Sotheby's
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An Italian movie poster for the 1942 movie Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sold for $478,000 on Saturday evening, becoming the (equal) second-most valuable movie poster ever sold at auction.
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The general malaise in the collectibles industry continued last week when one of only six known working Apple I computers sold for just US$355,000. It is the cheapest working Apple I computer to have sold in recent times and far short of the world record of $905,000.
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The world's most expensive earrings sold in Geneva last night when the "Apollo and Artemis Diamonds" went to the same buyer for a total of $56,290,627. The blue Apollo was the more expensive of the non-matching pair, (Artemis is pink) which were sold as separate lots.
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The earliest known map of Australia sold for £248,750 (US$321,819) at a Sotheby's auction in London this week. Dubbed Australia's birth certificate, the map was the first to name Australia as Nova Hollandia (New Holland) and the first to name Novo Zeelandia (New Zealand).
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On May 14, one of only four existing Patek Philippe Calibre 89 watch/clocks goes on auction for the first time since 2009. Made to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Patek Philippe, the Calibre 89 has 33 complications or functions, making it the most complex watch constructed in the 20th century.
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2016 was a spectacular year for scientific documents and manuscripts, capturing a cavalcade of the most wonderful and important milestones in scientific thought across the ages. The top 50 most important documents of 2016 highlights just how hellishly ignorant humanity was just a short while ago.
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It's a quiet time for auctions this week, but there are some fine objets d'art coming to auction over the next few weeks and in particular Heritage Auctions' Gentleman Collector Estate sale opens for bidding today and concludes 19 January, with many items of immense fascination for the technophile.
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A $500,000 farm-find Aston Martin DB4, a $3.7 million copy of Newton's "Principia," a Hendrix acoustic guitar that sold for $260,000 and the only remaining Indian-Vincent prototype from 1949 are the highlights of this week's auction report.
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Upcoming auctions include a first edition of Newton's Principia and The North American Indian. Sales last week included an autograph manuscript of Mahler's Second Symphony, Description de l'Égypte, a $3 million baseball card, a 4000 year-old model boat and an Alexander Fleming penicillin culture.
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Jimi Hendrix's longest-owned guitar, a 1951 Epiphone, is heading to auction on 15 December 2016, estimated to sell for between $100,000 and $150,000). It will almost certainly move into our top 60 most valuable guitar list if it meets reserve.
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In 2013, the Nobel Prize medal won by Francis Crick for the structure of DNA sold for $2,270,500 - 50 times more than any prior medal. The high price catalyzed a new marketplace with prices exceeding $500,000. Now one of the most famous Nobel Prizes is going to auction, and the sky is the limit.
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This is the second of a six part series covering the most valuable scientific documents and manuscripts. This installment covers #50 to #41, beginning with Einstein's first scientific paper, which was written when he was 16-years of age.
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