Rare Magna Carta to be sold at Sotheby's in NYC
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A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta valued at up to $30 million is due to be sold by The Perot Foundation at Sotheby's in New York in December, the auction house said on Tuesday.
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Hidden among the porcelain fox hounds and Burberry tablecloths on sale at eBay.be this week was an unusual item: "For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts ... free premium: the king and his court (costs not included)."
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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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A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta Â the version that became part of English law Â was auctioned Tuesday for $21.3 million, a Sotheby's spokeswoman said.
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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.
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The heirs of murdered Italian designer  Gianni Versace are hoping to raise as much as $17 million from  the sale of art by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein from his New  York home, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
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A 177-year-old first edition of the Book of Mormon found in a home near Palmyra &#151; the birthplace of the Mormon religion &#151; will be put up for bid next week at an upstate New York estate auction.
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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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NEW YORK - An auction of important manuscripts, letters and other items belonging to poet and playwright Oscar Wilde goes up for auction this month, the 150th anniversary of the ever-controversial Irish-born writer's birthday.    The 104-item collection, exhibited Thursday at Sotheby's Manhattan location, includes some of the most desirable items from the witty Wilde's holdings...
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A rare copy of Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard's famed book, "Either/Or," will be sold at auction later this year, a Copenhagen auction house said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 4 -- Records were set Thursday for works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian as Sotheby&#39;s opened its two-day auction of impressionist and modern art.
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The only copy of the Magna Carta in the United States is about to go on sale. The document laid the foundation for fundamental principles of English law.
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Antique golf clubs, from the collection of Jeffery B. Ellis, will be sold at Sothebyâs in New York on Sept. 27 and 28.
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Arguably the most important document ever to be auctioned goes on sale Tuesday when a copy of the Magna Carta, an 800-year-old English royal manuscript, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.
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A three-canvas painting by the figurative artist Francis Bacon is to be auctioned in London next month, where experts estimate it will break the record for the sale of any British or Irish work.
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Rare gold coins - the last treasures of a fabled collector known as the King of Coins - went on pre-auction display Thursday after sitting undisturbed in a Baltimore bank vault for nearly a half-century.
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From Ford Motor to Enron, a new collection of vintage stock and bond certificates is about to go on the auction block