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Yahoo
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Autographed Michael Jordan rookie card sells for $2.5 million
A autographed Michael Jordan rookie card sold for $2.5 million in an auction that closed on Thursday. The 1986-87 Fleer card sold through Joopiter — the auction platform founded by Grammy-winning artist and producer Pharrell Williams three years ago — shows Jordan soaring toward the rim with his right arm extended and tongue dangling. It was one of nine trading cards signed in a blue sharpie at his private golf course in Florida last year. Advertisement According to ESPN, the $2.5 million is the most paid for a Jordan rookie card — signed or unsigned — and the third-highest price in a public sale for any Jordan card. That record is $2.928 million. In March, an autographed Bulls jersey that Jordan wore in a preseason game during his rookie year sold for $4.215 million at an auction through Sotheby's. ___ AP NBA:
Associated Press
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Autographed Michael Jordan rookie card sells for $2.5 million
A autographed Michael Jordan rookie card sold for $2.5 million in an auction that closed on Thursday. The 1986-87 Fleer card sold through Joopiter — the auction platform founded by Grammy-winning artist and producer Pharrell Williams three years ago — shows Jordan soaring toward the rim with his right arm extended and tongue dangling. It was one of nine trading cards signed in a blue sharpie at his private golf course in Florida last year. According to ESPN, the $2.5 million is the most paid for a Jordan rookie card — signed or unsigned — and the third-highest price in a public sale for any Jordan card. That record is $2.928 million. In March, an autographed Bulls jersey that Jordan wore in a preseason game during his rookie year sold for $4.215 million at an auction through Sotheby's. ___ AP NBA:
Daily Telegraph
13 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Telegraph
Hundreds cram into front yard for the auction no-one wanted to miss
More than 200 people watched a new house in Roseville Chase sell under the hammer for a record $6.25m. The underbidder only turned up drawn by the big crowd, but he promptly registered and helped bid up the price to the third highest in Roseville Chase and the highest for a home on less than 1000sqm. Stefon Bertram, of Pello, said 22 contracts were handed out on 8 Warrane Rd and bidding opened at $5m at the weekend auction. MORE: $140m in sales at Balmain Leagues Club 'eyesore' 'The first bid flew out of the gate before we had finished our opening spiel,' he said. 'Often you just hear crickets at the beginning of an auction but this one saw very fast bidding and it was all over very quickly,' he added. The guide for the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home with pool on a 681sqm level block was $5.3m – way higher than the suburb median of $3.455m. A local developer bought the original house on the block in August last year, knocked it down and rebuilt. The new owners are a family from Mosman. Stefon said buyers loved the design of the home, the northern aspect, the pool visible from the house and the outdoor kitchen. 'There has been confidence in the market since the election and after the second interest rate cut it was like someone had turned on a hose,' he said. 'We had old buyers from 12-18 months ago cycling back into the market with new buyers, so although stock is similar to last year there is now more demand,' he said. Roseville Chase is one of Sydney's most tightly held suburbs with only 2 per cent of homes changing hands in a year compared to 4.6 per cent turnover for Sydney as a whole – according to PropTrack. The suburb record is $6.67m for a house in Lockley Pde on 1239sqm of land which sold in 2022 and the second highest sale is $6.4m for a house on Ormonde Rd on 4518sqm which changed hands last year. MORE: Security guard's big win on apartment he scored in lottery
News.com.au
16 hours ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Hundreds cram into front yard for the auction no-one wanted to miss
More than 200 people watched a new house in Roseville Chase sell under the hammer for a record $6.25m. The underbidder only turned up drawn by the big crowd, but he promptly registered and helped bid up the price to the third highest in Roseville Chase and the highest for a home on less than 1000sqm. Stefon Bertram, of Pello, said 22 contracts were handed out on 8 Warrane Rd and bidding opened at $5m at the weekend auction. 'The first bid flew out of the gate before we had finished our opening spiel,' he said. 'Often you just hear crickets at the beginning of an auction but this one saw very fast bidding and it was all over very quickly,' he added. The guide for the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home with pool on a 681sqm level block was $5.3m – way higher than the suburb median of $3.455m. A local developer bought the original house on the block in August last year, knocked it down and rebuilt. The new owners are a family from Mosman. Stefon said buyers loved the design of the home, the northern aspect, the pool visible from the house and the outdoor kitchen. 'There has been confidence in the market since the election and after the second interest rate cut it was like someone had turned on a hose,' he said. 'We had old buyers from 12-18 months ago cycling back into the market with new buyers, so although stock is similar to last year there is now more demand,' he said. Roseville Chase is one of Sydney's most tightly held suburbs with only 2 per cent of homes changing hands in a year compared to 4.6 per cent turnover for Sydney as a whole – according to PropTrack. The suburb record is $6.67m for a house in Lockley Pde on 1239sqm of land which sold in 2022 and the second highest sale is $6.4m for a house on Ormonde Rd on 4518sqm which changed hands last year.
