Collecting
Finding beauty in old makeup: the comeback of vintage cosmetics
A growing passion has seen people part with thousands for antique compacts, lipsticks and perfumes. Serena Smith meets the collectors seeking yesteryear’s glamour
Serena Smith
07, Dec, 2024 @1:00 PM
Own some coal from the Titanic: rare shipwreck artefacts go on sale
A haul of 8,000 items from 150 shipwrecks – including the Titanic and Henry the VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose – is to be auctioned after the closure of a Cornish museum
Donna Ferguson
27, Oct, 2024 @1:00 PM
Three things with Claudia Chan Shaw: ‘Pull out a Bic four-colour pen in a meeting and it’s a real icebreaker’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the TV host and collector shares her ‘daggy’ stationery – and her childhood obsession with Humphrey Bogart
As told to Katie Cunningham
20, Oct, 2024 @2:00 PM
Newly found Jimi Hendrix tapes give fans chance to own song only they can listen to
Four never-before-heard demos will be sold at auction along with documents rescued by former PA to the star’s manager
Dalya Alberge
13, Oct, 2024 @7:00 AM
‘I have to have one of those’: plushie super-fans explain the appeal
For 25 years the company, built by two publicity-shy British brothers, has turned everything from bears to burgers into ‘plushies’. Three avid fans explain their appeal
Isabelle Aron
06, Oct, 2024 @8:00 AM
Pip Rau obituary
Other lives: Dealer in central Asian textiles and costumes who ran a shop in London and hired her collections to film-makers
Brian Viner
23, Sep, 2024 @2:53 PM
Auction of first King Charles banknotes raises nearly £1m for charity
Collectors snap up £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes bearing king’s head for 11 times monetary value, with one £10 note fetching £17,000
Miles Brignall
13, Aug, 2024 @11:30 AM
In for a Penny Red … UK’s ‘most valuable’ stamp goes up for sale at £650,000
Rare, flawed version of Victorian stamp is one of a batch destroyed in the 1860s for being defective
Hilary Osborne
10, Jul, 2024 @3:06 PM
On my radar: Billy Corgan’s cultural highlights
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman on bonding with his son over Miyazaki, the genius of Mozart’s Requiem, and the world’s biggest Bozo the Clown collection
Kathryn Bromwich
08, Jun, 2024 @2:00 PM
Fans call foul over England’s Euro 2024 sticker album debacle
A row between rivals Panini and Topps has meant collectors cannot fill an album with players in their kits from all 24 nations in this year’s tournament
James Tapper
08, Jun, 2024 @10:16 AM
‘This gesture made history’: watch given to Gina Lollobrigida by Fidel Castro is to go on sale
After the actor turned photojournalist interviewed the communist leader, he gave her his watch – one of many items of her memorabilia up for auction
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
12, May, 2024 @4:00 AM
Top England players missing from official Euro 2024 sticker album
Phil Foden and John Stones among those reportedly absent as ex-Uefa partner Panini retains some rights
Jamie Grierson
22, Apr, 2024 @5:50 PM
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