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An unusual picture sat in a London garage until a dealer paid £150 for it; experts confirmed it was a 1966 Salvador Dalí artwork that later sold for £45,700A garage discovery has taken the art world by storm as an antiques dealer unearthed a striking illustration by Salvador Dalí, named Vecchio...- He promised his 3-year-old son a castle in 1978. Decades later, he built Highlands Castle on a New York mountaintopA promise made to his three-year-old son in 1978 led John Lavender II to buy a mountaintop in New York and spend decades building Highlands...
- A 3,400-year-old Egyptian mummy held a secret beneath her linen wrappings. Scientists found a shell made of mud, sand and strawResearchers discovered an ancient Egyptian mummy encased in a repair shell of mud and straw beneath linen wrappings. CT scans revealed that...
- Two New York waitresses in 2015 discovered he had left them $1 million in tip after his death. He had dined in his favourite restaurant for 50 yearsSometimes, good service is all it takes to earn generous tips, even from patrons who have left the world. In 2015, two waitresses at a Manh...
- A metal detector, a smashed Roman helmet and a £2.3 million bid; the Cumbrian field find that slipped through a legal gapIn Cumbria (2010) a metal detectorist found a Roman cavalry parade helmet in the field. It was sold for some £2.3 million at Christies but ...
- An ancient idol drew a $12.7 million bid; Why Turkey failed to get it backA prehistoric marble figurine from Anatolia became the centre of a multimillion-dollar ownership dispute after a reported $12.7 million bid...
- In 2014, a US scrap dealer found a Fabergé egg among unwanted items; the result revealed a lost imperial treasure worth millions after experts identified its royal historyA US scrap metal dealer bought a decorative egg at a Midwestern flea market in 2014 for about $14,000, hoping to make money from its gold c...
- A tiny Fabergé figure sat forgotten in a New York attic until a family cleanout exposed its royal past; the 20th-century trinket later sold for $5.2 millionThe $5.2 million Fabergé attic discovery therefore stands as more than an auction headline. It is a story about how history can survive in ...
- US government returns 266 antique items to ItalyThe returned items include artifacts recently seized in New York from a storage unit belonging to British antiquities dealer Robin Symes, o...
- Controversial antiques dealer Monson Mavunkal gets life imprisonment for raping minorA Kerala court on Saturday sentenced controversial self-styled antiques dealer Monson Mavunkal to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl...
- US repatriates 307 antiquities valued USD 4 mn stolen, trafficked from IndiaOf these, 235 antiquities were seized following the investigation by the office of the Manhattan District Attorney into disgraced art deale...
- US returns 30 looted Bronze Age artworks to CambodiaThe artwork had been stolen during the wars in Cambodia in the 1970s.
- Crime Branch not responding to requests for info regarding Mavunkal probe: ED claims in Kerala HCThe DGP, appearing for the state and the police, told the court that ED's claim was not correct and the Crime Branch has and will respond t...
- Antique Stock Broking maintains buy on ITC, revises target price to Rs 382Buy ITC Ltd. at a price target of Rs 382.0 .
- Singapore returns stolen 11th Century sculpture to IndiaA Singaporean museum today said it is returning to India an 11th-century bronze sculpture, dating back to the Chola dynasty which it had pu...
- Australia's premier art galleries may not contest India's antique idols claim2 of Australia's premier art galleries may not contest India's request for return of a 900-year-old 'Dancing Shiva' statue and a stone scul...
- Illegal antique dealers prefer Siliguri corridorThe West Bengal Police recovered a bronze idol of Goddess Durga on Thursday from Siliguri and arrested one in this connection.
- SC seeks explanation from Bhansali on ‘Black’ fireThe Supreme Court on Tuesday sought explanation from noted film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali on a plea seeking vacation of stay on crimin...
- Indian artwork to be showcased in DubaiIndian jewellery and related works of art will feature at the debut of 'Art and Antiques Dubai' early next year.
- The classic cut in your living roomArt pieces that survived wars and plundering are available now in antique shops and a few artists are specialising in making reproductions ...
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