Napoleon letter fetches top price
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A love letter from Napoleon to his future wife, Josephine, is sold at auction in London for Â£276,000.
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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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The Washington Post is buying Slate, the pioneering online magazine, from Microsoft for a sum estimated to be between $15m (Â£7.8m) and $20m.
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The price of platinum reached a record high point of 1,503.50 dollars an ounce on the Platinum and Palladium market on Tuesday, having breached 1,500 dollars for the first time late on Monday
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A rare violin is sold for a record figure, "well in excess" of the previous top price of $3.54m (Â£1.8m).
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A rare copy of the Magna Carta, the document that enshrined human rights in English law, is to be sold in New York.
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A hand-written, illustrated book of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record  1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on  Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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A rare mint condition First Folio  edition of William Shakespeare&#039;s plays fetched 2.8 million  pounds (&#36;5.2 million) at an auction on Thursday.
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A gold-encrusted sword which once belonged to Napoleon is auctioned for a record-breaking 4.8m euros.
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A letter revealing the money worries of a pre-fame John Lennon expects to raise $25,000 at auction.
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WASHINGTON -- Mailing a letter will soon cost a penny more.
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To heiress Paris Hilton, Tinkerbell was worth &#36;5,000. To   value-minded eBay users, a piece of the once-wayward Chihuahua's going   for a not-too-shabby three figures.
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After more than 200 years in the family, the gold-encrusted sword Napoleon carried into battle in Italy will be auctioned off Sunday, across the street from one of his imperial castles.
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The sale broke the artistâs record and underlined the enduring market influence of the workâs latest owner, the collector Charles Saatchi.
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A hand-written and illustrated tale of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) -- nearly 40 times its expected price -- at auction on Thursday.
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First class stamp prices may rise to 41 cents per in May, but the new stamps will weather future price hikes.
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An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.