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A woman unknowingly purchased a Renoir painting at a flea market which may fetch up to $100,000 at an upcoming auction.

Dateline: Dungeon and Dragons — if you're looking for a spell to aid you on your next adventure, traveler, then you're sorely out of luck. The great and powerful internet auction house eBay has henceforth banned all sales of wizardly enchantments and magic spells, even if you have a vacuum cleaner's worth of gold to offer.

Two guns recovered from the bodies of notorious gangster couple Bonnie and Clyde are expected to fetch more than $100000 each, an auction official told CNN on Friday. The Colt .45 was found in Clyde Barrow's waistband, and the .38-caliber Colt was strapped to one of Bonnie Parker's legs on May 23, 1934, when they were killed in an ambush near Gibsland, Louisiana.

NY judge: Feds can seize disputed dinosaur skeleton sold through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions... Heritage Auctions auctioned off the nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar in New York City on May 20. An unnamed buyer submitted the winning bid of $1,052,500... “The skeletal remains are of tremendous cultural and historic significance to the people of Mongolia, and provide a connection to the country’s prehistoric past,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a news release. “When the skeleton was allegedly looted, a piece of the country’s natural history was stolen with it, and we look forward to returning it to its rightful place.”

A gold-embossed piece of U.S. history will go up for sale this month, when Christie's auctions off George Washington's personal copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The cost to dine with investor Warren Buffett has apparently spiked in value, with one deep-pocketed bidder forking over nearly $3.5 million during a charity auction....

On and off in recent years, I’ve written about why the city hasn’t sold off its so-called surplus properties, including old libraries and fire stations that have been replaced by bigger, brighter, shinier models and then left to rot. As Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm said one year ago, “We don’t want to just give them away.” And so they’ve become shadows of shadows of their former selves, canvases for taggers and targets for vandals.

The controversial auction of a vial that contained President Ronald Reagan’s blood has been halted, and the valuable glass tube is being donated to the former president’s foundation.

A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan - a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation....

A town advertised as the smallest in the United States has sold at auction for $900,000.