An English luxury auction house has withdrawn a commemorative watch given to a Chinese soldier following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre after its vendor received threats on social media.The owner of the watch was concerned ...
The iconography of James Bond is almost as famous as the character himself. The spy is known for his Aston Martin, his trilby, his martini (shaken, not stirred) — and his signatureWalther PPK pistol.Though the ...
An “ultra-rare” purple-pink diamond is set to go under the hammer, with auction house Sotheby’s estimating that it could fetch up to $38 million. The 14.83-carat stone, dubbed “The Spirit of the Rose,” will go ...
Hong Kong—Like almost everything else in 2020, the sale of two jewels expected to go for millions at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels sale in Hong Kong Wednesday didn’t go as planned. Ahead of the sale, the ...
On Monday evening an exceptionally rare 102.39-carat diamond made auction history as the first gem of its quality to be sold without a reserve. With a live auction taking in online and phone bids, the ...
One of the world’s most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons is up for sale. STAN the T. rex, named after the paleontologist who first discovered his bones, walked the Earth some 67 million years ago. Now his ...
A rare 1794 silver dollar believed to be one of the first — if not the first — to be struck by the US Mint is going up for sale. Dubbed the “Flowing Hair” dollar, ...
A long-forgotten Chinese vase, once sold at auction for just £44 ($56), went under the hammer for over 70 million Hong Kong dollars ($9 million) on Saturday after being discovered in an elderly woman’s country ...
The only known letter to have been jointly written by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, in which the former details the pair’s visits to French brothels, sold for more than 210,000 euros ($237,000) at a ...
A cognac from a 1762 vintage sold for £118,580 ($146,000) at an online auction. The “exceedingly rare” Gautier cognac is one of the oldest surviving cognacs in the world, and only three bottles of it are ...
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