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It would be fair to say that 2020 was an outlier year as far as the auction marketplace is concerned. The global pandemic meant all of the big players faced battles getting their usual live auctions to happen on both sides of the Atlantic, and records … Continue reading Highlights of the 2020 science, sci-fi and tech auction year: less than $25,000
A very rare piece of computer history is up for grabs at RR Auctions. The early three-button “X-Y” mouse, designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart, is the direct ancestor of today’s ubiquitous computer mouse and was made famous when it was first … Continue reading Ground-breaking Engelbart 3-button computer mouse goes to auction
This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. Continue reading Divers Pull Rare Surviving WWII Enigma Cipher Machine from Bottom of the Baltic
A rare piece of cyber history that helped usher in the modern computer age is going up for sale as RR Auction’s Steve Jobs + Apple Auction offers up a functioning Apple-1 computer from the 1970s, complete with its original box signed by Apple-1 designe… Continue reading Ulta-rare working Apple-1 computer with box going to auction
Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it’s from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed Slowhand is now available again, with bidding kicking off at a… Continue reading Bidding starts at $1 million for Eric Clapton’s 1954 Slowhand Strat
Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had a brief and highly illegal business manufacturing and selling phone phreaking gear prior to founding Apple computer in 1976. Now one of the original circuit boards hand-made by Wozniak for the first itera… Continue reading Rare Wozniak-Jobs “blue box” phone phreaking device could fetch $100,000
Take one visibly unstable three-wheeler from the 1970s, and give it five times the horsepower and 200+ km/h (124+ mph) top speeds thanks to a screaming superbike motor … This truly frightening, roided-out Bond Bug has just gone up for auction.Continu… Continue reading This widowmaking R1-powered Bond Bug from 1973 is up for auction
Somebody has bought an almost complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over US$30 million. Lovingly nicknamed Stan, the rex was the star attraction in Christie’s Evening Sale of 20th Century Art on October 6, and that price makes it comfortably the highest amount ever paid for a dinosaur fossil.
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Tags: Dinosaurs, Bones, Christie’s, Auction, World Records, Fossils, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Stan the T-rex sets record for highest price paid for a dinosaur fossil
One of the largest, most complete and most famous Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons is about to go under the hammer. The dinosaur, nicknamed “Stan,” has been on display in the Black Hills Institute for decades, but will now be auctioned off by Christie’s to whoever has a spare few million dollars and a T-rex-sized space on hand.
Category: Science
Tags: Dinosaurs, Fossils, Auction, Christie’s, Bones, Paleontology
Continue reading For sale: Huge T-rex skeleton, almost complete, some battle damage
In a year where COVID-19 has prevented many auctions from going ahead and stopped many people from attending in person even when they did go ahead, the success of Gooding & Company’s “Passion of a Lifetime” auction at Hampton Court Palace on the weeken… Continue reading Gooding & Co “Passion of a Lifetime” auction sets multiple world records