Treasured letters up for auction
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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A collection of letters written by popes and kings some 700 years ago that was found among the possessions of a deceased U.S. World War II veteran was turned over Monday to Polish national archives officials.
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A Quran written in 1203, believed to be the oldest known complete copy, has sold for more than $2.3 million at an auction.
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A signed proof of Ernest Hemingway's novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," will be offered at auction in November.
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A British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book that she inherited from a distant relative she didn't know existed.
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Gold and other 17th century artifacts treasure salvagers say they recovered from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off Key West were brought ashore Thursday. Some estimate the findings could be worth more than $1 million.
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A painting stolen more than 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at an auction.
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Four of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were relinquished by Austria this year after a long legal battle are to be auctioned on Nov. 8 at ChristieÂs.
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A collection of books, photos and letters relating to Oscar Wilde are being sold at auction in London.
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Blog: Sotheby's is hosting an auction for a lot of vintage Atari video game memorabilia
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price.
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The old typewriter on which Christy Brown tapped out his autobiography 'My Left Foot' is to be auctioned in Dublin.
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Lovers of Kennedy lore will get a rare  chance at owning some common possessions of late President John  F. Kennedy and his family in an auction of art, furniture and  other effects from their homes.
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LONDON -- A British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book that she inherited from a distant relative she didn&#39;t know existed.
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A letter written by President Lincoln's assassin two months before the 1865 slaying sold at auction Sunday for a record &#36;68,000.
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A love letter from Napoleon to his mistress Josephine sold for $557,000, more than five times its estimate, at a London auction that attracted spirited bidding for several rare items.
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The Van Gogh Museum said it bought 55 letters written by Vincent van Gogh that give important information about the 19th century painter&#039;s world view and development of his artistic thought.