After a weeklong auction, the big bidder secured a seat at the table with the 95-year-old investing legend, NBA champ Steph Curry, and entrepreneur Ayesha Curry. The lunch will take place on June 24 in Omaha, Nebraska-home to Buffett's $700 billion Berkshire Hathaway empire - and the winner gets to bring up to seven guests.
The Boba Fett figure came with kinetic rocket-firing capabilities. A hundred prototypes rolled off the line, 70 with L-shaped firing slots and 30 with J-slots. But upon testing, the toys were deemed unsafe for children and never mass-produced.
When Heritage Auctions toppled our own record for the highest price ever paid for a trading card-a virtually pristine 1952 Topps Mantle card dethroned by the only existing Kobe/Jordan dual-signed Logoman-the most famous member of the purchasing group of the latter publicly indicated that the gold NBA logo of the Jordan example was a particularly compelling justification for the unprecedented result.
The terms are often conflated to portray an air of desirability and a limited opportunity. Rarity generally refers to the unusualness of an object—something that is infrequently encountered or 'rare to market.' With modern works from the past century, rarity can stem from limited original production, or the fact that many examples are held in museum or institutional collections, reducing their availability in the marketplace.
Composed of 13 panels and four canvases, and measuring 65 by 100 feet, the set was produced in 1939 for Bacchanale, a performance that Dalí called his "first paranoiac-critical ballet." It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on November 9 of that year. The set is widely considered to be Dalí's largest painting, and its central motif contains an image of the Mount of Venus.
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"Unquestionably. It won us our first championship. The other thing that speaks to me so much, probably more than any other piece of memorabilia I've ever seen is all the mud on it. I know John says it's blood, sweat and beer all over that jersey -- those are his words. "That jersey represents more than just a play and his MVP performance. It represents the grit of the franchise, the hard work, the Ho
Set to take place on January 24, what distinguishes The Great American Whiskey Collection is not just scale, but intention. Assembled patiently over many years and stored in a custom-built home bar to preserve the rarest expressions of Bourbon and Rye at their most authentic and elusive. Private labels, exclusive single barrels, and historic bottlings, many of which are now virtually unobtainable, form the backbone of Sotheby's historic sale.
Mr Lhermitte passed the restaurant down to his family in 2017 (he died in 2022) and it's now under new family ownership. And the new owners are ready to give Mon Plaisir a refresh - though the original dining room and copper-topped bar will be staying put - so they're auctioning off a range of the venue's classic French interior decorations.
The widely popular The Orphan Girl in Ballymoney, Co Wexford, has officially been sold following a recent auction. Sold during a final the auction of 2025 for Quinn Property, the sale took place on Thursday, December 18 inside The Orphan Girl to show bidders the potential in store for the bar and grill. Over 20 bidders took part in the auction both, at the venue and online.
The final results are in for an auction launched on the 2025 finale of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to benefit public media. As reported by , items including a record-setting Bob Ross painting and a bidet signed by GWAR's Blöthar the Berserker raised a total of nearly $1.54 million dedicated to assisting local public broadcasters by the time bids closed on Monday night.
Outfits worn by actors including Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet are to go on display in London. The costumes will be available to view in a free exhibition in Bermondsey from Wednesday until 25 November when they will be sold off during auction. The outfit expected to fetch the highest price - an estimated 45,000, is an early 19th century suit Depp wore towards the end of the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow in his role as Ichabod Crane.
Maurizio Cattelan's shimmering 223-pound (101.2 kg) solid gold toilet sold for $12.1 million with fees at Sotheby's contemporary auction in its new Breuer Building headquarters tonight, November 18. Sotheby's did not list an estimate for Cattelan's 18-karat metaphor, "America" (2016), but set bids to start at $10 million. Failing to receive more than one bid, the work sold after an awkward minute during which auctioneer Phyllis Kao attempted to draw out more offers using potty-related puns.
Gene wanted to direct, and play Hannibal Lecter, Harris's agent, Robert Bookman, told Deadline in 2017. Work on a screenplay was under way when Hackman suddenly got cold feet and abandoned the project, apparently because it was too dark. Bookman recalled: Gene Hackman's daughter read the book. And she called her father and said, Daddy, you're not making this movie.' The Silence of the Lambs was released in 1991, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Anthony Hopkins, and won all five of the top Oscars.
British auction house Omega Auctions anticipates the note, dated Dec. 1, 2017, will sell for anywhere from A5,000 (about $6,579) to A10,000 (about $13,158) when it goes up for auction Dec. 2. Liam, Long time no see! the Life of a Showgirl crooner wrote on stationery emblazoned with her name. I'm so excited for you, you'reA crushing it out there. I'm obsessed with Bedroom Floor.' It's so cool to see you from afar. I'm always cheering you on. Good luck tonight! Taylor.
Van Gogh's Sower in a Wheatfield with setting Sun (July 1888) will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York on 18 November, with an estimate of $8m-$10m. If it exceeds the $8.8m hammer price of (August 1888), a portrait of a young woman from Arles which sold at Christie's in 2021, it will set a new auction record for a Van Gogh drawing.
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Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments Florian Schneider used to create some of the band's best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month. Music for a solo project that the 73-year-old Schneider was working on just before he died from cancer in 2020 can also be heard for the first time in a video about the auction, shared with the Guardian.
A five-story office building just steps from South Station will be auctioned on Nov. 5. Paul E. Saperstein Co. Auctioneers & Appraisers is listing the 98,000-square-foot property at 99 Bedford St. The building, which dates back to 1899, houses five tenants and features a renovated lobby completed in 2020. Ground-level tenants include Forefront Eye Care and TALK English School, while state filings show that Korb & Associates PLLC also leases office space in the building.
The Pregunta began life as a Diablo, but its transformation was anything but subtle. French coachbuilder Carrosserie Heuliez-Torino was commissioned to craft a completely new carbon fiber body, drawing inspiration from the Dassault Rafale fighter jet. The connection was more than superficial: the car was finished in the same matte dark grey paint used on the aircraft, creating an appearance that felt more military prototype than production-ready supercar.
For those that don't know, the "Prerelease Raichu" card is the stuff of legend. According to reports dating back to the late '90s, around 11 copies of the original Raichu card with "PRERELEASE" text stamped in the corner of the artwork were accidentally produced by Wizards of the Coast employees. These cards were mixed in with pre-release Clefable cards that were given out at events in the '90s, and they were supposed to have been destroyed, though a few were supposedly saved by WOTC workers.
Iconic movie props from a galaxy far, far away, and from a search for the Holy Grail much closer to home, are for sale in a blockbuster auction in California featuring a trove of silver screen history. Darth Vader's lightsaber from the final two films of the original Star Wars trilogy is the most valuable lot in the three-day online auction hosted by Propstore, a Los Angeles company specializing in movie memorabilia.
Last summer, the Mirage announced it was closing permanently to make way for the Hard Rock Las Vegas. The Mirage, which opened in 1989, ushered in the era of Vegas "megaresorts"; at the time, it was one of the most expensive and largest hotels ever built anywhere on Earth. Its marquee attraction was a volcano that erupted every 15 minutes.
