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# Christie's London

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# Christie's London
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.
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Nov 10th 2018, 1:42 PM
# art for cash
Austerity sale: Portugal hopes to recoup bank bailout cash by selling art
The government has been left short of cash for spending on culture, so it is putting the Miro collection up for auction.
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Feb 4th 2014, 11:02 AM
# Christie's London
Sold! Elizabeth Taylor's wedding dress, Cobain's guitar and Bond's watch
The star of the silver screen’s first wedding dress sold for almost three times the estimate at a Christie’s auction in London.
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Jun 27th 2013, 8:45 PM
# whopper diamond
Rare diamond fetches €16.9m at Geneva auction
The Archduke Joseph Diamond with 76.02 carats fetched €221,619 per carat.
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Nov 14th 2012, 11:11 AM
# Andy Warhol
'Lost' Warhol self-portrait sells for €12.8 million
A London auction sees a previously ‘unseen’ six-feet-square self-portrait of Andy Warhol sell for £10.8 million.
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Feb 17th 2011, 3:07 PM