Auction
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The almost mythical AJS Porcupine won the very first 500cc motorcycle World Roadracing Championship in 1949. Only four were built, only two still exist, one of them is going to auction next week ... and a record million-dollar sale is a possibility.
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The world’s best known and most recognizable motorcycle will cross the auction block in Texas on 5 June, creating as much interest and controversy as it did when the famous American road film "Easy Rider" was released 52 years ago.
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A wine that spent 14 months on the International Space Station (ISS) is being offered up for sale by auction house Christie's. One of a dozen bottles of vintage Pétrus 2000 sent to the station, it could bring an estimated US$1 million.
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Video game revenues surpassed the music and movie industries a decade ago. Now there is growing indication that video game memorabilia will be equally as valuable as music and movie memorabilia.
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Continuing the wave of extraordinary digital art sales manifested by new blockchain-based NFT technology, an artwork co-created by the famous humanoid robot Sophia has now sold for just under US$700,000.
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A digital artist called "Beeple" is now one of the top three most valuable artists alive – in any medium – after he sold a JPG file of his work for US$69,346,250. Welcome to the crazy world of NFTs, and the internet's latest wild gold rush.
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It's fair to say that 2020 was an outlier year in the auction marketplace. All of the big players faced battles getting their usual live auctions to happen, and records were continually broken for online sales as the world adapted to COVID-19.
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Designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart and licensed by Apple at the dawn of the personal computing era, the early three-button "X-Y" mouse is a rare and important piece of history.
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