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Diana, Princess of Wales wore a Christina
Stambolian dress that became known as the 'revenge dress' as she wore it on the evening that the then Prince Charles made the admission about adultery on television. Picture: Anwar Hussein

Royal Edinburgh to benefit from sale of Princess Diana 'revenge' dress

Jack Vettriano at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow

Scotland’s debt to Vettriano - Angus Robertson

1,500 items owned by Freddie Mercury to go on auction

Actor Sir Sean Connery, with wife Micheline, in full Highland dress and wearing his medal after he was formally knighted by the Queen in 2000 during a investiture ceremony, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. PA

Sir Sean Connery painting expected to fetch £2 million

Kim Kardashian has paid a total of £163,800 for a necklace worn by Diana, Princess of Wales.

Kim Kardashian buys Diana’s Attallah Cross in auction

Manuscripts curator Ralph McLean with Sir Walter Scott's original working manuscript of Rob Roy.

Walter Scott’s ‘priceless’ Rob Roy manuscript to go on display in Edinburgh

Diego Maradona's first goal against England is an iconic moment in football history. (Picture credit: Getty Images)

Diego Maradona’s Hand of God shirt expected to fetch £4m at auction

Panos Kirkos from Hamilton & Inches with his designs.

Rare Harry Potter book visits the Capital

The key to Napoleon's prison bedroom which is going under-the-hammer after it was unearthed in a trunk in Scotland. PA Photo

Napoleon prison key up for auction after being unearthed in Scotland

This Joan Eardley painting of fishing nets at at the coastal village of Catterline, in Aberdeenshire, where she spent her later years has been valued at up to £60,000.

First look: The Scottish art treasures set to come under the hammer

Rare Toyota 2000GT sells for nearly £700,000

Edinburgh artist Peter Doig.

BA selling art off its collection - including works by Edinburgh's Peter Doig

Welsh says a failed music bid led him to create one of the 20th century's most acclaimed examples of literature. Picture: TSPL

Failed music bid pushed me to write Trainspotting, says Irvine Welsh

The original Trainspotting poster could fetch a four-figure sum. Picture: Sotheby's

Rare Trainspotting movie poster could fetch four-figure sum at Sotheby's auction

Sotheby's Edinburgh Office
the Grand

Sotheby’s auction house opens new offices in Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square

The Lewis Chessman could raise 1m at auction after being discovered in a draw (Photo: Getty Images)

Lewis Chessman found in drawer expected to raise £1m at Sotheby’s auction
A medieval chess piece which had been missing for nearly 200 years is likely to raise £1m at an auction later today (Tuesday 2 July).
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The Lewis Chessmen. Picture: TSPL

Edinburgh family find long-lost Lewis Chessmen piece in drawer - and it's worth ...

Banksy reveals that in rehearsals the shredding had worked every time, with footage of a test run showing a print passing through the shredder completely, so that none of the canvas remained intact.

Bansky video shows he planned to shred entire painting

Banksy's artwork, Girl With Balloon shredded itself after being sold for more than Â£1 million at auction. Picture: PA

Banksy painting self-shreds seconds after Â£1m Sotheby's sale

Lucy Brown of Sotheby's with Major Harrison's Colourist collection. Picture: John Devlin

Rare Scottish art treasures to go on public display

Reflection, which was painted by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell in 1915, is expected to fetch up to 600,000 at auction next month.

Dozens of Scottish Colourist works set to go under the hammer for millions

Girl With a Green Scarf is among Joan Eardley's paintings of tenement children in Glasgow coming up for auction.

Joan Eardley paintings of tenement children to go under the hammer

The book was handwritten by JK Rowling. Picture: Dan Hallman/AP

'˜Harry Potter' book handwritten by JK Rowling sells for Â£370,000

Sir John Lavery's 1921 painting of North Berwick's golf links has fetched 872,750 at auction.

Early portrait of women's golf sells at auction for nearly Â£900,000

A detail of Fergussons Amongst The Rocks, Cap dAntibes, with an estimated price of Â£100,000 to Â£150,000

'˜Exceptional' Scottish Colourists mark auction's return

David Bowie's Scottish art collection revealed

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Far East snaps fetch £350k
AN album of photographs taken in China during the 1900s by an Edinburgh pioneer has sold at auction for £350,000.
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£35 Cadell work fetches £300k at auction

Painting in frame for 10,000-fold increase

Big fan set to snap up art

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