Featured above is an impressive Victorian tapestry “The Attainment: The Vision of the Holy Grail to Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Perceval”, exhibited at Sotheby’s auction house in London on 14 March, 2008. Designed by Edward Coley Burne-Jones, the tapestry belongs to Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, a guitarist. It is in custody along with other furniture accessories and is anticipated to fetch £1million at a scheduled Sotheby’s auction on 20 March. Word is around that rock star Jimmy Page bought it for £40,000 almost 30 years ago. It depicts a scene from the legend of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail. The auction concentrated on art and design, also includes furniture belongings of the celebrity Gary Kemp of the group Spandau Ballet.

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As a part of RM auctions–automobiles of Amelia, US; a rare beastly Ford Model 40 Special roadster, custom built in 1934 for Edsel Ford, then President of the Ford Motor Company has now reached the auction block in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This one-of-its-kind Speedster was designed at Ford’s Willow Run Aircraft plant in Dearborn, Michigan and was in custody of the present proud owner for last 40 years. I wonder what made the present owner flag it for auction at the annual “Automobiles of Amelia Island” event in March. But good for the highest bidder. Wish you luck!

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Even small pennies can make-up the difference. Lately a collection of rare American cents by Burbank resident Walter J. Husak, the title-holder of an aerospace-part manufacturing company has earned him $10.7 million via a Dallas-based auction house at Heritage Auction Galleries. Amongst 301 cents available for sale there, each one was a rare and most primitive example of the American penny, including a 1794 large cent imprinted with tiny stars around the back rim that fetched $632,500.

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Fortunate photographer Amanda Dutton from Wired got the opportunity to capture the artistic creations by an artificial limb designer and hobbyist robotics engineer, Christopher Conte. The designer mind seldom uses designs or drawings to present his complex biomechanical statuettes. The core of this New York-based machinist resides in giving vent to his imagination.

From where does the concept behind the formations emerge? Nowhere but his mind! He takes a call of his mind to design something and starts making efforts to hunt for the much-needed products. He depends upon the overstock of antique parts with him and thus plays with Legos to experiment with innovative designs.

Stimulated by the convoluted craftsmanship of turn-of-the-century expertise and Japanese bronze work, Conte also twists to obscure sci-fi movies for stimulus. It includes articulated singer insect, lethal injection attack droid prototype, unmanned attack helicopter, external video eyeware apparatus, chronos version 2, carbon-fiber spyder and others.

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 Pinch yourself as this has happened leaving no space for your imagination to dance keeping your mind at unrest. Lately, a cracked jug got sold for £220,000 at an auction with its actual value even less than £200; thereby raising eyebrows of all the moguls of antique industry. If you dare to calculate, then the sales generated from this 19th-century vessel was 1,000 times more than its expected price. Something that started as a war finally got its proud bidder. One could sense that they were clashing for the box rather than the claret jug itself. What made it antique? It is marked with the name of Jean-Valentin Morel, which could be a reason as Morel was a famous 19th-century French goldsmith who spent the crucial years of his career in London. The jug-booklet pens down the auction as ‘a French claret jug, the rock gemstone body imprinted with animals, the silver gilt rise with enameled beautification, 19th century, 30cm. (Cracked and damaged). It is fitted in a box of Morel à Sevres.

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Light, Color, Sound! It has all. Demystifying it, I am referring to an active accessory to be taken home. This bravura falling waters fountain is no less than a statement in itself. It’s beautiful shades are being picked from the glass stones and cautiously positioned bits of dichroic glass. To my much-surprise, even the reverse-side of this worthy to be installed home accessory has plummet colored glass in a mosaic style. It flows of the water sings as well. The melodious rhythm is as soothing as a mountain rivulet. It comes with supporting table decked up with various tinted glass “stones” for the cistern.

This artistic creation by Kerry Cleaver is a kaleidoscope of color. Each of this masterpieces starting from a diminutive beach glass tabletop fountain to the majestic six-foot falling rock waterfall fountain is being hand crafted in the USA. It is been said that due to feng shui concept, the bold color usage conveys positive energy and arouses the flow of chi. Flowing water refreshes the Chi and pacifies your nerves. And the very blend of lighting makes this fountain ultra-powerful to bring good luck to the owner. Not only home, this could be placed at your office reception or even commercial palace as well.

It includes a major re-circulating p ump for the main waterfall and smaller one can accommodate the “stones” along with two underwater lights. If the one featured above seems to be missing something, then choice of colors is still yours and on demand the curves can be curved. It is retailed at $2,300.

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I used to wonder if someone can be so desperate to sell out his soul in order to earn money for investing in Christmas celebration. But here I found one. News is that an American man has put his soul to the ebay’s auction block demanding £500,000. It is being said the proud buyer can take home his spirit fitted in a glass jar along with a contract “relinquishing ownership”. Since, the spirit is currently not in use, so the Los-Angles based seller thought that sale is a better option than any devil ruling it.

The seller also wish to buy it back as the money earned from the present sale would add spark to his ordinary life. The initial bid is $1 million, but amazingly he has yet to receive an offer. But hopes are still alive as there is another day to go. The auction can be seen as a replica of one of an episode of the Simpson’s, wherein Bart sells his soul to Milhouse. Also, if you can recall Bart laughing madly at failure of automatic doors to stay closed.

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Without any doubt, Dragons predict kismet and this cannot be denied. Another undeniable feature is that they represent the outstanding features of strength, passion, blaze and horror. Whilst the visibility and availability of dragons in different forms is now known to you in different forms viz. giant dragon boat, alien eerie furniture; today I came across a unique statuette. Featured above is a Shen Lung Dragon Figurine, a fraction of the Lustre compilation, which is hand-painted in different shades viz. brown, orange and green with a metal finish.

They are also available in the form of a handset with multihued celebrated Swarovski crystals that emphasize the shades of dragon and the green globe that is preset at the front paw. This Shen Lung Dragon small sculpture twinkles impeccably in stunning traces and is retailed at $2,600.

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A gold and enamel medal custom-built by former U.S. President George Washington to signify the principles of the Revolution lately fetched $5.26 mn (including sotheby’s commission) at Sotheby’s Auction house. France’s Fondation de Chambrun bought the medal. Pierre Charles L’Enfant designed the medal in 1784 and then it went to Frenchman’s hands in 1824 when Lafayette was 67 years old. It was expected to generate is sale between $4-10 million.
This medal with 2.5 centimeters diameter medal features an eagle surrounded by a laurel circlet will be displayed at France’s chateau de la Grange, of Gilbert du Motier, the current marquis de La Fayette. The medal is purchased by the New York-based art dealer Christophe Van de Weghe who purchased this for the French private foundation.
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An old but bold 17th century cabinet portraying the Pope showering blessing to the horde in Rome lately got sold for nearly more than $2mn to a European private collector at the Sotheby’s. The delicate Roman furnishings included its missing gild wood base that was revealed on the exteriors of pizza restaurant wash-room in Yorkshire. This beautifully festooned generated sales of $2,210,000 (including buyer’s premium).

It is reckoned that the console was estranged from the rest of the cabinet instantly following the Second World War. It was anticipated to generate a sales of $14, 00,000 to $ 2 million and by marking more than that it is been seen as the significant item to boost Sotheby’s sale of noteworthy Italian and Continental fixtures.

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