Unique Items
'Century of historic cycles' go under the hammer
An 1883 tricycle and other vintage pushbikes will auction in New York state, this week
19th century piano to auction for $6k
The unique instrument will sell alongside English furniture and decorative art, later this month
19th century artefacts dumped in skip sell for £6.5k
After lying discarded for years, a hoard of native and tribal items has finally gone to auction
16th century maps to sell at Bonhams
A unique collection of 1586 maps of Scilly and Cornwall will go under the hammer in Oxford, UK
16th century body armour sells for record $772k
Centuries-old armour vastly exceeds its estimate price in Lucerne, Switzerland
19th century whale's tooth brings $67k
Carved and decorated tooth was aboard the boat on which Charles Darwin crafted The Origin of the Species
Half a century of bug collecting
Veteran entomologist takes his collection on tour
