George Harrison's childhood home is up for auction. The Beatles star - who died of cancer in 2001, aged 58 - moved to 25 Upton Green in Speke, Liverpool, in 1949, when he was just six years old, and he even rehearsed alongside John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney at...
A piano that was once owned by the band Queen is set to go under the hammer next month. The instrument - Kawai EP 308 baby grand electric piano - is thought to have been used on Queen's 1984 album The Works, which includes the hit single Hammer To Fall. The piano...
A snow crab fetched 800,000 yen at a fishing port auction in Fukui Prefecture on Saturday, as the fishing season began the same day in the Sea of Japan for the winter delicacy. The price was a record for a prime male crab marketed by the prefectural government...
For her last live performance in 2011, Amy Winehouse took the stage in Belgrade, Serbia, wearing a bamboo-print halter dress designed by her stylist and friend Naomi Parry. The pair had collaborated on a collection of 11 frocks to be worn by the “Rehab” singer for...
A Vietnamese Mandarin cap said to be from the Nguyen Dynasty has sold for €600,000 ($693,243) at a Balclis auction in Spain. The auction was held both online and on-site on Thursday. On the website of the Balclis auction house, the cap was simply described as...
More than 340 acres of historic Lancaster County farmland are set for new ownership after Elizabeth Farms sold at auction Friday afternoon for over $7 million. The sale marks the first time in two and a half centuries that the land will not be owned by a member of...
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — The 2019 Honda Civic that kicked off a used-car auction earlier this month would have been nothing special before the pandemic. But as automotive dealer Brad Wimmer watched, the online bidding quickly became, to quote him, "bananas." As a new...
SCITUATE – In a little over two minutes, in a town mostly devoid of electricity, the old Minot Fire Station in Scituate sold for $585,000 at auction on Thursday morning. Bidding for the old fire station on Mitchell Avenue started at $500,000, with...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A sealed copy of the 1988 video game Super Mario Bros. 2 sold for $88,550 during a recent estate sale after the death of a Floyd Knobs, Indiana resident. The pristine cartridge was found inside a box of Nintendo games in the back of a...
Detailing his interest in Zen Buddhism and his desire to travel to India. A letter handwritten by Steve Jobs when he was 19 is up for auction at Bonhams and could sell for up to $300,000 USD. The single-page letter, described as “Steve Jobs reveals his spiritual...
