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Ted Williams' All-Star Bat Hits Auction BlockTed Williams' 1960 All-Star Game autographed bat he used for his final All-Star game appearance and base hit will be auctioned July 14, 2015 at the MLB's All-Star FanFest in Cincinnati. With an approximate value of $150,000, the bat was recently discovered within his former personal residence in Florida along with a handwritten note by him. The note states, "1960 Last Bat used single NY Kansas City."Hunt AuctionsQueen Victoria's Undergarments For SaleUndergarments that formerly belonged to Queen Victoria were sold at auction at Chippenham Auctions Rooms on July 11, 2015 for £12,390, or approximately $19,194.59. An auctioneer was able to date the intimate apparel by measuring the waistband and calculating Queen Victoria's waist measurement through photos of her. The pants <span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">bear the stamp "VR," which is short for Victoria Regina.</span>Chippenham Auctions Rooms'Spectacular' Emerald-Cut Diamond The "Ultimate Emerald-Cut Diamond," weighing 100.20 carats, D color, Internally Flawless, was sold by Sotheby's on April 21, 2015 for $22.1 million, the highest price for any colorless diamond auctioned in New York. The auction house calls it the largest "perfect diamond" with a classic Emerald-cut ever sold at auction.Raquel Dillon/AP PhotoHarrison Ford 'Han Solo' Blaster up for AuctionThe blaster pistol belonging to Harrison Ford's "Star Wars" character Han Solo in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" is up for sale. The prop, based on a Mauser C96 pistol, will be up for auction online at Invaluable on Dec. 21, 2013. It is expected to fetch from $200,000 to $300,000.InvaluableRecord Goodwill Art Sale A $23,473 sale of an African art collection through Shopgoodwill.com topped the Washington record of a Salvador Dali etching, "Reflection," that fetched $21,005 in Nov. 2012. The 55 items were dropped off at a Tacoma, Wash., store by an anonymous donor. The overall Shopgoodwill.com record goes to a $165,002 Frank Weston Benson oil painting.Courtesy GoodwillThe Oldest Book in the U.S., Sold for $14.2 MillionThis April 2013 photo shows the Bay Psalm Book, the first book ever printed in what's now the United States, which sold for $14.2 million at auction.Sotheby's/AP PhotoRare Leica Camera Auctioned for $620KAn extremely rare Leica camera was sold at auction by Bonhams in Hong Kong, for approximately $620,000 on Nov. 22, 2013. The gold-plated Leica Luxus II, with a crocodile-skin case, dates back to 1932. According to Leica's records, only four of its kind ever made and the whereabouts of the other three is unknown.BonhamsSee the Most Expensive Warhol Painting Ever SoldAfter a bidding war, "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" by Andy Warhol sold for $105.4 million, a new record for the Pop artist. The 8' x 13' silkscreen print includes photos of a car that collided into a tree. His works grabbed four of Sotheby's top 10 lots on Nov. 13: Liz #1 (Early Colored Liz), $20.3 million; Flowers (Five Foot Flowers), $11.4 million; and 5 Deaths on Turquoise, $7.3 million.Sotheby's/AP PhotoRecord $1.1 Million Paid for Daytona Rolex"Three Studies of Lucian Freud," a triptych by Francis Bacon of his friend and artist Lucian Freud. The 1969 painting by Bacon set a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold. It was purchased for $142.4 million at Christie's postwar and contemporary art sale Nov. 12, 2013.Christie's/AP PhotoRecord Paid for Daytona RolexA stainless-steel 1969 Rolex Daytona chronograph sold for $1.1 million, the highest for a Daytona at a public auction, at a Christie's sale in Geneva on Nov. 10, 2013. Another Rolex Daytona made for the Sultan of Oman sold for $864,285. The highest paid for any Rolex was $1.16 million in May. The Daytona was Rolex's first chronograph with the tachymeter scale printed on the bezel, not the dial.Christie's Images Ltd. 2013Hugh Jackman Auctions Personalized Voicemail For CharityGet Hugh Jackman to record a personalized message on a cell phone or home phone answering service to benefit the charity Children of Chernobyl on Nov. 25. The fantasy auction item description states: "The message must be of a personal nature and cannot be used to promote a product or business. Value: Priceless. Donor: Hugh Jackman." Online fans can bid for this and other fantasy items at cah.net.Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesChristie's Napoleonic-Era Wine AuctionedA bottle of port wine dating back to the Napolenoic Wars, Macedo Porto Vieux, Garrafeira 1808, sold for $2,568, or 2,350 Swiss francs, at a Christie's auction, Nov. 2013, in Geneva, Switzerland. A bottle of Manoel Beleza de Andrade 1812, from the year Napoleon Bonaparte retreated from Moscow, was http://www.top-boxing-gloves.com/contact-us/ - Continue Reading - also on the auction block.Courtesy Christie'sTitantic Violin Sells In AuctionA violin believed to have played on the Titanic before the ship sank was auctioned for more than 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) on Oct. 19, 2013. The now unplayable instrument is thought to have belonged to bandmaster Wallace Hartley.Henry Aldridge and SonGold Coin Sold for $2.5 MillionA rare four dollar "Coiled Hair Stella" U.S. gold coin from 1880 was auctioned for $2.5 million at Bonhams in Los Angeles. It is made of six grams of pure gold. It was never released into circulation due to a lack of public support.BonhamsRupert Murdoch's Yacht For Sale at $29.7 MillionMedia mogul and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is selling his luxury yacht for $29.7 million following his divorce from former wife Wendi. The 184-foot Rosehearty has six cabins, Hermes leather furnishings, and a large Jacuzzi. "She comfortably accommodates up to 12 guests in a full-beam master suite, two identical VIP staterooms, two doubles and a single with Pullman berth," the listing states.Camper & Nicholsons InternationalEngineer wins auction to meet Warren BuffettThe winning bid to meet Warren Buffett at See's Candies' factory in L.A. was $156,000. Engineer and business owner Jack Staub snagged the tour at Charitybuzz.com. The Creative Artists Agency "School Day" Auction raised $450,000 for Communities In Schools of L.A. The bid is a steal compared to the $1 million auctioned earlier this year for the annual Buffett power lunch and last year's $3,456,789.Dave Weaver/Invision/AP PhotoLucille Ball's Signature Dress Sold For $168,000.Lucille Ball's signature Lucy Ricardo black and white polka-dot dress worn on "I Love Lucy" sold at auction by Profiles in History on July 30, 2013. The estimated price was $40,000 - $60,000 and it sold for $168,000. The Dreier Lucille Ball Collection began when Chad Dreier acquired a large collection from the estate of Academy Award-winning costume designer Elois Jenssen (1922 2004). Courtesy Profiles in History'Frankenstein' Poster May Fetch $100k at AuctionA one-of-a-kind 1931 Frankenstein insert movie poster, purchased by a Chicago man when he was a teenager and stored in a closet for three decades, sold for $262,900 by Heritage Auctions in Dallas on July 27. Keith Johnson, 59, bought the poster from an antiques shop for just a few dollars in the 1960s. It is the most valuable movie poster insert ever sold at auction.Courtesy Heritage AuctionsWooden Chest Auctioned for $9.5 MillionAuctioneer Aymeric Rouillac poses on June 7 at Cheverny by a Japanese chest that belonged to Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-16661). The wooden box was auctioned for $9.5 million to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum on June 9 at a sale organized by the Chateau de Cheverny. A French man in London bought it in the 1970s and used it to store liquor and as a TV stand. Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty ImagesPHOTO: The world's largest yacht.The world's largest yacht launched for the first time in Germany in April following the vessel's completion. It spans about 590 feet long and though the price has been kept under wraps, it's reported to be worth about $600 million. Claus Schaefe / SWNS.comJackie O's Yacht Goes Up On The BlockThe yacht, Christina O, that belonged to the late Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis is for sale for 25 million euros ($32.4 million). He bought the WW2 Canadian frigate for $34,000 in the 1950s, spent millions to convert it into a yacht and married Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on it in 1968. His daughter, Christina, gave the 99-meter boat to the Greek government after he died in 1975.AP PhotoMick Jagger Hair to be AuctionedA lock of hair from The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger was sold for $6,069 (4,000) to an unnamed buyer. The sale benefits the U.K. charity, Changing Faces, which supports people with disfigurements. The lock of hair was estimated to be worth 1,500 to 2,000, or about $2,300 to $3,100. Cut in the 1960s, the hair was saved by the grandmother of Jagger's old girlfriend Chrissie Shrimpton. Courtesy of BonhamsKFC's Col. Sanders' White Suit AuctionedKFC founder Colonel Sanders' suit and clip-on bow-tie fetched $21,510 on June 22, 2013 in an auction held by Heritage Auctions. Consigned by Cincinnati resident