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Top 100 highlights of the 2021 auction year

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Mike Hanlon

Our annual highlights of the auction year reached a crescendo in this post-2021 coverage - the most explosive growth, the most ridiculous lots, and dozens of examples of the most expensive items in history ... not to mention the most bizarre lots we've yet seen. The most intriguing of them all was the sale by tender of (most of) the cars from the 2015 movie, “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

The 2021 auction year was quite extraordinary, with almost all auction categories reporting unprecedented levels of participation and sales.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Art, Most-Expensive, World’s Most Expensive, Video Games, Valuable-Scientific-Manuscripts, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Patek Philippe, NFT (Non-fungible token), Christie’s, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Bonhams, Artcurial, McLaren, Ferrari, Shelby, AC Cobra, Mercedes-Benz, Delage, Aston Martin, Baseball, basketball, NFL, Poly Auction Beijing, Poly Auction HK, Bugatti, Tim Berners-Lee, Audemars Piguet, Memory Lane Auctions, Heritage Auctions, Goldin Auctions, Lamborghini, Superman, Spider-Man, ComicConnect.com, Banksy, Lelands Auctions, Stutz, Rock Island Auctions, Stacks Bowers Auctions, Mile High Auctions, Macallan Whisky, Porsche, Rolex, Lexus, Space Suit, mario bros.

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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.

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

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Spider-Man surpasses Batman and Superman as world’s most valuable comic

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

The most valuable comic in the world has always been Action Comics #1 (the first appearance of Superman and the beginning of the entire superhero genre) … until a few hours ago when a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15 (the first appearance of Spider-Man) … Continue reading Spider-Man surpasses Batman and Superman as world’s most valuable comic→

Space and sci-fi memorabilia breaking records at auction

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

The Apollo Guidance Computer is extremely rare, was very expensive to produce, and an example of state-of-the-art design and fabrication of the period - perhaps even more significantly, it is the common ancestor of every computer.

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

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World auction record price for video games smashed twice in three days

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

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→

Babe Ruth baseball bat sells for $930,000 as sports memorabilia market heats up

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Mike Hanlon

Despite the financial turmoil associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the sports memorabilia marketplace is hotter than ever, with two of the most expensive baseball bats in history selling in the last few weeks for near-record prices. Last Saturday nig… Continue reading Babe Ruth baseball bat sells for $930,000 as sports memorabilia market heats up→

The imagery of youth becoming investment-quality art

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Mike Hanlon

It isn’t hard to see why artefacts of landmark cultural events are continually gaining value at auction, but it is becoming clear that the imagery of baby boomers’ youth is increasingly morphing into investment quality art. An indication as to just how… Continue reading The imagery of youth becoming investment-quality art→

Original Flash Gordon comic strip sells for $512,000

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Mike Hanlon

As we forecast in our recent extensive feature covering the 2019 science and technology auction year, science fiction memorabilia is hot and getting hotter, regardless of COVID-19. This was validated with the US$512,000 sale last week of the original S… Continue reading Original Flash Gordon comic strip sells for $512,000→

Duane Allman's Gibson SG and Graham Nash's Woodstock Martin D-45 sell at auction

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Mike Hanlon

Duane Allman's Gibson SG and Graham Nash's Woodstock Martin D-45

Our top 100 most valuable guitars listing added two more famous guitars last week, when Duane Allman’s 1961/1962 Cherry Gibson SG fetched US$591,000 and the Martin D-45 that Graham Nash played at Woodstock fetched $162,500.

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30 landmark scientific artifacts heading for auction this month

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Mike Hanlon

The month of July, 2019 will be a bumper one for the number of landmark scientific artifacts heading for auction. Three Christie’s auctions and a Sotheby’s auction have such a stellar array of scientific documents, manuscripts, tablets, seals and artifacts that we thought it worthwhile documenting them, even though in some cases, they are estimated to sell for quite affordable amounts.

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