Islamic treasure fetches 1,000 times estimate in sale
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A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer, misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for 220,000 pounds at auction, more than one thousand times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday.
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David Walker scooped up more than $4 million in jewels and antiques over the past few weeks as he crisscrossed the country on a buying spree unlike anything he's ever done before.
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A 1,800-year-old sealed pot of ointment found in London last year was most probably a cosmetic foundation.
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For the first time, sales top $1 billion in one quarter, researcher says.
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The thieves escaped with more than Â£1m of jewellery.
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A Quran written in 1203, believed to be the oldest known complete copy, has sold for more than $2.3 million at an auction.
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An academic real world -- plus, a chance to win $1,000.
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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Some cultural experts are questioning whether Afghanistan is being properly compensated in a $1 million deal to bring a rare cache of gold artifacts to the United States.
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A painting by Joan Miro sold for a world record figure for the Spanish artist&#39;s work at the start of a bumper series of high-value art sales at Christie&#39;s in London, the auctioneer said Tuesday.
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One art lover in Sweden paid 1,000 times over the starting bid for a painting billed as the work of a student of Peter Paul Rubens after learning the Flemish baroque master may have painted it himself.
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A copy of the Magna Carta has been sold for more than Â£10m to an American tycoon
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Announcements abounded: one acquistion, a potential sale, and the first-quarter earning report.
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A copper figure from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum, which purchased it for more than 12 times its estimate.
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A rare copy of the Magna Carta is sold for Â£10.6m ($21.3m) in an auction at Sotheby's in New York.
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POLATLI, Turkey  - Cetin Akyar's calloused hands   pass over a string of black prayer beads as traders at the   Polatli Commodity Exchange determine the price for his harvest   of nine and a half tonnes of wheat.
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A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra &#151; the birthplace of the Mormon religion &#151; will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction.