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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
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
The term “once in a lifetime offer” has unfortunately become an advertising trope, making it difficult to cut through the clutter when something genuinely unicorn-rare comes along. The discovery, weaponization and use of nuclear power will remain one o… Continue reading Auction alert: ‘Atomic Energy’ signed by Einstein, Oppenheimer & others
If you’ve ever wanted a pair of gloves associated with one of the great leaps in computer technology, now’s the time. Prototype typing gloves developed by Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau to replace keyboards as interface devices are up for auction… Continue reading Computer input gloves made by the inventor of the mouse up for auction
The original 2007 Apple iPhone that started the smartphone market is now breaking auction records. In August 2022 an original iPhone sold for US$35,414 then $39,339 in October 2022, $63,356 in February 2023 and now $190,373 on Sunday night.Continue Rea… Continue reading Original 2007 Apple iPhone values surging
A six-page autograph manuscript by Albert Einstein entitled “The Essence of the Theory of Relativity” is being auctioned tonight and scientific voyeurs might care to watch the fun as the heavy hitters come out to play. The auction will be live on the i… Continue reading Einstein paper heads for auction tonight – a bargain in the offing?
A piece of space history has sold at auction for US$744,994 after the moondust-besmirched checklist Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan wore on his spacesuited wrist during the last crewed lunar mission went on the block at RR Auctions.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Checklist from last Apollo lunar mission sells for almost US$800,000
One of the first computer mouses and a coding keyset created by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart have sold for US$178,936 at auction. Like the two previous such Engelbart mouses that have gone to auction, the mouse was sold at RRAuction in Boston, th… Continue reading Engelbart/SRI mouse smashes record price for a computer mouse
A “lost” artifact from the dawn of the age of the personal computer is going up for sale. Steve Job’s original, hand-soldered “Apple Computer A” prototype built in 1976 to support Apple’s first big contract is on the auction block at RR Auction.Continu… Continue reading “Lost” Apple computer prototype goes on the auction block
This is the second part of a two-part overview of the 2021 auction year – a year where investors channeled more of their wealth into “investments of passion” than ever before.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Propstore, University Archives (Auction House), Bonhams, Heritage Auctions, Fonsie Mealey, Ketterer Kunst, Aristotle, mario bros., RR Auction, Marc van de Wiele Auctions, Albert Einstein, Doyle New York, Malling-Hansen “Writing Ball”, Gregor Mendel, Hakes Auctions, Boba Fett, star wars, Stormtrooper Helmet, Nintendo, Thomas Malthus, Superman, René Descartes, Matteo Ricci , Adam Smith, Steve Jobs, steve wosniak, Samuel de Champlain, Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, N64 Nintendo, Abraham Ortelius, Star Trek, Andy Warhol, Battle of Goliad, Resident Evil, Nobel prizes, John James Audubon, The Birds of America, Enigma Machine, Euclid, Lightsabers, Copernicus, Mark Catesby, Apple-1 Computer, Back to the Future, Triceratops, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, Ptolemy, Johannes Kepler, Apollo Guidance Computer, The North American Indian
Continue reading The highlights of the 2021 science, sci-fi and technology auction year