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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A collection of 19th- and early 20th-century British stamps owned by bond investor William H. Gross was auctioned in New York for $9.1 million.
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Flanked by gun-toting guards and security cameras, one of the few Rembrandt paintings not in a museum or private collection goes on public display Saturday and on sale with an asking price of $46 million.
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A saxophone belonging to jazz legend Charlie Parker is among items up for auction in New York next month.
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. almost quadrupled its guarantees to art collectors including Philip Berman&#39;s heir and Hester Diamond in the last year as it gathered works for a November sale in New York and overtook
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The estate of Mexican screen legend Maria Felix goes up for sale in New York next month.
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Collectors have consigned hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art for the November sales in New York.
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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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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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art  said on Wednesday it had bought a rare, and tiny, early  Renaissance Italian masterpiece in what could be the most  expensive purchase in the Met's history.
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A model of the Starship Enterprise sells for more than Â£300,000 at Christie's in New York.
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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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The only copy of the Magna Carta, the document that laid the foundation for fundamental principles of English law, in the United States is about to go on sale.
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Art collectors have consigned artworks valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the November sales at New York's auction houses. Christie's and Sotheby's, the city's two most popular houses, say estimates for sales totals are the highest in almost 15 years.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Sir Elton John is to sell off part of his extensive photographic collection at an auction in New York.