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SOLD. "BLACKIE," Eric Clapton's favorite guitar; to an undisclosed buyer; for a record $959,500; in New York. The legendary rocker auctioned the Fender Stratocaster, his sole studio and stage guitar from 1970 to 1985, along with 56 others, at a charity auction to raise money for the Crossroads Center Antigua, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the West Indies...
...Price paid for a pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers from his 1984 debut season in the NBA, in an online auction to benefit a children's hospital in Shanghai...
...seems, for hawking history's private treasures. Up for bid this month are knickknacks from the estates of Kate Hepburn and Doris Duke, as well as some 400 items from Barbra Streisand's collection of costumes and memorabilia from her career. And for boat buffs, a New York City auction includes the biggest lot of Titanic remnants ever assembled, plus relics from other sunken ships like the Lusitania and the Andrea Doria...
Alfred Hitchcock's passport and one of WILLIE WONKA'S ORIGINAL GOLDEN TICKETS are among items being offered at a private auction for the school's 75th anniversary
MEANWHILE ON EBAY ... A Truly Virtual Offer An entrepreneurial Londoner who tried to auction his vote for the European Parliament on eBay attracted not a single bid - which might not prove that votes can't be bought, but did earn a reprimand from his country's Department for Constitutional Affairs. An Illinois student who offered his entire high school for sale on the site got a little more interest. The listing, said the Chicago Tribune, promised to throw in the school's chess team if offers topped $5. It garnered more than a dozen bids, the highest...