Wizbang Pop!: At Auction Archives

Marilyn's clothes, Elvis' pill bottles for sale

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 27, 2009 · Comments (1)

Marilyn Monroe's coffee table and Elvis Presley's prescription bottles are going up for auction. Julien's Auctions will also sell clothing, autographed photos and other Monroe memorabilia, including items from her Brentwood, Calif., home, and jewelry, books and other items that Presley gave to his longtime personal physician, Dr. Nick.... [Full Story]

Rare Hepburn Stamp Goes on Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 26, 2009 · Comments (1)

The rare special stamp featuring late British actress Audrey Hepburn is on display in Berlin on Friday, March 27, 2009. The stamp will be auctioned Tuesday, May 26, 2009, and is said to be worth more than $40,000. In 2001, the German government printed the Audrey Hepburn stamps as part... [Full Story]

Top artists still setting records at Christies

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 18, 2009

David Hockney's painting "Beverly Hills Housewife" sold for a record $7.9 million after fierce bidding last week, a sign that collectors are eager to buy rare and high-quality works despite the recession, the Christie's auction house said. A Claes Oldenburg sculpture "Typewriter Eraser," from 1976, also set a record,... [Full Story]

Hollywood Wax Museum Auctions Wax Celebs

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 5, 2009 · Comments (1)

Wax figures of all four Beatles brought in nearly $13,000 at the first auction in the 44-year history of the Hollywood Wax Museum. "The Last Supper" -- wax representations of Jesus and the 12 disciples -- commanded more than $15,000 in the weekend auction that sold close to a... [Full Story]

Heiress Doris Duke's Being Auctioned

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 29, 2009

More than 1,000 objects that Heiress Doris Duke collected and had on her 2,700-acre estate, Duke Farms, will be sold at a public auction this weekend as the estate is converted into a public environmental center. Proceeds go to benefit the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The auction will have... [Full Story]

Painting by Hitler cleans up at Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 24, 2009 · Comments (2)

Handout photo from Mullock's Auctioneers of a painting, believed to be a 1910 self portrait by Adolf Hitler and identified by the initials 'A.H', written beside the figure. What the British auction house claims are a set of paintings and sketches by a young Adolf Hitler have sold at auction... [Full Story]

Yves Saint Laurent Auction Set Record

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: February 24, 2009

A major work by the French painter Henri Matisse sold for a record $40.6 million on Monday as the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's art collection was auctioned in Paris. Bids for the collection hit $261.5 million on Monday, making it the most expensive private art collection ever... [Full Story]

Testa Rossa expected to break auction records

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: February 17, 2009

RM Auctions and Sotheby's are teaming up for a spring auction that should be one for the record books: A 1957 Ferrari 250 "pontoon-fendered" Testa Rossa once owned by racing driver Piero Drogo, one of only 22 built, will go on the block on May 17 in Maranello, Italy.... [Full Story]

Rare 1937 Bugatti supercar found in English garage

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: January 5, 2009 · Comments (2)

In this undated image released by Bonhams, an extremely rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, is seen in a garage in Gosforth, England, where it was found by relatives after the death of the owner, an elderly doctor who last used it around 1960. The Bugatti, one of only 17... [Full Story]

Famous blue diamond sells for record price

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: December 11, 2008

Becky Markley holds the Wittelbach diamond, a rare 35.6 carat 17th century grey-blue diamond, at Christie's auction house in London, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. The diamond was part of the dowry of the Infanta Mararita Teresa upon her engagement to Leopold I of Austria, given by her father King... [Full Story]

"Battlestar Galactica" items up for auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: November 6, 2008

Geeks save the date: NBC Universal has finalized plans to auction props, costumes and set pieces from Sci Fi Channel's concluding cult-favorite "Battlestar Galactica." The company has booked a weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center for the auction, coinciding with the return of the show on January 16. The... [Full Story]

Pooh sketch makes $50,000

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: November 5, 2008

An original drawing of A.A. Milne's popular children's characters Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger and Piglet fetched $50,000 at auction on Tuesday. The amount, which includes a 20 percent buyer's premium, comfortably beat pre-sale expectations of up to $40,000, not including the premium. The oval pencil sketch by E.H. Shepard, one of... [Full Story]

