The average price of R1 411 per nine-litre case was down 11 percent on last year. The overall income was R5.13-million compared with R6.96-million in 2006.
The average price for red wine was R1 559 per nine-litre case. The Stellenzicht Syrah 1994 sold for a high of R666 a bottle, and the Vergelegen 2001 […]

A signed photo of Marilyn Monroe sold at auction for £9,000 in a collection of 1,000 images that together raised more than £100,000.
The items were a small part of a collection of more than 10,000 autographs owned by Alan Robinson, who spent 30 years waiting outside London theatres and attending awards ceremonies and auctions to […]

A new foolproof E-auction system for tea auction centres is expected to be in place by next September across India, a top Tea Board executive said.
The Board has appointed NSE.IT to provide software, customization, project management and implementation of the electronic auction system, Board chairman Basudeb Banerjee told reporters here.
Banerjee, who was recently […]

Eleven folders of old papers rescued from his parents’ closet sat in Thomas Willcox’s sport utility vehicle for months before he realized that some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Yesterday, the three letters written by Lee during the Civil War sold at auction for $61,000.
That was far off the record $630,000 that a […]

The Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auction, a Phoenix-based business and one of Scottsdale’s popular January collector-car auctions, will debut a new auction in March at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla.
The Florida event will be the third car auction for the 7-year-old Russo and Steele, which conducts an event […]