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HMS Resolute playbill performs well

An unassuming playbill bought in an Epping charity shop for £5 sold for a hammer of £3,800 at Sworders fine

While their eye-catching designs once adorned the walls of corner shops and garages, early enamel advertising signs are now in

A unique collection of smoking pipes will go under the hammer at West Sussex auctioneers, Bellmans, later this month. The

A private collection of more than 50 truncheons, rarely seen on the market, is set to go up for auction

Contents from the Essex home of designer David Pocknell will form part of Essex auction house Sworders’ Design auction on January 26.

An important set of bagpipes have found their way home to Scotland after attracting worldwide interest at auction on October

Stars from Freddie Mercury and Prince Charles to David Bowie, U2’s Bono and Margaret Thatcher are all included in an autograph

A fascinating collection of Chinese art formerly belonging to Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton KCMG (1870 – 1952), who worked in various British

The military collection of a Kent carpenter who lived for his hobby of military history and collecting weapons, particularly bayonets

An Aladdin’s Cave of the historic, rare, bizarre and jaw-dropping put together over decades by the dynamic and dapper artist