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Friday afternoon during Monterey Car Week is The Quail. Even its full title of “The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering” does little more to define it, though the fact that the number of highly-coveted $650 tickets normally sold was reduced this year due to… Continue reading Pictorial: The Quail 2021 had more elite car launches than any car show
Friday afternoon during Monterey Car Week is The Quail. Even its full title of “The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering” does little more to define it, though the fact that the number of highly-coveted $650 tickets normally sold was reduced this year due to… Continue reading Pictorial: The Quail 2021 had more elite car launches than any car show
Ferrari plans to sell 299 scale replicas of its fabled 1950s Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa supercar at €93,000 (US$109,000) each, all built to Ferrari’s exacting standards with hand-beaten aluminum bodywork, high specification suspension, brakes and wheels, … Continue reading Ferrari to build 300 Testa Rossa 3/4 scale children’s cars at $110K each
Recognizing historical significance was once the domain of librarians and museum curators, but with the meteoric rise of the memorabilia industry, a little foresight and patience can make you a lot of money these days. Returns of x10 and x100 are no lo… Continue reading Historically important computer memorabilia heading to auction
A Steve Jobs’ job application from 1973 has sold for the fourth time in as many years, fetching US$18,750 in December 2017, $174,757 in March 2018, $221,760 in March, 2021 and $343,000 last week. The remarkable aspect of the most recent sale (apart fro… Continue reading Steve Jobs’ job application auction offers real versus NFT comparison
Actor Steve McQueen may have died 40 years ago, but his brand value remains as authentic and strong as ever, as was proven during the 2021 Monterey Car Week auctions.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: RM-Sothebys, Vincent, Harley Dav… Continue reading How Steve McQueen dominated motorcycle sales during Monterey Car Week
When we first started keeping our listings of the most valuable cars and motorcycles sold at auction, a $3 million sale would land a spot in the top 100 most valuable cars ever sold at auction. Nowadays, a $5-million sale won’t get you into the top 100… Continue reading 2021 Monterey Auction Preview: The $5-million-plus cars
Last week was a big week in space exploration, with the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and some significant sales of space memorabilia, including US$746,000 for an Apollo Guidance Computer (the brain behind the Lunar landing), $119,700 for a rare 1962 Krechet-94 (“Gyrfalcon”) lunar spacesuit, $63,000 for Neil Armstrong’s annotated Lunar Surface Flown Checklist and $250,000 for a Type-2 Phaser pistol from the original 1967 TV Space Opera, Star Trek.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Sotheby’s, Space Suit, Heritage Auctions, Apollo 11, Apollo 50th Anniversary
Continue reading Space and sci-fi memorabilia breaking records at auction
One of the most valuable scientific documents in history changed hands this week, when an autographed Isaac Newton manuscript of revisions to three sections of the first edition of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica sold at Christie’s in London for £1,702,500 (about US$2,350,000).
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Christie’s, Newton, Auction, Books
Continue reading Isaac Newton’s hand-written revisions to Principia fetch $2.35 million
The immense magnitude of the video games industry is beginning to be felt on the auction block, with the auction price record for a video game being broken twice over the weekend, jumping from $660,000 to $875,000 on Friday, and then a further jump to … Continue reading World auction record price for video games smashed twice in three days