Mike Hanlon
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Pictorial: Remarkable sights of the 2022 Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance
Salon Privé is best known for its globally-recognised Concours d’Elégance, but over the 15 years since it began, it has grown into a week of automotive celebration that encompasses important car and luxury product launches and an upmarket lawn party. → Read More
Han Solo's DL-44 Blaster from "Star Wars" smashes auction records
The original and sole remaining Blastech DL-44 Blaster used by Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the first 1977 Star Wars movie (Star Wars: A New Hope) has sold for a record US$1,057,500 at Rock Island Auctions. → Read More
Bugatti's new $5-million W16 Mistral roadster is already sold out
Bugatti showed its final internal combustion engined car at “The Quail: a Motorsport Gathering” in Monterey today, dubbing it the W16 Mistral, and announcing that the entire production run of 99 vehicles is already sold out. → Read More
The top 10 motorcycles for sale in Monterey 2022
The Monterey car auctions will see more than a third of a billion dollars spent in three days this year, but the volume of well-heeled individuals in town ensures that among the cars are a smattering of bikes vendors hope will appeal to the hyper-monied audience. → Read More
Pictorial: World's "Best of the Best" concours car, plus 8 finalists
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione became the latest winner of the Annual Peninsula Classics "Best of the Best" Award yesterday, winning the 2021 edition of the most prestigious concours honor in the world. → Read More
Monterey Car Week 2022 Auction Preview
The 2022 Monterey Car Week auction cluster is shaping as the biggest in history. With 150 cars capable of selling for more than a million dollars, we've cut it down to the 46 cars capable of selling for more than $4 million apiece. Amazing quality this year! → Read More
Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 jacket smashes auction records
Sotheby’s sold the jacket worn to the Moon by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin yesterday, smashing all sorts of auction records with a final price of US$2,772,500. → Read More
Original 300-year-old Fahrenheit thermometer drops in value at auction
On July 16, an extremely rare and historically important thermometer made by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of the mercury thermometer and the temperature scale that bears his name, sold for just US$93,750. → Read More
$15 million Leica camera was owned by the man who democratized photography
Vienna’s Leitz Photographica Auctions celebrated its 20th year in business this week when it sold the camera of the man who invented 35-mm photography for €14,400,000 (US$15,147,360), smashing the previous world record of €2,400,000. → Read More
Mecum kicks off 2022 with biggest car auction in history
The collector car marketplace commenced 2022 on a high note, with a spectacular showing by Mecum Auctions at its annual New Year Kissimmee (Florida) event, significantly increasing the world record gross for a single automotive auction event with a total of US$217 million in sales. → Read More
Four-page autograph Nikola Tesla letter fetches $340,000 at auction
Nikola Tesla was one of the world's most important innovators and evidence of the gravitas of the Tesla name was on full display at an auction at Remarkable Rarities (RRAuctions) this week when a four-page autograph letter by Tesla fetched US$341,295. → Read More
Einstein-Besso "theory of relativity" manuscript fetches $13 million
A 54-page document handwritten in 1913-1914 by Albert Einstein and Swiss engineer Michele Besso, sold earlier today for €11.6 million. It’s the most paid in nearly eight decades for an autograph document by history’s most celebrated scientist. → Read More
Marty McFly's $500,000 Hoverboard and the most expensive movie weapon ever
2021 is shaping as big year for both the science fiction genre and movie memorabilia in general. The sale of a first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein already marks it as a banner year and results from this week's auctions add to that momentum. → Read More
Why this $500,000 Apple-1 Computer was a bargain
One of the first personal computers ever sold – a 1976 Apple-1 – fetched US$500,000 at auction yesterday, but it might well be one of the auction bargains of the year. → Read More
Honda RC213V-S becomes most expensive Japanese motorcycle in auction history
A near-perfect 2016 Honda RC213V-S MotoGP replica with just 161 kilometers on the odometer has sold for US$237,700, eclipsing the previous record held by a rare 1968 Honda CB750 prototype to become the most valuable Japanese motorcycle in auction history. → Read More
Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 EVA Cuff Checklist poised to set auction records
A very prominent space suit “accessory” worn on the Moon by the last Apollo moonwalker – Commander Gene Cernan – is being auctioned on the internet with bids closing later this week, and it looks like records will be broken. → Read More
Science and sci-fi memorabilia booming at auction
It would be reasonable to expect a slow year at auction for science, technology and science-fiction, but 2021 is on track for a record, with a slew of knowledge-related objects of note hitting the auction block in recent weeks. → Read More
Pictorial: The spectacular cars of the 2021 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este
The Villa d'Este is a celebrated 16th-century villa near Rome which, since 1929, has been the venue for a world-renowned annual automotive beauty contest – the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. The 2021 event, as usual, provided a feast for the senses. → Read More
Concours of Elegance "Best of Show" goes to art deco Voisin C-27 Aérosport
The 2021 Concours of Elegance presented by A. Lange & Söhne was held at Hampton Court Palace last weekend, with the prestigious "Best in Show" award, voted by the owners of the cars on display, going to a unique art deco rolling sculpture known as the Voisin C-27 Aérosport. → Read More
Spider-Man surpasses Batman and Superman as world’s most valuable comic
The most valuable comic in the world has always been Action Comics #1 … until a few hours ago when a copy of Amazing Fantasy No. 15 sold for US$3,600,000 at Heritage Auctions, representing tectonic movement within the massive comic collecting industry. → Read More