Archive for October, 2007

Bono motorbike for charity auction

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The Red Ducati was previously owned by his U2 colleague Adam Clayton and the late Michael Hutchence of INXS.
The proceeds from the sale will go to ‘Riders for Health’, a group which provides vehicles and safety training for healthcare workers in Africa.
Bono has dedicated the bike to Hutchence, signing the fuel tank: “To Michael, Bono”.
Riders […]

Brenham meteorite withdrawn from auction

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

San Antonio Geologist, Phil Mani’s 1,410-pound piece of space rock that was expected to sell at auction Sunday at Bonhams in New York for up to $700,000, was withdrawn after it drew a top bid of only $200,000.
The meteorite, dug out of a Kansas farm field in 2005, is co-owned by Mani; Steve Arnold, an […]

Auction of Kaufmann House Raises Concerns

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The Kaufmann House, a 1946 glass, steel and stone landmark built on the edge of this desert town by the architect Richard Neutra, has twice been at the vanguard of new movements in architecture — helping to shape postwar Modernism and later, as a result of a painstaking restoration in the mid-1990s, spurring a revived […]

eBay fraudsters hijack Led Zeppelin concert

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The huge demand for tickets to the Led Zeppelin reunion concert has spawned a series of scams, Computeractive has discovered.
Among the genuine auctions for spare tickets to a range of events on Ebay are a number of traders who are selling non-existent tickets for thousands of pounds.
Harvey Goldsmith, rock promoter and organiser of the Led […]

US wine auctions take $25m in five days

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Over US$25m has changed hands in American wine auctions in the last few days.
Four major sales in three cities, which have all taken place since 25 October, fetched US$27,551,707 in total October.
The most largest sale, Acker Merrall Condit’s in New York on 26-27 October, made US$15,563,359. Acker had estimated the 1,963-lot cellar, believed […]