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© Christie's Japan’s sakura cherry-blossom season peaked this year in the city of Kyoto on 26 March, according to Osaka University. That makes it the earliest flowering in 1,200 years. The previous record of a day later had been set in 1409. But for auction houses in Asia rocked by last year’s pandemic, the lucrative spring-sales season can’t come soon enough. Christie’s in Hong Kong is trying to capture a little of the flower power in auctioning off the “Sakura Diamond” on 23 May. With its “perfect display of strong saturation and remarkable pink hue with a secondary colour o...

2 minutes read By Helen Cook New York, Mar 11 (efe-epa).- “Never.” That was the curt response given by the Sotheby’s expert to questions about how often an auction like the upcoming one had occurred. On June 8, the world-renowned auction house is set to host the bidding on three enormously valuable items: the world’s most expensive stamp, the most popular US stamp and the second-most valuable coin on the planet. “That’s the quick answer: never, because these are three objects that are the absolute apex in their fields, and they’re each unique,” said the director of the Sothe...