Antiques & collecting

Exhibition: Family Treasures at Blenheim Palace The seat ...

Nina Hossain presents RAIL ’s 2025 National ...

Britain’s railway network is 200 years old. To celebrate, we meet some later-life rail enthusiasts who have returned to the hobby – just don’t call them trainspotters!

My wife is already commenting that it’s getting colder and hinting that the central heating needs to go on. My dog walks are getting earlier and earlier – yup, there’s no escaping it, autumn is here,

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

Brian Howes unearths some nostalgic collectables that might be discarded as worthless junk but actually have a value to today’s collectors. Can you estimate what each object might be worth and pick ou