Over the past few months we have been receiving a large number of calls from members of the public who have been finding unusual £2, £1 or 50p coins in their pocket change. A variety have been m...
A large Wrenn OO gauge collection was the highlight of the recent Collectables auction at Warwick & Warwick auctioneers. Over 90% of the Wrenn lots were sold on Wednesday 16th May, realising over £22,000. The ‘star’ of the Wrenn sale was Lot 910, a mint and boxed LNER grey 4489 Woodcock loco...
Please be aware that our offices will be closed for the Early May Bank Holiday on Monday 7th May 2018. We will be open again as normal at 9.00am...
The worlds remotest inhabited island – Tristan da Cunha – which sits 2,400 kilometres from its nearest continental land mass experienced nature at its full force in October 1961. The volcanic eruption of Queen Mary’s peak forced the evacuation of Tristan da Cunha’s entire population of 264. The ev...
The area of British Somaliland had often been unruly but was seen by the British as strategically important for their interests in the Suez Canal and Aden. Control of the area was eventually passed to the Foreign Office and in 1901 the Indian Government responded to a request for an emergency issue of stamp...
One of the most comprehensive Wrenn OO gauge collections will feature in the Wednesday 16th May Collectables auction at Warwick & Warwick auctioneers. Over 100 Wrenn lots, many mint and boxed, are available to suit all model railway enthusiasts’ budgets. Amongst the lots offered for sale are ...
There has been a great deal of media hype regarding the value of 2 pence pieces recently and consequently we have received a great deal of interest from the genera...
A fine collection of medals, militaria, postcards, photos etc will offered for sale in our 18th April 2018 medal and militaria auction, with varying estimates. Lot 17 in the medal section is an 1899 QSA 4 clasps Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen, to 3573 Pte J. Heathcote, Royal Scots. This i...
Please be aware that our offices will be closed for the Easter holidays on Friday 30th March 2018 and Monday 2nd April 2018. Consequently viewing for our ...
A 1912 sovereign salvaged from the wreck of the SS Egypt is offered in our 18th April 2018 coin auction with an estimate of £500. ...
A postcard of and from the most remote part of Great Britain features in our auction on 21 March. It is from St Kilda, an archipelago of granitic rocks, 40 miles west of No...
A piece of British history from Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910-13 “Terra Nova” Expedition is available in our upcoming March stamp sale. Pieced together by collector Charles Stevens, lot 162 tells Scott’s fascinating tale using incredible first-hand pieces of postal history. The first postcard...
Stamps of the Falkland Is & Dependencies are one of the most popular areas with buyers at our stamp auctions. This small windswept archipelago, just off the South American coast, holds a special interest for stamp collectors. Our March 7th stamp auction provides an opportunity to purchase some rare and unusua...
A selection of scarce specimen banknotes are to be offed in our 21st February 2018 auction. This East African Currency Board 1964 issue, punch hole cancelled specimen set of 4, with ‘SPECIMEN’ in red printed on both sides and housed in a De la Rue, London leather type presentation folder is...
As part of our February stamp sale in the BC section we have a very good collection of QV-KGV FU split down into country and individual lots. These have been collected over many years with “an eye for scarcity and good condition”. The lots include GB Used in Ascension lot 152 ...
A rare Boer War silver tribute pocket watch is offered in our 21st February 2018 medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £250. ...
A collection of WW1 casualty medals from iconic and important battle dates is offered in our 21st February 2018 medal and militaria auction. The date of death of a medal recipient can have a significant bearing on the medals value and what a collector is prepared to pay. The first day of the Battle of ...
We are excited to announce that the customers and vendors of Warwick & Warwick have raised £440 for Claire House Children’s Hospice, in our recent sales. The lots included collections of modest value properties, combined together, to form a saleable lot for charity. We would like to extend a warm tha...
In a recent auction at the Poly International auction house in Beijing, traditional master artist and calligrapher Qi Baishi (1864-1957) set a new record for the highest price paid for a Chinese artist's work sold at auction. His twelve panel set of ink-brush paintings sold for $141 million (£105 million) to an und...
A rare Great Britain 1935 Silver Jubilee 2½d Prussian Blue realised £5,900 in our auction on December 6. The story behi...
David Gentleman, born in 1930, is an artist whose style should be very familiar to all those with an interest in philately. He was prolific between 1962 and 2000 designing over one hundred stamps for the Post Office - more than anyone else in this period. However, what Gentleman should be commended for most is how he mod...
The last opportunity to acquire part of the fabulous Brian Girling collection will be in the Warwick and Warwick auction which takes place in Warwick, on January 24th. The collection and trading stock of the late Brian Girling must be one of the best postcard collections ever formed in this country in recent y...
The Cayman Islands have been in the news recently following the release of the ‘Paradise Papers’. Better known in recent years as a tax haven for the wealthy to secrete their earnings, many philatelists will be aware that the Islands have an interesting postal history and are widely collected. ...
One person’s collection of mostly Jakks Pacific and Mattel World Wrestling Entertainment figures will be offered in our 24th January 2018 Toy auction in 19 lots. The collection of figures was collected by the vendor over 13 years and includes in excess of 500 individual figures and sets including...
The 5th part of the spectacular collection formed by the late Brian Girling, containing significant ranges of London and suburbs, went under the hammer at Warwick and Warwick’s auction on November 15. Every lot sold, the vast majority realising more than estimate. London was divided into areas and distri...
