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 […]