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# auction - Monday 18 March, 2019
Kellie Harrington auctions off belt to raise money for neighbours who lost their home to fire
The world champion boxer has been receiving bids for her 2015 National Elite belt.
# auction - Monday 4 February, 2019
Banksy artwork that self-destructed is going on display in German museum
Girl with Balloon will be shown from tomorrow through to 3 March at the Frieder Burda museum.
# auction - Wednesday 5 December, 2018
Letter from Albert Einstein calling God a 'product of human weaknesses' sells for record €2.55 million
The letter was written in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind.
# auction - Sunday 25 November, 2018
Jimmy Magee's personal library of almost 1000 books to be auctioned off for charity
The Memory Man’s collection includes books and magazines from as far back as the 1960s.
# auction - Tuesday 13 November, 2018
'Incomparable' pink diamond aiming to sell for €44m could smash record at Geneva auction
The rectangular-cut diamond has been graded “fancy vivid” – the highest possible grade of colour intensity.
# auction - Saturday 10 November, 2018
Stephen Hawking's wheelchair sells for €340,000 at auction of his personal items
A copy of his thesis smashed pre-sale expectations four times over to sell for £584,750.
# auction - Saturday 6 October, 2018
Banksy artwork self-destructs after selling for €1.2 million at London auction
“It appears we just got Banksy-ed.”
# auction - Saturday 22 September, 2018
Comcast to buy Sky for £30.45 billion, outbidding Fox
The future of Sky’s ownership has been uncertain for nearly two years.
# auction - Thursday 31 May, 2018
World's largest freshwater pearl sold at auction for €320,000
The pearl once belonged to Catherine the Great.
# auction - Tuesday 15 May, 2018
Modigliani painting owned by Irish horse breeder John Magnier sells for record €116 million
Modigliani’s masterpiece Nu couche (sur le cote gauche) fetched the highest price in Sotheby’s history.
# auction - Saturday 7 April, 2018
Russell Crowe held an auction to pay for his divorce and raised millions from film memorabilia
The breast plate he wore in Gladiator went for €78,000.
# auction - Sunday 25 February, 2018
Woman buys Irish painting worth up to $10,000 at US thrift store for just $1
The woman had no idea what the painting was worth when she first bought it.
# auction - Saturday 24 February, 2018
Items from Clerys, Shelbourne Hotel and iconic Celtic Tiger nightclubs going under the hammer
A host of items from Howl at the Moon and the Residence Club are to be sold off.
# auction - Saturday 16 December, 2017
10,000-year-old skeleton of woolly mammoth sells for over €500,000 at auction
The giant skeleton was bought by the chief executive of a French waterproofing company whose logo is of the prehistoric mammal.
# auction - Thursday 14 December, 2017
Wladimir Klitschko raises £160,000 by auctioning off robe from Joshua fight
The robe also contained a USB stick with Klitschko’s prediction for the fight.
# auction - Saturday 9 December, 2017
Photos: East German village sells for €140,000
Only about 20 mostly retired people still live in the cluster of decaying homes.
# auction - Thursday 7 December, 2017
Grafton St busk piano up for auction to raise funds for Dublin Simon Community
The piano will go on display in St Stephens Green Shopping on Monday, and is open for bids until Christmas Eve.
Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi heading to Abu Dhabi after selling for €380 million
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first museum to bear the Louvre name outside France.
# auction - Sunday 26 November, 2017
Chance to recreate the Shelbourne Hotel at home as furniture to be auctioned
Some of the furniture is unused and still in it’s original packaging.
# auction - Thursday 16 November, 2017
Da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ sells for record-breaking $450 million
The 500-year-old painting was sold by the Russian boss of the soccer club AS Monaco.
# auction - Wednesday 20 September, 2017
Want to buy-up pieces of old Dublin? Today's your chance
Original seats from the Stella Cinema in Rathmines are also up for grabs.
# auction - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
A chancer's guide to Depop
Flog it!
# auction - Wednesday 14 June, 2017
Patrick Pearse 1916 surrender letter sells for £263,000 at London auction
The estimated sale price was less than half of that.
# auction - Wednesday 24 May, 2017
Dust from the first moon landing bought for €900 could sell for €3.5 million
A woman bought the bag at an auction.
# auction - Friday 19 May, 2017
This US masterpiece smashed records after selling for $110.5 million
The painting of a skull-like head in oil-stick was valued pre-sale in excess of $60 million.
# auction - Monday 17 April, 2017
A rare example of Irish erotica goes on sale this week
It’s a realistic Ivory penis.
# auction - Monday 10 April, 2017
'In this business you can't know everything': Painting with €800 price tag sells for €120,000
“To my knowledge, the bidder hasn’t seen the picture in the flesh, so to speak,” says James O’Halloran of Adam’s Auctioneers.
# auction - Friday 24 February, 2017
After 36 years of service the LÉ Aisling has gone up for sale
The vessel has a long and distinguished service record.
# auction - Monday 20 February, 2017
Hitler's personal telephone sells for €228,000
“This was Hitler’s mobile device of destruction.”
# auction - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
Unsold!: 1916 surrender letter set to leave Ireland after auction fails to reach €1m
It’s owner says he longer feels an obligation to keep it here.
# auction - Saturday 19 November, 2016
Rare Tintin drawing sells for record-breaking €1.5 million
The sale, which was expected to fetch between €700,000 and €900,000, broke records for the highest sale for a single cartoon drawing.
# auction - Monday 14 November, 2016
Pearse 1916 surrender letter “could leave Ireland” after upcoming auction
The Department of Arts says buying the letter would “not be the best use of taxpayers’ money”.
# auction - Saturday 12 November, 2016
A page from a Tintin comic could fetch €1 million at auction
It’s a rare piece of comic book history.
# auction - Thursday 25 August, 2016
Famous artist who was sued for claiming a painting wasn't his wins court case
The world-famous artist Peter Doig said he did not create the desert landscape painting.
# auction - Wednesday 8 June, 2016
Pele auctions off entire collection of medals and memorabilia to raise millions for charity
The three-time World Cup winner is selling more than 2,000 items of personal memorabilia in London this week.
# auction - Monday 30 May, 2016
Now could be a good time to keep an eye on bitcoin again
The currency is now valued at €477 per coin, matching the valuation it had back in August 2014.
# auction - Thursday 19 May, 2016
George Zimmerman auctions gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin
Protests erupted in the US over the shooting of the unarmed black teenager in 2012.
# auction - Wednesday 18 May, 2016
Ancient Chinese letter sells at Beijing auction for €27 million
A film mogul splashed out a record amount of money for the letter, which is 124 characters long.
# auction - Friday 13 May, 2016
Auction appears hijacked as "Racist McShootFace" bids $65m for gun that killed Trayvon Martin
The account was later deleted.
# auction - Thursday 12 May, 2016
Website stops George Zimmerman selling the gun he killed Trayvon Martin with
The website has not said why.
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