While Italy cannot deliver on the pitch, a lot in our December stamp auction suggests they may well be able to deliver off it. The recent qualification play offs for the 2018 World Cup in Russia saw Italy fail to qualify for the first time since 1958. Their one nil defeat to Sweden will see them not only miss out...
The 5th part of the fabulous and valuable collection of postcards formed by the late Brian Girling comes up for auction on November 15. This part is very strong in London. Lot 165 comprises 5 real photographic cards of the Royal Albert Docks 1912 strike. They were published by G.L. Shotter of 340 Barking Road....
Lot 345 in our 15th November 2017 auction is this full set of 4 1970’s Matchbox ABBA dolls. Arguably one of the most commercially successful music ac...
As someone who has been to auctions before and seen them on television I was expecting a less salubrious setting than that which I found ...
A rare Whitworth .451 Military Target Rifle is offered in our 13th December 2017 medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £1,500. &nb...
On 13th September 2016 history was made when the Bank of England issued the first English plastic banknote. Since then there have been a plethora of newspaper arti...
The 4th part of the remarkable collection formed by the late Brian Girling achieved spectacular results in the Warwick and Warwick auction held on 20 September. Of the 122 lots on offer, 121 sold and most of the lots sold at figures well over estimate. Brian specialised in quality postcards of London and its s...
Part 4 of the collection formed by the late Brian Girling includes one of the rarest balloon post postcards known in this country. The organising committee for the Beckenham 1902 c...
The balloon flight postcards of the early years of the twentieth century are amongst the rarest and most valuable postcards collected in Britain. Although communication by balloon was used successfully during the 1870 siege of Parisin the Franco-Prussian war, the first organised balloon post with commemorative picture po...
A 1956 Antarctic Expedition Polar Medal group awarded to Douglas Roland Otway Prior is offered in our 18th October 2017 medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £20,000. ...
This extremely rare USA 1795 draped bust, small eagle reverse dollar is to be offered in our 16th August 2017 coin auction. 1795 was only the second year the one dollar coin was minted in the US and the first year to feature the draped bust design. Only 42,738 of these coins were minted in 1795 making ...
Part 3 of the remarkable collection and stock of postcards accumulated by the late Brain Girling went under the hammer at the Warwick and Warwick auction on July 19 and achieved results as good as those achieved for the previous offerings. All 156 lots on offer sold, the majority at figures in excess of estimate. GB topo...
An extremely rare 1819 sovereign is offered in our 16th August 2017 coin auction with an estimate of £90,000. ...
The third part of the fabulous collection of picture postcards formed by the late Brian Girling is to be offered in our next postcard sale of July 19. The sale is full of superb quality, real photographic, topographical and social history images from many English counties, with strength in the London suburbs. Here are ju...
Our senior collectables valuer Richard Beale has been interviewed for the BBC’s ‘Right on the Money’ to be shown on Wednesday 12th July at 9:15am on BBC1. ...
A George Medal group awarded to William Jebet Walker is offered in our 16th August 2017 medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £3,000. &nb...
A rare Bolton and District Humane Society Silver Medal in its case of issue awarded to Frank Smith is offered in our 16th August 2017 medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £650. The Bolton Evening News dated 16th September 1902 reported: “The Royal Humane Societ...
It is with deep sadness and regret that we must announce the death of Fred Wyatt. Fred worked in our viewing room on auction days for wel...
The second part of the famous stock and collection of the late Brian Girling was offered in the Warwick and Warwick sale of May 17. Estimates for the 180 lots on offer totalled almost £61,000. Only 5 lots were unsold and the total hammer price achieved was almost £93,000, producing a total realisation, includ...
One person’s lifetime collection of Elastolin, Lineol and similar figures and vehicles will be offered in our 17th May Toy auction in 75 lots. The collection of figures, vehicles, artillery pieces, defensive positions etc was collected by the vendor for over 50 years and includes some rare and se...
Due to the Easter holiday viewing for our 19th April Coins, Medals and Banknotes Auction will be as follows: Thursday 13th April 2017 - 9:00am until 4.30pm Friday 14th April 2017 – CLOSED Saturday 15th April 2017 – CLOSED Sunday 16...
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In the course of every month, we provide valuations on a wide range of collections, both general and specialised and some of these contain sections of France. We are regularly telling clients that simply identifying a stamp in Stanley Gibbons catalogue is not enough and an understanding of condition is key. Class...
We are pleased to be able to offer one of the great rarities of Hong Kong philately, the 1880 10c on 12c doubled surch error. The stamp comes with a recent BPA certificate and is described as ‘a fine & fresh example’. ...
The first part of the superb collection formed by the late Brian Girling was offered in the Warwick and Warwick auction held on 15 March. This first sale featured a wide range of his British topographical and social history cards, offered on a county basis, and was extremely well received by a large room attendance. ...
A treasure trove China stamp collection that has been kept in the same family but lain untouched for decades is being offered by Warwick & Warwick in their May stamp auction. The family have had connections in China since 1860 and it is thought that the collection was assembled by a member of the family livin...
Lots that maybe of interest in our March sale include 4 lots of Airmails, one being a collection of semi officials. Var...
The collection and trading stock of the late Brian Girling must be one of the best postcard collections ever formed in this country in recent years. Brian was a well-known and respected dealer with a fine knowledge of postcards, especially those of London and the Home Counties. His obituary appeared in the August 2016 ed...
