Abbeys Auctions latest online sale for Unclaimed Goods began at 7pm on Wednesday October 7 and continues until the same time on Friday October 16.

The sale features a large collection of quality Australian and overseas wines.

The next weekly sale begins at 9am Friday October 9 at 480-482a Station Street, Box Hill and includes unusual and retro furniture. 

Auction goers will take a trip down memory lane when they walk into Young’s Auctions weekly sale from 9.30am Friday October 9 at 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.

On display are relics of the past including wooden weaving spindles, microscopes, scales, old rulers, clips desk tidies and a three-metre long Robur shop signs from the 1930s and 1940s.

Model car and ship collectors will be intrigued by the large specimens (measuring more than one metre) on offer.

Sixty years worth of “old stuff” will go under the hammer when auctioneer Steve Graham mounts the rostrum at 10am on Sunday October 11 at 7 Ardoch Street, Essendon.

One of the main features of the auction is a copper and leadlight feature door that came from the former 1930s Mercantile Mutual building in Melbourne CBD and an ostrich egg in a Morton’s Fish Paste cardboard box.

The house contents include a hallstand, marble washstands, mirrored sideboards, dressing tables, display cabinets, beds, wardrobes and mirrors.

Toys, cameras, posters and rugs going under the hammer should bring in a range of collectors and auction goers from noon Thursday October 8 at Leonard Joel 333 Malvern Road South Yarra.

The toys include Dinky car and truck models from various periods along with Corgi examples, Triang and Japanese tinplates. 

Hornby O gauge engines and carriages are another feature while among the cameras is a 1950s Flexora twin lens reflex, Zeiss Ikon Compurrapid with Tessar F/3.5 lens, various Leica models and Devry 35mm clockwork line camera with case.

An original Charles Blackman charcoal floral, signed and dated 1954, is one of the major drawcards at E.J. Ainger’s forthcoming weekly sale from 9.30am Tuesday October 6 at 433 Bridge Road, Richmond.

For movie memorabilia collector buffs, the auction contains an interesting selection of vintage movie cameras and accessories.

For those auction goers who like to check out both antique and modern furniture items, there is plenty to attract – not least of all the leather and fabric upholstered Moran lounge suites.

A 50-year-old collection built up by one of Melbourne’s leading businessmen will be auctioned on site from 11am Sunday at 46 Monomeath Avenue, Canterbury.

Kim’s Auctions has been asked to handle the sale which features quality sterling silver including a 1774 George III swing handle basket, a 1697 pair of William III lighthouse castors featuring the London coat of arms, a George IV oval shaped Scottish soup tureen by J McKay, an 1830 William IV ewer and basin, and George III dinner plates (London 1762) and six-piece tea service (London 1817-18).

Friday’s inaugural public holiday to allow Victorians time off to soak up the AFL Grand Final parade hasn’t stopped Young’s Auctions from plying its auction wares as normal.

Accordingly, it is full steam ahead for the auction house with the sale due to start at the normal time of 9.30am at 229 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn.

The auction contains s massive assortment of items – including a full size Ace billiards table.

A mid-20th century Ethiopian hippopotamus tooth and silver dinner gong is a unique auction item in what is rapidly becoming one of Philips Auctions more unusual sales - earmarked for noon Sunday October 25 at 47 Glenferrie Road, Malvern.

Auciton goers should also find a late Qing Dynasty (late 19th to early 20th century) large Cantonese pedestal bowl of great interest.

Limited edition boxed unusual shaped Limoges porcelain decanters are another major feature of this rather eclectic decorative fine arts sale.

A comprehensive range of antique instruments – many belonging to the one collector – should bring auction goers running to Young’s Auctions latest weekly sale from 9.30am at 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.

The instruments include an antique brass theodolite and English octant from the 1890s.

There also is an expanding brass telescope, microscope, bellows camera and binoculars.

Other interesting items include a Constellation globe, model of a DC3 aircraft and a desk tidy with slots for fountain pens and a pipe.

Auctioneer Steve Graham is in charge of an on site clearing sale at the Macedon nursery at 10 Margaret Street from 10am Sunday September 27.

Earmarked to go is a huge number of garden and nursery plants, trees and ferns.

The auction includes the sale of planters, nursery trolleys and stands, garden ornaments, shade sails, gazebos, wheelbarrows, hoses and outdoor furniture – perfect for anyone looking to spruce up their garden.