UK Auction Info
Just days ahead of the 2006 Open Golf Championship, to be held at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake next month, 40 out of 500 lots in Bonhams’ next Golfing Memorabilia Sale will relate to the Club and its famous players. The auction will be held on 17 July 2006 at Bonhams’ [...]

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A European collector paid a world-record of nearly $750 000 at a Paris auction on Tuesday for 26 letters from French philosopher Voltaire to Russian empress Catherine the Great, auctioneers Sotheby’s said.
An original edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses fetched more than $145000 and nearly $90 000 was paid for 10 letters from the Marquis [...]

UK Auction Info
A letter from John Lennon denying that the Beatles “ripped off” black music fetched £12,000 at auction yesterday.
Dashed off on a piece of “American Airlines” headed notepaper, the letter was a response to a newspaper article accusing the Beatles of imitating and exploiting American black music in their early cover records.

UK Auction Info
A 109-year-old booklet about the history of St Andrews world-famous golf courses has fetched £3,300 at auction.
The publication, entitled The Links of St Andrews 1897, was written by A. Bennett, who is understood to have lived in the town.

US Auction Info
There was no winning bid in an auction today for the deck chair snatched from the Titanic on the day the ship left for its fateful journey in 1912.
The bidding topped out at 62-thousand dollars.
That was short of a confidential sale threshold set by its anonymous seller with Bonhams and Butterfields, a British-based [...]