In our January stamp sale we again have strong British Commonwealth King George V ranges, including a fine and rare selection of varieties. Lot 298 is the scarce Malta 1960 3d “blank corner” UM. ...
Gold coins are always particularly popular in our sales and we have a particular good selection on offer in our final coin auction of this year. Here’s a rundown of the highlights for you… Lot 433 - 1680 guinea, fourth bust, elephant and castle below, fine, in box and with certificate by Lond...
Warwick and Warwick are concluding the 2016 series of stamp auctions with a true Christmas cracker. Buyers of high quality Great Britain classics will be particularly pleased with the stamps on offer. The auction catalogue includes numerous 1840 1d blacks incl various plate ranges, better cancels, multiples, on c...
In our December stamps sale as part of our GB section we have some top quality QV-KGV, Officials, Telegraphs, the likes of which are seldom offered. Even if you do not collect GB it is worth looking at the photographs to see these high quality items. ...
On 13th September 2016 history was made when the Bank of England issued the first British plastic banknote. Since then there have been a plethora of newspaper articles, blogs and online chatter as to the actual worth of these notes. Our banknote department has been receiving numerous telephone calls, on a dail...
Over the past few months we have been receiving a large number of calls from members of the public who have been finding unusual coins in their pocket change. A range of coins has been mentioned from the 2011 £2 King James Bible to the 2013 50p Benjamin Britten. As an example, a member of the pu...
WW1 Air Force Cross and 1917 Sea Gallantry Medal to George Ritchie Hodgson is offered for sale in our 14th December medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £2,000. ...
A superb private owner kit built model railway collection is to be offered in our 16th November 2016 auction. They are all professionally constructed and painted to an extremely high standard, mainly by Graham Varley. They include kits by Badger Coaches, Brassmasters, DJH, Alan Gibson and Keyster. ...
Golf is one of the best collected areas when it comes to sports postcards and our November 16 auction contains a card, offered as a single item, which is bound to attract a lot of attention. T...
The 16 November postcard auction contains a comprehensive collection of real photographic cinema star postcards published in the famous series by Picturegoer. Over 6,500 postcards were produced by thi...
Collectors of Manchesterand suburbs are spoiled for choice in our next postcard auction on 16 November. The sale contains no less than 69 lots of Manchester and Greater Manchester, the greatest concentration we have ever featured. There are collections of inner city suburbs, such as Ardwick, Levenshulme, Longsight, Moss ...
You may recall back in Feb 2013 we reported a new discovery, 60 years after it was issued, of a reversed watermark error on a Malta 10/-. Now listed as SG 105x, it is always a thrill to find an error nobody has ever seen before. Well this month I have to report not one, but two similar “new discoveries&rdqu...
In our November stamp sale we have a particular strong section of British Africa with many complete sets and scarce high values, including Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, Sierra Leone, Zanzibar. ...
It looked like a routine valuation, when a customer recently consigned a modern British mint stamp collection to auction with us. The stamp valuation team receive similar collections every day and the customer was expecting it to sell for a typical price. ...
Looking though our next stamp sale for interesting lots brought me to Zanzibar lot 318. Ranges like this do not appear very often and lots with postmark interest are usually popular. ...
Offered as Lot 623 in our 21st September 2016 model railway auction, this scarce Bassett-Lowke made LMS streamlined ‘Princess Coronation’ Class, LMS 6220 ‘Coronation’ static locomotive and tender was most likely made in 1939 to promote the actual locomotive's visit to the New York Worl...
Marine Lewis Lockwood’s 2010 Afghanistan Military Cross group is offered for sale in our 19th October medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £12,000. ...
If you collect railways then our September 21 sale is a must for you. As well as general collections of railway cards, there are also several individual British stations on offer and collections of railway official cards, many offered as single company collections. Foreign railway collectors are also well catered for, wi...
In our September sale we have four lots of Baghdad on offer (lots 235 to 238), all from the Saatchi collection and seldom seen on the market. ...
As we all know some Chinese stamps in unmounted condition realise very high prices. The 1980 Year of the Monkey 8f usually realises hundreds of pounds. What will a mounted mint example realise? Lot 375 has an estimate of £100. ...
Zeppelins have always been of much interest, particularly in the ‘golden age’ of flights from the late 1920s, when large crowds would gather to watch the airships arrive and depart. Luckily for philatelists, a large quantity of Zeppelin related postal material has survived from that time, though not often of ...
Lots 286 to 289 in our 17th August 2016 auction are a range of South African Siege of Mafeking banknotes. Arguably the best known action of the Second Boer War the Siege of Mafeking took place from October 1899 to May 1900. Due to the cutting off of supplies and the introduction of rationing Col. Baden...
We are excited to announce that the customers and vendors of Warwick & Warwick have raised £150 for Claire House Children’s Hospice, in our June coins, medals and militaria sale. The lot included collections of modest value properties, combined together, to form a saleable lot for char...
One of the oldest hollowcast model soldier manufacturing companies in the world William Britain began production in 1893. He perfected a new form of hollowcasting which reduced the metal content of the model and thus reduced the cost. This enabled Britains to compete and even outperform the German manufacturers who had l...
A fantastic collection of American Colonial and Revolutionary banknotes dating from the 18th century are to be offered in our 15th June 2016 auction. Assembled by a single collector, lots 261 to 288 are from various states. Originally the ‘colonies’ used either British or Spanish/ Por...
