Auction

Nikola Tesla was one of the world's most important innovators and evidence of the gravitas of the Tesla name was on full display at an auction at Remarkable Rarities (RRAuctions) this week when a four-page autograph letter by Tesla fetched US$341,295.

2021 is proving as big year for both the science fiction genre and movie memorabilia. This week Marty McFly's Hoverboard from "Back To The Future Part II" sold for $501,200, while Captain Kirk's Phaser Rifle from "Star Trek" fetched $615,000.

In a live online sale on November 6, Auction Team Breker offered one of the four remaining CIAM-NASA Hypersonic Flying Laboratory (HFL) "Kholod" hypersonic test bed missiles, which sold to an undisclosed European company for €27,700 (US$32,100).

A near-perfect 2016 Honda RC213V-S MotoGP replica with just 161 kilometers on the odometer has sold for US$237,700, eclipsing the previous record held by a rare 1968 Honda CB750 prototype to become the most valuable Japanese motorcycle in auction history.

A very prominent space suit “accessory” worn on the Moon by the last Apollo moonwalker – Commander Gene Cernan – is being auctioned on the internet with bids closing later this week, and it looks like records will be broken.

The most valuable comic in the world has always been Action Comics #1 … until a few hours ago when a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15 sold for US$3,600,000 at Heritage Auctions, representing tectonic movement within the massive comic collecting industry.

Your chance to own one of the most iconic dinosaurs is about to come up – provided you have a spare few million and an empty ballroom on hand. The largest known specimen of Triceratops, nicknamed “Big John,” will go up for auction in October.

Last year, Harley-Davidson entered the ebike space with a spin-off company called Serial 1. A new 1-OFF series of extremely limited-edition rides has been announced, and the first – the "1 of 1" MOSH/CHOPPER – is being auctioned online from today.

A Steve Jobs’ job application from 1973 has sold for the fourth time in as many years, fetching $343,000 last week. The remarkable aspect of this sale is that both the physical A4 application and a NFT of the printed page were offered separately.

One of the most valuable scientific documents in history changed hands this week, when an autographed Isaac Newton manuscript of revisions to the first edition of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica sold at Christie's for £1,702,500.

The immense magnitude of the video games industry is beginning to be felt on the auction block, with the record price for a video game broken twice over the weekend, jumping from $660,000 to $875,000 on Friday, and then to $1,560,000 on Sunday night.

An important copy of one of the most significant American publications of all-time sold earlier this week when a 20-volume quarto set of The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) fetched $895,000 at Santa Fe Art Auction.