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#rare-memorabilia

Scams involving antiques and collectibles are almost as old as some of the items. But internet sales now mean fraudsters have a much wider audience.

"It's a spectacular moment for our company, for the industry and for collectors. The things we're doing with the PREM1ERE and NFL Honors Gold Shield patches deepen and strengthen connections and storytelling. We're enhancing fan experience."

Private auctions are characterized by their curated nature, taking place outside the traditional public auction format, which allows for a more controlled and quieter sales environment.

The poster, marked with what is understood to be one of the musician's last autographs, is heading for auction in the U.K. at the end of the month where it has been given an estimate of £60,000 to £120,000.

A 2013 Aaron Judge Bowman Chrome Draft Superfractor one-of-one signed card has sold via Fanatics Collect for $5.2 million, the most ever paid for a modern-day baseball card. The card eclipsed the previous record posted in 2020 -- $3.936 million for a 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospects Superfractor signed Mike Trout card, which was also one-of-a-kind and numbered "1/1."

The record price in the category, $13.8m- paid last year at Christies' in New York for a painting by the Mumbai-based Modernist M.F. Husain-is more than three times what it was 20 years ago.

He was crazy for the game and everything to do with it. He travelled to five continents to buy up artefacts he had fallen in love with, once to South America for a book he told us children was as expensive as a house.

Christie's led the evening-sale race, with a total haul of HK$655.76 million ($83.8 million), a 17 percent increase from the same sale last year. It had no withdrawals.

A lot of this stuff is sentimental, emotional and important to Tom's family. It's always a tough decision, and [the items are] going to go to people that are ultimately going to love, cherish, enjoy and display this stuff.

A colorful modernist canvas by the late Indian painter Vivan Sundaram turned heads at Sotheby's New York on March 26 when it fetched $896,000 including fees-seven times its high estimate.

Tom Seaver's 1969 World Series ring was sold at auction last weekend for $854,122, according to Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. Seaver, known as "The Franchise" to Mets fans, passed away in 2020 at the age of 75. His family put up 188 items from the Hall of Famer's collection.

The King of Collectibles has been collecting since his first trip to Fenway Park at age 12. "I'm 60. In my 48 years of collecting, I have never known of or seen - outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - a Honus Wagner card like this. Until now," Ken Goldin, star of Netflix's "King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch," tells me in a recent phone interview.

This significant prop, accompanied by its original case, carries an estimate of $250,000 to $500,000 dollars. Also due to go under the hammer at Propstore auction house in Los Angeles next month is the Fenwick fishing rod with reel, used by Shaw's character, Quint, in his encounter with the ferocious shark. The rod is estimated to sell for between $75,000 and $150,000 dollars.

"Unquestionably. It won us our first championship. The other thing that speaks to me so much, probably more than any other piece of memorabilia I've ever seen is all the mud on it. I know John says it's blood, sweat and beer all over that jersey -- those are his words. "That jersey represents more than just a play and his MVP performance. It represents the grit of the franchise, the hard work, the Ho

If you want to sell Basquiats and Birkins to the very rich, it might help to have a location on Billionaires' Row. It might also help if that location had a certain cultural cachet. Bonhams, the international auction house, managed to find such a spread in a 42,000-square-foot space that is knitted from the lower floors of an odd collection of prewar buildings and razed lots, with pops of old brick walls and limestone interrupting expanses of sheer, contemporary glass.

As the 2026 Winter Olympics come to a close, a whole new game is afoot: the mad dash to make money on exclusive memorabilia. When the Games are over, most of the event's coolest collectibles will become very hard to find, plundered by scalpers and bargain hunters and only available through online marketplaces like eBay and Vinted. And if the eye-popping prices already placed on the gear are any indication, they're going to be quite valuable.

Proper Nike and MLB Authentic tagging are present along with a 2025 World Series patch on the upper left chest," their description reads. "A Fernando Valenzuela memorial patch is present on the right-hand sleeve, along with "LA" sewn in below. A proper Nike jock tag is affixed on the left front tail with World Series tagging that reads "#72 ROJAS 2025, 44", identifying proper sizing.

Former England defender and five-time Premier League champion with Chelsea John Terry recently sold more than fifty items from his personal collection with American auction house Goldin Auctions. The items took in just over $695,000 including buyer's premium. Among the items Terry consigned to the New Jersey-based auction house were a match-worn and photo-matched Lionel Messi Barcelona jersey and a match-worn, photo-matched and signed Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United jersey.

A recently discovered 1909 Sweet Caporal T206 Honus Wagner card, which had been pulled from a then newly released tobacco pack and kept in the same family for over a century, has been sold via Goldin Auctions for $5.124 million (including buyer's premium). It's the third-most expensive T206 Wagner behind the copy purchased for $6.606 million in August 2021 and the copy sold privately for $7.25 million in August 2022.

Stephen Friedman was overdue filing when he went into liquidation on 2 February, closing his London gallery immediately (his New York venue shuttered around the same date). At the time of writing, invoices remain unpaid and artists unable to retrieve works from storage companies. In a statement, Friedman says 'all matters are now subject to the administrator's consideration'.

The terms are often conflated to portray an air of desirability and a limited opportunity. Rarity generally refers to the unusualness of an object—something that is infrequently encountered or 'rare to market.' With modern works from the past century, rarity can stem from limited original production, or the fact that many examples are held in museum or institutional collections, reducing their availability in the marketplace.

2025 marked the Quakes' final season as a Los Angeles Dodgers affiliate, as they now embark on a new era with the Los Angeles Angels. One of the final pieces of Dodgers memorabilia produced by the team was their Joe Kelly Chaquetas bobblehead. Chaquetas was the team's Copa de la Diversión identity, inspired by Kelly's famous jersey-for-jacket swap with a mariachi musician playing at Dodger Stadium.

The sale brought in £130.6 million ($175 million) across 54 lots, and auctioneer Oliver Barker was given a white glove at the end, indicating that all the lots had sold—although one work, a 2004 painting by Robert Ryman, was withdrawn before the event started.

The snippet carries the phrase "Fathers of the Senate!" which is nowhere found in surviving Washington documents. The expression is borrowed from ancient Roman Senate-specifically the Latin patres conscripti , or "Conscript Fathers"-and quite possibly wasn't the patrician tone Washington intended to set for a young republic. It is unknown why or how it was used in this case as the manuscript from which the fragment was cut is long lost.

The traditional museum experience, pausing in front of an object, and absorbing its history visually or by reading its description, has long shaped how collectors and others relate to cultural treasures. Yet, over the last few decades, digital technology has quietly rewritten many of those rules, changing not only how collections are exhibited but also how they are documented, preserved, and even inherited.

For some eminently wealthy individuals, amassing a first-class art collection is an ideal way to spend their money. And while some high-profile art collectors end up donating their collections to museums or other cultural institutions, others take a different approach, reselling their art after a certain amount of time. Which brings us to this week, when billionaire David I. Koch's collection of Western art hit the auction block at Christie's, setting a number of records in the process.

Leading the sale was the first check the company cut on March 16, 1976. "This is the most important financial document in Apple history," Bobby Livingston, the auction house's executive vice president, said about the check. "It captures Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's first true business transaction, and the final result shows that collectors recognized its significance above any other Apple material ever brought to market."

Winslow Homer, who began as a Civil War reporter artist, later became known for depicting the US's growing culture of leisure as expanding transportation networks enabled more people to visit the country's natural landmarks. A Mountain Climber Resting is a quintessential example, showing a mountaineer resting after an ascent and admiring the view. The composition closely resembles a drawing in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.