Sotheby’s held an auction May 13 featuring two diamonds weighing in at over 100 carats. The “Graff Vivid Yellow” is a 100.9-carat yellow diamond, an extremely rare and bright gem that sold for $16.3 million. Another top lot to be featured is a 103.46 round white diamond, one of the largest brilliant-cut diamonds in the […]
A Guitar Fit for a Beatle
Posted on May 12th, 2014 by Joe G
A 1962 Rickenbacker 425 owned by the Beatles’ George Harrison will be auctioned off May 17 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Manhattan, and is estimated to sell for up to $600,000. Harrison bought the guitar at Fenton’s Music store while visiting his sister in Mount Vernon, Illinois. The guitar was red when he purchased […]
Oldest Message in a Bottle Found in Germany
Posted on May 8th, 2014 by Joe G
Have you ever written a message in a bottle and thrown it out to sea? Did you wonder who might find it days, weeks, months or even years later? No one knows what 20-year-old Richard Platz was hoping when he threw a beer bottle with a postcard inside into the Baltic Sea back in 1913, […]
Buried Treasure
Posted on May 5th, 2014 by Joe G
On April 15, the Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered more than 80 pounds of gold from an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina using a robot. The ship carried as much as 21 tons of gold coins, gold ingots and raw gold, and sank in a hurricane traveling from New York to San Francisco. This […]
Magnificent Jewels Fetch a Total of $44.3M
Posted on May 1st, 2014 by Joe G
Three colored gems stole the show at Sotheby’s spring Magnificent Jewels auction Tuesday. An emerald-cut Kashmir sapphire set a record for price per carat paid for a sapphire. The gem weighs in at 28.18 carats, and was sold for just under $5.1 million. This gem, however, did not fetch the highest price at the auction. A […]