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Supporters of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) had the opportunity to bid on Red Sox-Yankees game tickets and a sightseeing trip with singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor at an auction held last night for the Summer Urban Program...
Yesterday’s auction is only a small part of the effort by SUP directors to plan for a collection of 12 student-run camps that will accommodate about 850 children in low-income Boston neighborhoods...
...stamp on the top, forbidding the owner from selling or renting out the property. We subsequently learned from court documents that he had borrowed money against the house, been unable to repay it, and had his ownership revoked. The house had already been put up for auction three times by the court, without attracting a buyer. If we wanted it, we would now have to bid at the next auction. We were devastated, but decided to fight for the house?and to stop handing any more rent to the general...
...Travel is an area of collecting that can involve large sums of money (a Concorde nose cone was sold at auction for $550,000 to a U.S.-based Concorde fanatic). But aside from their financial value, many of the better-known collections form amusing slices of stratospheric life. Take American Steve Silberberg's (mercifully unsoiled) collection of airsick bags, boasting 1,279 mint-condition receptacles, including some from outer space. "Show people a barf bag, and right away they're interested," he says...
...thinking of starting up your own collection, experts advise that you accumulate anything and everything. Even if you have no interest in safety cards or that bar of hotel soap from Yakutsk, someone will. Online auction sites enable you to share your haul with a much wider market than before, and allow people to compare and competitively bid for memorabilia more easily...