Consternation this afternoon in Dudley as David Dickinson, the presenter of Dickinson's Real Deal, ITV's inferior answer to The Antiques Roadshow, was sold to local Dudley pensioner Valery Flax for £27 by mistake. It appears that Dickinson caught...
Diamond doggy, Soli from New York swallowed a massive diamond after having several rumblings in his tummy, feeling overwhelmed by hunger, he devoured the giant "sparkler"! His owners agreed immediately to auction the diamond + Soli's stinking heap...
Highest Bidder in Online Auction Site -has confirmed that he will pay and unknown seller the amount of one million, six hundred dollars and 42 cents for the chance to be the first person to penetrate the Earth's atmosphere without help of a rocket.
The top auction site on the internet is investigating a seller who has put up for bids one million snow flakes with a starting bid of $1.00 per flake. The seller has a rating of 0 and has had no prior dealings either selling or buying on the site.
Iconic manky mac of the much loved '70's bumbling TV detective Columbo, has sold at auction this week for a record sum of US$53,000,000. The record rain coat was originally put up on Ebay, but interest was limited due to an over exaggerated reserv...
A man from Bristol claimed that a famous auction house listed his £3 umbrella as part of its Contemporary British Art auction and managed to sell it to a telephone bidder for £75.000. Mr Porter-Bury visited the auctioneers yesterday morning and at...
LONDON, U.K. - Susan Boyle today pledged to place two locks of her armpit hair up for auction to benefit the recently founded Jade Goody Reality Star Fund. Ms. Boyle made the announcement while attending the surprisingly successful Bullocks of Slops...
LONDON, U.K. - A collection of never before seen nude portraits by Nazi leader Adolph Hitler fetched nearly $350,000 Thursday. They had only been expected to raise about $120,000, auction house Bullocks of Slopshire estimates. "They belonged to a...
A Renaissance chastity belt went on the auction block at Sotheby's in New York City last night and the winning bid was $16,500,000. This has set a new record for antique chastity belts. The contraption, made of bronze with gold inlay and encrus...
A planned auction of Michael Jackson memorabilia will still go ahead, despite the singer taking legal action in an attempt to prevent it. The singer filed suit against Julien's Auction House in Los Angeles last month, claiming that the auctioneers...
A carpet, purchased 150 years ago to decorate the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in Media is due to be auctioned today. The carpet, which is largely red and blue and decorated with pearls, was made in the 1860's and was bought by the Prophet's desce...
An antique chair belonging to French fashion designer Eve Saint Lawrence broke all records at an auction held in Scunthorpe earlier today. The chair, made from wood, complete with wooden finish, was used by Saint Lawrence to sit in when she used t...
China has condemned what it calls the illegal auction in Paris of two artefacts taken from a Chinese toilet 150 years ago. It has also warned Christie's auction house of unspecified consequences, but which could include standing next to a Chinese...
Props used by 1950s television comedian Ernie Kovacs, including a gross of whoopie cushions, 25 joy buzzers, 5 black-eye producing telescopes and eyeglasses with images of eyes on the lenses, are being sold this weekend by a Dallas collectibles aucti...
(Los Angeles-CA) Directly on the heels or insert the body part of your choice of this week's Christie's auction of a full frontal nude photograph of Madonna selling for over $37,000.00, the original Material Girl announced today at a Regent Beverly W...
When Horace Herriederson of Oldham discovered an old car in a lock up garage it didn't take him long to twig that he was onto a potential moneyspinner. "It won't fetch nearly as much as that Classic Bugatti they found in a garage up Tyneside way,"...
(Chicago-Illinois) In the shadow of current Illinois Governor (and soon to be sharing living space with a 300 pound White Aryan Nation member named Pile Driver) Blagojevich's FBI investigation, the Obama Economic Team is alleged to have proposed a pl...
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