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Zero-G artwork sells for £223,000

An artwork by British artist Nasser Azam which was completed in zero gravity has sold at a New York auction for $332,500 (£223,000). Homage to Francis Bacon: Triptych I was created as part of Azam's Life in Space project in July 2008. More...

Von Braun papers on auction Wednesday in NYC

Dr. Wernher von Braun's early blueprints for space exploration will be up for bid at a prestigious New York auction house next week. Drawings signed by von Braun will be put up for auction at the London-based Bonhams New York location beginning 9 a.m. Wednesday More...

Moniker Online T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Auction results

Moniker’s Extended Online Auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York concluded last night with sales of more than $900,000, bringing the total sales for Moniker’s live and online domain auctions to nearly $4 million. Moniker’s Live Domain Auctions held at the New York conference logged sales of approximately $3 million. More...

Seoul.com Last Minute Addition to the TRAFFIC Auction

Rick Latona Auctions would like to announce a last minute addition to their T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Auction. Seoul.com will be on the auction block! Seoul is the largest city in South Korea boasting over 10 million people and is the world's 2nd largest metropolitan area. Bidding can be done live at the auction in New York as well as online More...

T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York will auction off .ME domains

New top level domain .me heats this month with T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York allowing them to be auctioned More...

James Brown auction could net $2M, Christie's says

On Thursday, Christie's, the New York auction house, will try to sell more than 300 items owned by Brown, including capes, awards and hair-are products - check out the list! More...

TITANIC LIFE JACKET SELLS FOR £34,000

A blood-stained, oily lifejacket from the Titanic sold for £34,000 at a New York auction last night. More...

Copernicus first edition sells for more than $2M

A first edition of the book in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented his earthshaking theory of the cosmos has fetched more than $2.2 million at a New York auction. More...

No takers for 'Jane Austen portrait'

A rare and contentious portrait of the esteemed novelist Jane Austen has failed to sell at a New York auction. More...

Dinosaur Dung Sells at New York Auction For Nearly $1,000

To quote someone from the article: "Poop, is a big business in the pet industry." Who knew sh*t would have some value some day! More...

130-million-year-old poop sells for $960

# Dinosaur dung sells at New York auction# Buyer owns company that sells products to treat dog and cat waste# The fossilized dung is from the Jurassic era, auction house says More...

Jurassic-Era Dinosaur Dung Fetches Nearly $1,000 at Auction

A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction for nearly $1,000. More...

Jurassic Poop - Dino Dung auctioned off for 1,000 dollars

NEW YORK - A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000. The prehistoric deposit fetched $960, said a spokeswoman for Bonhams New York. Its pre-auction estimate was $450. The fossilized dung is from the Jurassic era, the auction house said.... More...

Early "Leaf" Photo Could Fetch Fortune

A New York auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, it says, it would be one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography. More...

Image could point to earlier dawn of photography

A New York auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, it says, it would be one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography. More...

Nude Photo of Carla Bruni to Hit New York Auction Blocks

A nude photo of France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is to be auctioned off at a sale next month in New York City, an auction house said. More...

France's 1st Lady Nude Photo, Worthy Only $4000?

Nude photo is so popular nowadays, how about France's 1st lady's nude photo? Unbelieve that it worthy only $4000? Here comes the shock news that Carla Bruni-Sarkozy nude photo will be auctioned by Christie's on 10th april in New York. The auction house estimate for the photo is $3,000 to $4,000, reported by Christie's. More...

Bacon work tipped for record at New York auction

NEW YORK: A painting by Dublin-born British artist Francis Bacon is tipped to fetch a record 70 million dollars when it goes under the hammer in New York in May, Sotheby's said Monday. More...

Spink Acquires Smythe, New York’s oldest dealer and Auctio

1880 New York Auction house gets bought by 1666 UK Auction house. More...

Magna Carta Expected to Fetch Millions at New York Auction

One of just seventeen copies of the Magna Carta will be sold off Tuesday night at Sotheby's by businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot, and it is expected to fetch a record $20-30 million. You might think the British government would want keep one of their most sacred txt's instead of pawning it off. More...

Beer Is Cheaper

A BOTTLE OF 81-YEAR-OLD SCOTCH WHISKY sold for $54,000 at Christie’s New York auction house yesterday. More...

Sotheby's to Auction Early Copy of Magna Carta

A copy of the Magna Carta signed by King Edward in 1297 will go up for sale on Dec. 18 at New York auction house. FTA: Expected price $20 - $30 million. COMMENT: If I were Bill Gates, Donald Trump or someone else with more money than I would ever need, there is no way I would be outbid for this . . . and I would donate it to the National Archives. More...

Space rocks go under the hammer

Some meteorites are going on the block at a New York auction house More...

Rare 1st Edition 1830 Book of Mormon Discovered by New York Auction Company

This New York Auction Company finds a rare and valuable book while cleaning out an estate. The book is only one of hundreds known to exist! More...

Warhol smashes a new record sale

Sale prices for post war art continue to smash record prices. The latest record breaker is 'Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)' by Andy Warhol which fetched $71,700,000 at Christie's New York Auction house..... More...

Artemis And The Stag Sold For $28 Million !

On 7 June bronze figure of “Artemis and the Stag”, circa dated 1st Century B.C./1st Century A.D., sold for $28.6 million at Sotheby’s New York auction. According to Sotheby’s it’s a world-record auction price for a sculpture of any period. Also, it’s much more than a pre-sale high estimate of $7 million. More...

Famous magician Brandon Silverfield buys Houdini’s original straightjacket.

What does a guy who has a flourishing career, hundreds of millions of dollars and a beautiful supermodel babe need? How about Houdini’s original straightjacket? Illusionist BRANDON SILVERFIELD bought Houdini’s straightjacket anonymously at a New York auction for nearly 6 million dollars Friday night. More...

Christie's to auction Jane Austen portrait

Christie's in New York are auctioning a painting believed to be of Jane Austen. There is however a storm of contention brewing over the claim that it is indeed Austen depicted in the picture - The National portrait gallery argues that it is not, whilst descendants of the author claim otherwise More...

RARE MCCARTNEY SONG UP FOR GRABS

Rare handwritten letters by former BEATLE SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY and a guitar owned by JIMI HENDRIX will go under the hammer at a New York auction site later today (04DEC06). More...

Auction houses to sell over $1bn of art in New York

Auction houses hope to raise more than $1bn selling art in New York in the next two weeks, in what is expected to be a record season even as dealers and collectors express doubts that art prices can go much higher. More...

Trek Auction Starts Big

The bidding began quickly on the first day of Christie's three-day New York auction of more than 1,000 lots of Star Trek memorabilia, with a captain's chair once belonging to Jean-Luc Picard from the bridge of the starship Enterprise-E going for a gavel price of $52,000--far beyond the presale estimate of $9,000, the Associated Press reported. More...

Fenway having problems with new toliets

A fire storm has developed over Leland’s sale of a Fenway Park commode with the Red Sox insisting that the throne is not quite the bottom-kissed collectible the New York auction house would have bidders believe More...

Antique Computers/Parts on Hand at in a New York Auction

All sorts of relics of computer history were on hand at an auction in New York. Everything from a 5 pound disk to a company's original plan to build a computer "for less than $30,000, and possibly as low as $5,000." More...

Relics of Computer History in New York Auction

Lots on offer include an early version of a data storage disc dating from 1951, weighing 5.5 pounds which could only hold about the equivalent of one paragraph of tex More...