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.

The item had been valued at £1.2 million.

The document sold for $3.8 million.

An antique price guide of £7,000 has been placed on cutlery previously owned by Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.

The vehicle from the Batman and Batman Returns movies is going under the hammer.

Christie's is set to hold a sale of varying antiques at South Kensington on July 31st. Lots range from £100 to £12,000.

On April 20th, Christie's will be selling a Pearl Pendent on a diamond chain in Dubai with an estimate of US$180,000-250,000.

Antique valuation seekers might be inspired by news of a special charity fundraising drive.

It has been revealed that greater numbers of investors are going to auctions.

On May 11th, Christie's will be selling a great example of one of Francis Bacon's self-portrait triptychs with the hope that the price will exceed $25 million.

On Tuesday, March 22nd, Antik A.S. auction house held their annual Turkish Modern and Contemporary art sale in Istanbul. As the leading auction house in Turkey, Antik holds the most important sales throughout the year.

Nearly a year after the "Card Players" painting, by repute, sold for over $250 million to a Middle east collector, a study for Paul Cezanne's master work, missing for decades, has been rediscovered among the paintings of a Texas art collector, and looks set to sell for more than $15 million when it goes under the hammer later this year.

One auction appears to have generated a high bidding price.

A tractor has sold for an antique valuation of $16,250 in the US.