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  • November 2007

    • Mama Mia! 400-Year-Old Table Found in Pizzeria

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Nov 29, 07 6:15 PM CST

      Mama Mia! 400-Year-Old Table Found in Pizzeria

      (Newser) - A 17th-century cabinet expected to fetch up to $2 million at auction has an unlikely provenance: its long-missing bottom half was discovered outside the bathrooms at a pizza parlor. The Telegraph reports that the cabinet, which depicts St. Peter's Square and other images of Rome, was missing the carved wooden table that it stands upon for at least 20 years before a Sotheby's specialist located it at a pizzeria in northern England. More »

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      auction  • art market  • Sotheby's

  • October 2007

    • Revolutionary Roots: Che's Hair for Sale

      Reuters  |  Oct 25, 07 7:40 PM CDT

      Revolutionary Roots: Che's Hair for Sale

      (Newser) - A scrapbook including photos of Che Guevara's corpse, hand-written letters from comrades-in-arms, and a lock of the revolutionary's hair snipped after he was shot to death are on a Dallas auction block with a starting price of $100,000. The collection belongs to a former CIA operative who helped track, kill, and bury Che 40 years ago in Bolivia, Reuters reports. More »

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      Hugo Chavez  • auction  • Fidel Castro  • Che Guevara  • Cuban Revolution

    • NFL Team Yanks $275K Bid for Cowboys.com

      ComputerWorld  |  Oct 23, 07 4:32 PM CDT

      NFL Team Yanks $275K Bid for Cowboys.com

      (Newser) - The Dallas Cowboys wanted the domain name Cowboys.com, but not that badly. The team had to withdraw a winning bid of $275,000 after realizing how much it had offered; the 'Boys claimed they intended to bid only $275 in a URL auction conducted by phone this month, ComputerWorld reports. The auction firm acknowledged the word “thousand” may not have been repeated with each bid. More »

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      football  • auction  • Dallas Cowboys  • domain names  • bid

    • Chinese Art Booms at London Sales

      Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 16, 07 9:40 AM CDT

      Chinese Art Booms at London Sales

      (Newser) - Could turmoil in the financial world trigger an art market crash? That was the question on everyone's mind in London over the weekend during the Frieze Art Fair and the first major sales at Christie's and Sotheby's since the credit crisis. Though the fairs and auctions had all the energy of past years, prices for Western art were clearly shaky. More »

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      London  • auction  • painting  • Sotheby's  • art market

  • September 2007

    • Fonda to Sell 'Easy Rider' Loot

      Associated Press  |  Sep 16, 07 2:57 PM CDT

      Fonda to Sell 'Easy Rider' Loot

      (Newser) - Peter Fonda is auctioning off a stash of memorabilia from Easy Rider that he's held onto since the movie's 1969 release. The producer, co-writer, and co-star of the trailblazing film "decided it was time to share some of his treasures." The crown jewel is the American flag from the jacket he wore in the film. More »

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      auction  • Jack Nicholson  • Billy  • Dennis Hopper

    • Bonds' #756 Ball Fetches $752K

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Sep 16, 07 12:25 PM CDT

      Bonds' #756 Ball Fetches $752K

      (Newser) - Barry Bonds beat expectations again, as his record-breaking ball sold for well above industry estimates. Bonds’ 756th homerun ball netted $752,467, while the ball that helped him tie Hank Aaron’s career record sold for $186,750. Some naysayers thought Bonds’ steroid scandal and sharp personality would dampen demand, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »

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      MLB  • steroids  • San Francisco Giants  • Barry Bonds  • auction  • Sotheby's  • home run  • Hank Aaron  • records

  • August 2007

    • Uncertain Art World Awaits Fall Sales

      New York Times  |  Aug 29, 07 10:47 AM CDT

      Uncertain Art World Awaits Fall Sales

      (Newser) - As the art world returns from its summer hiatus, dealers, auctioneers, and collectors are on edge about a possible downturn in the market, the Times reports. Fallout from the global credit crunch has led to speculation that astronomical prices for art, particularly in the contemporary sector, may be heading for a correction. More »

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      credit crisis  • art  • auction  • art market  • art collector  • Eli Broad

    • Ridiculed Edsel Gains Traction

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 25, 07 12:16 PM CDT

      Ridiculed Edsel Gains Traction

      (Newser) - The Ford Edsel, a symbol of commercial failure since its release 50 years ago, is finding a niche among admiring collectors, the LA Times reports. With only an estimated 5 or 6,000 left on the market since the line was discontinued in 1960, many are fetching high prices at auction—one rare model went for a record $184,000. More »

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      car  • Ford  • auction  • art collector

    • Bonds Ball Hits Internet Auction Block

      Union-Tribune (San Diego)  |  Aug 22, 07 1:55 AM CDT

      Bonds Ball Hits Internet Auction Block

      (Newser) - New home run king Barry Bonds has driven No. 756 all the way to the Internet auction block. Mets fan Matt Murphy, who caught the record-busting ball, will sell it in an online auction running from Tuesday through Sept. 15, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The ball could fetch at least $500,000, according to organizer SCP Auctions. More »

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      Barry Bonds  • auction  • memorabilia  • Matt Murphy

