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Mercedes-Benz tools make $8000 on their own
29 April 2024As an original Mercedes-Benz 300SL now costs something north of $1m, it is perhaps no surprise to learn that original accessories associated with the Flügeltürer are eagerly sought.
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Scientist’s microscopes go under a bidding inspection
29 April 2024A collection of microscopes and other antique scientific instruments from the estate of Ohio scientist John A Davidson Jr (1939-2023) came for sale at Gray’s Auctioneers (20% buyer’s premium) on April 17.
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Light Ponti armchairs carry weighty auction value
29 April 2024Among the starring lots at the Wright (26% buyer’s premium) Design sale on March 28 was a pair of Gio Ponti lacquered wood, upholstery and brass Triennale armchairs, dating to 1951.
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Death sentence for king's mistress proves popular
29 April 2024Warrant for Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, sells well eight years after last auction appearance
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Getty becomes latest museum to return antiquities following provenance research
25 April 2024The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is to return a bronze head from its antiquities collection to Turkey.
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Getty Museum buys Caravaggisti party scene from private collector
24 April 2024The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a lively 17th century genre painting by Italian artist Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582-1622).
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Rediscovered ‘Starship Enterprise’ model returned to son of Star Trek creator with help from Heritage Auctions
24 April 2024The original 3ft long model of USS Enterprise, used in the original opening credits, has been presented to the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
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Long-lost John Lennon guitar recovered from an attic comes to auction
23 April 2024John Lennon’s long-lost Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar has been rediscovered and is coming to auction next month.
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Portrait of short-lived Tudor monarch Edward VI comes to LA auction
23 April 2024A portrait of Edward VI, the Tudor monarch who reigned as a boy for just six years from 1547-53, comes for sale at Andrew Jones Auctions in Los Angeles.
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Collectors respond to call for earliest phone bidding at Massachusetts auction
22 April 2024Relics from the dawn of the electro-magnetic telephone created a sensation when they appeared for sale in Massachusetts.
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Rediscovered Benjamin Franklin portrait emerges in Italy and comes to US auction
15 April 2024A previously unrecorded portrait of Benjamin Franklin comes for sale at Freeman’s Hindman with a guide of $50,000-80,000 this month.
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Five questions with Bob Aibel of Moderne
15 April 2024Bob Aibel is founder of Moderne, one of the exhibitors at the Philadelphia Show
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Copy of Toulouse-Lautrec's first poster emerges in US sale
15 April 2024'Moulin Rouge, La Goulue' was Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s first commissioned poster and it launched his poster-making career overnight.
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Giant Garrard wine cistern adds plenty of weight to Heritage Auctions' sale
15 April 2024Almost 3ft (90cm) wide and weighing a massive 710oz, this Edwardian wine cistern is marked for Garrard & Co, London, 1903.
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Microscopes under bidder focus in UK and US auctions
15 April 2024This aristocratic survivor from the ‘brass and glass’ era of microscope making, a version of Powell & Lealand’s famous ‘No 1’ compound monocular and binocular microscope, is dated 1898.
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Pippin work pops in to the 62nd Philadelphia Show
15 April 2024Horace Pippin (1888-1946), a self-taught black US artist known for images of the First World War, biblical scenes and images of racial segregation, features at 'The Philadelphia Show' this year where his 1944 still-life 'The Love Note' is offered by M Hanks Gallery for $250,000.
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Comic featuring Superman debut soars to record sum
15 April 2024Priced 10 cents when it appeared in 1938, a copy of Action Comics No 1 which introduced Superman has become the world’s most valuable comic book.
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Photographic viewing device can operate all day and night
15 April 2024The invention of the megalethoscope by the Swiss-Italian optician and photographer Carlo Ponti greatly enhanced the experience of viewing photographs.
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Dealer sells portrait by female artist to Getty Museum
11 April 2024With international institutions keen to rebalance their collections to include more works by female artists, the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced this week that it has bought an early portrait by Sophie Frémiet (1797-1867).
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Copy of Action Comics No 1 featuring Superman debut soars to a world record price
11 April 2024Priced 10 cents when it appeared in 1938, a copy of Action Comics No 1 which introduced Superman has become the world’s most valuable comic book.
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