Magna Carta sold for 21.3 million at New York auction
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One of only 17 existing copies of the Magna Carta, an 800-year-old English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York Tuesday for 21.3 million dollars.
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A handwritten chapter of Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," written by the author at the behest of his publishers and including the scandalous visit of the title character to an opium den, has been sold for &#36;132,000.
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At a Christie&#39;s auction held in New York, a guitar once used by the Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon, fetched a staggering $570,000.
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A riotously profane picture of a village  fete by Pieter Brueghel the Younger that has not been seen in  public for 70 years sold for over three and a half million  pounds in London on Wednesday.
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The Badminton Cabinet, one of the finest  pieces of furniture in Britain, was sold for 19 million pounds  to become the most expensive non-pictorial work of art ever  sold at auction, Christie's announced on Thursday.
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A view of the River Thames painted by Claude Monet sold for almost $36 million at auction Monday, kicking off a week of big-budget sales on the London art market.
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A bawdy 17th-century play billed as the rarest known piece of English pornography sold for &#36;88,300 at auction Thursday.
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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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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price.
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A model of the Starship Enterprise sells for more than Â£300,000 at Christie's in New York.
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An 800-year-old copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, is sold for a world record price of Â£1,140,500 at a London auction.
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Free agent Jaret Wright and the New York Yankees finalized a $21 million, three-year contract Wednesday, announcing the deal on the pitcher&#39;s 29th birthday.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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One Beacon Street, one of Boston's earliest prominent office towers, was sold yesterday for about $340 million, the third time in two years a sale had been in the works for the 34-story building.
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Free agent Jaret Wright and the New York Yankees finalized a three-year contract Wednesday, announcing the deal worth about $21 million on the pitcher's 29th birthday.
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NEW YORK -- A painting from Claude Monet&#39;s iconic series on London&#39;s House of Parliament has sold at auction for $20.1 million.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers conducted its largest sale to date in company history last week in Moerdijk, (Rotterdam), the Netherlands, earning over $68 million in gross auction sales.