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 [...]

The main structure of the largest straw bale building in the UK is nearing completion near Stansted airport. Pioneers of straw bale building in the UK, amazonails of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, are now completing the straw bale walls of the 1,100 sq m (11,800 sq ft)auction room and offices.
The design, with straw bales infilling [...]

Marsh Supermarkets has retained a Florida-based auctioneer to sell 27 surplus properties throughout Indiana and Ohio, the auction company said Friday.
“Although these properties no longer fit into the future plans of Marsh, they are located in many prime markets around the region, with some of the locations being no more than a few years old [...]

Prices of U.S. Treasury notes rose Thursday after a government report showed that the pace of new home sales fell more than forecast and demand in an auction of five-year notes exceeded expectations.
“There’s real investor demand at these yield levels,” said Dan Orlando, head of U.S. Treasury trading in New York at Deutsche Bank, one [...]

A 157-year-old whisky was sold for more than 29,000 pounds on Friday, setting what is thought to be a world record auction price for a bottle of Scotch.
The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear’s auctioneers in Glasgow for 29,400 pounds to an anonymous telephone bidder, beating the distillery [...]

Liverpool writer Carla Lane is selling original scripts of her TV series on eBay to keep her struggling animal sanctuary open.
The writer, who wrote hit series The Liver Birds and Bread, said the sanctuary would not be able to continue unless she raised more money.
Animal rights activist Mrs Lane, who famously returned her OBE to [...]