A motorcycle designed by Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney was the top-selling lot at the Bonhams auction of Sporting and Golf Memorabilia in Chester, UK, on Wednesday 20th February, realizing £43,250. Wayne Rooney motorcycle The 2012 Lauge Jensen cruiser-style machine, designed by the world-famous striker and custom-made by the Danish [Read More]
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London auctioneers Morton & Eden will sell important Spanish Colonial coins from the Archer M. Huntington Collection of Hispanic Coins, on March 6. Numbering almost 1,500 items, the sale is expected to raise a total in the region of £500,000. The Huntington Collection, a vast group of 37,895 coins relating to the [Read More]
The winter Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, February 17 at Bonhams in San Francisco brought a successful $716,038. It was led by the French edition of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius’ Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura, 1619, which brought $27,500, ahead of a $12,000-18,000 estimate. A rare [Read More]