Mike Morris, whose family house was bought by Col. Sanders and where Sanders lived with the family for six months, Morris was given the suit by the Colonel, who was close to Morris' family. "Kentucky Colonel" was an honorary title.Heritage AuctionsFirst Apple Computer Could Fetch $500,000 or MoreAn Apple 1 prototype computer, built in 1976, accompanied by an operation manual and schematic as well as a photo of its inventors, Steve Wozniak, left, and Steve Jobs, is shown in this undated photo. One of the very first Apple 1 computers, worth about $500,000, goes on sale later this month at Christie's auction house, the latest vintage tech sale. An Apple-1 sold for $671,000 in May in Germany.Christies Images Ltd. 2013/AP Photo24 Carat Gold Shoes on SaleItalian designer Alberto Moretti announced the launch of exclusive 24 carat gold shoes. The shoes are made from velvet and covered in gold. The shoes, pumps for women and loafers for men, cost 1,700 or about $2,664. They were presented for the first time during the Monte Carlo Grand Prix on May 25, 2013. A spokesperson for the designer said Barneys New York will sell them in September.Courtesy Alberto MorettiAuction for Lunch with Warren BuffettThe 14th annual charity auction for lunch with Berkshire Hathaway chairman/CEO Warren Buffett ended June 7. The winning bid this year was $1,000,100. Last year's winning bid on eBay was a record $3,456,789. The auction raises money for GLIDE Memorial Church's charity work in San Francisco. The prize is lunch with "The Oracle" and up to seven of your friends at Smith & Wollensky in New York City.Alex Wong/Getty ImagesCarpet Auctioned for $33.7 MillionA Sickle-Leaf Carpet, an early 17th century Persion rug from Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art, was auctioned in New York, June 5, 2013 by Sotheby's for $33.7 million. Sotheby's said the price was more than three times the previous auction record for a carpet. It measures 8 feet 9 inches by 6 feet 5 inches.Sotheby's/AP PhotoLady Gaga's Nail For AuctionA black acrylic nail worn by Lady Gaga during her "Born This Way Ball" tour and designed by Aya Fukuda reportedly sold for $12,000. A member of the stage crew for her concert in Dublin, Ireland on Sept. 15, 2012 listed the item. The seller said in the listing: "As I was about to start work I noticed an object on the floor of the stage... when I picked it up, I saw it was an acrylic nail."Plcollecta.com | Kevin Mazur/WireImage/Getty ImagesBasquiat Painting SoldA Jean-Michel Basquiat painting titled "Dustheads" set a new auction record for the graffiti artist at a sale of postwar and contemporary art in New York. Christie's says "Dustheads" sold for $48.8 million on May 15, 2013. Basquiat's "Untitled" held the previous record when it sold in November for $26.4 million. Christie's made $495 million in total, the highest at any art auction, said the AP.Christie's/AP Photo'Little Pastry Chef' Sells for $18 Million"Le petit patissier" (the "little pastry chef") by Chaim Soutine sold for $18,043,750 at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York on May 8, 2013. The sale set a new world auction record for the artist. Christie'sChristie's Auctions Giant EggChristie's scientific specialist James Hyslop holds up a chicken egg to scale the size of a sub-fossilised pre-17th century Elephant Bird egg that sold for $101,679, or 66,675 pounds, at the auction house in London. The Elephant Bird egg measures over 100 times the average size of a chicken egg, and stands at 21cm in diameter and 30cm in height. It was estimated to be worth $30,500 to $45,750.Matt Dunham/AP PhotoFrancis Crick's Nobel MedalThe1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Francis Crick sold for $2.27 million, including a buyer's premium, on April 11, 2013 through Heritage Auctions. Jack Wang, the CEO of biomedical firm Biomobie in Shanghai, who flew into New York for the auction, was the highest bidder. Drs. James Watson and Maurice Wilkins were also awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA.Bebeto Matthews/AP PhotoLetter Sells For Record AmountA letter by British scientist Francis Crick to his 12-year-old son sold for $6 million, including a buyer's premium, at an auction on April 10, 2013. Weeks before Crick and James Watson published their DNA discovery in Nature, Crick described DNA's "beautiful" structure in a seven-page letter. "My dear Michael," the letter starts, "Jim Watson and I have probably made a most important discovery."BNPSHonus Wagner Baseball Card Sells for $2 MillionThe front and rear of a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card is shown. The rare T206 card, one of 44 