Shohei Ohtani’s 50-50 ball sells for $4.39 million amid ownership dispute

The baseball that cemented Shohei Ohtani’s status as the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season has sold at auction...

Shohei Ohtani’s historic 50th homerun ball estimated to fetch $500,000

The lucky fan who snagged Shohei Ohtani’s historic 50th home run ball during the Dodgers’ game against the Marlins on Thursday c...

Bruce Lee’s nunchucks, swords hit Hong Kong auction

Iconic items from martial arts legend Bruce Lee are set to be auctioned by Julien’s Auctions in Hong Kong on Sept. 28. Titled “L...

Shohei Ohtani home run ball could fetch $200K at auction

Jason Patino, a fan who caught Shohei Ohtani’s historic 176th career home run ball, is reportedly auctioning the ball on Heritage Auctions, ...

Watch that survived atomic bombing in Hiroshima sells for $31,000

A wristwatch that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, has fetched over $31,000 at a U.S. auction, offering a p...

Bluefin tuna fetches nearly $800,000 at Tokyo New Year auction

A giant bluefin tuna fetched a record 114.24 million yen ($789,000) at a New Year’s auction in Tokyo on Friday. About the tuna: Weighing 238...

Taiwan billionaire puts 25,000 wine bottles worth $50 million on auction

Taiwanese billionaire Pierre Chen is putting up 25,000 wine bottles from his personal collection for auction, the largest wine collection ev...

Vietnamese businessman revealed as anonymous buyer of world’s biggest whisky bottle

Vietnamese businessman Viet Nguyen Dinh Tuan was the anonymous buyer behind the world’s biggest whisky bottle that sold for £1.1 million (ap...

An ‘ultra-rare’ pair of Apple sneakers is on sale for $50,000

Sotheby’s is selling the shoes on its site as brand new and come in their original box ...

10 years ago, Lionel Messi auctioned off his ‘Golden Foot’ for $5 million

It has been a decade since Lionel Messi auctioned a gold cast of his left foot to help victims of the deadly 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsun...

This 300-year-old Chinese bowl just sold for over $25 million at auction

A porcelain Chinese bowl produced during the Qing dynasty has fetched over $25 million at Hong Kong auction house Sotheby’s. The bowl was so...

Ming Dynasty infant Buddha statue unearthed in Australia has starting bid of $100,000

An infant Buddha statue that’s less than 6 inches tall will be put up for auction with a starting bid of $100,000. In 2018, Leon Deschamps a...

‘Neat’ rock outfitted with googly eyes from Amazon sells for $13,000 at ‘EEAO’ auction

A24 auctioned off several iconic “Everything Everything All at Once” props and costumes and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to donat...

A24 to auction hot dog fingers, butt plug trophy, Raccacoonie and more from ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

A24 is putting everything from everywhere on the block all at once, including fanny packs and butt plugs, for its upcoming “Everything Every...

Hong Kong billionaire fugitive auctions Hermès bags for over $3 million

Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau sold 77 luxury handbags for 25.2 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately $3.2 million) in a recent online ...

Rare Japanese whisky fetches $603,000 at auction

A bottle of Yamazaki 55, a rare Japanese single malt whisky, yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars at a U.S. auction earlier this year, s...

Levi’s jeans from the 1880s auctioned for $76,000 has hidden reminder of America’s anti-Chinese past

A pair of Levi’s jeans that recently sold at an auction in New Mexico for $76,000 has the phrase "The only kind made by White Labor&qu...

‘Vietnamese Lady’ painting by Le Pho sells for over half a million dollars

An ink and gouache painting by late Vietnamese painter Le Pho titled “Vietnamese Lady” sold for 781,200 Singapore dollars (approximately $5...

Ex-Apple worker Sam Sung auctions business card from his first Apple store

Former Apple employee Sam Sung is auctioning another business card, this time from the first Apple store he ever worked at. Sung, who has ...

Snow crab in Japan sold for whopping $44,000

A snow crab was sold for 5 million yen (around $44,000) at the Kanazawa seaport in Japan during the season’s first auction. The auction: On ...

Copy of ‘Super Mario 64’ game sells for record $1.56 million at auction

A sealed copy of “Super Mario 64” set an auction price record for a video game after fetching $1.56 million at Heritage Auctions on Sunday. ...

China’s ‘Firewater’ Liquor Sells for $1.4 Million at Auction in London

A famous Chinese liquor known for being consumed by former Presidents Richard Nixon and Barack Obama during visits to the country sold for o...

Man’s $35 Bowl From Connecticut Yard Sale Revealed to Be Rare $500K Chinese Artifact

A man’s $35 bowl turned out to be an exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique possibly worth half a million dollars. Purchased at a y...

Extremely Rare Blastoise Pokémon Card Sells for $360,000 at Auction

An anonymous buyer purchased a rare Pokémon Blastoise card for a whopping $360,000 at an auction last week.   ...

Chinese Entrepreneur Misses $4.57 Million Lunch With Warren Buffett

A Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur who paid $4.57 million at a charity auction for a lunch with Warren Buffett has missed the event over ...

Bruce Lee’s Old Watch He Gave to Student Sells at Auction for $28,700

A Bruce Lee watch memorabilia recently went up for auction and was bought for far more than its asking price of 80,000 to 150,000 Hong Kong ...

Emperor’s Robe From Qing Dynasty to Fetch Up to $191,000 at London Auction

A robe that allegedly belonged to one of the emperors of China’s Qing Dynasty is going up for auction in London, England.  The robe, which d...

Vase From Qing Dynasty Discovered in a French Attic Sells for $19 Million

A vase dating back to 18th century China, believed to have been owned and passed down from one generation to another by a French family, was...

Japanese Businessman Buys a Pair Of Premium Melons For $30,000

A wealthy businessman paid nearly $30,000 melons for a pair of premium melons in a bid to impress his customers during Japan’s gift-giving s...

Ancient Artifact Stolen From Chinese Temple Sells for $580,000 at British Auction

A stolen rare artifact from a revered imperial palace in China fetched more than double its estimated value at a recent auction in England. ...

Someone Put an $84 Million Abandoned Skyscraper in China For Sale on Taobao

The Taobao auction for an abandoned skyscraper project in Taiyuan, the capital of northern China’s Shanxi Province, was unsuccessful in attr...

Chinese Company Purchases Two Boeing 747s Off Taobao for Just $48 Million

Popular Chinese online shopping site Taobao has some strange items on sale such as portable flame throwers, but now they can add airbuses to...

Someone Paid $5,000 For Two Persimmons at a Vegetable Market in Japan

Two high-end persimmons that were harvested from central Japan were recently sold during the season’s first auction for the whopping price o...

$500 Chinese Vase Sets Record After Being Sold For Over $5 Million at Geneva Auction

A Chinese vase sold for 10,000 times its estimated price at a Geneva auction house after two people who believed it was from the 18th centur...

The World’s Most Expensive Handbag Sells for $380,000 At Auction in Hong Kong

Designer handbags, especially Hermés Birkin Bags, are known to cost into the six digits, but one record-setting sale had a pricey handbag se...

Japanese Entrepreneur Sets Auction Record With $110.4 Million Bid for Basquiat Painting

A Japanese entrepreneur is taking home Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Untitled” from Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction i...