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Billionaire Joe Lewis scores 3,500% return on ‘Masterpieces’ art

The British investor and his family are cashing in on lucrative bets made in another sector: art

The silver medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics was hammered down for DKK 900,000, excluding buyer’s premium.

Medal from first modern Olympics fetches four times estimate at auction

The historic 1896 Games featured 241 athletes from 14 countries, including Denmark

Logan Paul purchased the Pikachu Illustrator card in 2021 for nearly US$5.3 million, breaking a Guinness World Record for the most expensive Pokemon trading card sold in a private auction. 

Logan Paul to sell world’s most expensive Pokemon card at auction

WORLD Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star and influencer Logan Paul has agreed to sell his rare Pokemon card, capitalising on what he says is a marketable moment for the collector’s item.

The event raised 108,100 euros for a charity that helps children hospitalised with leukaemia, according to auction house Artcurial.

Rich art: French pastry chefs auction chocolate sculptures

The Paris auction is organised by the pastry chef Pierre Herme

The auction is expected to yield a minimum of 110 million pesos which will be remitted to the National Treasury, according to the customs agency.

Philippines auctions off Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz cars linked to graft scandal

The scandal has slowed economic growth and soured investor sentiment on the South-east Asian nation

Christie's described La Pascaline, first mechanical calculating machine invented by French polymathe Blaise Pascalthe, as “nothing less than the first attempt in history to substitute the work of a machine for that of the human mind”.

Christie’s suspends Paris sale of world’s ‘first calculator’

A court blocks export authorisation of ‘La Pascaline’

The piece depicts the daughter of Klimt’s main patron dressed in a white imperial Chinese dress, standing before a blue tapestry with Asian-inspired motifs.

Klimt portrait fetches US$236.4 million at auction, becomes 2nd most expensive artwork sold

The most expensive painting ever sold at auction remains the ‘Salvator Mundi’

A rare Patek Philippe steel watch manufactured in 1943 beat records to be the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction.

Rare Patek Philippe watch sells for 14.2 million Swiss francs

A PATEK Philippe timepiece that in 2016 became the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction fetched an even higher price this weekend, auctioneers Phillips said on Sunday (Nov 9).

With interest in them “growing and growing and growing”, music specialist Mark Hochman believes Oasis (above) will become “one of the most collectable bands” in the long term.

Oasis guitars among music memorabilia worth £3 million at UK auction

Noel’s Takamine acoustic guitar, used to record the hit song Wonderwall, will go on the auction block.

Seventeen units at CanningHill Piers in Clarke Quay owned by Wu Shuiying and Wang Ruiyan have been sold since August 2024 for a total of S$81.8 million.

Some 22 luxury condos linked to S$3 billion money laundering case resold for S$116 million since August 2024 

About S$420 million, comprising cash and liquidated proceeds, has been paid into the Consolidated Fund as at end-March