Berlin Wall goes under the hammer

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: September 19, 2008

Four graffiti-covered giant slabs of the Berlin Wall could fetch as much as $4,350 each at an auction Friday, a Berlin auction house said Thursday. The four 2.8-tonne chunks of the wall that once divided Communist East Berlin and capitalist West Berlin are pieces of German history, said Hans... [Full Story]

Golden Calf Fetches $18 Million at Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: September 16, 2008 · Comments (1)

Brit artist Damien Hirst smashed his previous auction record with the $18.5 million sale of a gold tipped bull in formaldehyde on the first day of his major solo sale at Sotheby's in London Monday. Entitled The Golden Calf, the controversial artist's work exceeded the top end of its... [Full Story]

Rock Auction Nets Less Than Expected

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: September 5, 2008

I little while back we told you about an upcoming rock memorabilia auction going down in London town. So the results are in. The big ticket items all brought in less than expected. A guitar set alight onstage by Jimi Hendrix during a concert in London was sold at... [Full Story]

Beatles Contract to be Auctioned

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 14, 2008

The musicians put their signatures to the agreement in January 1962.An original copy of the 1962 management contract signed by the Beatles and Brian Epstein is expected to fetch $500,000 at an auction in London. The document, signed by all four musicians, will go on sale along with other... [Full Story]

Hendrix guitar, Morrison notebook to be auctioned

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 16, 2008 · Comments (1)

One of Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitars, set alight on a London stage more than 40 years ago and thought to have been lost forever, is to be auctioned later this year. The guitar, a 1965 Fender Stratocaster, was famously doused with lighter fuel and set alight by the rock... [Full Story]

Life for sale; Friends included

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: July 1, 2008

A man who put his life up for auction on eBay found it wasn't worth quite as much as he thought when he settled for around A$100,000 less than his target price. Ian Usher, 44, held the seven-day auction of all his belongings, including his three-bedroom home in the... [Full Story]

Monet Painting goes for 80.5 Million at auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 25, 2008

Claude Monet's painting "Le Bassin aux Nympheas," seen here, sold for 40.9 million pounds (51.7 million euros, 80.5 million dollars) at an auction in London on Tuesday, smashing the previous record auction price for the artist's work.... [Full Story]

For the Beatle fan who has everything: Paul's hair

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 16, 2008

Hitting the auction block on June 18th, at Bonhams of London, is a lock of hair from one Sir Paul McCartney. A 44 year old lock of hair at that. According to the Bonhams lot 260 detail: This lock of hair was won by the vendor's mother, who was... [Full Story]

Athena Onassis heiress to sell off her mother's jewels

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 10, 2008

Athina Onassis, the heiress once dubbed 'the richest little girl in the world', is selling millions of dollars of jewellery she inherited. The only surviving descendant of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, 23-year-old Athina has decided to sell more than 40 pieces owned by her mother, Christina, who died... [Full Story]

Black Japanese watermelon sold at record price

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 6, 2008

A jumbo black watermelon auctioned in Japan on Friday fetched a record $6,100, making it one of the most expensive watermelons ever sold in the country. In a society where melons are a luxury item commonly given as gifts, the watermelon's hefty price tag followed another jaw-dropping auction last... [Full Story]

Own a piece of patterned history!

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 30, 2008 · Comments (2)

How much would you pay for one of Bill Cosby's old sweaters? Say, $5,000? Three of Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable's distinctive Cosby Show sweaters are being auctioned off on eBay's Giving Works charity listing, beginning June 2. Bids start at $5,000, and the proceeds will go to Hello Friend/Ennis William... [Full Story]

Save the Whales, Save the World

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 22, 2008

The 'Heroes' actress is offering the winning bidder and five guests the chance to join her at a fundraising dinner at Eva Longoria's restaurant, Beso. The following week, the winner and their five friends will go to lunch and on a private whale-watching tour off the coast of California.... [Full Story]

Lucian Freud Painting Goes for $33.6 Million

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 19, 2008 · Comments (1)

Lucian Freud, the 85-year-old flesh- and-flab-loving British painter, became the world's priciest living artist at auction last night when his graceful portrait of a 280-pound civil servant named Sue fetched $33.6 million at Christie's International in New York. The 1995 Freud was one of eight records smashed in an... [Full Story]

'The Ten Commandments' Tablets To Be Sold At Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 16, 2008

Thou shalt find the Ten Commandments up for bid this summer. A pair of faux granite tablets that Charlton Heston cradled in the 1956 biblical epic "The Ten Commandments" is expected to fetch as much as $60,000, said Marc Kruskol, a publicist for the auction Profiles in History. It... [Full Story]

