1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB ‘Tour de France’ Berlinetta
One of the most desirable competition-bred Ferraris in existence 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Tour de France will be on offer at next week’s London auction.
Powered by an alloy block-and-head V-12 engine, this is one of just 36 competition 250 GT LWB Berlinettas originally produced by Ferrari with the single vent and desirable covered headlamp configuration.
Jeff Koons Iconic Pink Panther Sculpture
American artist Jeffrey “Jeff” Koons (born January 21, 1955) known for his reproductions of porcelain sculpture “Pink Panther” has fetched $16.8 million at the Sotheby’s May 10 contemporary art auction. The 1988 porcelain sculpture of a semi-naked blonde woman hugging a pink panther toy it was earlier expected to sell for between $20 million and $30 million.
Alexei Leonovs Sokol spacesuit
New York, one of the most historic auction, Bonhams’ Space History Sale, earned $1.2 million, with two of the richly spacesuits worn by two cosmonauts. A Russian spacesuit worn during the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz, has sold for a whopping $242,000, at a New York City auction. Bonhams had estimated it at $100,000 to $150,000. Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov (born 30 May 1934 in Listvyanka, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major General who, on 18 March 1965, became the first human to conduct a space walk. Leonov’s second trip into space was similarly significant: he commanded the Soviet half of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission — Soyuz 19 — the first joint space mission between the Soviet Union and the United States.
10.09 Carats Fancy Vivid Purple-Pink Cushion-Cut Diamond Ring
Christie’s New York Magnificent Jewels Sale which took in a total of $31.8 million, failed to sell 10.09 ct. Fancy Vivid purplish-pink diamond a biggest item up for auction that was expected to sell for $12 million to $15 million.
Lennons Lyrics Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
John Lennon‘s handwritten lyrics for the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” will be sold for more than $200,000 an auction scheduled for May 14 and 15 at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. The draft contains the opening lyrics for the song and a rough sketch of four people in a room with windows draped in curtains.
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — A lavishly jeweled cross and a ring once owned by Pope Paul VI are heading to auction on eBay.
The items have turned up at a U.S. store owned by a Southern Baptist with a flair for self-promotion. It’s the latest stop on a strange journey involving luminaries ranging from UN Secretary General U Thant to Evel Knievel, and which began with Paul VI’s novel decision to allow some of his jewelry to be sold to raise money for charity.
Christie’s Green Auction: Bid To Save The Earth
Organizers said the Green Auction: Bid to Save the Earth held for a second year in March and April, raised $1.4 million at a live auction at Christie’s and more than $750,000 from an online auction, led by a three-night private yacht cruise in Cannes which sold for $100,000.
The United Artists studio has created a stunning never-before-auctioned 1932 Mickey Mouse three sheet stock poster and has been snapped up for $35,850 from the Heritage Auction, falling in the estimated range of $18,000 – $38,000. The auction realized a more than 86% sell-through rate by value on 1,258 lots with 1,249 bidders competing for the offerings.
This three sheet poster is just one of 12 that the United Artists studio has created before Disney signed up with Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures . This was also the year that Mickey Mouse had won an Academy Award.
Steve McQueen’s Husqvarna 400CR Motorcycle
The Steve McQueen’s Husqvarna 400CR pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated in August 1971, will be auctioned off on May 14 at Quail Lodge in Carmel, California during Bonhams’ sale of Exceptional Motorcycles & Related Memorabilia. McQueen’s favorite motorcycle, which he rode at the Elsinore Grand Prix among other events.
If guns and collectible firearms form your area of interest, would be interested to see a rare Browning shotgun that was once owned by former American President Richard Nixon. After 26 years in a private collector’s vault, the unfired gun’s predicted to fetch between $50,000 and $70,000 at auction. The gold-inlaid Browning 12-gauge automatic shotgun will be offered at James D. Julia Auctioneers’ Important Firearms sale in Fairfield, Maine on March 14.