Washington Post
19 hours ago
- Business
- Washington Post
The 13th Amendment: Sold for $12 million
NEW YORK — A crowd, most of them employees with ID badges around their necks, gathered in the back of the room of Sotheby's for the last two items of Thursday's morning auction. They weren't there to see icy jewels or buzzy art being sold to the cocktail crowd. This was history. Important history. 'The 13th Amendment,' the auctioneer announced. 'Signed by Abraham Lincoln and the majority of senators and congressmen who supported this landmark legislation abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude within the United States.' The bidding opened at $8 million. It was preceded by bidding on a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, also signed by Lincoln. This was a highlight of Book Week at Sotheby's. Nerd paradise. It's the kind of thing that draws a small crowd of brainy lookie-loos with canvas totes and book dealers in tweed and seersucker to see and maybe bid on first edition Shakespeares, Galileos, Cervantes, Darwin and Adam Smith. And on Americana. This wasn't a swank auction with mysterious bidders, champagne and women in fabulous hats. Most of the bidding happened online or over the phones, with staff on risers flanking the auctioneer's podium. The auction was divided into two parts. Those participating in person raised paddles to place their bids. The only paddle that kept going up was #939, held by a man in a buzz cut, black sneakers, work-from-home clothes and a Nike Air backpack. He dropped around $800,000. 'We got the Darwin, Josephus, Audubon aaaand the Galileo,' said Callum Hill, 27, a cataloger for Peter Harrington, antiquarian book sellers from London. Landmark moments in human history were dispatched across the globe to anonymous sellers. 'The first of two Shakespeare folios,' the auctioneer announced. 'We have $95,000.' 'Bidder on the phone with $100,000.' 'Sold.' On to Portugal in 1519: Vasco da Gama's citation from the King of Portugal for his discoveries complete with a royal wax seal. The bidding went up to $120,000. 'Anything further from online? Or the phones? Otherwise, fair warning. $120,000,' the auctioneer said. 'Sold.' Finally, the premium items came up: Lots 26 and 27. There was James Monroe's letter authorizing the $2 million down payment on the Louisiana Purchase. Previously unknown to Monroe scholars, the four-page letter written in August 1803 was a hedge against Napoleon reneging on the deal. It was a basically handshake deal until Congress moved to ratify it. 'It ought not to be suspected that we are trifling with the Go[vernmen]t of France, or gaining time by an idle correspondence,' Monroe wrote, offering up all the cash that was at his disposal while he was posted in London. The letter sold for $127,000. Also up was the 1774 document establishing the Continental Association, which called for a trade ban between America and Great Britain. Some scholars argue that the Articles of Association document, an agreement among all the colonies to refuse trade relations with England, is the original founding document, merely a precursor to the Declaration of Independence. 'For many Americans the decision to accept the recommendations of Congress and endorse the Continental Association proved to be the point of no return,' historian David Ammerman wrote in his 1974 book, 'In the common cause: American response to the Coercive acts of 1774.' The browned broadside with fold marks is 'one of the most important documents of American colonial history,' Ammerman said. It sold for just over $1 million. Sotheby's is protecting the identity of the buyers who dropped millions on those documents, which are seismically important to United States history. Sotheby's had an unusual offering — both the signed Emancipation Proclamation and the resulting 13th Amendment, signed by Congress on Jan. 31, 1865. 'I never in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper,' Lincoln said after signing the Emancipation Proclamation into law on Jan. 1, 1863. The proclamation that Sotheby's auctioned on Thursday was part of a Civil War fundraiser. One of Lincoln's favorite charities in D.C. was the United States Sanitary Commission, established in June 1861 to assist sick and wounded Union soldiers and their dependent families. It ran on contributions, and Lincoln often donated an autograph to sell at one of their fundraising fairs. For the 1864 Grand Fair, Lincoln signed dozens of the proclamations, and they sold for $10 each, according to Sotheby's. 'One of 27 surviving copies,' the auctioneer said. Eighteen of them are in collections at institutions. The auction opened at $2 million, then quickly went to to $3 million. The rivals were a mystery bidder and a woman in a burgundy dress with a paddle. Then it went to $3.5 million. 'A bidder at 3.6. And the room bidder is out,' the auctioneer said. The 13th Amendment came up. Bidding opened at $8 million. Back and forth, until it got to $12 million. 'It's $12 million on the phone,' the auctioneer said. 'Anyone watching online?' 'Here in the room?' 'It's on the phone. And will sell,' he said, scanning the room one last time. No movement. No paddles. 'At $12 million.' Polite applause. 'This one was special,' a Sotheby's employee said as she left. Lincoln signed an unknown number of commemorative copies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Historians know of 15 bearing Lincoln's signature, Sotheby's said, and more than a dozen additional exist that are signed by members of Congress, but not Lincoln. There is an empty space for his signature. He never lived to see it ratified.
