| When Big Becomes Too Big, a Dream House Goes to Auction Unable to sell their home, a Connecticut couple borrowed a page from the foreclosure world and opened a five-week auction with bids starting at $19 million. nytimes.com |
Auction Prices Stay Strong Despite the cooling economy, prices held steady at the vintage car sales around Monterey, Calif. nytimes.com |
Modern Masters Suffer at Auction Works by Picasso and Giacometti went unsold at Sotheby’s on Tuesday night, but well-priced Impressionist images from a celebrated New York collection did tempt the packed salesroom. nytimes.com |
Turning a 10-Cent Comic Book Into a Million Bucks Last week’s record-breaking auctions are lesson for all those parents who threw away their children’s comic books. nytimes.com |
Michigan: Ebay Halts Auction of Kevorkian’s Van The Volkswagen camper van that Dr. Jack Kevorkian used during his assisted-suicide campaign is no longer for sale on eBay after the online auctioneer cited a policy against “murderabilia.” nytimes.com |