Shure model SM33 ribbon microphone.
The microphone was saved from a trash bin by "The Tonight
Show" chief boom operator Stan Sweeney.
An anonymous bidder in 2005 snatched a piece of TV history,
offering $50,787 for the microphone that sat prominently on
the desk of late-night king Johnny Carson until the 1980s.
The offer was about twice that expected at auction.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The costume Tonya Harding (53) wore
at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships is up for auction.
The red sequin outfit was worn by Harding the day after that
infamous attack on Nancy Kerrigan, forcing her to withdraw
from the competition. Harding went on to win the gold.
Right now, bidding for Harding’s costume stands at $3,000.
(FOX NEWS) – A handgun carried into the Battle of Little Bighorn
by a legendary U.S. Army cavalry officer is headlining a high-
profile firearms auction in Bedford, Texas this weekend.
The Colt single-action revolver belonged to Captain Myles Moylan,
(52) commander of A Troop, 7th Cavalry, later a Medal of Honor
recipient — and has an estimated price of up to $120,000.
Kevin Hogan, president of Rock Island Auction Co., told Fox News Digital,"It’s just an amazing piece of American history,"
Being shown is one of the oldest books in existence, the
Crosby-Schoyen Codex.
One of the oldest Christian liturgical books is expected to sell
for more than $2.6 million at an auction in London.
The Crosby-Schøyen Codex was written on Egyptian papyrus
from around 250-350 A.D., and produced in one of the first
monasteries.
"It’s right at that period, that transitional period, when papyrus
scroll starts turning into codex form," Eugenio Donadoni,
Christie’s Senior Specialist, Medieval and Renaissance
Manuscripts, told Reuters. "So, books as we know them
today. What we have in this book is the earliest known texts
of two books of the Bible."
Fox News
(FOX NEWS) – A piece of ephemera that was recovered from the
Titanic shipwreck is going up for sale in Maryland later this
month.
The paper slip from the ship’s post office miraculously survived
the 1912 disaster.
Alex Cooper Auctioneers, the auction house that is selling the
item, estimates that it could sell for as low as $5,000, or as high
as $8,000.
The document will go up for sale at a live auction on January
27.
Titanic post office.
The remains of the RMS Titanic are rapidly corroding at the bottom of the North Atlantic.
