One of the world’s rarest blue diamonds just sold for nearly $44 million at an auction. The “Bleu Royal” diamond set upon a ring was sold for $43.8 million Christie’s auction in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday, November 21st, the Associated Press, CBS News and Reuters reported. It easily passed the high end sales estimate of… Read more

tips to make your appraisal simple You can send up to 7 photos per item.  Include shots of the front, back, top, bottom, sides.  Send a few close-up detail shots.  Send photos of any structural details. Send a clear photo of any maker’s marks or signatures. Here are some tips for creating good photographs. Just… Read more

Napoleon Bonaparte is a major historical figure, made all the more recognizable by his habit of wearing his bicorne hat sideways. About 20 of Napoleon’s hats are known to still be in existence, and one of them was sold in November of 2023 at the Osenat Auction House of Fontainebleu, France, for about $2.1 million.… Read more

A bottle of scotch whiskey, listed as the most desirable bottle of whiskey in the world sold for over $2.7 million in London, on November 18th. Sotheby’s Auctions sold the Macallan Adami 1926. It had been aged for 60 years in sherry casks until 1986 when it was bottled. It had been reconditioned by the… Read more

One of the rarest and most treasured stamps in the world sold recently for over $2 million on November 13th, 2013. The so-called “Inverted Jenny” has long been considered the Holy Grail of stamp collecting. It was the misprint of a stamp issued in 1918 to commemorate the start of regular air mail service. In… Read more

Imagine walking into your high school art classroom one day and finding a genuine painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecelli, known as Titian (born ca. 1489 – died 1576). That’s what happened in November of 2023 at the Belen Jesuit Preparator School in Miami, Florida. The whole exhibition of thirty works consisted of… Read more