It’s always gratifying when we receive appreciative feedback so we thought we would share a couple of the emails that we have received in the past few days… “I would like to place on record my appreciation and thanks to all those responsible for the packaging and shipping of my three recent par...
A further section of the impressive collection of picture postcards, formed by the late Karl Jaeger, is offered in our auction on May 18. Karl collected subject cards and foreign countries, specialising in quality cards of artistic merit or demonstrating interesting social history. May’s offering is rich in foreign...
The May Stamp Auction included an excellent collection of Falkland Islands & Dependencies, from Queen Victoria through to Queen Elizabeth, offered in 70 lots. Due to the rarity and high quality the collection sold very well with some more unusual items achieving impressive prices. An 1878-9 4d with part paper...
Sunshine and blue skies were the order of the day for our April banknotes auction, a stark contrast to our February auction and a sign that spring has finally sprung! Viewers were queuing at the door to look at the lots on offer making the viewing room and the auction room itself a hive of activity! We bega...
Spring had definitely sprung for our April coin auction making the walk to and from our auction room a pleasant stroll rather than the brisk march that was required at our February sale! The auction room itself was packed with keen buyers who had over 470 lots to choose from. There was an interesting range of ear...
There were 258 lots of medals and militaria in this sale. There were a number of highlights in the Victorian section including lot 12, a Military General Service Medal with 6 clasps to James Brown, 5th Regiment. This medal sailed past its estimate selling for £2,183. ...
The news of the incredible Battle of Majar al Kabir Conspicuous Gallantry Cross and Iraq Medal to be offered in our 20th April Medal and Militaria auction has been published in The Telegraph and...
For some years Warwick & Warwick have been assisting international auctioneer Sotheby’s by providing philatelic advice for their customers. More recently, Warwick & Warwick senior stamp valuer Joseph Cottriall has been appointed as Sotheby’s sole philatelic consultant providing specialist advice to th...
The cigarette card section of the sale contained a substantial number of collections and accumulations. These achieved mixed results, but a good selection of these achieved figures in excess of their estimates. A lot containing football sets by Hill, Mitchell, Phillips and others estimated at £400 realised ne...
The winter gloom had finally given way to beautiful sunshine and blue skies for our second die cast, model soldiers and toys auction of this year. Our buyers were spoilt for choice with 380 lots to choose from. We started with toys section and this unusual 1:100 scale moulded resin model of a Concorde aeroplane b...
Bidders were queuing at the door to begin viewing our second model railway auction of the year. It was no wonder as there were plenty of lots to suit every collector's taste with over 400 lots for bidders to choose from. We began with the O gauge section where this lovely modern ACE Trains LNER 2505 &lsquo...
Suffolk in demand! The Warwick and Warwick auction held on 15 March contained an important Suffolk collection, which was broken down into 17 lots, with the town collections offered as individual lots and the village collections offered as 4 large collections. The collections of v...
We are pleased to announce that thanks to the generous support of Warwick and Warwick’s vendors and bidders, we have been able to send a cheque for £370 to the Shakespeare Hospice in Stratford-upon-Avon. Lot 114, from our February stamp sale was an accumulation of donated material from many different vendors,...
The March Stamp Auction achieved the best result for some months, recording a total realisation of £320,000 from an auction of 730 lots, with very few unsold. British Commonwealth The British Commonwealth section got off to a good start, with a collection of Australian States in 3 binders, described...
The incredible 24th June 2003 Battle of Majar al Kabir Conspicuous Gallantry Cross and Iraq Medal to Sergeant Gordon Robertson 1 PARA is offered for sale in our 20th April medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £80,000 - £100,000. ...
Film buffs may recall the lines from that timeless classic “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” when Robert Redford and Paul Newman exchange: Sundance: What's your idea this time? Butch: Bolivia. Sundance: What's Bolivia? ...
Following the signing of the Anglo-Irish agreement an Irish Provisional Government assumed power in 1922. Lacking their own stamps, the decision was made as an interim measure, to overprint existing British stamps until the Irish Free State were able to introduce their own definitive stamps in December 1922. During this ...
There were 264 lots of medals and militaria in this sale. The highlights of the Victorian section were two 4 bar Crimea Medals. Lot 21 was officially impressed to Robert Sandys of the 68th Regiment, and who was recommended for the Victoria Cross for bravery on 11th May 1855 when he helped repel a Ru...
Our first coin auction of the year the weather was wet and gloomy but our new auction venue provided a welcome respite from the cold. We will be holding all our auctions in future at the Grade 1 listed Court House, located just across the road from our former venue at the Lord Leyster Hotel. All viewing, invoice settleme...
The cold and wet weather certainly didn’t put buyers off from attending our first coin and banknote auction of the New Year. It was the first sale to be held in our new auction venue. We will be holding all our auctions in future at the Grade 1 listed Court House, located just across the road from our former venue ...
Art Nouveau and Art Deco postcards are amongst some of the most valuable postcards collected, as long as the condition is excellent. Warwick and Warwick have a fine selection of these cards in the auction on March 16. Art Nouveau was a style of architecture and interior design that started in the last decade of t...
British Commonwealth A very rare Bermuda 1920 cover to the USA with 10/-, £1 & War Tax overprints, estimated at £130, was eventually sold for £590 after competitive bidding. ...
The occupation of the Channel Islands by Germany during World War II proved a devastating blow for the allies and its inhabitants but also posed numerous day-to-day practical problems. The maintenance of currency was important for the island population to continue buying everyday goods in order to try to live as normal a...
