Old carving over grave of Winkle the cat draws $383,000 at auction
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A 1,000-year-old stone carving that spent years marking the grave of a couple&#39;s pet cat was sold at auction in London Friday for more than $380,000.
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An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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Impressionist art still brings out the big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on Wednesday pulled in &#36;92.5 million and showed that contemporary art sales are where the action.
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A previously unknown Philadelphia carved mahogany tilt-top tea table finds its way to a forthcoming Americana sale at Christieâs.
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A rare signed first edition Harry Potter book is expected to fetch up to Â£12,000 at auction.
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Hollywood, Fla, Nov. 25 - GoldenPalace online casino paid over US$28,000 yesterday to the owner of a 10-year-old, partially-eaten grilled cheese sandwich believed to carry the image of the Virgin Mary.
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Someone actually paid $28,000 (plus $9.95 shipping and handling) on eBay for a 10-year-old, framed grilled cheese sandwich said by its seller, Diane Duyser of Florida, to have the image of the Virgin Mary on it.
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DALLAS - An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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A stone carving that was used as a cat&#39;s headstone has sold for Â£200,000 at auction - five times its estimate. The medieval limestone relief of St Peter was discovered at a quarry by a stonemason Johnny Beeston, from Dowlish Wake, Somerset.
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A three-canvas painting by the figurative artist Francis Bacon is to be auctioned in London next month, where experts estimate it will break the record for the sale of any British or Irish work.
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A mysterious three-part painting that is viewed as a Francis Bacon masterpiece sold for $46.1 million Wednesday at a Christieâs auction in London.
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CEDAR CITY, Utah - A 75-year-old woman who felt threatened by a wild cat rented a trap for $55 and caught the animal.
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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A three-canvas painting by Francis Bacon sold in London for 26.34 million pounds (35.24 million euros, 51.68 million dollars) Wednesday, but narrowly missed out on a record for the artist at auction.
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A Francis Bacon painting sells for more than Â£26m at auction, but fails to set a new record for the artist.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the new (if temporary) home of âArtemis and the Stag,â below, the 2,000-year-old classical bronze sculpture that sold last year for a record $28.6 million at a Sothebyâs auction in New York. The sculpture, sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to an unidentified private collector for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or antiquity at auction, will be on view for six months in the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court (the central atrium in the new Greek and Roman Galleries).