A Rare 18th-Century Stamp Act Placard Could Fetch $6M at Christie's
A placard defying the 1765 Stamp Act is heading to auction along with historically significant documents and maps.
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Rare and Valuable JFK Assassination Photos Found in Garage Go to Auction
A series of photographs discovered in a garage that capture John F. Kennedy's assassination are being auctioned off.
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JFK assassination-era photos expected to fetch nearly $15K at auction
A Vernon Hills man discovered the untouched photos, taken by award-winning photojournalists, while going through his family’s possessions for an estate sale.
Source: suntimes.com
Daytime NYC killing strikes 'Lincolniana' world | Washington Examiner
The death last month of one of the nation’s top experts on Abraham Lincoln has devastated the “Lincolniana” world, taking from it a “walking encyclopedia” of everything about the former president.
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Marilyn Monroe's first ever film contract from 1946 is on sale for £25,000 and shows she earned just £120 per week when she was a little known performer
The starlet, who was then known as Norma Jean Dougherty because she was using her original birth name and her first husbands surname, put pen to paper in 1946.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Disco Queen Donna Summer's Personal Possessions—Gold Records, Handwritten Lyrics, and Her Own Abstract Paintings—Are Heading to Auction This June
Though its queen has left this earth, disco is very much alive. Christie's relives its heyday with a shimmering sale this June.
Source: artnet.com
The Donna Summer collection on auction
New Delhi, May 28: Singer-songwriters Donna Summers memorabilia to be offered in an online sale by Christies in June 2023, open for bidding June 15 through June 29, 2023. Ahead of the sale Sumeers personal collection will be showcased in a curated exhibition and sale at Christies Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City.
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1 of the 4 spikes driven at Promontory Summit fetches $2.2M at auction
The Arizona spike, which was ceremoniously driven in Utah to mark the transcontinental railroad completion in 1869, sold for more than $2 million during a recent auction.
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A Historic Golden Railroad Spike Broke New Ground at Christie's Today, Selling for Over $2 Million—Quadruple Its Pre-Sale Estimate
A railroad spike clad in gold —used in the ceremonial completion of the transcontinental railroad—sold for over $2 million at auction. The Arizona Spike was the headliner of the Christie's sale.
Source: artnet.com
Bob Dylan's first new recording of the iconic 'Blowin In The Wind' sells for $1.7 mn at Christie's
It’s 60 years since Bob Dylan recorded the iconic song Blowin' in the Wind on July 9, 1962 for his second album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. He entered the studio again in 2021 to re-record the song with his friend, Joseph Henry ‘T Bone’ Burnett III, the Grammy and Oscar winning composer. This new recording has no gone under the hammer for a record $1.7 million.
Source: businesstoday.in