Airships had been in use since the late 19th century and particularly for military use in the 1st World War, though it was in the 1920s when the development of rigid passenger carrying airships became possible, particularly with the Zeppelin Airship Company in Germany. Airships were fascinating to a p...
The cold weather and the freezing fog certainly didn’t put buyers off from attending our first model railway auction of the New Year. It was the first sale to be held in our new auction venue. We will be holding all our auctions in future at the Grade 1 listed Court House, located just across the road from our form...
Our first die cast, model soldiers and toys sale of the New Year was the first to be held in our new auction venue. We will be holding all our auctions in future at the Grade 1 listed Court House, located just across the road from our former venue at the Lord Leyster Hotel. All viewing, invoice settlement and lot collect...
Karl Jaeger Collection achieves remarkable results. A further section of the magnificent collection formed by the well-known collector, the late Karl Jaeger of Bath, was offered in the Warwick and Warwick auction held on 20 January. Of the 85 lots on offer, 84 of t...
A new year and a change of auction venue to The Court House in Jury Street, Warwick, appears to have revitalised bidders, resulting in a full room of viewers at Chalon House prior to the auction and total realisations of close to £220,000 on the day. British Commonwealth The British Commonwealth sec...
After staging our auctions at the Lord Leycester Hotel for several years, we are returning to our former venue, The Court House, in Jury Street, Warwick CV34 4EW for all of...
Left: Delightful and colourful poster by Max Leinhardt, which won a 5th ...
The Christmas holiday provides an opportunity to look ahead to the January stamp auction, a philatelic feast for collectors. As a starter, the Miscellaneous section includes lot 41, a huge World collection of country ranges in almost 100 volumes, contained in 11 boxes, with better items noted though, no doubt, mu...
A further part of the superb collection of foreign postcards formed by the late Karl Jaeger comes up for sale in the Warwick and Warwick auction on January 20th. The cards featured below provide examples of some of the interesting cards he collected. ...
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A rare and unusual Mary Queen of Scots 1553 gold forty-four shillings coin is to be offered in our 9th December 2015 specialist coin auction. Mary ...
Our final stamp auction of the year is also the last stamp auction we will be holding at the Lord Leycester Hotel. From January we will be returning to the Ballroom in the Court House. The December auction boasts a superb collection of Great Britain King George V issues in control blocks, lotted as single items o...
We will be offering a comprehensive collection of fractional guineas in our 9th December specialist auction. The collection commences with high quality examples of the 1718 quarter guinea and highlights include: ...
Private Algernon Holliday, 13th Light Dragoons was killed in action during the Charge of the Light Brigade, and his Crimea Medal and a pair to his brother are offered for sale in our 9th December medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £11,000. ...
Sergeant Stephen Frost, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry, 1940 Fall of France Distinguished Conduct Medal group is offered for sale in our 9th December medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £4,000. ...
We have been instructed to sell an unusual Queen Anne gold touch piece in our 9th December 2015 auction. Credit: Confrerie Ste Clotilde/ Wikipedia...
A fine collection of Zulu weapons will offered for sale in our 9th December medal and militaria auction with varying estimates. The Zulu nation’s reputation as a fearless and well disciplined army was brought sharply to the British public’s attention with their victory at the Battle of Isan...
We have been instructed to sell a selection of high quality Meccano sets in our 18th November 2015 auction. Meccano was created in Liverpool by multi-talented Frank Hornby in 1901. He later created Hornby Trains and Dinky Cars. Meccano is a model construction system originally aimed at boys, consisting...
Queen Victoria died in January 1901, for 60 years her face had been on every stamp issued in the UK and most stamps issued in the British Empire. Seemingly she had been such a dominating presence that little thought had been given to the design of stamps for her successor, King Edward VII, who had been waiting to take on...
We have been instructed to sell an unusual Temple Bar commemorative issue in our 21st October 2015 Coins, Medals and Banknotes Auction. Temple Bar was one of eight original gateways that lead into the city of London. It originally stood where Fleet Street no...
This year is the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo and the end of Napoleon Bonaparte’s rule of France. Warwick & Warwick have four 1815 Water...
A 19th century Afghan flintlock jezail musket is offered in our 21st October medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £150. ...
The introduction of the 1d black postage stamp in 1840 was a huge achievement, simplifying an overly complicated postal system, but sometimes success can bring its own new set of problems and the Post Office became increasingly concerned about the re-use of stamps that had previously been used despite them being marked w...
As an auctioneer of postcards I see a vast number of desirable cards and class it as an honour and a privilege to be in such a position. I have the opportunity to examine and describe the cards without having to purchase them. I am indeed most fortunate to be able to view an eclectic and valuable range of cards every mon...
The catalogue for the penultimate stamp auction of 2015 has now been made available on our website. The auction has 820 lots with something to whet the appetite of most collectors. As usual the auction kicks off with World albums including the ever popular SG New Imperial & New Ideal albums. The Briti...
Sorting through a pile of world covers a very interesting item caught my eye. The activities of a Scientific Apparatus company were bound to attrac...
The Warwick & Warwick November 4th stamp auction includes examples of the 1979 Rowland Hill mini sheet issue with very rare errors. The sheet was issued in August 1979, shortly after a Royal Mail snap price increase, which meant that the original printing (with denominations 9p, 10½, 11p & 13p) had...
