A couple in England never imagined they were in for some luck while they working on a kitchen renovation. What they thought was just a piece of electrical cable was actually a gold disc filled with 246 rare gold coins. The couple were working on the kitchen floorboards of their 18th-century detached home where they …
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Irene Demas and Tony Demas of Ontario, Canada, are now richer by hundreds of thousands of dollars, thanks to a rare Maud Lewis painting that landed in their possession many decades ago. It all began in the early 1970s when the couple established an eatery in the city of London called The Villa. At the …
Sandro Botticelli’s painting, “Man of Sorrows,” was sold last month at a Sotheby’s old master’s auction for $45.4 million, making it the second most expensive work by the painter to be sold at an auction. A total of three phone bidders joined the seven-minute battle for the 500-year-old painting at the live-streamed Master Paintings Part …
During a blind auction in 1989, a couple from Long Island, New York, paid roughly $100 for an unclaimed storage unit. Neither they nor the seller knew what was inside, so they were greeted with a pleasant surprise when they opened the unit. Buried under some blankets is a 1976 Lotus Esprit sports car used …
Competing in the Olympics is no easy feat, but less than a week after clinching a silver medal in Tokyo, Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk was auctioning it off for a cause. Five days after winning silver, the 25-year-old athlete put up the medal for auction to raise funds for Miłoszek Małysa, an 8-month-old boy …
Hansons Auctioneers recently got their hands on a series of letters penned by Florence Nightingale and addressed to a Mrs. Walker. The seven missives, which highlighted the great compassion of “The Lady with the Lamp,” were written between 1892 and 1894. The notes, which remained undiscovered for decades at the house in Holloway, Derbyshire, “epitomize …
A rabbit sculpture made of stainless steel just made history as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at an auction at Christie’s. Measuring just over 3 feet tall, Jeff Koons’ “Rabbit” sold for more than $91 million at Christie’s in Manhattan, New York, going way beyond auction estimates. The winning bid came from …