    • Hitler's Bubbly Sparkles at UK Auction

      BBC  |  Aug 19, 07 3:16 PM CDT

      Hitler's Bubbly Sparkles at UK Auction

      (Newser) - A bottle of bubbly nabbed from Hitler’s wine cellar has drawn the equivalent of almost $3,000 at a British auction, the BBC reports. A Swedish television company bought the 1937 Moet and Chandon, which a soldier gave to a lawyer as thanks for legal work some 15 years ago. An allied serviceman probably purloined it amid looting in the Reich Chancellery when the Nazis were defeated in 1945.  More »

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      auction  • Nazi  • painting  • Berlin  • Adolf Hitler  • champagne

    • McQueen's Wheels Up for a Spin

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 15, 07 5:45 PM CDT

      McQueen's Wheels Up for a Spin

      (Newser) - Growling exhaust and a thumping V-12 engine doesn't usually garner $2 million at luxury auctions, but then this speedster was once owned by a movie star “synonymous with cars, horsepower, racing.” It's Steve McQueen who used to cruise in this ’63 Ferrari, a classic so polished that even the door trim screws are handpicked to perfection. But is McQueen’s name still strong enough to make this baby sell like a Bullitt ?  More »

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      celebrity  • Hollywood  • car  • auction  • Ferrari

  • July 2007

    • Google Stokes Wireless Competition With $4.6B Bid

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jul 22, 07 7:39 AM CDT

      Google Stokes Wireless Competition With $4.6B Bid

      (Newser) - Google is poised to bid $4.6 billion in the upcoming federal auction of wireless frequencies,  to create a national broadband network that could challenge the dominance of companies like AT&T and Comcast. If Google's bid triumphs, the web search giant could expand into selling Internet, telephone and television services—or have other providers do it for them, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . More »

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      Internet  • Google  • FCC  • auction  • wireless  • broadband Internet  • Eric Schmidt  • web  • network  • wireless frequencies

    • World's Oldest Car to be Auctioned

      CNN  |  Jul 8, 07 2:41 PM CDT

      World's Oldest Car to be Auctioned

      (Newser) - The oldest car that can still be driven will be auctioned off in Pebble Beach, CA this August. It could go for as much as $2M, reports CNN. The steam-powered, four-wheeled De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux—nicknamed "La Marquise"—was built in France in 1884, some 13 years before Henry Ford came up with a gas-powered vehicle here. More »

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      California  • car  • auction  • coal  • car race  • steam

  • June 2007

    • FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript

      Associated Press  |  Jun 27, 07 7:03 PM CDT

      FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript

      (Newser) - The manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" has turned up at a Philadelphia auction house, having gone missing in 1966. The FBI was called in after the daughter of one of the author's secretaries tried to put it for sale, the AP reports. Buck died in1973, believing the 400-page manuscript of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel had been stolen. More »

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      book  • literature  • auction

    • London Art Sales Soar

      Bloomberg  |  Jun 25, 07 11:45 AM CDT

      London Art Sales Soar

      (Newser) - Francis Bacon took top honors and Damien Hirst became the highest-priced living artist—beating out Jasper Johns—at Sotheby's contemporary auctions in London last week. A 1971 Bacon self-portrait went for $43.2 million, and the Hirst pill cabinet called "Lullaby Spring" for $19.4 million. "Hirst is the Google of the art world,''  a New York dealer told Bloomberg. More »

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      London  • art  • auction  • art market  • Sotheby's  • Damien Hirst  • Francis Bacon

    • eBay Shuts Window on Google Ads

      New York Post  |  Jun 18, 07 4:29 AM CDT

      eBay Shuts Window on Google Ads

      (Newser) - Online auction powerhouse eBay broke a multi-million-dollar "keyword" advertising deal with Google, ostensibly after the search engine threw a party in Boston that crowded an eBay conference. But the boycott on search-driven spots also comes as Google's online payment feature Checkout elbows in on eBay-owned PayPal's territory. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • advertising  • eBay  • online advertising  • auction  • traffic  • online auction  • Larry Page  • Sergey Brin  • Google Checkout  • keywords

  • April 2007

    • I Bought Andy Warhol

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 30, 07 8:26 AM CDT

      I Bought Andy Warhol

      (Newser) - Hipsters have known it forever, and buyers are catching on: Andy Warhol is the hottest artist around. The Times reports that his sales, including a projected $35 million for a painting at Christie’s next month, are second only to Picasso's. One expert calls Warhol "the most important international artist of the 20th century." More »

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      art  • auction  • painting  • art market  • artist  • Andy Warhol  • pop art

    • Advertisers Won't Get It on eBay

      New York Times  |  Apr 6, 07 9:34 AM CDT

      Advertisers Won't Get It on eBay

      (Newser) - Cable networks are boycotting eBay's experiment in auctioning television airtime to ad houses, in a decision that could ground its nascent spin-off site. The networks protest that Online Media Exchange, which eBay claimed would reduce inefficiency, doesn't account for today's complex targeting and multimedia promotional packages. More »

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      Google  • television  • business  • eBay  • auction  • cable TV  • advertisements  • Dish Network

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