The Warwick and Warwick 16th September postcard auction has a strong section of glamour cards, all in fine condition, with ranges by Boutet, Chiostri, Mauzan, Busi, Patella and Abeille. ...
Commonwealth collectors will find much to interest them in our September auction. The section starts with an Ascension Island collection of King George V & VI in 40 lots. Most are KGV Badge varieties including numerous mast, flag & rock errors. ...
Royal Mail first introduced the Post & Go labels in a self-service machine, located in a Bristol Post Office in 2009. The Wincor Nixdorf machines were then rolled out to larger Post Offices around the country. In 2010 the machines were modified to be able to print the pictorial Post & Go stamps and so a new area ...
The Bahamas archipelago has had a colourful history since being discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492, involving slavery, pirates & adventure on the high seas, which may be why it is such an attractive area for philatelists. In our September auction we are offering approximately 70 lots of Bahamas items and coll...
We have been instructed to sell a rare first issue postal order in our 21st October 2015 Coins, Medals and Banknotes Auction. The postal order was first introduced on 1st January 1881 as a safe means for sending money from one part of the country to another. Ten different denominations were ...
We have been instructed to sell a selection of rare hammered gold coins in our in our 19th August 2015 Coin Auction. They include nobles, quarter nobles, a half ryal, an angel and a unite. The Noble was the first English gold coin produced in quantity with minting beginning as early as 1344, during the reign of E...
We were recently asked to value and auction a superb collection of GB stamps used abroad, including India, Levant and, of particular interest, correspondence from serving soldiers in the Crimean War. Amongst them is a letter from Assistant-Surgeon Ormsby Bowen Miller, who was serving with the 77th Foot...
Coming up in our 5th August Stamp Auction Buyers of postal history will have to wait till the end of the auction for a superb collection of ‘Used Abroad’. The collection includes many rare items including Crimea War covers (see the article in ‘...
A collection of de-activated firearms will be offered in our 19th August sale. The weapons include Lot 200, a German MG42 7.92mm machine gun with an estimate of £600. Lot 201 is a folding tripod for an MG42 with an estimate of £150. ...
As with any job, there are some tasks that I prefer more than others, but, as a long term stamp collector myself, preparing for auction a valuable collection of Ascension Island Plate flaws is probably as enjoyable as it gets. The stamps are well researched and also widely collected, so when we were offered a sup...
We have been instructed to sell this inscribed 19th century bone theatre token in our 19th August 2015 Coin Auction. The theatre in 19th century London was an extremely popular pastime for the upper classes of society. The particularly wealthy subscribed or leased a theatre box per season. This practis...
Topographical and social history postcards always achieve better prices if they are located. We have a series of un-located cards and we invite you to inspect them and see if you can locate any for us. If you can, I would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact me at ...
We have been instructed to sell a selection of Dan Dare related toys in our 19th August 2015 Toy Auction. Created by Frank Hampson, Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic book hero, who originally appeared in the children’s comic 'The Eagle' in the 1950s and 1960s. The stories were set in the late 19...
While going through a large Commonwealth collection, I came across some simply produced stamps from Uganda that I didn’t recognise and which I thought deserved some more research. The Stanley Gibbons catalogue provided some basic information but it took a bit more work to find out the full story. The stamps...
When coal mining is mentioned you automatically think of South Wales and the north of England. However coal was also mined in the south of England until the 1980s, in the eastern part of Kent, in the area between Canterbury and Dover. Our July 15th postcard auction includes some rare industrial cards showing the headgear...
We have been instructed to sell this much sought after gold aureus, minted during the reign of the Roman Emperor Nero, in our 17th June 2015 Coin Auction. Nero ruled the Roman Empire from 54AD to 68AD and is noted for being the last emperor in t...
Our monthly world stamp auctions always contain a very good mix of better single items and sets, as well as collections and accumulations from a wide variety of countries. We always find that cover and card lots are very popular with our clients, and our June 3rd auction contains a particularly fine ra...
We are offering a scarce 1875 halfcrown obverse brockage in our 17th June specialist coin auction. A brockage is caused when a coin gets stuck in the die during the minting process....
Coins of Oliver Cromwell are always very popular in our specialist coin auctions, and the 1658 half crown we are offering in our 17th June auction is an exceptional example. This se...
Perhaps it comes from having been a boy scout (with the woggle to prove it), but I have always found the Siege of Mafeking stamps fascinating. For 217 days the poorly trained forces of Robert Baden-Powell resisted the much larger Boer army to hold Mafeking until relief troops arrived on the 17th M...
As a stamp expert, if I had a pound every time a client with stamps for sale joked; “you won’t find a Penny Black in there… I wish…”; I would be a rich man! It is a very popular urban myth that the Penny Black is one of the World’s rarest stamps. In truth however, with about 68 milli...
1962 NPY 3d with “Queen omitted” It is true to say that the security printers g...
Considered to have issued some of the rarest and most sought after stamps, British Guiana has a special place in all keen philatelists' hearts. In 2014 the only surviving example of the 1856 1c magenta, considered to be the rarest stamp in the world was sold for $9.5m. ...
A 1920 Irish Constabulary Medal and a 1903 Visit to Ireland Medal pair, to 5...
The year 2015 is the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo and the end of Napoleon Bonaparte’s rule of France. The most iconic British unit for this pivotal battle in European h...
An outstanding and unique post WW2 MBE, Saigon Operations Military Cross group to Captain Philip Geoffrey Malins, Royal Army Service Corps, sold in our 22nd April medal and militar...
