Callas memorabilia sells at auction
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A Tiffany silver bowl that President Kennedy gave to Maria Callas fetched nearly $33,000 at an auction of the late opera diva's memorabilia.
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A painting by Winston Churchill, which President Truman called one of his "most valued possessions" after receiving it as a gift from the British prime minister in 1951, will be sold at Sotheby's, the auction house said Saturday.
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Christie's will auction the estate of Mexican screen legend Maria Felix including a portrait of her that has never been publicly exhibited and is expected to fetch at least $500,000.
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Chicago-related items and experiences will be up for sale Dec. 2 to Dec. 16 on eBay as part of an effort to raise money for arts and cultural programs in the city.
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By Gus G. Sentementes, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 14--The lengthy list of pilfered items from storage rooms at Camden Yards reads like an inventory from a baseball memorabilia collector's garage:   A Melvin Mora bobblehead doll: $3. Six Orioles warm-up jackets: $360.
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In New York, the auction of Johnny and June Cash&#39;s belongings brought more than twice the pre-sale estimate, bringing in nearly $4 million.
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Barry Bonds' 715th home run ball,  which lifted the San Francisco Giants slugger past Babe Ruth on  all-time home run list, sold for $220,100 on Thursday in an  eBay Inc. auction.
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WILLMAR, Minn. - A teenager auctioning himself as a prom date has been booted off eBay - but he's still selling the shirt off his back.  Nathan Carlson offered himself for auction last Friday after a conversation with some friends at Ridgewater College. The bidding started at $30.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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At a charity auction in New Jersey last weekend, baseball memorabilia dealer Warren Heller was approached by a man with an unusual but topical request.
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An auction of more than 700 items  belonging to singer and actress Cher raised over $3.5 million  -- more than double pre-sale estimates -- as celebrity  collectors snapped up her possessions.
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The first auction of official "Star Trek" memorabilia hit warp speed on Saturday when a determined bidder paid $576,000 for a model of the legendary science fiction franchise's starship Enterprise, helping drive the total for the three-day sale above $7 million.
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A collection of personal items belonging to late opera legend Maria Callas is to be sold later this year in Milan.
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An England football shirt stained with Paul Gascoigne&#39;s tears has sold for almost Â£30,000 at auction. The number 19 shirt, signed by his England team mates, was bought by a private buyer at Christie&#39;s in South Kensington, London, on Tuesday.
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Jewellery belonging to the legendary late opera star Maria Callas will be put up for auction in the Swiss city of Geneva on November 17, the auctioneers Sotheby's said.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - In what could be the most valuable sale they have ever staged in Europe, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday they expect to raise more than 100 million pounds ($195 million) from an Impressionists' auction next week.
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One of the more unusual medals awarded during World War II -- given to a carrier pigeon parachuted into occupied France alongside British agents -- is to be sold, auctioneers said.