Auctioneers report complete clearances at recent standing straw sales.
Ann Morton of Rugby auctioneer Howkins & Harrison sold just over 1500 acres between Coventry and Northampton and said values were slightly up on […]

Bonhams will be selling a Collection of Royal Navy items belonging to the late Reserve Officer, Commander Norman Morley DSC listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most decorated Reserve Officer of all time.
The collection includes an 1827 pattern Naval Officer’s Sword, the commander’s shoulder boards and his medals containing for instance the […]

A huge stuffed pike caught in Norfolk in 1956 is being sold at auction.
The pike, weighing in at 30lband measuring 4ft in length, was mounted by a taxidermist after it was caught by Donald Tate.
The Herts angler landed the fish in Hickling Broad. The pike is expected to fetch up to £6,000 when it is […]

A letter handwritten by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to Gen. Robert E. Lee on April 10, 1865, at Appomattox Courthouse will be auctioned early next month by an Atlanta auction house.
The letter, which discusses terms of surrender of the Confederate Army, will be sold on the weekend of Aug. 4 and 5 by the auction […]

A one tonne, £200,000 bronze statue stolen for scrap has been found safe in Streatham.
Officers from the Met’s art and antiques unit found the Transformation-Tree of life statue by artist Helaine Blumenfield chained to fire escape railings in the garden of a block of flats on July 10, two years after it was stolen from […]

Canadian auction house RM will be holding an event at Battersea Park in the heart of London that will feature over 50 cars from the private collection of Mr Formula One, Bernard Charles “Bernie” Ecclestone.
Ecclestone has collected a variety of vehicles over the years, mixing priceless racing machinery with an eclectic selection of […]

An Italian antiques dealer has recently put up for auction a mint condition, fully operational Enigma machine on eBay. The machine, dated circa 1938, will be sold to the highest bidder in just over a week, but after 2 days of bidding the price has already reached US $16,600.00.
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