How much would you pay for an iron-clad excuse to cheat on your significant other(s)? If you have close to $25,000 laying around, you’re in luck: One of the world’s ten known remaining copies of the “Wicked Bible” is going on sale next month.
G’day, my lord, and welcome the Tragedy Parasite Shoppe of Oddities and Curiosities! From the look of you, I can see that you’re a gentleman of particular interests, which is why I’m willing to show you one of our most rare, gruesome, and unnecessary artifacts. It’s the DNA-splattered shawl of Catherine Eddowes, one…
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Christie's annual Vintage Couture sale starts next week in London, and the ten gowns up for auction have been revealed.
If you have a huge pile of money just sitting on your kitchen table collecting cockroaches, you might want to consider putting in a bid for the blue accordion-pleated silk sleeping gown Scarlett O’Hara was wearing when Bonnie Blue Butler falls off the pony (and, spoiler alert, dies) in Gone with the Wind. How else…
If your guinea pig routinely dashes off into armed combat (or just likes the look of scale mail), you might want to outfit him or her in this handsome suit of armor, perfect for rolly-polly rodents.
The lady had taste, but it turns out anyone can buy her style. Or could buy her style — a handful of Princess Diana's most gorgeous gowns sold yesterday at a London auction for £800,000 pounds (or about $1.2 million). That's a lot of crushed velvet.
The mad scientists at Cabbage Patch Kids have almost created the greatest election-year Halloween decorations ever — they have Cabbage Patch-ified President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Some Guy Named Mitt Romney, and Some Other Guy Named Paul Ryan. The dolls are super unique…
Bonnie and Clyde's guns will stay together at least for the foreseeable future in an auction gesture that would be sort of romantic if we weren't talking about the weapons wielded by two murderous bandits. Fine, it's romantic anyway.
What is the most you would ever pay for a pair of shoes? Maybe $1,000 if they were so beautiful they made you cry? Well, one bidder at an auction just paid more than $57,000 (43,225 euros) on a pair of shoes that they'll probably never even wear. The shoes are believed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette.…
As far as the education of your children goes, nothing seems to be more complicated than navigating the social minefield that is the PTA. There's the constant jockeying between the stay-at-home-moms and the working moms, and then there are the bake sales. Oh, the bake sales. Nevermind that they are fraught with peanut…
In 1807, New Jersey schoolgirl Mary Antrim embroidered a simple pastoral scene onto linen using silk thread. Do you think it ever crossed her mind that her pastime could one day lead to a $1.07 million bid at an auction? Well, that's exactly what it did, setting the auction record for needle work, this past Sunday at…
Marilyn Monroe's iconic "subway dress" from The Seven Year Itch has sold at auction for a whopping $5.6 million. The gigantic price tag exceeded the auction house's expectation that the dress would sell for about $2 million.
Last week a copy of John James Audubon's 1831 book Birds of America sold at auction in London for $10.3 million. Fun fact: Audubon killed and stuffed all of the birds before painting them.
Great news, weirdos! Some weird guy in Florida is auctioning off a really old pair of Queen Elizabeth II's underpants.
While cleaning her late sister's suburban London home, a woman found a Chinese vase that was auctioned yesterday for $83 million. It was originally valued at $2 million, but is now one of the most expensive Asian artworks ever sold.
Yesterday a Barbie doll designed by Stefano Canturi was auctioned for $302,500, with the proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Christie's billed the doll as an "investment" because she's wearing a choker featuring a one-carat pink diamond.
Tomorrow Christie's will auction 1,300 Steiff stuffed animals that belonged to hedge fund manager Paul Greenwood, who pled guilty to fraud earlier this year. The collection, valued at $1.5 million, includes a 1925 Steiff Harlequin bear worth $80,000.
Five letters in which Oscar Wilde "propositions" magazine editor Alsager Vian will be auctioned later this month in London. Alan Judd from Bamfords auction house says the letters, "help to fill in pieces of Oscar Wilde's tempestuous jigsaw."
