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L S Lowry painting goes under the hammer after being owned by the same family for 50 years

"It hails from what is traditionally considered his finest period and bears all the qualities of his most desirable work"

Manchester Evening News

Print of King’s painting of Balmoral snapped up for more than £5,000

A print of the King’s painting of Balmoral was bought at auction for £5,738 on Thursday by a private British collector.

The Independent UK

Furniture commissioned by iconic fashion designer for Scottish house to go on sale

FURNITURE commissioned by iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel for the Sutherland home of Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, will go under the…

The National (Scotland)

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Furniture commissioned by Coco Chanel for Scottish house to go under hammer

Chairs and tables commissioned for Rosehall House in Sutherland by the fashion designer and a drawing of Balmoral by King Charles will be auctioned.

The Independent UK

Tablecloth scrawled with the Beatles' doodles from their final gig goes to auction

A pilfered relic from the night of the last concert the Beatles played together has been recovered and is going on the auction block.

Los Angeles Times

Rare Nazi Enigma machine that outfoxed Brits in WWII could sell for £100k

'Updated' model that couldn't be broken arrived too late in the war to turn the tide

Wales Online

RBG's fashion collars highlight children's charity auction

A gold judicial collar made of glass beads that belonged to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being auctioned to benefit a charity

The Independent UK

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1914 Model T Motor Caravan Could Be The World's Oldest Motorhome

The driver's seat is a leather sofa, and a wood-burning stove serves as the kitchen.

Motor1

Idol Wing CID police trace Parvati idol of Chola temple in Bonhams auction house in New York

The burglary of five idols occurred 51 years ago at Nadanapureshwarar Sivan temple near Kumbakonam

The Hindu

Portrait of golfing great Tom Morris Sr could sell for more than £500,000

The portrait of Old Tom Morris, who remodelled the Old Course at St Andrews, is being sold online by Bonhams.

The Independent UK

First edition Harry Potter book signed by JK Rowling set to sell for record £150k

Sisters Jenny and Lucy are selling the treasured hardback copy which has been in storage since 1997 and was a gift from the now-famous author

Chronicle Live

First edition Harry Potter book signed by JK Rowling to sell for record £150k

Sisters Jenny and Lucy are selling the treasured hardback copy which has been in storage since 1997 and was a gift from the now-famous author

Wales Online

Scots man finds ultra-rare Rolex worth around £120,000 'sitting in drawer'

The MilSub will go on sale at Bonhams, in London's New Bond Street on Wednesday.

Daily Record

Ultra-rare Rolex could fetch up to £120,000 at auction

The MilSub Rolex, which sat in its owner’s drawers for decades, is expected to bring between £80,000 and £120,000 at auction on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

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Liverpool Echo

Music collection of DJ who helped launch Nirvana and Queen goes to auction

John Peel died when he was 65 but his incredible collection will live on

The Independent UK

Catholic University barred from auctioning Judy Garland’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ dress worth up to $1.2m

The dress at issue is one of six authenticated by experts as having been worn in the famous 1939 film by Garland, who played Dorothy

The Guardian - UK

John Peel: personal records and memorabilia set for Bonhams auction

Items including a handwritten letter from David Bowie and Peel’s horn gramophone will be up for sale next month

Chicago Sun-Times

Lost for decades, Dorothy’s dress from ‘Wizard of Oz’ film set for auction

The dress is one of only two that include the blouse actress Judy Garland wore underneath. The other one with a blouse sold at auction in 2015 for more than $1.5 million.

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The Independent UK

Lost for decades, Dorothy's dress from 'Oz' up for sale

A blue-and-white dress that Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” is up for sale

Insider UK

New auction record set as forgotten cask of The Macallan sells for $1.3 million

The whisky was bought by the seller in 1988 for just $5,000

The Independent UK

Warren Beatty gave Joan Collins her £7,000 engagement ring in a tub of chopped liver

The pair were never married

Wales Online

Prince Philip's 1956 Albatross motorboat up for sale

The vessel was decommissioned in 1987 and is offered in 'good' unrestored condition with its original engine

The Independent UK

Prince Philip’s old motorboat, shown in iconic 1958 photo, is up for sale

The speedboat will be auctioned at the Goodwood Members Meeting Sale on 10 April

Daily Mirror

First moon dust sample collected by Neil Armstrong on sale for almost £1million

The moon dust was gathered by Neil Armstrong during the historic 1969 moon landing and was placed in a decontamination bag before, when back on Earth, it was lost - later turning up at a space museum in Kansas

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