China’s Currency revaluation in 1955 and commencement of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 resulted in a scarcity of stamps for the following decade. Many activities, including stamp collecting, were considered to be ‘bourgeois’ and participation put collectors at serious risk, so few stamps from this per...
Our April stamp auction included a superb British & Commonwealth collection that has been held in the same family for generations without them being aware of the exceptional quality and high value. Amongst the collection were an 1840 Penny Black VR official mint pair along with an extremely rare block of 4, a...
A scarce German Kriegsmarine (Navy) M35 helmet is offered in our 22nd April medal and militaria auction with an estimate of £500. The M35 ET62 helm...
We have been instructed to sell this unusual Isle of Man 1811 Bank Token in our 22nd April 2015 Coin Auction. In the late 18th and early 19th century Great Britain experienced a shortage of low denomination coins. In particular pennies and half pennies, essential for use in everyd...
Postcard auctioneers, such as Warwick and Warwick, rarely offer original artwork in their auctions, due to its rarity. However the Warwick and Warwick postcard auction on March 18th contains no less than 33 watercolours by the comic and satirical artist, Cynicus, aka Martin Anderson, some of which were used as the basis ...
Our stamp auction on 4th March includes one of the great rarities of Hong Kong stamp collecting, the 1880 10c on 12c with doubled surcharge. ...
Warwick and Warwick, as auctioneers of postcards, are often called on to offer cards so rare that they have not previously been seen by the valuers. Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway issued a poster style postcard advertising their passenger services around 1912 and this card is very rare. We are offer...
The uniform, medal, photographs and documents concerning Lieutenant John Thomas White, a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps were sold in our 18th February auction in 3 lots. John Thomas White was born on 24th September 1897 and enlisted as a Private in the 10th Battalion Dublin Fusil...
James V was born in April of 1512 to James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor, the sister of the English King Henry VIII. After his father was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field on 9 September 1513 James was made king at the tender age of only a year old. After numerous regents and a spell of virtual imprisonment by hi...
Valuing covers collections can be rewarding because of the occasional rare and interesting items that surface which encapsulate a historical event. One such example is a 1944 cover from the Italian Naval Base in Bordeaux bearing Italian stamps overprinted by Mussolini’s Social Republic supporters which was ...
Rare Railway Officials are well-represented in the Warwick and Warwick March 18th a...
In our April stamp auction we will be selling a superb British & Commonwealth collection that has been held in the same family for generations without them being aware of the exceptional quality and high value. The collection includes an 1840 Penny Black VR official mint pair along with an extremely rare bloc...
The Cunard liner RMS Lusitania was sunk on 7th May 1915 off the coast of Ireland, by a German submarine. Even though the ship sank in 18 minutes 761 of the 1,959 people on board survived.The Germans produced a bronze commemorative medal designed by Karl Goetz, depicting “Death selling passengers Lusitania tic...
In the 1950’s and 1960’s, German manufacturer Schuco made a series of very high quality remote controlled cars. This is a very well preserved example of one of their best creations. This tin plate Alfa Romeo has a lady driver who, as the instruction leaflet included states, “The thinking girl dr...
The Jaeger collection, to be offered in our 21 Jan...
Constantius II was the longest surviving of Constantine the Great’s four sons and the only one to die in his bed. He spent most of his reign fighting a protracted war against the Persians as well as very damaging civil wars against relatives and various usurpers. This Constantius gold solidus is lot 661 in ...
The Northern Banking Company, a predecessor of the present day Northern Bank came into existence in 1824 as a joint stock bank, becoming the Northern Banking Company Limited in 1883. Northern Banking Company banknotes are hardly ever seen and are very much sought after. This £1 note dated 1st Sept 1887 is l...
We often get enquiries from people selling coins, who ask our experts advice about unusual items in coin collections. A common enquiry is about a gold coloured gaming token inscribed “TO HANOVER”. ...
In our coin auctions, we often sell coins which have interesting historical backgrounds. A good example in our December coin auction was this Aethelred II “The Unready” penny. Aeth...
Over the course of the year our valuation team here at Warwick & Warwick often receive material that is of little, or relatively low value. The decision is sometimes then made that the sale of such material is not viable given the costs associated with selling it, and the owners are ...
ACE Trains, as we know them today, began trading in 1996 and specialise in O gauge model railway locomotives, coaches and wagons. Production was initially based in Taiwan, later switching to Bangkok and again transferring in 2009 to China. The designs however remain firmly British in origin. The ACE Trains sectio...
There was a real Christmas good news result from our 10th December auction when a 1941-42 Malta Blitz George Medal group to Gunner Bernard Allen Ridgway, Royal Artillery, was re-united with the recipient’s daughter. Her father had sold the medals years ago in order to be able to purchase a pair of spectacles a...
A 1/9d stamp bought by a client in 1967 from his local Post office to add to his stamp collection was sold in our December stamp auction for £23,600 (incl 18% buyer's premium). After checking the stamp at home Mr Heywood realised that there was an error with the stamp and returned to the Post Office to see if ther...
Warwick and Warwick has been instructed to sell by auction a collection of rare balloon-post cards from G.B. andEurope. The collection includes one of the rarest and most desirable of all the postcards ever issued in this country, namely the Lifeboat Saturday balloon-flown postcard of 1903. The collection consists of 26 ...
