Winston Churchill’s blood to be auctioned
A UK auction house is taking the former prime minister’s words literally. Duke’s auction house has announced it will auction a vial of Churchill’s blood, taken during a hospital stay…
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Armani, Versace And More Fashion Designers Create Fabulous Manhole Covers
From the catwalk to the sidewalk: some of Italy’s most famous clothing designers have set haute couture aside for once and dedicated their creative verve to embellishing the streets of…
Putting a Price on Simon Kuznets’s Nobel in Economics
James D. Watson’s sold for $4.76 million while the one owned by William Randal Cremer, a member of Parliament and labor activist, fetched just $17,000. Now another Nobel medal —…
Warren Buffett’s Cadillac sells for $122,500
Related: Rolls Royce is making an SUV Celebrity connections can add value to a car or motorcycle but usually when the person involved has some connection to cars. For example,…
Warren Buffett’s Cadillac sells for $122,500
Related: Rolls Royce is making an SUV Celebrity connections can add value to a car or motorcycle but usually when the person involved has some connection to cars. For example,…
Warren Buffett’s Cadillac sells for $122,500
Related: Rolls Royce is making an SUV Celebrity connections can add value to a car or motorcycle but usually when the person involved has some connection to cars. For example,…
Girl’s best friend indeed: 100-carat ‘perfect’ diamond up for auction
The 100.20-carat, D color (meaning it is colorless), internally flawless stone is one of just five comparable quality diamonds over 100 carats, a release from Sotheby’s auction said, and is…
You could hang Lionel Messi on your wall … for $450,000
Japan’s Takashi Murakami portrait of the Barcelona great has been valued at approximately $450,000 and will be auctioned in London to raise money for charity Thursday. “Lionel Messi and a…
Justin Bieber’s Sneakers Fetch Over $62,000 For Food Bank That Helped Pop Star
A pair of Justin Bieber’s Nike basketball shoes has fetched more than $62,000 in an eBay auction to benefit a food bank in the pop star’s hometown of Stratford, Ontario….
Wow! Painting bought for $5,212 in 2013 sells for $5.2 million
This week, however, the painting’s price jumped exponentially1,000 times its previous valueat a Sotheby’s auction in New York. It sold Wednesday for $5.2 million. The discrepancy in the value of…
Here’s Why Auctions Are The Best Place You’ve Never Shopped
If you think auction houses are only for those who can drop millions on rare art, you’re entirely wrong. Every day, hundreds of items go up to the gavel, everything…
What would make a baseball hat be worth $300,000?
Other big-ticket baseball memorabilia items that sold in Wednesday’s auction include a Joe DiMaggio 1937 baseball cap that fetched over $150,000 and a 1932 Yankees ball, signed by both Ruth…