Auction News Archive

2.02.12 Lot 22 in Cameo's Vinyl and Music Memorabilia sale on February 7th should prove to be a highlight: The Doors - Jim Morrison. A yellow sheet of lined A4 paper with original handwritten part lyrics for the song La Women. this studio/gig copy was written & used by Morrison while recording their 1971 album La Women, written in blue pen with biro doodles to left side, initialled J.M./Doors then Morrison and titled La Women. Formally exhibited in the Hard Rock Cafe, New York, authenticated by Authenticateit with certificate, and estimated at £5,000 - £8,000.  Add a comment

30.01.12 Evocative pictures of a British ship trapped in ice during an attempt to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin's "lost expedition" are up for auction at Lawrences in Crewkerne on Thursday February 2nd ... more  Add a comment

26.01.12 Lot 4 in Bonhams Printed Books and Maps sale in Oxford on Janurary 31st caught my eye. 'Two albums of textile designs and student work, patterns and samples relating to Bauhaus hand weaver Margaretha Reichardt, together approximately 130 pages, comprising numerous coloured design proofs, mounted specimens, thread and cloth samples, many on printed forms (in German) completed by hand, some initialled by Reichardt, two signed "Greta" dated 1928, loose in two cloth-backed portfolios, slightly rubbed, folio (385 x 235mm.),[1920s]. Estimate: £600 - 800.'  Add a comment

13.01.12 They were intimate pictures she never wanted the public to see. So when Queen Victoria's family portraits - sketched by herself - were leaked to a journalist, she sought an injunction. In one of the first cases of its kind, the furious monarch applied to the courts to stop publication of the drawings in the 1840s. Now, more than 150 years later, the public will be offered the rare chance to see them when copies of six of the pictures go to auction at Dominic Winter Book Auctions on January 25th ... more  Add a comment

4.01.12 Cracked and weather-beaten, a salty little piece of literary history has emerged for sale at Bonhams Gentleman's Library sale on January 18th. The original oak tiller bar from Arthur Ransome's yacht Nancy Blackett - named after the pirate captain in his Swallows and Amazons series of children's books - is expected to prompt the interest of fans across the world ... more  Add a comment