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A rare bottle of Macallan whisky has sold for £2.2 million making it the highest-priced whisky to ever be sold at auction.

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Bowmore Single Malt Whisky and Aston Martin are partnering for an exclusive auction this spring, offering a unique decanter containing a special assemblage of the 52-year-old vintage whisky. The decanter has been created as a totally unique "objet d’art" which will never again be repeated

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An extremely rare first-edition printed copy of the US constitution has sold for $43.2 million at a Sotheby's auction. The sale makes it the most expensive historical document to be bought at auction. It also broke the auction record for a book, manuscript or printed text.

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A rare Frida Kahlo painting has been sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York for $35 million, setting a record price for a work by the artist. The work sold was the self-portrait of Kahlo entitled "Diego y yo" ("Diego and me," 1949), where the face of the painter's husband Diego Rivera appears on he

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The final manuscript for the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn, has sold at an auction for £377,000.  The typescript, covered in Truman Capote’s handwritten edits, sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s London for more than double the pre-

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A watch which belonged to King George III is set to sell at auction for £1 million.

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One of the world's oldest bottles of Cognac has been sold in an online auction for £118,580.

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A pair of trainers worn by basketball superstar Michael Jordan in his first NBA season have been sold for a record $560,000 in an online auction by Sotheby’s.

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A manuscript featuring handwritten lyrics penned by Bob Marley has been sold at auction for £37,500 - more than double the pre-sale estimate.

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A Cartier bracelet in the brand’s Tutti Frutti design of the art deco era has sold for $1.34 million (£1.08m) in an online Sotheby’s auction.

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A Banksy painting depicting MPs in the House of Commons as chimpanzees has sold for nearly £9.9 million. Auction organisers have said the sale is a record for the street artist.

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