Magna Carta copy fetches Â£10.6m
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A rare copy of the Magna Carta is sold for Â£10.6m ($21.3m) in an auction at Sotheby's in New York.
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Brueghel's bawdy masterpiece The Kermesse of St George is sold for Â£3.7 million at an auction in London.
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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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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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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 rare signed first edition Harry Potter book is expected to fetch up to Â£12,000 at auction.
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A copy of the warrant that was used for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots has been bought by the Archbishop of Canterbury's library.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The Church of England has bought the warrant which authorized the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, saving the historical document for the nation.
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A medieval stone carving that spent years marking the grave of an elderly couple&#39;s beloved pet cat yesterday fetched more than Â£200,000 at auction.
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A controversial special damages claim that threatened to cripple the Financial Times (FT) has been struck out by the High Court. Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled that a record Â£230.
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A recently discovered painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to sell for Â£250,000 at auction.
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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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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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Â· Conway barred for 10 days and told to repay Â£13,000Â· Support for fully audited expenses is growing
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A "concept drawing" of a spacecraft from the Thunderbirds TV series fetches Â£6,000 at auction.
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Stolen Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet works worth $160m (Â£82m) may have been found, Swiss media report.
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The heirs of J R R Tolkien sue New Line Cinema over $ 6bn.