Bawdy 17th-Century Play Sold at Auction
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A bawdy 17th-century play billed as the rarest known piece of English pornography sold for &#36;88,300 at an auction Thursday.
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A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta was sold at auction for $21.3 million by The Perot Foundation at Sotheby's in New York, the auction house said on Tuesday.
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Fire destroyed part of a 16th-century library's collection.
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Long before the curtain was raised in Birmingham on a play called âBehzti,â it was known that several elements of the production could cause offense to some members of the audience.
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Artwork attributed to Adolf Hitler is auctioned in England for higher prices than expected.
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It entered the auction as an 18th century painting by an unknown artist worth a few hundred pounds, but emerged as a suspected early work by Renaissance master Titian possibly worth several million.
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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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See that spot that just opened up? Forget about it. Some yuppie won it in an auction two hours ago, so you're out of luck. Commentary by Tony Long.
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The first act of this play is so funny that at the intermission youâll be saying to yourself, âThey canât possibly keep this up.â And youâll be right.
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By Jim Warren, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Feb. 2--A dispute that sounds worthy of a segment on Antiques Roadshow is brewing over period furniture from Ashland, the Henry Clay estate, that is going up for sale this weekend.
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Elton John has won 116,000 euros ($157,700) in damages and costs from a Paris art dealer who sold him sculptures supposedly dating from the 18th century that turned out to be fake, according to court papers.
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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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A mysterious three-part painting that is viewed as a Francis Bacon masterpiece sold for $46.1 million Wednesday at a Christieâs auction in London.
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The works can be almost impossible to sell, they can end up dumped in the strangest places, you can&#39;t trust anyone. It&#39;s enough to make a thief scream, writes Sarah Lyall.
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A new play suggests John Amery rebelled against his father's concealment of his Jewishness
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Pavol Liska's pared-down adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" exposes the play's absurdist humor and howling sadness.
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LONDON -- A British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book that she inherited from a distant relative she didn&#39;t know existed.