Tea with Greenspan a bargain at $11,000

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 5, 2008

Up for auction are the stuff dreams are made of... or at least my dreams. The charity is The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial and the auction is so full of amazing items it makes me wish I had the money to give. Check the site for all the auctions... [Full Story]

Gun Jack Ruby Used to Kill Lee Harvey Oswald Going Up for Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 6, 2008

The man who owns the .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver Jack Ruby used to kill accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald says the gun is going up for auction this month in Las Vegas. Anthony Pugliese III, who paid $200,000 for the gun at an auction in 1991, won't divulge... [Full Story]

The $140,000.00 Hot Wheel

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: February 19, 2008

At the American International Toy Fair in New York, Hot Wheels has unveiled the anniversary car. And, it's diamond-encrusted. The car's 18-karat white gold frame is covered in 2,700 blue, black, and white diamonds - reportedly to mimic Hot Wheels' Spectraflame blue paint. The 1:64 scale car was designed... [Full Story]

Lock of Lennon's Hair Sells at Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: December 21, 2007 · Comments (1)

A lock of John Lennon's hair sold for $48,000 last week at Gorringes, an auction house just outside of London. The hair from the former Beatle was tucked inside one of Lennon's books, A Spaniard In The Works, and was inscribed "To Betty, Lots of Love and Hair, John... [Full Story]

Geronimo's rifle, Wyatt Earp's shotgun auctioned

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: November 26, 2007 · Comments (1)

A Springfield rifle owned by the famed Apache warrior Geronimo fetched $100,000 during an auction of Wild West guns and weapons that brought in more than $1 million. Lawman Wyatt Earp's double-barreled shotgun garnered $65,500, while a saber attributed to U.S. Army cavalry commander George Custer sold for $20,315... [Full Story]

Rock Memorabilia Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: November 26, 2007

Christie's has another wonderful Rock & Roll memorabilia auction this week and it's main course is a collection of vintage rock t-shirts. Check out the entire collection at Christies. Original Goat's Head Soup promo sweater, with goat head appliqué, made in England by The Ritva Man. Made exclusively for... [Full Story]

Peter Fonda Auctions Easy Rider Gear

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: October 9, 2007 · Comments (4)

Peter Fonda is either cleaning house or he's hard up for cash. He's put loads of movie memorabilia up for auction at Heritage Auctions. And it looks like he'll walk away with a pocketful of money. His hunting rifle is up for auction starting at $8000 and his Captain... [Full Story]

Osbournes sell off kids crap...

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: October 9, 2007 · Comments (1)

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are doing some housecleaning. The 58-year-old rocker and his wife are selling art, furniture and collectibles from their homes in Malibu, Beverly Hills and England. The Nov. 30 auction will also feature items from their MTV reality show, "The Osbournes," including son Jack Osbourne's black... [Full Story]

Record Setting Gem Auctioned at Sotheby's

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: October 8, 2007

A 6.04 carats extremely rare fancy vivid blue diamond ring is shown during a Sotheby's preview in Hong Kong October 3, 2007. One of the rarest gems in the world, a flawless blue diamond, has sold for US$7.98 million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, making it the most... [Full Story]

Will Ferrall Walk On Goes for $47,100

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: September 29, 2007

Some nut paid a wopping $47,100.00 for the opportunity to have his 10 year old son have a non speaking 'extra' role in a new Will Ferrall movie. The money will go to the Cancer for College foundation run by a fraternity brother of Ferrell's at the University of... [Full Story]

Marie Antoinette's pearls up for auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: September 28, 2007 · Comments (1)

A set of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up to $800,000. Now part of a diamond, ruby and pearl necklace, France's last queen gave a bag of pearls... [Full Story]

Fossilized walrus penis sells for $8,000

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 28, 2007 · Comments (2)

A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus isn't the usual kind of artifact to hang above the mantel. Maybe that's why it sold at auction for $8,000, far below the expected price. The 4½-foot-long item, covered with weathered skin and dry muscle tissue, was sold to the company that... [Full Story]

Elvis Presley "The King" Knabe & Co Grand Piano 1930 on Ebay

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 11, 2007

Owning a piece of musical history comes at a cost. Starting bid: $250,000.00... [Full Story]

