Fitzsimmons memorabilia valued at $30,000 www.secondsout.com Boxing – Updates & News – Legends Update “July 16, 2001 – A collection of fight memorabilia featuring the legendary Bob Fitzsimmons has been valued at an astonishing $30,000 in...
Rags To Riches Raphael Forbes.com Nina P. West, Artfact.com 07.18.07 “How often does a $325 investment turn into a $35 million profit? Never? Yet it happened to one shrewd New Yorker who trusted his instincts and knew how to play the art game. In 1968, Ira...
HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM ULYSSES S. GRANT TO ROBERT E. LEE, DATED APRIL 10, 1865, TO BE SOLD BY GALLERY 63 IN ATLANTA, AUGUST 4th and 5th (Atlanta, Ga.) – A letter handwritten by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to Gen. Robert E. Lee on April 10, 1865, discussing terms of...
Joe DiMaggio’s diaries are up for sale Yahoo! News By PAT MILTON, Associated Press Writer Mon July 16, 2007 “NEW YORK …a 2,000-page, 29-volume collection of the New York Yankees icon’s diaries, meticulously handwritten between 1982 and 1993,...
130-year-old outhouses yield treasures Yahoo! News Tue Jul 17, 2007 “VENTURA, Calif. – The spot where a pair of outhouses stood 130 years ago is proving to be a treasure trove for archaeologists who braved the lingering smell in the dirt to uncover some...
Monet’s Moody Masterpiece Forbes.com Nina P. West, Artfact.com 06.26.07 “A London bridge built up of oil paint and canvas recently helped Christie’s set a new auction record. On June 18, the classic Claude Monet painting, “Waterloo Bridge,...
A fine art: warning shot fired as investors buy up modern masters The Business – Global Business News Online By : Abigail Townsend 27/06/2007 “THE one thing you know about asset classes is that they go up and down – and art is no different.” Wise...
Former bad-boy U.K. artist Hirst nets new record at auction CBC.ca Arts June 22, 2007 “Controversial British artist Damien Hirst has grabbed headlines once again, this time as one of his trademark medicine cabinets has broken the auction sales record for a...
World’s oldest running car to be auctioned By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com staff writer June 27 2007 “NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, will be sold in a Pebble Beach, Calif.,...
Bottles are up to snuff Antique Week June 22, 2007 By Robert Kyle FALLS CHURCH, Va. – A stop at a suburban Maryland home to pickup books for auction resulted in the discovery of a Chinese snuff bottle collection, which later yielded a small fortune with bidders...