Magna Carta Copy: Going Once… Going Twice… Gone »

An original Magna Carta went up for sale December 18 at Sotheby’s. Although it didn’t fetch the upper end of the $30 million potential estimate, it was sold for a tidy sum of $21.3 million.
The 13 century document brought rights to subjects under English rule and was the foundation of many [...]

Priceless Tamayo Painting Found in Trash - Could Sell for $1M »

Most everyone has heard the saying, "One man’s trash is another man’s treasure." Elizabeth Gibson was walking one morning when she found a piece of treasure in the trash.
That treasure turned out to be the famous painting, ‘Tres Personajes’ (Three People), by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo. The person who placed it in the trash [...]