With Sadness, Houdini Artifact Collector Puts It on the Auction Block
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Sidney H. Radner, a retired rug salesman, owns one of the world's biggest and most valuable collections of Harry Houdini artifacts.
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The crumbling Gaizinkalns viewing tower - as old and ugly as it may be - holds a place close to my heart.
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Lovers of Kennedy lore will get a rare  chance at owning some common possessions of late President John  F. Kennedy and his family in an auction of art, furniture and  other effects from their homes.
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Disenchanted with the National Football League and its players union, a group of retired players has organized an online auction to raise money for former players in need.
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High valuations can sink a chieftain's reign.
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A bidding war may be under way for the struggling maker of trading cards.
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The contract that sent slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees and started the legendary curse on the Red Sox that kept them from winning the World Series, has failed to sell on an Internet auction site, where bids had topped $1
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The daring theft of Edvard Munch&#39;s masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; has left the international art world in a state of shock.
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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 &#36;78.
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Joe DiMaggio, who was an intensely private man, would probably not be happy that his records of his daily activities are being sold to the highest bidder.
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Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie villain creeping through a dark gallery &#151; or last year's bold daylight robbery of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from a Norway museum. Most art heists, however, are far more subtle, involving forged documents, fake prints or smuggled cultural artifacts that slowly make their way into the hands of private owners or museums.
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A growing number of people are turning to the online auction site not for knickknacks and trinkets, but for serious hardware and building materials.- The Washington Post
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The museum's decision to abandon its current redesign suggests how a much-heralded public architecture project can be derailed by economics, politics and personalities.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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The works can be almost impossible to sell, they can end up dumped in the strangest places, you can&#39;t trust anyone. It&#39;s enough to make a thief scream, writes Sarah Lyall.
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At a charity auction in New Jersey last weekend, baseball memorabilia dealer Warren Heller was approached by a man with an unusual but topical request.
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Yesterdayâs crash of the Genesis sample return canister forced scientists to look for slivers of hope in the busted up remains of fragile collection arrays.