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‘Cheers’ bar sells for $675,000 at auction of TV treasures

Buyers also nab Batman and Robin’s costumes, Archie and Edith’s chairs and Johnny Carson’s talk-show set.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bar from classic TV show Cheers sells for $675,000 at Dallas auction

The bar from the television series “Cheers” sold for $675,000 at auction over the weekend, garnering the highest bid among the nearly 1,000 props, costumes and sets from classic TV shows offered up from a collection amassed by one man

The Independent UK

Want Johnny Carson's desk? A trove of TV memorabilia is up for auction

Hollywood memorabilia collector James Comisar is relinquishing a trove of items — from scripts to costumes and even fake mustaches — that have taken decades to amass.

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Your Old VHS Tapes Could Be Worth Thousands

It might be time to dig out your old VHS tapes — rising demand is increasing their value by up to $25k.

Kiplinger

Stevie Ray Vaughan swapped his Strat for this Guild 12-string acoustic in his virtuosic MTV Unplugged performance – now it’s up for auction

The Texan blues dynamo used the model to perform the likes of Rude Mood and Pride and Joy in the 1990 performance

Guitar World

Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for record $12.6 million

Yankees legend Mickey Mantle is still breaking records.

Tribune News Service

It's a new record! A Micky Mantle card sold for $12.6 million

The price tag is the most anyone has paid for a piece of sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.

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A Mickey Mantle baseball card is now the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia

The mint condition card sold for $12.6 million. It's part of a booming market for collectibles.

WEKU

Converse Sneakers Worn by Michael Jordan at UNC Up for Auction

You could be the proud owner of a pair of shoes worn by Jordan during his freshman year at North Carolina.

Sports Illustrated

Rare 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card going up for auction

A mint condition 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card could break records when it goes up for auction next month

The Independent UK

Championship Season: Troy Kinunen Puts 30 Years Of Muhammad Ali Collectibles Up For Auction

MILWAUKEE — Muhammad Ali continues to intrigue the public.

Zenger

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…

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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.

The Independent UK

Russian journalist sells Nobel Prize for Ukrainian children

What is the price of peace

Tribune News Service

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.

Input

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

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

The Independent UK

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

Wales Online

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

The Independent UK

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.

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