The Force will be with Star Wars collectors when rare and highly coveted items hit the auction block, including the only surviving example of three BlasTech DL-44s used by Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.Hake's Auctions, Heritage Auctions and Rock Island Auction will offer Star Wars memorabilia and other pop-culture goodies at sales this month...
Manhole covers are not often seen as collectibles, especially due to their weight – 150 to 250 pounds. Most manhole covers in the U.S. were made of cast iron leaving them inexpensive to manufacture; sturdy enough to hold up to constant traffic and heavy enough to deter most, but not all, thieves from absconding with them to...
Basketball great LeBron James is known as King James for good reason. Not only is he one of the most dominant players in NBA history, but everything about him gets the royal treatment. Need proof? Someone just paid $2.4 million for a one-of-a-kind LeBron James trading card (below) at Goldin Auctions in late June. The card is...
A collection of cheap costume jewelry that a woman in Norway bought in an online auction has yielded a rare treasure: a gold ring believed to have been worn by a Viking chief.After Mari Ingelin Heskestad received the stash of jewelry she bought from an auction house and started combing through it, one piece particularly caught her...
A fossilized skeleton of a Gorgosaurus, an apex carnivore and Tyrannosaurus rex relative that roamed the earth more than 70 million years ago, is being offered at auction for the first time for private ownership.At nearly 10 feet tall and 22 feet long, the Gorgosaurus, discovered in 2018 in Montana is a highlight of Sotheby’s Natural History sale on July...
During my junior year of high school, my Contemporary Literature teacher, Mr. Kuklinski, gave the class two reading options: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess or Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.Little did I realize at the time that either choice could potentially lead me down the road to ruination, a path I’m fairly certain I could have stumbled...
When I was growing up in my mother’s antiques shop, she always used the term “shocking pink” to describe a particularly vibrant hue she loved. I didn’t realize until much later that the term originated with fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. This happened when I started foraging for vintage accessories and took notice of Shocking de Schiaparelli perfume...
You didn’t need to drive 88 mph in a time-traveling Delorean to buy Biff Tannen’s shrink-wrapped copy of the 1986 Back to the Future VHS tape – and set a new auction record while doing so.After a heated bidding war, a collector from New York picked up actor Tom Wilson’s sealed, near-mint-condition videotape for $75,000 in Heritage...
DENVER, Penn. – A rare circa 1905-1910 Tiffany Studios “Poppy” leaded-glass table lamp sold for $541,200 (including a 23% buyer’s premium) during a Fine & Decorative Arts event in June at Morphy Auctions, which the house believes is a world-record auction price for a Tiffany lamp in the Poppy motif.A rare circa 1905-1910 Tiffany Studios “Poppy” leaded-glass...
While the Victorian era officially spanned the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) historians also include the timeframe from the Napoleonic Wars until the start World War I as inclusive of the fashions and trends synonymous with the period. In that time, Great Britain transformed from predominately rural and agricultural to an urbanized industrial leader in the world....
I am real excited to share this delicious cocktail recipe with you today—a twist on the classic margarita. A Watermelon Margarita balances sweetness from fresh...
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