One-off Maserati Boomerang heads to auction for just under £3 million (more…)
Tag: collection
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A luxury estate
Unusual Aston Martin estate car owned by Richemont director Alain Dominique Perrin heads to auction (more…)
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Five of the Best: Highlights of Masterpiece
Spectacular items, art and objects at Masterpiece 2015 (more…)
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Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი, AKA “Boris Ivanishvili”)
Said to be worth £3.3 billion, businessman and politician Bidzina Ivanishvili counts two albino sons amongst his four children. (more…) -
Justin Fichelson: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
The Steeple Times asks realtor and star of ‘Million Dollar Listing San Francisco’ Justin Fichelson: “What’s on your mantelpiece?” (more…)
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Her Grace Deborah Cavendish, The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire DCVO (1920 – 2014; née The Hon. Deborah Freeman-Mitford)
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Drilling a bank robbery
A drill used in the Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery on display at Christie’s is a reminder of the world’s biggest bank heist
Former banker David Gainsborough Roberts has amassed an extraordinary collection of items owned by famous and infamous individuals. A selection of them are currently on display at Christie’s in South Kensington and amongst them are a parliamentary robe worn by Lord Lucan, Lawrence of Arabia’s white silk headdress and a drill used in the Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery in 1987. (more…)
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Five of the best: Christmas gifts
Our favourite gift ideas for Christmas 2013
Gift suggestions for those with sophisticated tastes (more…)
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Being Liberace with the facts
A Cadillac that may or may not have belonged to Liberace comes to auction without much evidence of its provenance
In The Talented Mr Ripley, the detective appointed to discover what happened to Dickie Greenleaf states: “In America we’re taught to check a fact before it becomes a fact”. In the case of a 1930s Cadillac being auctioned by Barrons at Sandown Park in Surrey on the 17th September, this quote ought to have been applied. (more…)
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Naylor3 at Jak’s Bar
A special offer for readers of ‘The Steeple Times’
Join the Naylor3 – Alexandra, Jessie and Emma Naylor – at Jak’s Bar at 87 Walton Street in Chelsea, SW3 on Saturday 22nd June from 3pm to 6pm.
