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The highlights of the 2021 science, sci-fi and technology auction year

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Mike Hanlon

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

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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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Top 100 highlights of the 2021 auction year

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Mike Hanlon

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

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

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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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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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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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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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The bizarre tale of the world’s oldest cognac

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Mike Hanlon

The only remaining bottle of the world’s oldest cognac will sell at auction next week, and will almost certainly set a new price record for a bottle of the famous French brandy. Like many of the world’s most expensive cognacs, the bottle of Gautier Cognac was made prior to the phylloxera plague that wiped out Europe’s grapevines in the late 19th century.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Alcohol, Sotheby’s

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The "first" James Bond Rolex Submariner is up for auction

Posted on August 15, 2019 by David Szondy

The Rolex Submariner Reference 6538 is the same as that worn by Sean Connery in Dr ...

A true horological rarity is up for sale as a sibling of the first Rolex Submariner watch worn in the 007 thriller films is being auctioned by Sotheby’s. The “James Bond” Rolex Submariner Reference 6538 is not only the same model as that first worn by actor Sean Connery in Dr No, it’s also a much sought after collectible in its own right.

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Duane Allman's 1957 "Layla" Gibson Les Paul sells for $1.25 million

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Mike Hanlon

The Goldtop 1957 Gibson Les Paul guitar which Duane Allman used to record "Layla" alongside Eric ...

The Goldtop 1957 Gibson Les Paul guitar which Duane Allman used to record “Layla” alongside Eric Clapton, has sold for US$1.25 million at auction, becoming only the seventh guitar in history to sell for more than US$1,000,000.

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