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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. A complete set … Continue reading Edward S. Curtis’ ‘The North American Indian’ fetches $950,000
Elite motorcycle auctions have been few and far between outside the United States since COVID-19 came to visit, but the long-awaited Bonhams’ Three-day Summer Sale at the traditional venue of the Staffordshire County Showground will be held later this … Continue reading Bonhams’ Three-day Summer Motorcycle Sale preview
Everyone has heard of the AJS Porcupine – it’s the almost mythical world-beating British motorcycle that won the very first 500cc World Roadracing (now MotoGP) Championship in 1949. What you may not realize is that only four of the championship-winning… Continue reading AJS Porcupine could become one of the most expensive motorcycles in history
America’s automotive passion is proving as relentless and innovative as its technological initiative, as evidenced by the transformation of the traditional Father’s Day Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance into the inaugural Beverly Hills Tour d’Elegance ye… Continue reading Pictorial: Automotive art gets moving for Beverly Hills Tour d’Elegance
The world-record price for a camping chair more than doubled this week when Christie’s Hong Kong sold a 17th Century Chinese Folding Horseshoe-Back Jiaoyi for HKD$65,975,000 (US$8,502,370), far exceeding the highest price previously fetched by a Chinese Jiaoyi of RMB27,370,000 (US$3,979,065) set by Poly Auction in Beijing in December 2018.
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Tags: Christie’s, China, Chair
Continue reading At $8.5 million, this could be the world’s most expensive camping chair
This 1543 publication of Copernicus’ heliocentric model, which correctly identified the sun as the centre of our solar system, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution. As an aside, a National Science Foundation survey found roughly one quarter of Americans still believe the sun revolves around the earth.
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Tags: Rheticus, Copernicus, Sotheby’s, Christie’s
Continue reading First edition of Copernicus’ “De revolutionibus” sells at auction
The collector car auction marketplace returned to something resembling normality at Amelia Island, with RM-Sotheby’s and Bonhams returning to live audience auctions, and both delivering promising results.Continue Reading Continue reading Amelia Island Auctions: Promising signs for the collector car market
The Manta5 XE-1 Hydrofoiler first appeared on our radar in late 2017, with pre-sale registration reported in July 2018 and a small-scale pilot-production run delivered to customers in December 2019. An appearance at CES 2020 drew massive interest, with… Continue reading Manta5 Hydrofoil ebike begins production, with more models planned
The world’s best known and most recognizable motorcycle will cross the auction block in Texas on 5 June 2021, creating as much interest and controversy as it did when the famous American road film Easy Rider was released 52 years ago, on 14 July 1969.C… Continue reading The world’s most valuable motorcycle heads for auction
Albert Einstein is the world’s most recognizable, best known and universally loved scientist. He embodies the essence of genius and although he passed away 66 years ago, he is still among the top earning dead celebrities, right up there with the world’s best known actors and rock stars who died with traditional digital royalties. He also established the world’s best known formula: E= mc2. So when a handwritten letter appeared at auction in which Einstein wrote the famous formula in his own hand, it was logical that it should sell for a grand amount. It did, becoming the fourth Einstein letter to sell for more than $1.0 million.
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Tags: RR Auction, Albert Einstein
Continue reading Einstein’s handwritten “E= mc2” letter sells for $1.24 million