In the May 19th edition of Scoop, they report that the first house that Elvis Presley bought with his rock and roll earnings, was purchased on eBay by psychic Uri Gellar (now there’s a name I haven’t heard for awhile): Elvis Presley House Brings $905,100...
Sean Blanda over at collegev2.com has a post on some of things that are hard to push on eBay, citing his experience at a DropIt store. He specifically cites jewelry, computer monitors and printers, hand made items, antiques (I think he’s talking more of antique...
Scoop reports on a recent Heritage Comic Book auction. Some of the highlights: Heritage Comics Realizes Over $3 Million Auctions/Prices, Scoop, Friday, May 19, 2006 “Led by the sale of the Mile High copies Jumbo Comics #1-8 as well as the highest known grade of...
Man Ray Light Bulb Fetches Record $439,400 at London Photo Sale Bloomberg.com: U.K. “May 19 (Bloomberg) — New York photography dealer Howard Greenberg paid 232,000 pounds ($439,400) for a Man Ray image of a light bulb at a London auction this week, setting...
Rare Shirt Forbes.com Julie Carlson, Artfact.com 05.11.06, 12:30 AM ET “Perfectly preserved in the attic of a Scottish castle for the past 150 years, a Blackfoot man’s beaded hide shirt drummed up $800,000–a world-record price for a Native American...
Lichtenstein, de Kooning paintings sell for $15.7 million in New York Canadian Press Published: Thursday, May 11, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) – Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s Sinking Sun and Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XVI have both sold for almost $15.7...
19th century football programme sells for 21,850 pounds icBirmingham May 11 2006 “A single sheet of paper detailing the teams from the 1889 FA Cup final between Wolves and Preston fetched a world record price for a football programme at auction yesterday. The...
Violin set to sell for $2.5m The Australian From correspondents in New York May 12, 2006 “AUCTION house Christie’s unveiled a Stradivarius violin today that it said could fetch more than $US2 million next week to become the most expensive musical...
Broad Buys Warhol ‘Soup Can’ in $143 Million Christie’s Auction Bloomberg.com: Canada May 10, 2006 Lindsay Pollock Philip Boroff “May 10 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire collector Eli Broad paid $11.8 million last night for Andy Warhol’s...
Western officials to vie for aboriginal artifacts at auction Thu, 04 May 2006 CBC Arts “Western Canadian museum officials and historians have expressed alarm at an upcoming New York auction. A Sotheby’s auction of aboriginal art and artifacts collected...