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The aborted auction of desirable Star Wars memorabilia reminds us that behind many sales are personal stories and real people. With real feelings. The Washington Post reported on February 14 […]
David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to hit song The Jean Genie have auctioned for £57,000. Bowie penned the lyrics in black ballpoint on lined notebook paper in 1972. They achieved the […]
Pablo Picasso’s Femme dans un fauteuil (1942), a portrait of his muse Dora Maar, will cross the block at Christie’s London on June 20. There’s no estimate on the work, […]
The International Museum of World War II in Boston is hosting a new exhibition on the role of women around the world during the conflict. The show, titled Women in […]
A ceramic vase picked up at a car boot sale for £20 ($26) during the 1990s has sold for an astonishing £21,960 ($29,411) at auction. It turns out the vase […]
Thomson Riddick will auction an original cannon from the HMS Bounty in its June 9 sale in Dumfries, Scotland. It’s valued at up to £500,000 ($667,670). This ship occupies a […]
A cigar half smoked by Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill on a ship to the US in 1941 has sold for £2,600 ($3,467). That’s more than double the £1,000 […]
Manchester United has acquired its original contract with legendary manager Matt Busby for an undisclosed sum prior to its planned auction. The document will be displayed in the team’s museum […]
One of the 1,200 non-VIP guests invited to the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle on Saturday has sold her goodie bag for an astonishing £21,400 ($28,629). That’s a […]
A 1926 Macallan Valerio Adami 60-Year-Old has smashed the record for a whisky bottle at auction. The rare 750ml tipple, from the distillery’s celebrated “artists series”, sold for $1.1m at […]
Fans of the 90s will be able to relive the Spice Girls phenomenon this year, as an exhibition devoted to the world’s best-selling girl group comes to London and Manchester. […]
A number of Enigma machines have come to auction over the past couple of years. Much rarer are the codebooks used to operate them. Bonhams’ June 12 Books and Manuscripts […]
A collection of items belonging to Jews who were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the second world war appeared at auction last week. The lot realised $3,000 in the […]
A battle scene etched onto a kettle plate by a Native American warrior is to star in a sale at Heritage Auctions. The lot is valued at upwards of $50,000, […]
An electric guitar body that Kurt Cobain smashed to pieces onstage in Seattle on September 22, 1990 led a sale at Julien’s Auctions. The Aria Pro II Cardinal Series achieved […]
