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The three most expensive historical artifacts ever sold at auction
Auctions are where history collides with gobs of cash. While art often dominates headlines, certain historical artifacts have ...
Blogger Sherry L. Howard started going to auctions some years ago to find a Loïs Mailou Jones or Palmer Hayden painting at a price she could afford. She hoped that someone somewhere had stashed away ...
A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie’s for ...
A second-century Roman bust with ties to Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal leads the summer auction at Swann on August 22. “A Roman Marble Bust, Head of A Youth”, carved marble on a wooden base, Julio ...
“A Roman Marble Bust, Head of A Youth”, carved marble on a wooden base, Julio-Claudian dynasty 27 BC – 68 AD. Once in the collection of Gore Vidal. Swann Galleries’ LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & ...
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