Rare blue diamond breaks world record in HK sale Yahoo! News Mon Oct 8, 10:03 AM ET “HONG KONG (Reuters) – One of the rarest gems in the world, a flawless blue diamond, has sold for US$7.98 million (3.91 million pounds) at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong...
Getting the jump on a collectible The Maumelle Monitor Online – Living By Carol Haynes / Staff Writer Wednesday, October 3, 2007 “What once was considered a fad has become what Mike Smith calls an “undiscovered collectible”. Adorning the walls...
Corgi collectables auctioned off BBC NEWS Wednesday, 3 October 2007 Nearly 600 items rare and collectable items from toy firm Corgi, including limited editions and pre-production prototypes, were offered to collectors at the auction hosted by Bonhams in Knowle. A...
Stevens Auction Company of Aberdeen, Mississipi is concluding the fall season with a pair of major estate sales, one slated for Saturday, October 20, beginning at 10 a.m., the other for Saturday, November 3, with an identical start time. Dwight Stevens described the...
Marie Antoinette’s pearls up for auction Yahoo! News By Mike Collett-White Thu Sep 27, 2007 “LONDON (Reuters) – A set of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are...
Copy of Magna Carta to be sold Yahoo! News Tue Sep 25, 2007 “LONDON – A 13th-century copy of the Magna Carta, a milestone of English freedom, will be offered for sale in New York in December, Sotheby’s auction house said Tuesday. The vellum...
Hollywood movie posters on the block TheStar.com | Movies | The 500-plus rare and beautiful movie posters up for auction likely won’t be seen again September 25, 2007 Geoff Pevere, Movie Critic “It was the will of the late Gene Andrewski that other people...
Bargain hunt for kitchen kitsch Entertainment – inRich.com Wednesday, Sep 26, 2007 By ANNMARIE TIMMINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “Hoosier cabinets, butter churns and ice chests are perennial favorites with kitchen-antiques lovers. But some of today’s...
Titanic sum for key auction piece Belfast Telegraph Sunday, September 23, 2007 By John McGurk A key which could have saved the Titanic from its watery grave has made a world record at auction – a whopping 90,000 pounds (US $181,700)! That tiny piece of iron...
Dead Sea Scroll of Rock & Roll The Beatles’ “Peace to Monterey,” a psychedelic sketch drawn by all four members, was created for the Monterey Pop Festival program book in 1967. The original artwork, kept in a vault for nearly 40 years, is being...