A letter written by the Queen Mother more than 80 years ago expressing concern over the high cost of fashion while looking for a new wardrobe to wear to Australia will be auctioned.
In the letter – dated September 27, 1926, and contained in the archive of court dressmakers Mme Handley Seymour – Queen Elizabeth, then [...]

Bidders will have until January 16th to place bids in the formerly called 3G extension band sell-off that will offer space on the 2010-2025 MHz and 2500-2690 MHz bands.
Ofcom wants to reorganise more than 400 MHz of spectrum that analysts say could be used for services such as wireless broadband, mobile television and fixed [...]

For lovers of Rupert, there are the second and third Daily Express Rupert Annuals, one from 1937 entitled ‘More Adventures of Rupert’ (estimate £200-£300) and one from 1938 entitled ‘The New Rupert Book’ plus Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Margaret Tarrant (estimate £200-£300). So, for children and adults of all ages, there is something for [...]

For the entire day of Saturday 29th December 2007 (local UK time), sellers who list one or more items in an eligible category using the Auction-style, Auction-with-Buy It Now or Buy It Now Only (Fixed Price) formats will pay a 10 pence Insertion Fee per item they list. Terms and conditions apply.
Details at, http://pages.ebay.co.uk/sell/xmas10pdec29th/?ov=00402

The jet powered car which almost took the life of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been put up for sale on eBay, the online auction site.
Although the car is no longer roadworthy, its owners hope to raise between £5,000 and £10,000 for the Vampire jet dragster, which is holder of the current 301mph UK [...]

British utility Scottish & Southern Energy has joined in the auction of Irish wind farm operator Airtricity.
Last month, Airtricity said it had hired Credit Suisse and NCB as financial advisers to help with the sale of its European assets after the sucessful $1.4 billion sale of its North American operations to Germany’s E.ON AG.
The Sunday [...]

Over the course of three 12-hour days, over 3,500 people from across the world chose to bid on a little piece of history from one of the world’s best-loved hotels.
Many came to bid in person, some of whom had decided to take “a trip down memory lane”, having spent their honeymoon, 21st birthday party, wedding [...]

The original script for one of the Two Ronnies most famous sketches has sold for £48,500 at auction.
The classic Four Candles sketch, penned by Ronnie Barker and first shown in 1976, showed Barker attempting to buy fork handles in a hardware store.
A private buyer outbid eight or nine others to win the auction, the Original [...]

The three-day auction saw almost 3000 lots of furniture and artefacts from the London landmark hotel go under the hammer, the actual total was £1,857,096 .
A team of 13 auctioneers worked for more than 10 hours a day to sell all 2,600 lots, plus a further 100 late entries. Every item was sold.
Most of the [...]

Global wine sales by Christie’s International rose 22 percent to a record $71.65 million this year, as demand remained strong for top Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone vintages.
Christie’s European sales fetched a total $44.43 million and its U.S. auctions raised $27.22 million, the auction house said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. Sotheby’s reported on Dec. 13 [...]