Antiques
A handwritten letter from the Queen of Crime
She may look harmless, but don't be fooled.This woman is responsible for 128 ruthless murders.She liked to poison her victims in ingenious ways, u...

This classic Rolex Daytona is still in its box and expected to sell for £200,000
Rolex is a great name. A huge number of watch collectors specialise in the brand alone. And of the Rolexes, the Daytona is perhaps the most celebra...

eBay bargain to $150,000 sale: the surreal story of one Magritte drawing
This is the stuff of collecting dreams: the eBay buy that turns out to be a little-known work by one of (if not the) world’s most valuable artists....

Mughal "star-lattice" carpet brings $7.6m to Christie's
The spectacular Mughal "star-lattice" carpet led the Islamic Art Week auction

5 amazing facts about Madonna, the most undervalued artist in collecting
Madonna is undeniably one of the most successful pop artists of the modern era. And undoubtedly one of the most interesting. And influential. And, ...

A piece of me? No, it’s not weird to buy celebrity hair
Do a bit of Googling on celebrity collecting and you’ll quickly be told that “hair collecting” was a Victorian fad. But it’s much older than that. ...

5 people who played with the Beatles to collect
One of the wonders of the Beatles is their completeness. They are a rounded whole that’s much more than the sum of its four astounding parts. A lot...

Stamps from 5 countries that don’t exist
The dominant news stories of the early 2020s have been to do with boundaries. In Ukraine and in the South China Sea we see that territory is the ra...

Read your Rolex - what a Rolex reference number means
Numbers are big in time keeping.
And they’re especially big in Rolexes.
Rolexes are serial numbered with a 4- to 8-digit number.
But they als...

5 amazingly rare American coins for collectors
Rare American coins are a superb focus for any coin collector.
The US has been minting coins for general circulation since the Fudio (or Franklin,...

How do I know if my Penny Black is valuable?
You own a Penny Black?
Congratulations!
However, there were once around 68 million more of them in the world.
Yours will be valuable if it is:
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