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Controversial 16th Century adventurer Samuel de Champlain penned two of history’s most captivating travel books, chronicling his exploration and mapping of much of the North American continent and his founding of New France.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Samuel de Champlain
Continue reading Champlain’s adventures now world’s second-most expensive travel book
The movie industry got off to an inauspicious start on 28 December 1895 at the Grand Cafe in Paris. Just 30 of the 100 seats set for the occasion were occupied, and the Lumière brothers’ famous cinématographe projector sat on a step ladder at the center.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: movie posters, Video, Sotheby’s, Heritage Auctions
Continue reading The world’s first movie poster set to smash auction records
A rare and large Pteranodon skeleton sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York this evening for US$3,932,000, adding further weight to the influence of the Jurassic Park franchise and moving into the top five most valuable fossils of all-time: behind only Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops and Gorgosaurus.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Auction, Sotheby’s, Fossils, Pteranodon
Continue reading Pteranodon sells for US$3.9 million to join fossil pantheon
A truly historic Space Age recording is up for auction as the personal copy of the master tapes belonging to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan for the crafting of the Golden Record that flew on Voyager 1 and 2 goes on the block at Sotheby’s.
Tags: Auction, NASA, Voyager, Sotheby’s
Continue reading Carl Sagan’s personal Golden Record tapes go on the block
The original and sole remaining Blastech DL-44 Blaster used by Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the first 1977 Star Wars movie (Star Wars: A New Hope) has sold for a record US$1,057,500 at Rock Island Auctions.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Most Expensive Movie Weapons, star wars, Heritage Auctions, Profiles in History, Rock Island Auctions, Bonhams, Sotheby’s, James Bond, Star Trek
Continue reading Han Solo’s DL-44 Blaster from “Star Wars” smashes auction records
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione became the latest winner of the Annual Peninsula Classics “Best of the Best” Award yesterday, winning the 2021 edition of the most prestigious concours honor in the world.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Ferrari, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Broad Arrow Auctions, Bonhams, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Hispano Suiza, Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, Amelia Island Concours, Concours dElegance, Salon Prive, The Quail, Pebble Beach
Continue reading Pictorial: World’s “Best of the Best” concours car, plus 8 finalists
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione became the latest winner of the Annual Peninsula Classics “Best of the Best” Award yesterday, winning the 2021 edition of the most prestigious concours honor in the world.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Ferrari, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Broad Arrow Auctions, Bonhams, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Hispano Suiza, Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, Amelia Island Concours, Concours dElegance, Salon Prive, The Quail, Pebble Beach
Continue reading Pictorial: World’s “Best of the Best” concours car, plus 8 finalists
Sotheby’s sold the jacket worn to the Moon by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin yesterday, smashing all sorts of auction records with a final price of US$2,772,500.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Most-Expensive, Auction, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Heritage Auctions
Continue reading Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 jacket smashes auction records
As far as collectibles go, it’s hard to find something cooler than the skeleton of a long-dead apex predator. The latest to hit the auction block is a Gorgosaurus, a distant relative of T-rex, which will be offered for sale by Sotheby’s New York this month as the headline act for its Natural History sale.
Category: Science
Tags: Dinosaurs, Auction, Sotheby’s, Fossils, Bones
Continue reading Huge carnivorous dinosaur skeleton goes up for auction in New York
Vienna’s Leitz Photographica Auctions celebrated its 20th year in business this week when it sold the camera of the man who invented 35-mm photography for €14,400,000 (US$15,147,360), smashing the previous world record of €2,400,000.
Category: Photography, Technology
Tags: World Records, Auction, Man Ray, Leica, Leitz Photographica, Sotheby’s
Continue reading $15 million Leica camera was owned by the man who democratized photography