Toys
Single bottle of scotch sells for £8,500
At £340 a shot, it will be the most expensive glass raised in the Cotswolds this Christmas – a very special bottle of whisky has sold at an auction in Cirencester for £8,500. The 70cl decanter of Macallan’s Millennium was … Continue reading
A shot of whisky? That’ll be £178, sir
At up to £178 a shot, it might be the most expensive glass raised in the Cotswolds at Christmas this year – but auctioneers at Moore Allen & Innocent in Cirencester are confident that a very special bottle of whisky … Continue reading
Scouts do their best at snow-hit auction
Their motto is ‘Be Prepared’, and Cirencester auctioneers Moore Allen & Innocent were lucky to have a troop of Boy Scouts on hand when snow bought the country grinding to a halt on Friday (January 18). Sadly these semaphore flag-wielding … Continue reading
Broken Chinese bowl makes £22,000
A broken Chinese bowl proved it was all it was cracked up to be, and more, when it went under the hammer in Cirencester on Friday. The intricately-decorated oriental bowl, which dated from the 1800s, smashed all expectations, achieving £22,000 … Continue reading
Booze price plan unlikely to affect vintage wine sale (where an empty bottle could fetch £1,200)
New Government proposals to place a minimum price on alcohol will mean the cheapest bottle of wine could soon cost around £4.20. But that’s unlikely to concern buyers and sellers at Moore Allen & Innocent’s annual pre-Christmas auction of vintage … Continue reading
Old bears go head-to-head with plastic action figures
In a toy story worthy of Hollwood treatment, a group of teddy bears clashed with the combined forces of goodies and baddies from Star Wars, some heavy-hitting Transformers, He-Man, the Thundercats, a platoon of GI Joes, and martial arts experts … Continue reading
Auction features thousands of toys from the 70s and 80s
Not long ago, in a galaxy not too far away, a movie pitched as a western in space spawned a multi-billion dollar franchise whose action figures and vehicles dominated birthday and Christmas wish lists for a generation. Now, as the … Continue reading