Big game hunter's prizes to go under hammer
The contents of a Castle Douglas mansion owned by Dick Cunnighame- one of the first big game hunters in Africa - are to go up for auction.
Contents of a Borders mansion go on sale
Furniture and paintings are among the items up for grabs at Haining mansion in Selkirk
Rare NUFC memorabilia auctioned
A rare recording is being sold of players from Newcastle United and Blackpool FC discussing their forthcoming 1951 FA Cup Final match.
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Big game hunter's prizes to go under hammer
The contents of a Castle Douglas mansion owned by Dick Cunnighame- one of the first big game hunters in Africa - are to go up for auction.
Read the full storySale of the century: contents of a Borders mansion are sold off
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Contents of a Borders mansion go on sale
Furniture and paintings are among the items up for grabs at Haining mansion in Selkirk
Read the full storyContents of Haining mansion in Selkirk go on sale
Some of the contents of a country mansion in the Scottish Borders have gone on sale to raise money for the trust fund which runs the estate.
Items being sold off from Haining mansion in Selkirk include period furniture and paintings. It hopes to raise thousands of pounds.
The estate is now run by the Haining Charitable Trust after the former owner Andrew Nimmo-Smith left the property to the community following his death in 2009.
Rare NUFC memorabilia auctioned
A rare recording is being sold of players from Newcastle United and Blackpool FC discussing their forthcoming 1951 FA Cup Final match.
Read the full storyRobert Burns auction: Full video report
by Samantha ParkerRare first edition poems penned by Robert Burns have been sold to an anonymous bidder for tens of thousand of pounds at auction.
A Scottish bidder paid 32 and a half thousand pounds for the Kilmarnock edition of Burns' poems, described today as the most impressive work in Scottish literature.
The lots went under the hammer at an Edinburgh auction rooms earlier today.
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A rare first edition of Burns' poems under the hammer
A rare first edition of Robert Burns' poems has been sold at auction for £32,500.
Read the full storyBurns book sold for £32,500
A first edition of a book containing poems by the Scottish Poet Robert Burns has been sold for a hammer price of £32,500 in an auction in Edinburgh. The Kilmarnock edition of Burns' poems has been described as 'the most impressive work in Scottish Literature'.
It has been bought by an Edinburgh Institution who say the book will remain in Edinburgh and will be on public display in the Capital.
Burns' books auctioned
A rare first edition of the poems of Robert Burns wil be auctioned and is expected to fetch around £35,000. It dates around 1786.
There are thought to be only 74 surviving copies of the edition, of which 42 are in universities, 22 in libraries, eight in museums and just 12 copies left in private hands.
The book is one of a number of rare copies of his work that will go under the hammer in Edinburgh
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