As if a Jean Baptiste Camille Corot painting would have required any more reasons than coming from the renowned artist’s studio to be sold at a whopping price. But then a little exciting history has always been helpful. Ask the folks at Sotheby’s and they will confirm for the “Jeune femme a la fontaine” is expected to fetch a price of $1.8 million at an auction to be held on June 2 this year.
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There have been many auctions for Michael Jackson’s belongings held before but none of them were even a teeny weeny bit of the one that’s scheduled to be held on June 25. And the venue is the place where all the action happens, yep, you have got it right for Las Vegas it is. The items to go under the hammer have been carefully chosen from the pop legend’s rather lavish and outlandish furniture collection. Just so you know, MJ had purchased these for his planned residence in Kent, England during the ‘This Is It’ concert series that sadly did not happen due to the star’s untimely death.
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The Eastern Block or the countries that were controlled by the Soviet Union were known for their blockades, military power, paranoia and communist hegemony. These countries, along with the Soviet Union amassed military equipments, aircrafts and other devices which made the democratic and free West shiver in fear.

Their aircrafts were especially scary and even to this day, planes like the 1983 Aero Vodochody L39 brings back memories from Yugoslavia, East Germany and Russia. St. Louis Car Museum may just be about cars but sometimes you get to see a few flights and aircrafts as well, just like the 1983 Aero Vodochody L39. They are now offering the 1983 Aero Vodochody L39 which comes with a turbofan.

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Fancy Vivid Blue gem is a 5.16 carat, pear-shaped internally flawless diamond that would be auctioned off by De Beers. A private collector is putting it up for sale at Sotheby’s Hong Kong jewels. It is expected to fetch £3.8 million ($5.8 million).

It is surprising that the auction is being held at Hong Kong which clearly reveals that China is one of the largest diamond markets in the world. It is because of this fact that lot of people try to sell their diamonds in that red country of the East. It would be interesting to know how much this diamond is going to fetch. It is a lovely piece of diamond that is flawless and beautiful to the extent of being unbelievable.

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Silvano Vecchiato (a student of Annigoni) is well known for the painting “Madonna with Child and Landscape” of Vicenza and is one of the classics that you could come across. Now, Roberto Coin, the Italian jeweller who is called the Midas for he uses gold so much has used thousands of carats of sapphires blacks, diamonds, pearls, rubies, aquamarine, and other precious stones in order to create the painting.

It was unveiled at the Verona luxury fair and there is no information about the price whatsoever. You must not even wonder about the price for it certainly is going to be more expensive than a private jet or a yacht. With so much of sapphires blacks, diamonds, pearls, rubies, aquamarine, and other precious stones you can only imagine how much it might cost.

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When you have enough money inherited from decades of oil business and weapon dealings, what would you do? You would go ahead and spend all that money in the most ridiculous manner possible. Such patterns of spending is usually seen in the Middle Eastern countries where every other guy is a sheik who could afford to buy yachts and helicopters.

While we fret and crib about the robed man’s richness, one of the Arab businessmen has purchased a number plate bearing “7″, for $4.6 million. Whoever would have known that the number 7 could be so expensive? In fact, this is the third most expensive license plate in the world and was sold at a government auction in Abu Dhabi.

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If you were wondering which is the latest vehicle to hit the news, it is the Puffin by NASA. NASA does not manufacture vehicles but they do provide technologies which could be used by manufacturers in order to develop new products. This time around, they have designed the Puffin, which is a vehicle that stands somewhere midway between a car and an aircraft.

It was developed in partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Aerospace and M-DOT Aerospace. It holds one man and is powered electronically. It weighs about 136 kilos and another 45 kilos of battery. It would also travel at a speed of 241 kilometres/hour which is much faster than a car but slower than an aircraft.

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Do you love anything ale? And love to collect all things wine? Including wine of course! If wine is your thing and if you mind not a bit about through some precious cash to grab a collectible, here is a large bottle of it you can take home.
Large meaning, a bottle that holds 18 full liters of wine, a significantly more quantity than the normal 750 ml that people are used to buying.

It is expected to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s next week. And is part of the Finest and Rarest Wines and Vintage Port auction that will happen there.The bottle weighs 25 kilograms, is 75 cm high and has a circumference of 70 cm. Looking at it is one thing, and holding it another different challenge. The phenomenally rare wine bottle, as Sotheby’s officials put it, can pour into 144 glasses.

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There has been a new world record. A month ago we reported right here how an Alberto Giacometti art scultpure will be going under the hammer. Well, the “L’Homme Qui Marche” did and went on to make headlines as the most expensive piece of art ever sold by auction.

Let us remind you that this being much celebrated as the SWiss artist’s characteristic sculpture of an elongated figure in bronze went on to make a record selling price of $104.3 million. There was a lot of excitement indeed at Sotheby’s London.

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Giroux Daguerréotype may sound like a weird foreign name, but it happens to be the world’s oldest camera. Of course, being the world’s oldest camera, it is also the world’s most expensive camera. It is now gonna be auctioned off and is expected to fetch astronomical amounts of money. It is expected to fetch €500,000 to €700,000 and was made in Paris in 1839.

It was built by Alphones Giroux and is 170 years old. The camera is still in working condition and the 24 page instruction booklet, a plaque signed by Daguerre and even the ground glass screen are intact in their original splendour. Don’t expect that the process of taking a picture is easy on this camera.

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