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A 17th-century Italian baroque cabinet was sold at auction house Sotheby’s for slightly more than one million pounds (1.4 million euros, 2.1 million dollars) on Tuesday after its missing stand was found in a pizzeria.Read full story

Incredible historic documents of interest to private collectors and institutional curators come to auction in New York City on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 – including a German ‘Top Secret’ rocketry document, a scarce copy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, rare signed papers of US Presidents and the document announcing the establishment of the State … Read more

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE:RBA) (TSX:RBA), the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, conducted 11 unreserved auctions in eight countries last week, tying its company record for the most unreserved industrial auctions conducted in one week. Highlights included a US$28 million auction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (on November 26 & 27, 2007); a US$25 million … Read more

BOSTON—-“We never dreamed that we could achieve this kind of success in our first year. It is like an early holiday gift,” said Larry Rideout. He and his partners, Paul McGann and Michael Hansen, acquired Boston’s largest independent real estate company in November of 2006 and brought it into the Sotheby’s International Realty network one … Read more

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — Sotheby’s Christmas party tonight, where guests will sip champagne at the company’s Bond Street offices, starts a week of London old-master painting sales valued at as much as 75.5 million pounds ($155 million).Read full story