Hand-Me-Down Dish Fetches $5.7M at Auction
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SAN FRANCISCO - A hand-me-down dish used for crab dinners fetched a record $5.7 million in an auction this week, after art experts determined it was extremely rare Ming dynasty porcelain.  The flowery, copper-red plate - which set a record for Ming art sold in a U.S.
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Bankrupt home loan provider American Home Mortgage Investment Corp  said on Wednesday a federal bankruptcy judge has authorized the auction by two affiliates of 5,700 mortgage loans with an unpaid principal balance of about $1.62 billion.
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A ten year old cheese sandwich has just fetched $28,000 on the internet auction site eBay, for apparently bearing a likeness of the Virgin Mary.
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Gallaher Group, the maker of the Benson & Hedges brand in Europe, said it had received an offer of Â£7.5 billion ($14.7 billion).
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The food purveyor gives investors something to chew on.
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The first auction of official "Star Trek" memorabilia hit warp speed on Saturday when a determined bidder paid $576,000 for a model of the legendary science fiction franchise's starship Enterprise, helping drive the total for the three-day sale above $7 million.
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HOBART, Ind. - A woman's effort to assuage her 6-year-old son's fears of his grandfather's ghost by selling it on eBay has drawn more than 34 bids with a top offer of $78.
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THE GOLDEN PALACE Casino said it has paid a staggering $28,000 for an ancient grilled cheese sandwich from crazy auction house Ebay.
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A bid on the largest portion of public wireless airwaves, now being auctioned by the federal government, reached $4.7 billion on Thursday, triggering a provision to allow any device or software to work on that spectrum.
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Fannie Mae yesterday agreed to pay the government $7.5 million to settle a case in which the Justice Department alleged that the giant housing-finance company knowingly accepted proceeds of a mortgage scam.
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN  NEW ORLEANS - Call it a sign of the times for Louisiana's embattled governor: A chance to dine with Gov. Kathleen Blanco fetched a winning bid of $1 at a recent fundraising auction hosted by a group of business leaders.
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By Chris Mazzolini, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 25--They have done this before, gathering around India Gurganus-Cook's kitchen table, which is again covered with satellite images, property records and assorted research.
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By Amanda O'Toole, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Dec. 12--An online auction for two PlayStation 3 gaming units has brought in $15,500 for the Anthony Family Shelter.   The bidding started last week on the nearly-impossible-to-find gaming unit, just three weeks before Christmas.
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This image of a cheese sandwich was taken from the www.ebay.com Web site. Sandwich owner Diana Duyser, of Hollywood, put the sandwich up for sale last week, drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night.
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. Half of a ten-year-old grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary has sold on eBay for 28-thousand dollars.
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A partially eaten piece of a grilled cheese sandwich has become the most talked about item on eBay over the past week, bringing in bids of almost $19,000.
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The price of this painting at auction was Â£205,000 - but its real market value is likely to be Â£5m.