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Science and sci-fi memorabilia booming at auction

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

This Apollo 11 Vintage NASA

It would be reasonable to expect that it might be a slow year at auction for science, technology and science-fiction, but 2021 is on track for a record. So far this year we have seen Isaac Newton’s revisions to Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica sell in London for £1,702,500 (about US$2,350,000), an Albert Einstein letter with his famous E=mc2 equation in his handwriting sell for $1,243,707, a copy of Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian fetch $950,000, a Steve Jobs-signed Apple II Manual sell for $787,484 and an Apollo Guidance Computer fetch $746,000 … and the next month promises as much again.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, RR Auction, Isaac Newton, Heritage Auctions, Charles Darwin

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Isaac Newton’s hand-written revisions to Principia fetch $2.35 million

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

Written in Latin and covering one and a half pages of 220 x 189-mm paper, the heavily-corrected draft is dated from May to July 1694 and features a total of 39 lines in Newton’s hand

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

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At $8.5 million, this could be the world’s most expensive camping chair

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

This 17th Century Chinese Folding Horseshoe-Back Jiaoyi sold for HKD$65,975,000 (US$8,502,370) at Christie’s Hong Kong on 28 May 2021

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.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Christie’s, China, Chair

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First edition of Copernicus’ “De revolutionibus” sells at auction

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

Just 276 copies of the first edition of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) were known prior to this auction

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.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Rheticus, Copernicus, Sotheby’s, Christie’s

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Space-aged wine expected to fetch $1 million at auction

Posted on May 5, 2021 by David Szondy

The space-aged vintage Pétrus 2000

A wine that spent 14 months on the International Space Station (ISS) is being offered up for sale by auction house Christie’s. One of a dozen bottles of vintage Pétrus 2000 sent to the space station by Space Cargo Unlimited, it could bring an estimated US$1 million through Christie’s Private Sales, which will go to fund future space missions.

Category: Space, Science

Tags: Christie’s, International Space Station, Auction, Wine

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Money for nothing: NFTs spark a new digital gold rush

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Loz Blain

The 69 million-dollar JPEG: Beeple's Everydays: the First 5000 days

A digital artist called “Beeple” is now one of the top three most valuable artists alive – in any medium – after he sold a JPG file of his work for US$69,346,250. Welcome to the crazy world of NFTs, and the latest wild gold rush to hit the internet.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Art, Christie’s, Crazy, Auction

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Stan the T-rex sets record for highest price paid for a dinosaur fossil

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Michael Irving

A huge Tyrannosaurus rex specimen nicknamed Stan has set a record price at 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.

Category: Science

Tags: Dinosaurs, Bones, Christie’s, Auction, World Records, Fossils, New Atlas Audio

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For sale: Huge T-rex skeleton, almost complete, some battle damage

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Michael Irving

A hug Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen nicknamed Stan is heading to auction

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

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Michael Jordan’s backboard-shattering sneakers sell for $615,000

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Loz Blain

This set of game-worn sneakers took flight with Air Jordan as he smashed a backboard in Italy

Michael Jordan is not only a lock for the greatest basketball player of all time, he’s one of the most globally influential sports figures in history. His fabled career is peppered with storybook moments so perfect that you’d think they were cheesy fiction if you hadn’t seen them happening in the moment.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: basketball, Christie’s, Shoes

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Another set of Air Jordan sneakers sell for $475k, record could hit $850k

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Mike Hanlon

Michael Jordan has sold the two most valuable pairs of sneakers (indeed, ANY footwear) in history in the last three months and seems likely to own the top four prices ever inside the next two weeks.

Michael Jordan was unquestionably a once in a lifetime athlete. His outrageous gravity-defying achievements on the basketball court helped him rewrite the rules of athletic merchandise and now he is creating his own new reality on the auction block.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, basketball

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