Sales of dinosaur fossils, especially those of this calibre, are infrequent, with only a limited number occurring globally each year.
While any big Queen fan would go nuts just to get their hands on any of these items, the real star of the auction is Mercury’s shiny black baby grand piano, upon which many of the band’s greatest hits were composed.
Auction house RM Sotheby’s has piqued the interest of film nerds and billionaires alike, with their recent announcement that the exact car used on the Martin Scorsese filmset will be up for auction.
MSCHF decided to take the trend of small handbags to the extreme using Louis Vuitton branding, without any actual connection to the brand.
Described as possibly the most valuable historical document ever on auction, the book dates back a thousand years, to around the 9th or 10th century.
The world’s largest rhino breeding and conservation farm is being put up for auction in mid-April.
Four bidders were apparently competing for the piece but it landed up in the hands of a Kardashian “at more than double its pre-auction estimate”.
Many businesses have struggled to swim above an impending global recession, supply chain issues, and feverish fuel price hikes. But not Bring a Trailer, which has already surpassed $1 billion in car auction sales.
The islands have remained uninhabited and totally untouched by human activity, but now Sotheby’s has been entrusted with auctioning off this extraordinary destination.
Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong, with the duo becoming the first astronauts to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
“Horrible, horrible, horrible,” is how the seller of a lavish Bel Air mansion described the recent auction.
Graaff-Reinet is very popular with the fly in and fly out crowd. Why not go one better and own the actual airstrip?
While the cover of this ‘Spider-Man’ comic is quite striking, it’s a single page from inside that has just sold for a mind-numbing amount.
A piece of one of the cakes featured at Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding has been auctioned off to a self-described monarchist.
Sotheby’s is auctioning a Picasso painting together with a rather nifty NFT.
You can buy six beautiful strands of Kurt Cobain’s hair, or perhaps Paul McCartney’s custom made jacket (if the hair isn’t your thing), in this rock memorabilia auction.
This whole NFT business is getting out of hand, and we have proof thanks to New York Times journalist Kevin Roose.
If you’d like to get your hands on an antique vampire hunting kit, there’s one up for sale in South Africa.
Fancy a palatial home in Constantia? The beauty of an insolvent property is that you can sometimes get it for below market value.
Take a look inside the 20 000-square-foot mansion, known as Villa Firenze, up for auction in Beverly Hills.
Fancy 32 000 chopsticks, or 540 000 toothpicks? Don’t stress, there is also a wide assortment of alcohol up for grabs.
Christie’s is auctioning off images from those first few years of space exploration, captured when photography was still analogue.
The latest Banksy original to go under the hammer was his 2005 parody of one of Claude Monet’s famous ‘Water Lilies’ paintings.
The story of Candice van der Merwe, the $15,5 million gift she received from the prime minister of Lebanon in 2013, and her family’s battle with SARS has a new chapter.
Five-star stays in Kenya and the Okavango Delta, dining at Michelin-star chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen’s restaurant, yachting in Cape Town – the COURAGE charity auction is definitely worth a cheeky punt.
Two sought-after Clifton properties are going under the hammer in June via online auction.
An Instagram influencer has had to do damage control after she faked wanting to auction off her virginity on Instagram.
A US Air Force veteran had no idea that he was sitting on a small fortune, until he showed an old watch to an appraiser on ‘Antiques Roadshow’.
RM Sotheby’s Scottsdale auction happened last week, and on the docket were some cars that certainly caught the eye.
The late Richard Gooding amassed a selection of whiskies dubbed “the perfect collection”, and it’s going under the hammer next year.