(Reuters) – A rare Mercedes race car became the most expensive car ever sold at auction when an anonymous bidder bought it for 19.6 million pounds ($29.6 million) at a sale in Britain on Friday. The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 in which five-time Formula 1 world champion driver Juan Manuel Fangio …
NEW YORK (AP) — A Bible with an inscription from Albert Einstein has sold for $68,500 at an auction in New York City. The Bible was part of a fine books and manuscripts auction at Bonhams on Tuesday. The German-born physicist and his wife signed it in 1932 and gifted …
LONDON, April 8 (UPI) — A U.S. auction house said it has found a rare portrait of British poet John Keats and will sell it off in London this summer. Bonhams said the portrait is rare because it appears dated to the final years of Keats’ life. He died at …
London (CNN) — With her glossy dark hair, exotic outfit and ruby-red pouting lips, she’s every inch the classic pin-up… except, that is, for that greenish-blue skin. And yet her image was every bit as popular, in its day, as those of the latest Hollywood starlets. She is the “Chinese …
Vladimir Tretchikoff’s original painting of the Chinese Girl, believed to be the world’s most reproduced print, is to go on sale in London. The Russian artist, who died in 2006, claimed that by the end of his career he had sold half a million large-format reproductions of the print worldwide. …
A family who saw their dreams of a £43 million windfall disappear after the auction of their Chinese vase went wrong, are finally more than £20 million better off following a new sale. Tony Johnson and his mother Gene thought they had sold the 18th century piece in 2010. A Chinese …
Britain’s oldest working television set, which was manufactured by Marconi in 1936, is expected to sell for more than £5,000 at auction. The machine was bought for almost £100 three weeks after television transmissions began. But Mr GB Davis of Dulwich, south–east London would have only been able to able …