Christie’s South Kensington’s Style & Spirit auction, to be held on 26 March 2013, includes a special section dedicated to the ancient game of chess. Chess enthusiasts, collectors and players will have a chance to bid on the 58 chess sets, made from a variety of materials, including carved and turned ivory, bone, wood, amber [...]
16 March 2013 
Perfect 101.73 Carats Pearl Shaped Diamond at Christie’s Geneva
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Christie’s will present at auction in Geneva an absolutely perfect new colourless pear-shaped diamond weighing 101.73 carats. According to auction house, this stone is “one of the world’s most perfect diamonds” which can also be the world’s largest ‘flawless’ gem ever. The rough diamond of 236 carats was found at the Jwaneng mine in Botswana [...]
15 March 2013 
Rare Massandra Vintage Wines Highlight Heritage Auctions’ March Wine Event
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Rare Massandra Vintage Wines produced to be served to the Tsar Nicholas II and his guests highlight Heritage Auctions’ Signature Wine Auction March event. Wines from the Massandra Collection, which make up 145 lots of tokays, muscats, sherry and port, were bottled at the winery (built in the 1890s), specially for Czar Nicholas II’s summer [...]
13 March 2013 
Royal Blood at Auction – Louis XVI Bloodstained Cloth Heads to Paris Auction
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Maybe you didn’t know that Louis XVI (1754-1793) is the only King of France ever to be executed, and his death brought to an end more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy. And now, a piece of bloodstained cloth from the beheading of Louis XVI following the 1789 French Revolution is set to [...]
12 March 2013 
Juan Latino’s Rare Manuscript On Auction At Swann Gallerie
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Juan Latino was son of black slaves of the second Duke consort of Sessa since 1520, Luis Fernández de Córdoba, deceased Rome, Italy, 1526. He went to Granada where he was educated together with his master’s son and the grandson of another famous, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, El Gran Capitán. Juan Latino emphasized especially in [...]
11 March 2013 
Andy Warhol And Christie’s Achieved $2.3 milion At Online Auction
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Christie’s first ever online only sale of Andy Warhol works that ended last Wednesday was a double success. It raised twice as much money as expected, demonstrating that online auctions which Christie’s had mostly used to sell items such as wine and jewelry can be used to sell fine art. Some items were even set [...]
5 March 2013 
Jennifer Lawrence’s Silver Linings Playbook Costumes Sold for Impressive $12,000
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As you know Jennifer Lawrence won the best actress Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards in LA, for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. She played a troubled wannabe dancer opposite Bradley Cooper, in a romance-cum-comedy directed by David O Russell. “The whole world seems to be captivated by Jennifer Lawrence,” Nate D Sanders of [...]
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