Sometimes valuing a stamp collection involves seeing beyond the obvious and digging around to help stamp identification. While going through a mixed box of items I came across some postcards that seemed worthy of further investigation. ...
Magnificent Results for the Karl Jaeger Collection The first part of the fine collection of postcards and ephemera assembled by the well-known collector, K...
Banknotes have been produced by the Bank of England since the 17th century but unlike British coins, a likeness of the reigning monarch had never appeared. It was announced in July 1956 that Queen Elizabeth II had given permission for her image to be used on a new series of banknotes. Th...
How much is a “simple” WW1 British War Medal and Victory Medal worth? With over 8 million British and Commonwealth men and women serving in World War 1 and over 5 million of these serving on the Western Fr...
How do you value a stamp collection when it includes the only known example of a Great Britain missing colour error? The owner...
Just after the Second World War Italian born Arnaldo Pocher began making highly detailed locomotives, carriages and wagons for model railway enthusiasts. However by the 1966 International Toy Fair held in Milan, Pocher was introducing a new line of 1:8 scale model car kits again with emphasis put on high quality ...
We will be offering the second and final part of a superb continental HO gauge collection in our upcoming 19th November 2014 Model Railway auction. The collection is generally di...
‘To the unrefined and underbred, the visiting card is but a trifling bit of paper; but to the cultured disciple of social law, it conveys a subtle and unmistakable intelligence.’Our Deportment, Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by John H. Young, 1881. ...
The Warwick and Warwick postcard auction on November 19 includes a marvelous collection of Malaya and Singapore postcards, part of the fabulous Karl Jaeger collection. It includes 7 unused Singapore chromo vignettes and 6 b &...
There are many different factors in valuing stamps. This Ceylon 4c stamp is normally only worth a few pence but with the interesting postmark of Slave Island it is worth more to either a collector of Ceylon or Queen Victorian postmarks. This lot will be in our January stamp sale with an estimate of £10 ...
With any mechanised process mistakes happen and the printing of the money we use on a daily basis is no exception. Most errors are spotted before being released to the public but occasionally one slips through the checking process. This 1990’s £20 with the Queens portrait missing will be inclu...
We are asked on a daily basis by people who want to sell their collections, ‘How much are my coins worth? ’Our answer is often ‘To provide you with a free coin valuation, we will have to see the coins’. The reason for this is that the same coin will realise vastly different amounts in our coin auc...
‘How much are my stamps worth?’ & ‘How do I get my stamp collection valued?’ are questions that we hear on a daily basis, the answer is that we offer a free expert stamp valuation service and suggest the best way of selling stamps to achieve their correct market price....
The complete collection of 15 Minichamps Art Car Museum Edition Series 1/18 scale models is in our 19th November 2014 sale, Lots 842 to 856. The catalogue is now available on line. ...
Joseph Cottriall, one of our senior philatelists with over 30 years experience at Warwick and Warwick, came across this stamp from Estonia in a mixed collection of Europe. Stamp identification is often of great importance and Joseph recognised this item as being from Tallinn, overprinted in 1919. The Russian Arms 7...
The Warwick and Warwick auction of picture postcards which takes place on November 19 includes a very fine collection of Bath topographical cards. The 170 strong collection is made up of many rare and desirable social history cards and also includes Bath ephemera. It is part of the famous Karl Jaeger collection. ...
While sorting through a very large accumulation being prepared for our next stamp auction, I came across an unusual collection of Cinderella issues from Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound. The first stamps were issued in 1973 when the island was being used as an adventure centre, so young visitors could keep ...
There is a 1941-42 Malta Blitz George Medal group to Gunner Bernard Allen Ridgway, Royal Artillery, estimated at £2,000, in the Warwick and Warwick 10th December 2014 auction. The George Medal was awarded for: “On 5th May 1941 when a mine exploded in Casemate Barracks, this man was emp...
There is a collection of 4 Indian Percussion Cap Muskets and 1 Matchlock Musket in our 10th December 2014 sale. ...
A client recently travelled to Warwick with some stamps for sale and amongst the material he left with us was this imperf cylinder block from one of the Millennium issues. He bought it in Hereford and it was only later we realised this variety has not been previously recorded. We have included it in our November 5th...
Warwick and Warwick have been instructed to sell the very fine collection of postcards assembled by the well-known collector, Karl Jaeger of Bath. Karl has judiciously assembled his collection over a period of 20 – 30 years, always with an eye to quality and condition. His c...
We will be offering a superb continental HO collection in our 19th November auction. The collection is generally digital from the 1990s and 2000s. The owner purchased each locomotive, had decoders professionally fitted by Modellbahn of Towcester, tested them and then put them to one side. The col...
The set of 1914 Nature Studies, issued by the cigarette manufacturers E. Robinson is rarely seen in really good condition and that is why it realised £495 in the 17 September auction. A report of the sa...
We will be offering a superb continental HO collection in our 17th Septemberauction. The collection is generally digital from the 1990s and 2000s. The owner purchased each locomotive, had decoders professionally fitted by Modellbahn of Towcester, tested them and then put them to one side. The collection is ...
A collection of Ramsgate, Kent, broken into 17 lots, was very popular amongst the bidders in the September 17 postcard sale. Click here for a full report of the sale....
In our auction on the 3rd of September we will be offering arguably the finest collection of Swedish booklets available outside Scandinavia. Impressive both in its range and fine condition, this is a rare opportunity for specialist collectors to acquire many of the exceptional & valuable booklets available...