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A wine cellar housing a collection of rarities from the 19th and 20th centuries, once owned by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in Tbilisi.

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Georgia uncorks the value of Stalin’s 40,000-bottle wine collection

The government plans to auction it off and use the funds to open a wine education school

The anonymous winner and seven guests will dine with Warren Buffett and Stephen and Ayesha Curry in Omaha on June 24.

International

Warren Buffett, Stephen Curry lunch auction draws US$9 million winning bid

AN ANOYMOUS bidder paid US$9 million for lunch with Warren Buffett, National Basketball Association champion Stephen Curry and actress and entrepreneur Ayesha Curry.

John Jacob Astor IV’s 18K gold Patek Philippe pocket watch, along with his gold pencil case.

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Titanic tycoon Astor’s Patek Philippe watch is set for auction

The timepiece is estimated to fetch between US$300,000 and US$500,000

Joe Lewis and his family oversee a fortune totalling about US$8.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Asean Business

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”.

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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.

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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’

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