Auctioneers said they were left stunned as a dazzling Cartier tiara, once owned by former Plymouth MP Nancy Astor, soared far beyond its estimated value at auction. The diamond-encrusted tiara, expected to fetch about £400,000, instead reached nearly £890,000. “We were on tenterhooks in the sale room, it just kept going and going, it was...
A collector’s 30,000-record vinyl collection is set to go up for auction in Surrey with an expected combined price of more than £80,000. The sale, run by auctioneers Ewbank’s in Woking, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday. The unnamed deceased collector had been buying records for more than 60 years and vinyl specialist John...