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 […]

John Jackson from Chester has sold the Doctor Who toy to a US fan for £3,200, it was originally bought for £8 in the 1960’s.
The children’s suit is one of a small batch that were made before the factory burnt down in 1963, but John still had the Tardis box, making it a rare find […]

Manheim’s Bristol auction centre celebrated its 10th birthday at Ashton Vale Road with a special Anniversary Auction on St George’s Day, Wednesday 23rd April. The multi-vendor event included vehicles from ARVAL, Chrylser, FCE Bank, GE Fleet, Lloyds TSB Autolease, Lombard, Masterlease and Mercedes-Benz. More than 150 buyers that registered in Bristol were joined by a […]

Property auctioneer’s Clive Emson has opened a fine arts division. Six or seven auctions a year are planned.
Alan White, formerly of Phillips, Bonhams, and Hobbs Parker, heads it up with Henrietta Thatcher, who worked with him at Hobbs Parker.
Clive Emson is known for property auctions across Kent, Sussex and Hampshire. But early in his career […]

Bloomsbury Auctions, London is launching its own new specialist Poster department under the highly experienced auspices of Richard Barclay, who created and ran Christie’s Poster department in South Kensington, from its inception in 1982.
‘Our first sale is on 2nd June and I’m extremely pleased with both the quality and quantity of what we are offering,’ […]

A painting by Turner, ‘Pope’s Villa at Twickenham’ will be offered by Sotheby’s in its Evening Sale of Old Master Paintings in London on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. The landscape, executed in oil, is among Turner’s most important works to appear on the market in living memory and since its exhibition at Turner’s gallery in […]

Humraz (www.humraz.com) has launched a revolutionary online technology to enable people across the world to participate in live real-time lowest unique bid auctions for high-value assets like property and gold bullion.
Humraz will sell properties for a fraction of their value. For example, a £300k house is guaranteed to sell for less than £15k, although the […]