Aug 2 at 10am Viewing: Thursday 31st July - 10am to 7pm and Friday 1st August - 10am to 4pm
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Edinburgh
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A pair of Queen Victoria’s knickers, with a 50-inch waist, were sold for over £4000 at Hansons Auctioneers.
Auctioneer Charles Hanson said Queen Victoria’s underpants belonged to “a very big lady of quite small stature with a very wide girth.” She was said to be 5 feet tall.
Also up for auction was Queen Victoria’s chemise, with […]
The Community Emissions Trading Scheme, setting out the conduct and terms of allocation of allowances in the UK’s auctions in Phase II of the EU ETS was published by HM Treasury today.
Auctioning off the right to emit carbon dioxide is expected to net the UK government nearly £2billion over the next four years.
The Scheme sits […]
A collection of Greek vases bought over many years by one of Australia’s most important collectors of ancient art – Graham Geddes – is to be sold at Bonhams next Antiquities Sale on 15 October in London. It is estimated that the Collection which comprises over 150 lots will sell for more than a £1m.
Alongside […]
A Sotheby’s auction of new works by British artist Damien Hirst is expected to fetch over 65 million pounds .
Estimates for the sale, to be held over two days on September 15 and 16, range from 15-20,000 pounds to eight to 12 million pounds for “The Golden Calf”, a bull in a tank of formaldehyde […]
Bloomsbury’s summer Bibliophile sale held on the 17th and 18th July included the following lots with many selling well over estimate.
Amongst the Oil Paintings, Watercolours and drawings a mixed group (lot 12) of English School material fared especially well selling for £1600, well over the estimate of £250-350. Amongst the Gilbert and Sullivan items a […]
Eight paintings by Ronnie Kray, dating back to the early 1970s, have been sold at Mander Auctioneers in Suffolk, for £16,450.
The pictures, in oil on card and signed R. Kray, were painted when he was at Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight.
Ronnie Kray, who died in 1995 aged 61, took up painting while in […]
