Bernie Ecclestone’s Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster sold for 3.9 million pounds, including commission, at a London auction today, short of its top estimate.
Ecclestone, Formula One’s billionaire chief executive officer, is selling more than 40 cars valued at a combined 15 million pounds by RM Auctions Inc. in London’s Battersea Park. The silver 1937 Mercedes had [...]

The Red Ducati was previously owned by his U2 colleague Adam Clayton and the late Michael Hutchence of INXS.
The proceeds from the sale will go to ‘Riders for Health’, a group which provides vehicles and safety training for healthcare workers in Africa.
Bono has dedicated the bike to Hutchence, signing the fuel tank: “To Michael, Bono”.
Riders [...]

Russia’s Yakutia- based diamond monopoly, sold $18.5 million in special-sized rough diamonds at an average price of more than $10,000 per carat at a first such international auction in Antwerp in October, the company said in a press release.
Alrosa’s subsidiary Arcos Belgium N.V. organized the auction.
The company sold all 20 lots offered, containing 45 diamonds [...]

A German student who bought a pullout couch for $215 at a Berlin market found a painting worth possibly 100 times that amount hidden inside when she got the sofa home.
The 10- by 15-inch oil painting sold for $27,630 at a Hamburg art auction last weekend. The work, “Preparation to Escape to Egypt,” was painted [...]

The huge demand for tickets to the Led Zeppelin reunion concert has spawned a series of scams, Computeractive has discovered.
Among the genuine auctions for spare tickets to a range of events on Ebay are a number of traders who are selling non-existent tickets for thousands of pounds.
Harvey Goldsmith, rock promoter and organiser of the Led [...]

e-bay member pak_khean2111 (Paul Khearny, 2120 Gordon rd, SE152AA London )sended me a counterfeit check,He created scam and I lost over $7000, Fake shipping company he used was Merrygold Shipping company, Rodney Shames 1 Canal walk SE265EG, London

The spotlight will be on Argentinean racing history next week as two of the country’s most celebrated national treasures cross the auction block in London, England.
The legendary Ernesto Blanco’s multiple championship winning 1931 Reo Racing Car – his weapon of choice for more than 22 years – and the six time consecutive 1,500cc world championship [...]

As back-to-back sales by Christie’s and Sotheby’s this month show, contemporary art at high-profile auctions is changing the complexion of interest in art.
‘Contemporary art is becoming a global language; the interest is massive,’ Francis Outred, head of evening auctions and private sales at Sotheby’s, told IANS.
‘We have seen a generational change that is certainly here [...]

A portrait bidders believed to be by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt has been sold in Cirencester, in the West of England.
The portrait, described by auctioneers as the work of an unknown follower of Rembrandt and with a reserve of up to £1500, sold for £2.58 million, including fees.
“On the day of the [...]

American actress Sharon Stone was in her element late Friday as she coaxed some 300,000 euros out of guests at a charity auction for AIDS research in Rome.
“Don’t flirt with me and not mean it,” she scolded one bidder at the gala auction for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR).
“Romans, countrymen, lend me your [...]