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Auction Name	The Timed Coins, Railways & Collectables Sale	Total Sales (GBP)	3,874.94
Auction Date	July 27, 2025 - July 27, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	2,720.00
Sale Number	#72725	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	4,550.00
Total Lots	93
Sold Lots	40.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	5,080.00
% of Lots Sold	43.01%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	8,580.00
Unsold Lots	53	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	45.16%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
289	Tottenham Hotspurs 1960./1961 complete run of home and away football programmes Double-winning seaso	1960./1961	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 575.92
239	Autographs.		GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 413.16
232	Cornwall Postcard Collection contained in 10 modern albums.		GBP 200.00 - 250.00	GBP 363.08
231	Postcards.		GBP 200.00 - 250.00	GBP 287.96
226	Camborne / Redruth including mining - Approx. 70 postcards contained in a modern blue album.		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 275.44
288	A 1966 World Cup Final Programme Signed	1966	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 275.44
234	Cornwall Postcards, St Just-in-Penwith etc contained in modern red album.		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 175.28
235	Cigarette Cards Sets and Odds.		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 125.20
303	1966 World Cup Memorabilia Signed	1966	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 93.90
283	An England Winners World Cup First Aid Cover Signed		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
257	(Comics and Graphic Art) A fine collection of twenty works		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 68.86
297	Pele (Signed)	1970	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 68.86
103	An early Victorian Tweed Bank Berwick PS5 five pounds banknote.		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 56.34
229	Two postcard albums		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 56.34
274	Jimmy Greaves - A 65th Birthday Signed by ex-Tottenham players		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 56.34
251A	Autograph Album.	1960s	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 50.08
256	A collection of 1970's posters	1970's	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 50.08
449	The Beano, Dandy, Beezer and Buster Twenty three copies	1968	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
453	Top Trumps - Horror x2.		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 50.08
227	Cigarette cards.		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 43.82
291	Plymouth Argyle Interest Two Signed Photographs and a signed shirt		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 43.82
316	Lloyd's War Losses		GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
253	A collection of vintage Chinese postcards.	1973	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 37.56
263	(Maritime) Thirty three good works		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
267	The Walking Dead A near complete run 1-30		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 37.56

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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