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Bidders in an internet auction are offering over 13,000 euros (9,000 pounds) for a wartime German encoding machine, similar to ones whose messages were cracked by British code breakers in World War Two.
The portable Enigma encryption machine made in 1941 has a keyboard and a series of rotors designed to scramble messages. It [...]

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A HARBOROUGH auction house was the star of the small screen when programme-makers for television show Flog It visited.
A TV crew recorded an auction at Gildings in Roman Way on Tuesday as part of the BBC2 show, to be aired in about six months’ time. The auction drew a crowd of about 300.
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Sligo Fianna Fail Senator, Eamon Scanlon, has clashed with Senator Shane Ross over his claims that the auctioneering profession in Ireland consists of a bunch of cowboys and racketeers.
Senator Scanlon, himself an auctioneer, has rejected the claims made by Senator Ross in a speech to the Seanad.
Senator Ross called on the Government to [...]

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A rare manuscript charting the birth of modern science has been saved from a possible overseas sale just minutes before it was due to go under the hammer.
Robert Hooke’s minutes of the Royal Society from 1661 to 1682 had sparked huge worldwide interest and were expected to fetch between £1 million and £1.5 million [...]