Posts Tagged ‘the-auction’
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Calling all history buffs and creepy collectors: JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s original coffin will go on the auction block Dec. 16, with bids starting at $1,000. Oswald’s corpse was exhumed in 1981 following a dispute between his brother and his…
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Oswald’s Coffin Up for Sale
Tags: 1981-following, all-history, auction, brother, creepy-collectors, harvey, harvey-oswald, his-brother, history, jfk, original-coffin, start, the-auction
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
A 16-inch vase found during a house clearing in a London suburb sold for $69 million on Thursday, according to the London auction house Bainbridges. It’s a record price for any Asian piece of art, the auction house said. Helen Porter of Bainbridges…
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Chinese Vase Sells for $69 Million
Tags: asian, auction, auction-house, london, million-on-thursday, porter, the-auction, thursday
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
A 19th-century painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini that was found in an abandoned Paris apartment has sold on the auction block for nearly $3 million. The owner of the apartment had locked the doors at the start of World War II, moved to…
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Painting Found in Apartment Sells for $3M
Tags: apartment, auction, doors, giovanni, giovanni-boldini, italian, locked-the-doors, paris, start, the-apartment, the-auction, the-doors, the-start, world
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