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Bowie, on a stool, when a makeup artist suggests a lightning flash on his face and the photographer says “make it bigger”. So was born a legendary image that has just been sold.
Imprisoned after some typically devil-may-care war reporting in South Africa, Churchill wrote to the woman who was probably his first love.
A Boba Fett original is bound to get Star Wars fans up into orbit. This gun from The Empire Strikes back is a one-off with a generational price tag.
They printed around 1 million copies of this debut magazine featuring a super-popular new hero. But, they asked kids to cut off the back page and intact examples are worth a mint.
Steve McQueen still epitomises cool. And it’s a cool closely associated with fast cars. Start you engines then for the perfect sale for lovers of elegant, beautiful, superfast machinery.
There’s still a cult following for 1960s TV shows and a big market for memorabilia as a major sale has just proved. Holy mackerel, you need to see the prices on these costumes.
The two greatest tragedies in American political history are also the most collectible moments. Lincoln and Kennedy have proved their value yet again. Read more here.
In the chaos and confusion of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon’s carriages went astray. Now one of the most precious items found inside will be sold at auction.
Players love Eddie, and he was a real guitar head, making his own instruments and tinkering hard on this one that has now become one of the most valuable ever.
The James gang left a trail of broken safes and bodies in their wake, but a letter for sale with a British collectibles company suggests they may have a more […]
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.
