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uk - STEVEN SPIELBERG has banned a British judge from seeing his WAR OF THE WORLDS movie before its official release - despite the judge having paid £1300 for a private preview at a charity auction.
JUDGE CARL TEPER was ecstatic to have cast the winning bid in aid of children’s charity SPARKS (NOV04), and planned […]

CA - In Jasper Park, an A.Y. Jackson painting from the 1920s sold for more than a half million dollars at the spring auction held Monday by Sotheby’s Canada in association with Ritchies Auctioneers.
In all, 205 lots of early colonial paintings, sketches and canvases by the Group of Seven and their generation sold for a […]

US - The forgotten trinkets and heirlooms of lost lives accumulate in Thomas Egler’s state government office every summer.
Behind a locked door and sign-in post, boxes of loot from the bowels of bank vaults — from gold and gems to revolvers, false teeth, and cremated remains — are carted into Florida’s Bureau of Unclaimed Property […]

US - Forty years after a feud that rocked California wine country, brothers Robert and Peter Mondavi are making wine together again.
“It’s the right time, right now,” says Tim Mondavi, Robert’s son, who is working with his uncle and cousins on the multigenerational venture.
The new wine, a single barrel of a cabernet blend, will be […]

UK - Public bodies in Wales could be able to conduct reverse electronic auctions online through a single website later this year.
The ground-breaking initiative, currently at the planning stage, is part of raft of initiatives aimed at transforming Welsh public sector procurement.
Work is underway with the aim of making an e-auction tool available […]

China - At Taobao, which means “Digging for Treasure’’ in Mandarin, employees at the online auction company name themselves after the heroes in popular martial arts novels. At the annual company party, they even dress up in warrior uniforms and star in an elaborate three-hour variety show to entertain each other.
The company’s “worker ant” […]

NZ - Mowbray Collectables Ltd. the biggest percentage decliner on the nation’s exchange, dropped 40 cents, or 22 percent, to NZ$1.40. Mowbray, which auctions stamps and books, said yesterday it had a full-year loss of NZ$170,000 ($121,000), from a profit of NZ$394,262 a year earlier, because fewer auctions were held

UK - One of the world’s rarest books - a belligerent 42-page rant written, published and signed by Galileo in 1607 - is likely to be the star of the Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia in London next month.
Sold for $500 at an auction in America in 1924, La Difesa will go on sale with […]

UK - Britain’s greatest private collection of atlases, which was saved from a devastating fire last year in a 17th century manor house when villagers formed a human chain to pass the books to safety, is to be auctioned for more than £5 million.
The books are being sold to pay for repair work to Wardington […]