A signed photo of Marilyn Monroe sold at auction for £9,000 in a collection of 1,000 images that together raised more than £100,000.
The items were a small part of a collection of more than 10,000 autographs owned by Alan Robinson, who spent 30 years waiting outside London theatres and attending awards ceremonies and auctions to [...]

The main structure of the largest straw bale building in the UK is nearing completion near Stansted airport. Pioneers of straw bale building in the UK, amazonails of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, are now completing the straw bale walls of the 1,100 sq m (11,800 sq ft)auction room and offices.
The design, with straw bales infilling [...]

Liverpool writer Carla Lane is selling original scripts of her TV series on eBay to keep her struggling animal sanctuary open.
The writer, who wrote hit series The Liver Birds and Bread, said the sanctuary would not be able to continue unless she raised more money.
Animal rights activist Mrs Lane, who famously returned her OBE to [...]

A 157-year-old whisky was sold for more than 29,000 pounds on Friday, setting what is thought to be a world record auction price for a bottle of Scotch.
The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear’s auctioneers in Glasgow for 29,400 pounds to an anonymous telephone bidder, beating the distillery [...]

AN 18-CARAT gold watch one of Wales’ most famous adventurers used to pay an African chief went under the hammer yesterday for more than four times the asking price.
Best known for his adventures in Africa and the quip “Dr Livingstone, I presume”, Henry Morton Stanley bought the watch before travelling as part of an expedition [...]

A four-day auction of spare Concorde parts is due to begin in Toulouse, south west France.
The auction is to raise funds for an aeronautical museum for the French city, with the centrepiece one of the two supersonic jets it owns.
Items on sale include a 1.2 ton landing gear, a Mach-monitoring speedometer and a windshield.
Concorde was [...]

Enthusiastic bidders packed the saleroom at Bonhams in New Bond Street with the aim of buying a piece of history from Fortnum & Masons – one of London’s great iconic institutions.
Prices for paintings, prints, chandeliers, wine, furniture and decorative shop furnishings and fittings soared way over estimate in this one off sale. The entire sale [...]

Bonhams the auctioneers has been appointed by The Fairmont Hotels & Resorts to hold an auction of selected contents from The Savoy Hotel, London.
Three thousand items of furniture from the hotel will be sold by Bonhams, the international fine art auctioneers, on 18 – 20 December 2007 at the hotel, just days after it closes [...]

Photographs of a footprint rumoured to be that of the fabled yeti, plus the canvas case of Captain Oates’s sleeping bag from the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912 are among items to be sold at auction.
They are part of the two-day Exploration & Travel sale at Christie’s in London.
The mysterious footprint was [...]

Valuables which once belonged to two of Wales’ most famous explorers are expected to fetch tens of thousands of pounds at auction.
Pieces owned by Lawrence of Arabia and Henry Morton Stanley will go under the hammer at Christie’s in London.
A gold watch and chain worn by Denbigh-born Stanley is expected to fetch up to £8,000.
A [...]

Banksy, the mysterious graffiti artist who has gone from underground street phenomenon to darling of collectors including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, has been embroiled in an eBay scandal.
According to a whistleblower who passed information to the Art Newspaper, unauthorised prints by the artist have been sold on the online auction site, and their prices [...]

Sotheby’s, is expected to announce plans to auction a Magna Carta in mid-December, estimates that the document will sell for $20 million to $30 million. It is the only copy in the United States and the only copy in private hands. Sotheby’s says the 16 others are owned by the British or Australian governments or [...]

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will display three special posters after successfully bidding for them at a Christies auction last week.
The 1950s designs advertising Hastings & St Leonards as a holiday destination were brought for a total of £1,780 and will take pride of place at the gallery in Johns Place, off Bohemia Road, later [...]

A key that could have saved the Titanic has sold at auction for £90,000.
It opened a locker containing the crows nest’s binoculars and was held by David Blair, 37, of Broughty Ferry, near Dundee.
He was due to be the second officer on the ship’s doomed maiden voyage to New York but was taken off the [...]

Google emphatically denied on Sept. 20 that it is interested in bidding on 3G spectrum that the U.K. may put up for sale. Ofcom, the British telecom regulator, announced on Sept.19 it was considering a spectrum auction as early next year and press reports immediately circulated citing Google’s interest.
“I can tell you definitively it’s something [...]