Collectors' items
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it, wrote Oscar Wilde. In these collectible auctions, vinyl records, pipes, lighters, cigar humidors, snuffboxes, and tobacco jars are highly sought-after objects. Smoking kits are a real hit. Placoemaillophiles, collectors of enamel signs, will find what they’re looking for. Stamp enthusiasts will uncover rare collectible stamps, and taxidermy lovers will find preserved animals. On the red carpet at Hôtel Drouot, there's a true festival of walking canes — whether pommel-topped or mechanical — and a parade of automotive elegance featuring cars, horse-drawn vehicles, even planes, boats, and motorcycles! Collectible auctions also include curiosities — those “rare, new, singular things,” as Littré puts it — including scientific instruments. At Drouot, curiosity is no sin. Find the finest live collectible auctions on Drouot.com — in Paris, throughout France, and abroad (United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, United States, etc.)