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Tickets for next year’s cricket World Cup on internet auction sites or from third-party outlets will not be honoured, organisers warned today (AEST).
Only tickets sold through authorised travel agents and the International Cricket Council’s public ticketing program will be valid for entry at the tournament, which is being held for the first time [...]

One of the few remaining lifejackets from the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £40,000 at an auction.
The vest is among 360 items connected to the disaster going under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire.
Dozens of letters, sent by passengers before the ship sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage with [...]

Merrill Lynch will auction 40 lots of exclusive Indian artwork on October 5 at Mall Galleries in London.
In one of the largest initiatives by a non-auction house to cash in on the growing popularity of Indian art, it is roping in top artists, including Jehangir Sabavala, Akbar Padamsee, Anjolie Ela Menon, NS Bendre, Paritosh Sen, [...]

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eBay announced My World, which it is calling an updated profile page that “enables you to showcase your personality and interests by combining many of the features already available on eBay.” The concept is similar to MySpace, a popular community site with social networking features. eBay’s My World will let users draw from existing features [...]

Two paintings by one of Wales’s greatest painters fetched £75,000 at auction, less than one month after his death.
The artwork by Sir Kyffin Williams was typical of his brooding, slate-grey Welsh landscapes, most likely painted with his palette knife.
They were sold by Bonhams Auctioneers in Chester.
An oil on canvas titled Sunset Rhoscolyn fetched £47,350, coming [...]

eBay launched a new shopping site on Wednesday called DoorOne in four countries: the UK, France, Germany and Australia. The DoorOne sites are currently identical to eBay’s comparison shopping site Shopping.com in terms of features, though it sports a different design and branding. eBay launched DoorOne because it does not own the Shopping.com URLs in [...]

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A Barbie Doll in Midnight Red, dating from 1965, sold for a world record 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on Tuesday as collectors from around the world gathered to bid for a piece of a unique private collection of 4,000 Barbie family dolls.
The doll, which had been priced at up to 600 pounds, became the most [...]

The compass which helped to create the legend of Lawrence of Arabia, steering him across the desert on a camel during the Arab revolt against the Turks in 1916-18, was sold yesterday for £264,000, together with a cheap watch and an inscribed cigarette case.
The startling price at the Christie’s auction – paid by an anonymous [...]

A 100 million-year-old stingray fossil failed to sell when it went up for auction.
The fossil, valued at £10,000, was in the first Scottish sale of fossils and minerals in Edinburgh.
The 2ft-long fossil is the same species which killed crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, 44, on September 4 when the barb of a stingray pierced his chest [...]

Christie’s launched extra October sales,and this year is offering art valued at 30 million pounds.
It aims not only at wealthy buyers vying for top lots like Peter Doig’s “Pink Mountain”, valued at 500-700,000 pounds, or Marlene Dumas’ “The Cover-Up” (350-450,000 pounds), but also at younger collectors looking for less expensive art.
Christie’s is also concentrating on [...]

A top London gallery owner and international auctioneers on Wednesday announced plans to cash in on the booming contemporary art market ahead of an annual fair that attracts hundreds of collectors to the city.
Jay Jopling, one of the world’s leading gallerists who works with contemporary art stars like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, opened a [...]

Internet auction house eBay will make changes to its site after discussions with the UK’s Information Commissioner and civil rights group Privacy International.
ZDNet UK has learnt that eBay has agreed to make changes to its Web site to make it easier for users to close accounts and track personal e-commerce transactions, following a complaint by [...]

A collection of watercolours attributed to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was sold for 118,000 pounds (224,000 dollars) at auction in Britain Tuesday.
Two protestors, one dressed as Hitler, stormed the sales rooms at Jefferys auctioneers in Lostwithiel, a small town in Cornwall in south-west Britain, but were removed by security guards.
The collection, which was discovered in [...]

Ofcom has announced the six companies that have qualified to bid in the forthcoming auction of radio spectrum for wireless radio services.
The companies bidding for the 4 megahertz of radio spectrum are: AirRadio Ltd; Arqiva Ltd; Motorola Ltd; The Joint Radio Company Ltd; T-Mobile (UK) Ltd and Ventura Team Spectrum One Ltd.
A sealed-bid auction is [...]

The site of Reading’s most notorious brothel has been sold to a mystery married couple.
The 263 Club in Oxford Road and the Lost Sock launderette next door were bought together for £529,000 at a London auction on Tuesday, September 19, by the pair who wish to remain anonymous.
The massage parlour was uncovered as a brothel [...]