Callas memorabilia sells for Â£1m
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A collection of items belonging to the late opera star Maria Callas fetches 1.76m Euros (Â£1.26m) at auction.
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Elizabeth Gibson found a painting by Rufino Tamayo  on the street four years ago.  Said to be worth about $1 million, it is heading for the auction block next month.
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Online auction firm eBay says a first edition copy of a Harry Potter book could fetch up to Â£20,000.
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A WOMAN who found a footballer's lost mobile phone is selling the numbers of some of the world's top players.
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LONDON - A 1,000-year-old stone carving, which has spent years marking the grave of a British couple&#39;s pet cat, has sold for more than $470,000.
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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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A fan pays Â£1,534 to own one of Shakira's bras in an auction to raise money for her children's charity.
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A jersey worn by Northern Irish football legend George Best in a famous Manchester United match 36 years ago has been sold at auction for 24,000 pounds (36,000 euros).
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Spain&#39;s Santander Central Hispano plans to raise an initial 1 billion pounds from the sale of closed-life books owned by Abbey National, the Sunday Times says.
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A stone marking a pet cat&#39;s grave fetched more than Â£200,000 at Sotheby&#39;s yesterday after experts said it was a 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon carving.
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Jackson family memorabilia brought in about half a million dollars on the first of a two-day auction at the Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino, auctioneer Guernsey's said Thursday. The auction, which wraps up late Thursday, displayed more than 1,100 lots, mostly costumes, documents, awards and other memorabilia.
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A British bookmaker offered a one  million pound ($2 million) reward on Monday to anyone who can  prove that Scotland&#39;s legendary Loch Ness monster does actually  exist.
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Â· Multimillionaire has given Â£125m to charity already Â· First step to fortune made selling trainers in garage
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Dutch bank ING, which paid Â£1 for Baring, the British investment bank brought to the brink by Nick Leeson, is to sell its remaining Baring division.
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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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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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Focus DIY is set to be sold to US hedge fund Cerberus for just Â£1 after suffering serious financial problems.