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A Noel Gallagher-owned guitar that his brother Liam used as a weapon as the band fell apart has been auctioned for nearly £300,000. The 1960, red Gibson ES-355 was one […]
Lou Gehrig is a legend on and off the diamond. These artifacts brought the hero and the sportsman together and proved their worth this week.
A 1494 print of Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas has proved valuable at auction. And an Einstein photo surprised to go for many times its estimate.
Stolen to order is a phrase used more often in news reporting than law enforcement. It’s a rarity, but could it have happened at the Louvre last Sunday?
The stories of the Titanic are why we remember this appalling disaster. Isidor and Ida Straus told one of the most compelling and moving of those stories.
A thoughtful gift, no doubt, but the President didn’t really want it. The man he gave it to added the evidence that makes Lincoln’s Gettysburg Cane so valuable now.
Churchill loved Marrakesh so much he went there to paint six times. One of his best works from those trips will sell as Canada’s oldest business is liquidated next month.
Zappa guitars don’t sell often; this one never has; and it may be his best. Get set for records in this December guitar sale that also sees Harrison, Clapton and more on the block.
Einstein loved this violin. It must have hurt to leave it behind in Germany. But with Hitler in power he had no choice. Now it has sold for a record price.
A mafia don somehow acquuired an unpublished Jack Kerouac story and now, fully authenticated, it has sold for thousands of dollars. A story worthy of the Beat Generation.
Tsarina Maria Feodorovna got a wonderful present at Easter 1913. Her Faberge egg, the legendary Winter Egg, may break auction records again when it sells this winter.
Paintings by Bob Ross, the celebrated TV artist, will be auctioned this November, with the profits going to support US TV stations facing cuts in funding. Ross became a popular […]
A rare proof coin of a 1907 $10 dollar coin has just sold for $2.4 million. There are just two examples of this coin known.
The collections of the Crosbys – husband Bing and wife Kathryn – will be sold in a major New York auction this December. Among the lots are legendary movie props […]
Part of one of Michael Jackson’s most iconic costumes will be sold later this month when his Smooth Criminal white fedora is expected to make as much as £80,000. Jackson […]
