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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, 1941, is considered one of the best American films of all time. A number of collectibles related to the director, who died nearly 30 years ago, were auctioned Saturday at Heritage Auctions in New York. Welles’ daughter, Beatrice, says she did not have the emotional strength to look through her father’s belongings, which […]