A New York auction house is showing off what it calls the world’s greatest white diamond on the block – a 118-carat stone from Africa the size of a small egg. The oval diamond glistened in its glass case Wednesday at a New York auction house’s headquarters in Manhattan, not yet mounted after it was mined and […]

Feast your eyes on “The Premier Blue!” This rare 7.59 carat diamond is the world’s largest in the Fancy Vivid blue category. The stone is considered to be “internally flawless,” and is the largest round Fancy Vivid to be graded by the Gemological Institute of America. No diamond of this size or kind has ever been […]

Have you ever heard of a “guitarlin?” It was created in 1958 by Danelectro Guitars, built to cover the typical electric guitar register along with the higher range of a mandolin. It was such a radical instrument at the time, and because it didn’t sell well, only about 200 were made between 1958 and 1968. […]

A Long Island man was pleasantly surprised when he bought a storage locker in a blind auction in 1989. Among the junk was an old Lotus Espirit car that appeared to be in rough shape – at first unrecognized by the man. While pulling it home behind his truck, other drivers on the road informed […]

Stella coins, the experimental $4 gold pieces minted in 1879 and 1880, have long been among the most coveted coins ever minted in the United States. Prominent collectors owned Stella coins, dating back to the early 1900s, including Virgil Brand, Will W. Neil, and Josiah K. Lilly. What makes the coin most intriguing is its […]