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Signed first edition of Virginia Woolf book discovered by chance at a charity shop sells for £25,000

The rare volume of The Waves published in 1931 was found at an Oxfam in Bristol

The Independent UK

Signed Paul McCartney book donated to charity shop fetches nearly £1,000

The copy of Paul McCartney In His Own Words was donated to an Oxfam shop in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.

Evening Standard

Football legend George Best's iconic European Cup winners' medal sells for over Rs 3.5 crore at auction

The medal, awarded after Manchester United’s landmark European Cup victory in 1968, was sold for £305,200 at a Bonhams auction. The final bid comfortably surpassed the auction house’s pre-sale estimate of £150,000 to £250,000.

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Birthday card from Diana to actor Terence Stamp fetches almost £10k at auction

The birthday note formed part of a personal collection of items belonging to the late Academy Award nominated actor.

The Independent UK

The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’

Exclusive: The recent auction of the star’s belongings included designer outfits and her iconic bowler hats, but a box of assorted pins proved more tempting for one collector

The Guardian - UK

Diane Keaton’s nail clippers for $960: what’s behind the new boom in celebrity estate auctions?

With beloved stars’ personal items increasingly up for grabs after they die, a new generation of fans are bidding on everything from bowler hats to dog bowls

The Guardian - UK

This Ducati Is Worth Up To $120,000. Its Owner Still Had The Nerve To Paint It Green

This rare 1974 Ducati 750SS was painted British Racing Green by its owner, who bucked traditional thought and not only rode the machine, but crafted it to their liking. It's now up for auction at Bonhams.

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Princess Diana’s deeply personal letter to Terence Stamp expected to fetch thousands at auction

The letter from October 1991 sees Diana thank the actor for a lunch where she opened up about her use of antidepressants

The Independent UK

Collection of rave-era memorabilia expected to fetch up to £80,000

Producer Rob Ford’s trove of 1,700 items includes membership cards and the Prodigy’s first business card

The Guardian - UK

Eerie photograph of Oscar Wilde on his deathbed sells at auction for whopping US$375,000 – blowing pre-sale estimates out of the water

The final image ever taken of Oscar Wilde far exceeded its presale estimate by 7,400%

Digital Camera World

Marilyn Monroe's gold coat heading to auction

A gold opera coat once owned by Marilyn Monroe is expected to fetch as much as $18,000 when it heads to auction this summer.

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Gucci slippers, rare first editions and a $250,000 watch: broadcaster John Laws’ estate to go under the hammer

Talkback legend’s luxury goods include largest single-owner collection of prestige watches ever to come to Australian market

The Guardian - AU

Queer art, bowler hats and an Annie Hall script: inside Diane Keaton’s archive as treasures go on sale

New exhibition opens the ‘file cabinet’ of the late actor’s mind, spotlighting her self-made collages and iconic men’s suits

The Guardian - US

No One Knows Who Raced This Classic Motorcycle Racer, But Someone Just Paid $1.3 Million For It

A 1965 MV Agusta 500 GP with ties to Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini just crossed the block at Bonhams for serious money.

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“A unique symbol of punk’s emergence in the UK”: The Damned frontman Brian James’ iconic Gibson SG, the guitar that defined the sound of early UK punk, already set to exceed estimate at auction

The 1964 SG soundtracked the Damned’s first two records, and featured on the first punk single to ever be released in the UK

BANG Premier

Diane Keaton's belongings to be sold

Diane Keaton's personal possessions including her art collection and "notable fashion pieces from her coveted wardrobe" are being auctioned off.

Evening Standard

First-edition novel from Sherlock Holmes series sells for more than £10,000

The novel, titled The Sign Of Four, is the second book in Doyle’s best-selling series.

The Independent UK

Rare Sherlock Holmes book discovered in Oxfam charity shop sells for £11,520 at auction

The novel, titled ‘The Sign of Four’, is the second book in Doyle’s bestselling series

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Did we all get Diane Arbus wrong? These three overlooked photos suggest we might have

Her true subject was never deviance; it was dignity.

Guitar World

“We know for a fact that not all ’Bursts were great-sounding, but the surviving examples we played lived up to the legend”: I spent an evening with 7 original Gibson Les Paul ’Bursts from 1958 to 1960 – here's what I learned

There were two ’58s, an ex-Mick Taylor ’59; the exquisite ‘Minnesota’ ’59 ’Burst, and ‘Grainger’, too –but did a 1960 ’Burst made to ’59 spec steal the show?

Guitar World

“The origins of its nickname remain obscure, but, thankfully, the rest of its particulars were easier to pin down”: You know Greeny, now it’s time to meet Stripe – Gary Moore’s other go-to ’59 Les Paul, and a guitar of incalculable vibe

With some of the most phenomenal buckle rash you will ever see, Stripe is a holy grail to end all holy grails. As it is being sold privately via Bonham's, we get evaluator Steve Clarke to spill Stripe's secrets

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Marianne Faithfull's personal diaries among items for sale

A host of the late Marianne Faithfull's personal items, including her diaries, are going up for sale.

Guitar World

“Initially, Gary was very frosty. I said, ‘On this track, you used the “Greeny” Les Paul, didn’t you?’ And his eyes lit up”: Inside the final Gary Moore gear auction – from the amps behind his sound to the red Strat that unleashed his blues power

With the last of Moore’s guitars going under the hammer, we join Claire Tole-Moir of Bonhams and Neville Marten, former Guitarist editor and friend to Gary, to examine his extraordinary collection

The Independent UK

3 Bob Ross paintings sell for a ‘happy accident’ of $600K to help fund PBS

All three paintings were sold for much more than their pre-auction estimates of about $50,000 each

The Independent UK

A happy circumstance: Bob Ross paintings sell for more than $600K to help public TV stations

Three paintings from public television legend Bob Ross have sold for over $600,000 at auction

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