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Back from the Dead, VHS Tapes Trigger a New Collecting Frenzy

Long relegated to an obscure corner of the collectibles market, VHS tapes have been fetching eye-popping prices at auctions in recent months, thanks to nostalgia and an appetite for new investment opportunities. At a sale by Heritage Auctions in June, a "Back to the Future" videocassette went for $75,000, while…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Wata Games lawsuit claims market manipulation and false advertising

Wata Games and Heritage Auctions are defending themselves in a lawsuit over retro video games.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Dmitry Muratov sells Nobel peace prize at auction for record $103.5m, with proceeds going to Ukraine

Dmitry Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for freedom of the press

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Russian Journalist’s Nobel Peace Prize Fetches Record $103.5 Mln at Auction to Aid Ukraine Children

Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia's last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine. All proceeds from the auction, which coincided with the World…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Nobel Peace laureate Muratov sells medal for $104 million to aid Ukraine children

The Russian co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, journalist Dmitry Muratov, sold his prize medal for $103.5 million at an auction on Monday to raise money for displaced children affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Russian journalist sells Nobel Prize for Ukrainian children

What is the price of peace

The Independent UK

Once a Hartford treasure, J. Doyle Dewitt collection of historic American political memorabilia sold at auction

HARTFORD, Conn. — The University of Hartford has quietly sold one of the most extraordinary collections of American political memorabilia ever assembled — a collection one of the city’s insurance titans spent a lifetime assembling and later donated to the school in the hope that it would be preserved and…

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Jostens files a lawsuit against an auction house over a ‘stolen’ duplicate of Ben Zobrist’s 2016 World Series ring

The manufacturer of the Chicago Cubs’ 2016 World Series championship rings filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against an auction house and collector over a replica ring bearing Ben Zobrist’s name that the lawsuit says was stolen.

Chicago Tribune

Nike’s rare bootleg of itself is going up for auction

The “One Line” saved Nike from going out of business.

Input

First ever Captain America comic book sells for £2.4m at auction

Captain America joins Superman and Spider-Man as the only superheroes to have secured bids over $3m in the US

The Independent UK

Comic featuring first appearance of Captain America sells for £2.3million

Captain America is now one of only three superheroes whose debut comic appearances have sold for more than three million dollars

Wales Online

Near-mint condition of first Captain America Comic sells for over £2.3 million

The edition features the well-known Marvel superhero punching Adolf Hitler in the face.

The Independent UK

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