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...Graff's favorite stones is the Graff blue, an extremely rare, 3-carat round blue diamond that he has bought and sold three times over the past 25 years. The first time he saw it was at auction, where it sold to someone else for $180,000. Years later he spotted it on the hand of a client but couldn't buy it until after the client died, and his widow offered it to Graff for a much higher price. He eventually sold it to a Japanese client who offered $1.5 million. Fifteen years later, the same client wanted...
...also added that “although in every sale we have works of this magnitude, whenever a major oil comes up for auction, it is an event...
Initially given as a gift to Harvard in 1922 by Ernest G. Stillman, class of 1907, the painting will be auctioned at Christie’s auction house as part of a sale titled “Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures.” The painting has a projected sale price of $3 million to $5 million...
Magnus Grimeland ’07 has stamina: he has endured rigorous sniper training, he goes home to Norway periodically for secret missions, and he can withstand the rigorous scrutiny of the Mather date auction. As a member of the Norwegian Special Forces, he’s just trained that way. And according to his roommate Marc P. Eskenazi ’06-’08, his training can be a perk. “Magnus is like the best friend a guy could have,” he says. “Especially if you need to have...
...Price paid at auction for a 1975 Ford Escort GL once owned by Pope John Paul II, bought by a millionaire Baptist from Houston $244,000 Price paid by a U.S. casino in May for a 1999 Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict...