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A Bowie knife owned by Rezin Bowie, brother of the American folk hero Jim Bowie, could sell for up to $200,000 as part of an upcoming sale at Morphy Auctions. […]
Marilyn Monroe’s personal script from her final film role will be offered for sale this week by U.S auction house Nate D. Sanders. In 1962, following a year away from […]
The recent Sotheby’s sale ‘A Rock & Roll Anthology: From Folk to Fury’ featured two landmark items of memorabilia from the history of punk. The first item was a hand-painted […]
A key that opened playwright Oscar Wilde’s cell in Reading Gaol auctions tomorrow. It has a £6,000 ($7,500) estimate ahead of its sale at Sotheby’s in London. That estimate looks […]
Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to Blowin’ in the Wind have sold for $324,500. They topped Sotheby’s A Rock & Roll Anthology: From Folk to Fury auction in New York on […]
A German M4 naval Enigma machine has sold for a record $463,400. It smashed the previous record for an Enigma machine, set at $350,000 for another M4 specimen last year. […]
The original log kept by the navigator of the Enola Gay made $372,500 at Sotheby’s New York on December 6. It starred in sale of Americana and books and manuscripts. […]
A couple of bottles of Royal Welsh Whisky have sold for substantially above their estimates at Peter Francis Auctioneers. Both date to around 1900 and were produced by the Welsh […]
One of the original awnings that hung above the entrance to legendary New York punk venue CBGB is selling at Sotheby’s. It’s valued at $25,000-35,000 ahead of the December 10 […]
The copper plate used to print the ultra-rare 1847 Mauritius issue stamp realised $1.1 million at David Feldman in Geneva last week. The issue was the first stamp the British […]
An evening gown once worn by Princess Diana will highlight a fashion auction in London later this month. The Bruce Oldfield-designed crushed purple velvet number will sell with a £70,000 […]
Lawren Harris’ Mountain Forms has broken the record for a Canadian artwork at auction. The Group of Seven artist’s 1926 work sold for $11.2 million at Heffel Fine Art Auction […]
The piano on which John Lennon wrote and recorded the Beatles’ A Day in the Life comes to auction at Sotheby’s next month. The song, which is the climax […]
A page of Herge’s original artwork for a Tintin adventure has auctioned for $1.7 million, doubling its estimate at Artcurial in Paris. The China ink extract from 1954 work Explorers […]
A hostile letter John Lennon wrote to Linda McCartney, Paul’s wife, has sold for $29,843 at RR Auction – far above its $20,000 estimate. Lennon wrote the letter in 1971, […]
