Bogie and Bacall Love Affair Keepsake Comes to Auction

Despite their age difference, the silver-screen to real-life romance of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart was arguably the greatest love story of the glamorous Golden Age of Hollywood. Bacall, who was known for her alluring, sultry film presence and her distinctive, husky voice, was 20 when in 1945 she married Bogart, who at 45 was […]

It’s Elementary, My Dear Collector

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous fictional detective, was first introduced by Arthur Conan Doyle in “A Study in Scarlet,” published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” Holmes pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe, most often with companion Dr. […]