Magna Carta fetches $21.3 million at Sotheby's auction
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A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta, among the most important historical documents ever to hit the auction block, sold for $21.3 million on Tuesday at Sotheby's.
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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 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 Â£21m Heritage Lottery Fund grant will help pay for a museum to be built round Henry V111's flagship.
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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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The only copy of the Magna Carta, the document that laid the foundation for fundamental principles of English law, in the United States is about to go on sale.
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Strong sales for impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York's premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin's "Maternite (II)" bringing in &#36;39.2 million and Claude Monet's "London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog" &#36;20.1 million.
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LONDON  - A torn piece of the flag that flew on Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, sold at auction for &#36;86,600 US on Tuesday.
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Christie's sold a Francis Bacon triptych for 26.3 million pounds ($51.7 million) late on Wednesday, the highest price paid at a European auction for a post-war work, and narrowly short of the artist's record.
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The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and CÃ©zanne is estimated at $163 million.
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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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US property and casualty insurers paid out $21.3 billion for hurricane damage, mostly in Florida, during the third-quarter, according an industry group called ISO.
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In its most expensive purchase ever, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to pay more than $45 million for a painting by the early Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna no bigger than a sheet of typing ...
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The record price for a painting by contemporary British artist David Hockney was smashed again after one of his most familiar works fetched 2.6 million pounds (3.8 million euros, 4.8 million dollars) at a London auction.
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Free agent Jaret Wright and the New York Yankees finalized a three-year contract Wednesday, announcing the deal worth about &#36;21 million on the pitcher's 29th birthday.
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An auction of more than 700 items belonging to singer and actress Cher raised over $3.5 million -- more
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New records were set on Thursday for  works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction  of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest  total since 1990.