originally released by the American Tobacco Co., sold for $2,105,770.50 in an online Goldin Auctions sale, April 6, 2013. While the company said the price was a record for a baseball card sold at auction, a similar Wagner card in mint condition was purchased for $2.8 million in a private sale in 2007.Goldin Auctions/AP PhotoWorld's Most Expensive Pacifier An 1865 card of the Brooklyn Atlantics baseball team was sold for $92,000 on Feb. 6, 2013 in Biddeford, Maine by the Saco River Auction Co. The Atlantics card, which shows 10 players, is http://www.everlast.com/boxing - http://www.everlast.com/boxing - a carte de viste, a type of small photograph usually made of thin albumen print and mounted on a thicker piece of paper. A man found the card at a rural yard sale in Maine.Saco River Auction Co./AP PhotoAung San Suu Kyi's Handknit Sweater Sells for $74KA teenage photo of the late Lady Diana labeled "not to be published," sold at an auction for $18,396. The photo is stamped Feb. 1981, taken some time before she moved into Buckingham Palace on Feb. 23, 1981. She married Charles, the Prince of Wales, on July 29, 1981.Caren ArchiveJohn Lennon autograph sold for $72KJohn Lennon's "last autograph" sold for $72,000. Gotta Have It! Collectibles, Inc. states an engineer at The Record Plant studio asked for an autograph for his friend on Dec. 8, 1980. He mistakenly thought it was for someone who replaced a broken guitar string, writing: "To Karl, who strung me along, thanks John Lennon 1980." He was later shot in front of The Dakota apartment building.Simple AuctionFirst Book Published in N. America to be SoldA church in Boston is selling a rare psalm book from 1640 that could fetch between $10 million to $20 million, the Boston Globe http://www.top-boxing-gloves.com/contact-us/ - our website - reported. Old South Church voted to allow its trustees to sell one of its two copies of a 1640 Bay Psalm Book to help pay for building repairs and support its ministry. Boston Public LibraryEric Clapton's Watch Sold for $3.6MMark Rothko's "No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)" from 1954 sold to a telephone bidder for $67 million, or $75.1 million with Sotheby's fees, on Nov. 13, 2012. The painting sold above its expected sale price of $35 million to $50 million.Sotheby's$100,000 Kitchen Range for SaleAn "ultra-rare" watch by Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe from musician Eric Clapton sold for $3.6 million by Christie's. Only two of this particular model were cased in platinum. Made in 1987, it's described as a "platinum perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch with moon phases." The watch had an estimated value of $2,668,650 to $4,278,080 or 2,500,000 to 4,000,000 Swiss francs.Christie's Images LTD. 2012Judy Garland's 'Wizard of Oz' Dress Has SoldJudy Garland's blue gingham dress from "The Wizard of Oz" was sold for $480,000 at the two-day auction event held at Julien's Auctions Beverly Hills, Calif. Nov. 10-11, 2012.JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty ImagesPosters Seized by Nazis Worth MillionsClaude Monet's painting titled "Nymphets," from his water lilies series, has fetched $43.8 million at auction. The iconic 1905 painting had been estimated to sell for $30 million to $50 million, but went just below the middle of that range when sold at Christie's auction house in New York this week.Christie's New York/AP PhotoKanye West, Kim Kardashian in a LamborghiniGeorge Washington's annotated copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights (1789) sold for $9,826,500, setting a new world auction record for an American book or historical document, according to Christie's New York. Alex Brandon/AP Photo'Flying Hovercraft' Sells for $190KAndy Warhol's portrait of Elvis Presley depicted as a cowboy with a silver background, "Double Elvis [Ferus Type]," sold for $37 million on May 9, 2012. The silkscreen image, estimated to be worth $30 million to $50 million, was first displayed in Los Angeles' Ferus Gallery in 1963. It was the first "Double" Elvis to appear on the market since 1995 out of the 22 images Warhol created of Elvis.Sotheby's/AP PhotoRare Baseball Card Sold For $1.2MEdvard Munch's painting, 'The Scream,' was auctioned in 12 minutes for $119.9 million on May 2, 2012 at Sotheby's in New York by a mystery bidder, a record price for an artwork sold at auction. Christie's sold Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust' for $106.5 million in 2010. 'The Scream' that was auctioned is one of four versions and the only one that is privately owned.Mario Tama/Getty Images
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