Own a piece of cinematic history

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 3, 2007

Profiles in History has nearly 100 truly unique items up for bid on Ebay... Be the hit of your next party with your very own can of Soylent Green. And what fine honey wouldn't be impressed to find out you were wearing Jack Kerouac's pants. Also available is THE Johnny... [Full Story]

New York auction house fetches record art bid

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 16, 2007 · Comments (1)

Sotheby's auction house in New York has fetched a record amount of cash for contemporary art work with the sale of a painting by the US abstract artist Mark Rothko for 72.8 million dollars. The canvas by the Latvian-born painter entitled "Yellow, Pink, Lavender on Rose," had been valued... [Full Story]

Grateful Dead memorabilia auction brings in $1.1 million

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 9, 2007

The collection of Lawrence "Ram Rod" Shurtliff included a 1975 cream-colored Travis Bean electric guitar played by vocalist and lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, which fetched $312,000, according to Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers. Deadheads bidding by phone and in the crowded auction room bid up prices for band photos, original... [Full Story]

Courtney Love plans to sell Cobain's belongings

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: May 1, 2007

"I'm going to have a Christie's auction," Courtney Love, 42, tells AOL music Web site Spinner.com. "(My house) is like a mausoleum." Love and Cobain wed in 1992 and had a daughter, Frances Bean, that year. Cobain committed suicide in 1994. "My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant... [Full Story]

'Knight Rider' Trans Am up for sale

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: April 5, 2007

KITT, the flame-throwing, river-jumping, talking muscle car from the `80s TV show "Knight Rider," is up for sale. Restored to its debut-season glory, the modified black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am is offered at $149,995 at a Dublin auto dealership. Johnny "Vette" Verhoek of Kassabian Motors has had the car,... [Full Story]

Warhol's Marilyn to fetch £7.7m at auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: March 19, 2007

An Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe originally bought for just £129 is up for auction - with a £7.7 million price tag. The private collector who bought Lemon Marilyn in 1962 is set to make a 60,000 per cent profit on his investment if the picture meets its estimated... [Full Story]

Garland's "Forgotten" Childhood Recordings Fail To Sell

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: December 19, 2006

The Wizard Of Oz star Judy Garland's childhood recordings failed to sell at a Los Angeles auction yesterday when bidding did not match the minimum price. The songs were taped in a Hollywood recording studio in March 1935, when a 12-year-old Garland sang "Good Ship Lollypop," "Object Of My... [Full Story]

Velvet Underground rarity sells on eBay

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: December 12, 2006

Meanwhile my rare Go Go's 45 didn't even generate a bid... Forty years after it wasmade, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financialhit" in cyberspace. Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattanflea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on theinfluential New York... [Full Story]

Hepburn gown sold at auction in London

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: December 6, 2006

Audrey Hepburn's iconic black dress fetched a Tiffany price at auction. The garment she wore in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" went for $807,000 on Tuesday. The price, paid by a telephone bidder, was almost six times the highest pre-sale estimate. Proceeds from the sale will go to... [Full Story]

Hong Kong billionaire pays record price for Warhol's Mao

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: November 16, 2006

A Hong Kong real estate tycoon has paid the highest amount ever for a work by pop art icon Andy Warhol, with the purchase of a portrait of Mao Zedong for 17.4 million dollars at auction in New York. Self-made billionaire Joseph Lau, who holds a majority stake in... [Full Story]

Steve McQueen Memorabilia Sells Big at Auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: November 13, 2006

Sunglasses belonging to late acting legend Steve McQueen have sold for a staggering $650,000 at an auction in Los Angeles. The blue-tinted Persol shades, worn by the actor in 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair, were among 225 items put up for sale by McQueen's widow Barbara at LA... [Full Story]

Cher to Auction Off Her Things

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: August 2, 2006

I want anything of hers with the label Bob Mackie. Pop veteran Cher is auctioning off 700 personal items - including costumes, jewelry and even her own bed - in a bid to raise more than $1 million for charity. The 60-year-old star will kick off the glitzy sale on... [Full Story]

Monroe dress a success at auction

Posted by Tracey Coyle · Published: June 23, 2006

A black cocktail dress worn by the platinum bombshell in the film "The Misfits" sold at auction yesterday for $66,000 - more than three times its presale estimate. Two other items belonging to Monroe - a white ermine coat and a handwritten personal address book - fetched a combined... [Full Story]

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