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The booming alternative assets market space added yet another heavyweight genre this week as the world record for a business card was smashed twice today by both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, and the auction still has four days to run.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Jobs and Musk smash auction records … and the auction isn’t finished yet
Manufacturing a car involves choreographing hundreds of parts, most of which are created somewhere else, to be at the same spot at the same time for final assembly. Given the widespread adoption of “just in time” manufacturing methodology, it’s underst… Continue reading The U.S. auto industry’s dirty little secret: plummeting quality
Landmark historical relics don’t usually slip past at public auction unnoticed, but as we demonstrated in this recent article, it does happen. Now three priceless relics from gaming antiquity are going to auction: the world’s first video arcade game (C… Continue reading Dawn of the arcade game: Three pivotal video games from the early 70s
Everyone acknowledges the massive impact of the digital revolution upon every aspect of society, but auction prices for landmark digital memorabilia suggest we haven’t got it all in perspective just yet. Here are five recent examples of historically im… Continue reading 5 blue-chip “digital age” collectible bargains the world missed
One of the world’s most significant historic documents will sell at public auction on the March 14. “Atomic Bombs,” written just weeks before the first such weapons dropped on Japan, records a researcher’s-eye view of the Manhattan Project.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: RR Auction, Christie’s, Nuclear weapons
Continue reading Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project report goes to auction
As the only visible part of a Formula One driver on global television each race, the F1 racing helmet has become a modern icon. But in a world where a Mickey Mantle baseball card is worth US$12.6 million, it’s amazing how little F1 helmets sell for.Con… Continue reading The top 25 Formula One helmets are surprisingly cheap
The gargantuan American collector marketplace is only just waking up to Formula 1, riding a fresh wave of popularity on the back of Netflix’s Drive to Survive soap opera for men. And while prices on memorabilia are now beginning to move skyward, it’s s… Continue reading F1 memorabilia suddenly looks undervalued
Two-stroke streetbikes have never sold well at auction – but in the last few weeks, something strange has been happening. Kawasaki’s Mach IV H2, the notorious 750cc “Widowmaker,” is setting record prices after a flurry of sales to a single buyer.Contin… Continue reading Who is buying all the Kawasaki Mach IV Widowmakers?
An important new iteration of the robotic seeing eye dog was shown to the world this week, when Glasgow University showed off RoboGuide, an AI-powered quadruped for visually impaired people. The future for robotic canine assistants looks not just comme… Continue reading The Seeing Eye Dog V2.0 is shaping up as a gamechanger
In 2007 a retired Canadian doctor paid €13,200 (USD $14,256) for a well-used second edition of Andreas Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1555), one of the most influential books in history. Only 150 copies are known. The book had been in the hands of collectors for more than four centuries and had extensive latin annotations by an unknown hand.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: De humani corporis fabrica, Andreas Vesalius, Christie’s, Auction
Continue reading Breaking: “bookfind of the century” sells for $2.23 million