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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By Daniel Thomson  It is very rare land goes on sale in Northumberland for as little as pounds 85,000, but this particular plot is very special ( it has a river running through it.
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By WG Caddick  WHAT a lovely surprise I had in the post this morning - two vouchers for pounds 5 to be rendered at Argos.   Following a phone call to your officers, I was told that it was because I had taken the Birmingham Mail for some time now.
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Claude Monet's impressionist masterpiece Nympheas is sold at auction in London for Â£18.5m
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the first editions of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic "The Hobbit" is expected to fetch over 30,000 pounds ($58,560) when it goes up for auction next month.
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An 800-year-old copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, is sold for a world record price of Â£1,140,500 at a London auction.
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This market is presenting some amazing bargains. Here's one of the best.
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&quot;I love you, Brad&quot; ends a not-so-secret 18-carat golden love-letter from Pitt to Angelina Jolie, offered shortly before the A-list couple flew in for the Cannes film festival last month.
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A portrait of the man who overthrew the British monarchy is sold for five times the guide price at auction.
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A Norman Rockwell painting found behind a fake wall has sold for a record $15.4m (Â£7.9m).
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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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It may be the most ever paid for a  single letter of an Internet address.
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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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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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Claude Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert doubles its estimated selling price at auction.
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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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NEW YORK -- A painting from Claude Monet&#39;s iconic series on London&#39;s House of Parliament has sold at auction for $20.1 million.