Rembrandt's `` Aristotle Contemplating Bust of Homer '' brought $2,300,000 at auction the other night.

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As the boards arrive for play at each subsequent table, the four players take their cards from the board and should count them to ensure that there are 13 cards in their hand before looking at the cards, so that any irregularity can be corrected before the auction and play commence.

Much like old cars and trucks, buses often pass through a dealership where they can be bought for a price or at auction.

Ruth's 1919 contract that sent him from Boston to New York was sold at auction for $ 996, 000 at Sotheby's on June 10, 2005.

The most valuable memorabilia item relating to Ruth was a 1920-era Yankees flannel jersey which sold in May 2012 for $ 4. 4 million, making it the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at public auction.

Ruth's heavy Louisville Slugger solid ash wood bat sold for $ 1. 26 million at a Sotheby's auction in December 2004.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

A copy of this first issue sold for £ 12, 100 on 16 March 2004, which was at the time thought to be the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction.

In November 2009 the guitar used by Diddley in his last-ever stage performance sold for $ 60, 000 at auction.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008.

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

Prints of their photographs of the fairies, along with a few other items including a first edition of Conan Doyle's book The Coming of the Fairies, were sold at auction in London for £ 21, 620 in 1998.

The glass photographic plates were bought for £ 6, 000 by an unnamed buyer at a London auction held in 2001.

When those forced into exile owned valuables, including artwork, they were often seized by officials who either kept them as personal possessions or sold them at auction for cash.

The highest auction record for the artist was set on November 6, 2007 at Christie's in New York, where a group of four paintings, " Les Quatre Saisons " ( the Four Seasons ) sold for $ 14, 601, 000 ( estimate $ 12, 000, 000-$ 18, 000, 000 ).

The auction record for a single painting by the artist is $ 7, 026, 500, set at Sotheby's in New York on November 4, 2009, for Pissarro's " Le Pont Boieldieu et la gare d ' Orléans, Roeun, Soleil.

A famous Pallasite was offered for auction in April 2008 with a requested price of close to $ 3 million at Bonhams, but remained unsold.

The blue-tinted sunglasses ( Persol 714 ) worn by McQueen in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair sold at a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in Los Angeles for $ 70, 200 in 2006.

In 2009, Norma Herrmann began to auction off her late husband's personal collection on Bonhams. com, adding more interesting details to the two men's relationship.

On June 29, 2011, the United States Government filed a lawsuit against Mitchell in the United States District Court in Miami, Florida after discovering that he possessed a camera used by the Apollo 14 crew on the moon, and had put the camera up for auction at the British auction house Bonhams.

Bonhams has withdrawn the camera from auction.

Every December at The Gstaad Palace Hotel, Bonhams auctioneers hold an exclusive Ferrari & Maserati auction which draws in the rich and famous from around the world.

Husain to create a canvas in celebration of 60 years of Indian independence at a charity auction in Bonhams, London.

The town centre also has a number of banks, estate agents, the lifestyle clothing brand Overider and a branch of the auction house Bonhams.

The car was sold at auction in December 2007 by Bonhams and the proceeds donated to UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.

Stokes has purchased all four sets via auction from Bonhams & Goodman of Sydney, Australia.

It was found in Aughton, Yorkshire, by Tim Pearson and was sold as " lot 312 " in Bonhams Antiquities auction, Wednesday 15 October 2008 for ₤ 10, 800.

Al Tajir formed a joint venture with Bonhams fine art auction house to open an office in Dubai.

A painting by Martens was sold July 6, 2004 at auction at Bonhams in London for $ 790 ( US ) it was a 27. 5 by 35 centimeter oil titled " A river at dusk ", the auction report did not disclose a date for the painting.

* Bonhams, a British auction house

The first factory production D-Type ( XKD-509 ) was sold at Bonhams auction for £ 2, 201, 500 in July 2008.

He has also supported the Africa Foundation via Art for Africa with Sotheby's, Macmillan De ' Longhi Art Auction at Bonhams and the medical foundation Freedom From Torture's art auction.

A near concours example was sold by auctioneers Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed back in 2007 for £ 199, 500 but largely because of the rarity, auction prices for the SS100 have risen very strongly since then.

At the Bonhams & Butterfield 2006 auction in New York, a 1937 Crocker " Hemi-head " V-Twin brought $ 276, 500.

On June 20, 2005, Congo's paintings were included in an auction at Bonhams alongside works by Renoir and Warhol — they sold for more than expected, while Renoir's and Warhol's did not sell.

It retired racing in 2007 and Atkinson subsequently sold it at Aston Martin Bonhams auction in Newport Pagnell on 17 May 2008.

The portrait of the Maharani by George Richmond shows her wearing some of the jewels, including the emerald and pearl necklace, which was sold by auction on 8 October 2009 at Bonhams for £ 55, 200.