Unitas Helmet Up for Auction
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Johnny UnitasÃÂ¿s helmet that he gave to a young member of the Baltimore Colts Marching Band will go to the highest bidder at a sports memorabilia auction.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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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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"Charging Bull," one of New York's  most recognized statues that once made a brief debut outside  the Stock Exchange, is for sale.
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This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours - Rouen deputy mayor Catherine Morin-Desailly PARIS (New York Times) - Since 1875, the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior has been part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy. But when Rouen's mayor arranged recently to return it to New Zealand as an act of "atonement" for colonial-era trafficking in human remains, the national Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him. The ministry contends that the head is a work of art that belongs to France and that its return could set an unfortunate precedent for a huge swath of national museum collections - from Egyptian mummies in the Louvre to Asian treasures in the MusÃ©e Guimet and African and Oceanic artifacts in the MusÃ©e du Quai Branly. "The mayor of Rouen made his decision without any consultation, and his decision is against the law," Olivier Henrard, the legal adviser for the Ministry of Culture, said.  "There are other Maori heads, there are mummies, there are religious relics in France," he said. "If we don't respect the law today, tomorrow other museums or elected officials might decide to send them back, too." Rouen officials insist that the Maori head is a body part, not artwork, and that due to France's bioethics law it must be returned to its place of origin. "This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours," said Catherine Morin-Desailly, Rouen's deputy mayor, who proposed the return. "It belongs to the heritage of humanity, not in storage somewhere in a museum."  The Maoris traditionally preserved the tattooed heads of warriors killed in battle to keep their memory alive. Trade in body parts flourished in the 19th century, as contact with outsiders increased. Europeans collected Maori remains. Some Maori slaves were forcibly tattooed, then decapitated.  Morin-Desailly cites French precedent concerning the return of human remains: Those of Saartjie Baartman - the "Hottentot Venus" as she was labeled in her day. A farmer's slave born in 1789, she was sold to a British Marine surgeon and presented in public in London and later in Paris as a freak because of her oversized buttocks and genitalia.
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A new football helmet could help players avoid brain injuries.
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A rare belt buckle which is up to 1,400 years old goes on display at the Museum of London.
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Arena Stage auctioned off a silk kimono from "M. Butterfly" on eBay last week for $637.76. It also unloaded two hand-carved thrones from "Camelot," getting $152.50 for the pair.
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The iconic cowardly lion outfit from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz sells for $700,000 at auction.
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MONTREAL (CP) - The Expos may be history, but their demise has heated up the market for team memorabilia. Vintage 1970s and 1980s shirts are already sold out, but everything from caps, beer glasses and key-chains to dolls of mascot Youppi!
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By Steve Hanf, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Dec. 6--THOMASVILLE -- The most noticeable thing about Scott Hines is the  stunning amount of hair shooting out under his football helmet.
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Peddles "His 'n' hers" uniform sets A cash-strapped UK Ministry of Defence is resorting to increasingly desperate measures in the struggle to get its finances back on track. The latest of these is the setting up of an eBay-style online auction site to flog the military's surplus gear, already reported in these pages.â¦
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The move must be official. The tricolored Montreal Expos caps, so Gallic, so quaint, are collectors' items now.
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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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MOT, tax, afterburner, one careful owner Those of you with a need for speed may be interested in this eBay auction which is offering "for the price of a sports motorcycle" a jet-powered go-kart guaranteed to attract all the right kind of attention:â¦
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By Kris Wernowsky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 15--WILKES-BARRE -- It started with a keen interest in pop art and continued with the purchase of a luxury car that once belonged to the school of art's most notable celebrity icon.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - A bat once used by legendary baseball player Babe Ruth sold for $1.26 million at an auction on Thursday, marking the third- highest price ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia.