Aug 2 at 10am Viewing: Thursday 31st July – 10am to 7pm and Friday 1st August – 10am to 4pm
Shapes Auctioneers
Bankhead Avenue
Sighthill
Edinburgh
EH11 4BY
Tel: +44(0)131 453 3222
Fax: +44(0)131 453 6444
Auction info www.shapesauctioneers.co.uk

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 [...]

Antiques and Collectables Sunday 27th July at 10am
Viewing Friday 25th July 10am until 4pm and on the morning of the sale from 9am
Goods welcome for future sales
Antique Furniture and Fine Arts Sunday 10th August at 10am
Viewing Friday and Saturday prior 10am until 4pm
Paul Beighton Auctioneers
Woodhouse Green
Thurcroft
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S66 9AQ
Telephone: +44 (0)1709 700005
Fax: +44 (0)1709 700244
Auction [...]

A Fender Stratocaster guitar set on fire by Jimi Hendrix during a live show at the Finsbury Astoria in London during 1967, is to be auctioned at the Idea Generation gallery in central London.
The famous guitar was thought to have been lost but had been taken by Hendrix’s press officer, Tony Garland, and stored [...]

Pottery, Porcelain, Glass, Pictures, Books etc. Tuesday 29th July 2008 at 10 am.
Viewing Times
Saturday 26th July 2008, 9:00 – 12:00
Monday 28th July 2008, 9:00 – 16:00
Tuesday 29th July 2008, 9:00 – 9:45
Auction info www.gildings.co.uk

Auctioneers of Antiques and Quality Furnishings. Sales are held every two weeks, on a Tuesday at 10am Viewing prior to each sale:
Friday 9am to 5pm.
Saturday 9am to 1pm.
Sunday 10am to 1pm.
Monday 9am to 5pm
August 19th
September 2nd, 16th & 30th
October 14th & 28th
November 11th & 25th
December 9th
The Gallery Saleroom,
Northumberland Street,
Darlington,
County Durham,
DL3 [...]

Viewing Friday 25th July 5.00pm – 7.00pm & Saturday 26th July 8.00am – 10.30am
at The Benn Hall, Rugby. Auction Commences: Saturday 26th July 10:30am
Lots include:
Meccano and Other Constructional Toys, Jigsaws, Railwayana & Photographs, Books, Magazines, Triang Big Big Train/Novo, Bassett-Lowke Waterline Ships, Hornby Dublo 3-Rail Locos & Sets, Ray Wells Gauge 1 Collection, Hornby O [...]

A collection of 3,500 Matchbox toys, the product of years of collecting by an American doctor, could raise up to £500,000 when they are auctioned on September 16 and 17.
Vectis Auctioneers said the owner, Dr Scott D Gillogly, from Atlanta, gathered “the most comprehensive collection ever to be sold and which may never be equalled”.
Auction [...]

A painted Mirror fronted Music Cabinet of demunitive size 131cms x 34cms (Lot 28, 29th July 2008), has sparked much interest amongst global furniture collectors and the antiques furniture trade. Thought to date from the early 19th Century the hand painted cabinet is adorned with musical instruments and floral swags and retains the original mirror [...]

Black Country Auctions is a family run firm of Auctioneers & Valuers, based in Dudley town centre, West Midlands.
August 2008
Thurs 7th – evening Collectors & General Auction
Thurs 21st – evening Collectors & General Auction
September 2008
Thurs 4th – evening Collectors & General Auction
Thurs 11th – daytime Toy Auction
Thurs 18th – evening Collectors & General Auction
October 2008
Thurs 2nd – evening Collectors [...]