Last night Sotheby's held their Impressionist and Modern sale in New York with an impressive turn out. the sale was estimated to make around $158 million but surpassed that price climbing to $170.5 million.

An antique price guide of £4,000 has been awarded to a collection of medals from the Second Boer War.

An industry expert has said top quality antiques are still in demand.

It is thought the 19th-century wine taster was made by designer Faberge, typically better known for his iconic eggs.

Are vintage apple computers and vintage Apple memorabilia a new and exciting collecting field?

People after antique silver may be interested in details of a recent auction.

Turner's 'Modern Rome – Camp Vaccino' left Britain and will be on display at Los Angeles' Getty Museum. The painting, on long term loan at the National Gallery of Scotland, was sold in July 2010 at Sotheby's to the Getty. The painting was held back in London until February in the hopes that the nation could raise the funds to keep the painting in the country.

An owner has unexpectedly received £99,808 for an antique ceramic vase at an Irish auction.

Being a household name tends to make things a little less straight forward when selling items the convention way.

ValueMyStuff counts down the 15 strangest collectibles sold at auction.

Those with a passion for antique paintings might be interested in details of one auction in the United States.

An antiques valuation of $5m has been given to a flag.

Antique valuation seekers may be interested to note that a toilet owned by John Lennon has fetched nearly ten times its expected amount.

A vase with an antiques valuation of £1.2 million that sold for £43 million was the most expensive of its kind sold this year.

This Arts and Crafts music cabinet, entered into a recent sale at Robertson’s of Kinbuck, near Dunblane, without reserve, turned out to be a hitherto lost design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.