A Clarice Cliff vase, featured on the cover of the Charterhouse April auction catalogue sold for a high hammer price of £5,800.
“The vase was a true piece of Art Deco geometric design boldly decorated in black and orange.” Commented Richard Bromell. “The vase was certainly the talk of the trade, it featured not only on [...]

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is seeking public donations to its Jewellery Appeal – unwanted jewellery, medals and collectables are all welcome to help fund the charity’s life-saving work.
The ongoing Jewellery Appeal is now entering its 22nd year. Some of the more unusual past donations include: a set of dentures on gold mount, war [...]

Rothschild, the French M&A firm advising on the sale of British Energy, has set a May 9 date for bidders to submit offers for the nuclear-power-plant operator, people familiar with the matter tell Deal Journal, confirming a report today in the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper. Another person cautioned that there already have been a number of [...]

On Thursday 1st May, when you list using the Auction-style format in eligible categories, Insertion Fees will be reduced to just 5p for each item you list.
Final Value and feature fees are not included in this promotion.
eBay is holding the promotion on the same day sellers plan to boycott the site in protest of feedback [...]

Highlights included lot 23 which was a History of Mr Babbage’s Calculating Engines by Charles Babbage, Luigi Menabrea and Augusta Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s mathematician daughter! This made a huge £19000 against its estimate of £2000-3000. The architectural works of Rudolph Ackerman always prove popular and lot 112 A History of the University of Cambridge [...]

John Lennon’s lyrics for Give Peace a Chance are to be offered for sale at a London auction.
The lyrics were given to teenage fan Gail Renard during one of his famous “Bed-In” peace protests with his wife Yoko Ono in a Montreal hotel room in 1969.
The lyrics, along with a number of personal photos, are [...]

H&H will be travelling to another new venue for its next sale on June 8th 2008. Situated just minutes from Guildford town centre, Loseley House was built at the instruction of Queen Elizabeth I in 1562 and visited by Her Majesty several times thereafter. Within easy reach of the M25 motorway, Guildford mainline railway station [...]

A portrait of the 19th-century prime minister William Gladstone, found hidden in a cupboard by staff at Gordonstoun School, goes for auction today in Perth.
The painting is by Franz von Lenbach, a prominent German portrait artist of his day, who painted Gladstone when the politician visited Germany.
It is expected to sell for up to £10,000.
Lindsay [...]

A NARROW boat is set to give children first-hand experience and help them to learn more about canals and surrounding wildlife.
The 70ft Coventrian had been put up for auction but the Alan Edward Higgs Charity stepped in to ensure it was kept on the waterways.
It gave the city-based Living Environment Trust (LET) the money to [...]

An exquisitely engraved Dutch wine glass that dates from 1759 is the top lot in Bonhams sale of The Thomas Collection on 4 June.
Lot 56 is a fine Dutch engraved light-baluster goblet of English origin, signed by Jacob Sang, made at a time when the Netherlands maritime power was a global force. The glass has [...]

Bonhams in Oxford will auction on behalf of Oxfam on 20 May a Sherlock Holmes First Edition of a Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story by Conan Doyle. It is estimated to sell for £7,000 to £9,000.
Simon Roberts of Bonhams Books, Maps and Manuscript Department, comments: “It is extraordinary what emerges from these [...]

151 lots Antiques & Collectables April 28, 2008
Lots include,
18th century Irish circular pie-crust edge tray engraved with cartouche armorial, surrounding a rampant lion, on four scrolled supports, Dublin maker W.B (possibly William Betagh), with inscription on underside – ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Lord Castle… Estimate : £1,200 – £1,600
A Tibet medal with Gyantse [...]

An oil painting of Queen Elizabeth the First had been found hanging, in the gift shop at The Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, North Carolina.
The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reports that the portrait is believed to have been painted in 1592, when Elizabeth would have been about 60 years old. It is one of the few [...]

Brigg Collective Machinery Sale
Brown & Co is holding its 26th annual collective machinery sale at the Old Foundry, Brigg, North Lincolnshire, on May 17. Entries are being invited and interested parties should contact the firm’s Brigg office on 01652 654833.
Auction info www.brown-co.com

Medals won by a Highlands piper in the 1800s and put up for auction without one of his descendant’s knowledge have not been sold as planned.
London auctioneers Spink said there were no bids for the collection, but could not comment further because of client confidentiality.
Sandy Corbett, from Avoch in the Black Isle, won the decorations [...]