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'Holy Grail' for Oasis fans goes up for auction

Noel Gallagher's signed acoustic guitar used on Oasis' second album '(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?' about to go under the hammer at Sotheby's and could fetch up to £60,000.

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C-3PO head from Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back sells for $1 million

The C-3PO head led the auction, while other highlights included Robert Shaw’s harpoon gun from Jaws, a Wilson volleyball from Cast Away and fragments of a sword from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Inside the luxury cruise trend for museum-worthy art collections

From Picasso paintings brightening up the deck to workshops with renowned contemporary artists, here’s how cruising is going creative.

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World's first modern Olympic Games medal fetches €120,000 at auction

An Olympic medal described as a 'rare crown jewel' from the very first modern Games in Athens has sold for €120,000 at a keenly-watched auction in Denmark among collectors of sporting and cultural history.

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Super rare Magritte leaf-bird painting heads to auction for first time

Les grâces naturelles, an extremely rare painting by surrealist master René Magritte is expected to fetch up to €10 million when it goes up for auction for the first time in March at Christie's.

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YouTube boxer Logan Paul sets auction record for rare Pokémon card

Logan Paul has made history by selling a rare Pikachu Illustrator card for a record $16.5 million in one of the most hyped auctions in history.

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Bluefin tuna sells for record €2.78 million at Tokyo fish market

The sale was agreed at the celebratory New Year auction in Tokyo.

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Francis Ford Coppola's unique F.P Journe FFC watch fetches $10 million

Hollywood legendary director Francis Ford Coppola has slightly eased his financial woes by selling his unique F.P Journe FFC prototype wristwatch for a record $10.8 million at an auction in New York. The luxury timepiece was one of seven watches being sold by the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

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Fabergé ‘winter egg’ sets new record with £22.9M sale at London auction

The crystal-and-diamond Winter Egg, one of only seven Imperial Fabergé eggs in private hands, sold for £22.9 million (€27.5 million), breaking the world record for a Fabergé piece.

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Japan: Record-price yellowtail sells for over 22,000 euros at Ishikawa’s first winter auction

A Kirameki-branded winter yellowtail from quake-hit Noto fetched a record-tying 4 million yen at Ishikawa Prefecture’s first auction of the season.

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Rubens painting hidden for centuries sells for €2.3 million

A long-lost Peter Paul Rubens painting hidden for over four centuries sold for €2.3 million in France after experts authenticated it as an original work.

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Long-lost Rubens painting sells for €2.3m in Versailles

The long-lost painting "Crucifixion of Jesus Christ" by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, was sold at auction this weekend in Versailles.

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Rare Fabergé 'Winter Egg' set to fetch over €22m at London auction

A rare Fabergé egg, commissioned by the last Emperor of Russia, is expected to fetch more than £20 million (€22.8m) at auction.

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Rare Superman comic becomes most expensive ever sold at auction

It's a bird! It’s a plane! It’s... the world’s most expensive comic book.

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Frida Kahlo self-portrait shatters auction record for female artists

In its catalogue note, Sotheby’s said the painting “offers a spectral meditation on the porous boundary between sleep and death.”

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Solid gold toilet sells for $12 million at auction

Maurizio Cattelan’s fully functional gold toilet titled “America” sold for $12.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.