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Last Chinese emperor’s watch smashes expectations and fetches $6.2 million at auction

A wristwatch once owned by China’s last emperor, Aisin-Gioro Puyi, has sold for $6.2 million at a sale in Hong Kong this month.

Ming Dynasty box that sat in an attic for decades sells for $358,000

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Kurt Cobain’s smashed-up guitar sells for almost $600,000—nearly 10 times the auction estimate

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Controversial jewelry collection fetches a record-shattering $201 million

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Five men convicted for audacious $123M jewels heist in Dresden

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This jewelry collection is set to shatter auction records

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Luxury loot under the hammer: France auctions goods seized from drug dealers

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Rock legend Freddie Mercury’s personal possessions are going up for auction

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Why this surreal ‘dripping’ watch has become a cult celebrity favorite

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T-Rex skeleton sells for less than expected at Swiss auction

You can now buy Kendall Roy’s ‘Succession’ penthouse for $29 million

Courtesy Greene King Brewery

Beer brewed 86 years ago for Edward VIII’s canceled coronation goes on sale

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Rare classic cars up for auction after huge 230-vehicle find

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Meet the woman behind some of the world’s most iconic jewels

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Hong Kong vanity car plates can sell for millions

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Inside one of the world’s largest pearl exhibitions

See the record-smashing T. rex that sold for $31.8 million

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Rare coin sells for record $1.3 million

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World’s most expensive license plate sells for $15 million

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Archaeologists discover 1,000-year-old Mayan scoreboard in Mexico

Michael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals sneakers sell for a record $2.2 million

‘Milestone’ document that helped restore the British monarchy goes on sale

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Largest ruby ever to come to auction may fetch over $30 million

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Rare T-Rex skeleton to go under the hammer in Switzerland

‘Ultra-rare’ pink diamond expected to sell for more than $35 million at auction

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Amateur gold digger finds huge nugget worth $160,000 in Australia

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Pharrell Williams and Lorraine Schwartz team up for sale featuring iconic celebrity-worn jewelry

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Koh-i-Noor diamond to be recognized as ‘a symbol of conquest’ in exhibition

Michael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals sneakers are expected to smash auction records

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Dutch historian finds medieval treasure using metal detector