Paris gave birth to the automotive industry, held the world's first motor show, was the birthplace of motorsport, and now through the annual Retromobile celebration, Paris offers the finest in automobilia available. Here's a sampling of the remarkable objects available this year.
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Michelin has been one of the world's leading tire brands for 120 years, but Michelin's humanization of the brand using Bibendum the Michelin Man is now business school "best practice" and the copy of the original Bibendum poster going to auction in Paris this week could see remarkable prices.
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The motorcycle marketplace is recalibrated each year with the January Las Vegas sales, and this year saw new records and the changing tastes of the buying public. While vintage bikes performed well, the real movers were two-strokes, seventies classics and Japanese motorcycles.
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This year we've assembled the 100 most interesting lots, regardless of whether they sold or not, and ordered them with the highest bid counted. It reflects the diversity of the automotive market this year more than ever.
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One of the surviving sledges from Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907 failed attempt to reach the South Pole is going up for auction at the Bonhams Bonhams Travel and Exploration Sale in London..
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Our third annual survey of the most valuable scientific manuscripts and instruments sold during the calendar year is dominated by Nobel-Prize-winning American physicist Richard Feynman, with a $9.6 million copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America topping the list.
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Collectors can grab themselves a piece of motorcycle history this month at Mecum Auctions, as long-distance world record holder and cannonball run champion Carl Reese puts his record-setting BMW K1600GT under the hammer.
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The only bits of the Moon available for private sale sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York today for US$855,000. The three small shards of lunar rock were a gift to the widow of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the “Chief Designer” and director of the Soviet space program.
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Last week, the first ever work of AI-generated art to be sold by a major auction house fetched US$432,500. The work, entitled Portrait of Edmond Belamy, sold for 45 times its estimate, however many in the AI art community are frustrated such a basic example of algorithmic art achieved this success.
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One of the last Rolex watches worn by superspy James Bond is going up for auction. One of two Submariner dive watches used during the filming of the 1989 thriller Licence to Kill, the vintage timepiece is expected to fetch £60,000.
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