This week, Bonhams hosted an auction of historical space items in Manhattan. The Space History Sale featured troves of objects and documents, both American and Soviet, dating back to the heyday of the space race. And Gizmodo got the chance to take a peek.
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On April 8th, the New York City branch of Bonhams will be hosting a "Space History" auction, and Gizmodo has been given a preview of the some of the historically unique, space age artifacts that will be for sale. From full-body Soviet space suits to a control panel once used on the space station Mir, the range of objects is pretty extraordinary; earlier space history-themed auctions at Bonhams have even included Neil Armstrong’s own flight notes taken to the surface of the moon.
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A person’s reputation certainly has value attached to it – as to whether this perceived value lies in positive or negative territory, that depends a whole lot on that particular individual’s life as well as the choices that he or she makes to impact the world around. Case in point – a Harley-Davidson motorbike which went underneath the hammer yesterday was sold for nearly 20 times its estimated value, all because its previous owner happened to be the pope. Yes sir, this Dyna Super Glide has “Francesco” signed on its tank, and it managed to raise 241,500 euros (which translates to approximately $328,300 after conversion), where it would not have been complete without the Harley-Davidson leather jacket that also bear’s the Pope’s signature, which went for nearly one fifth of the motorbike’s amount at 57,500 euros. According to the auction house Bonhams, the sales of both went to anonymous bidders.
Pope’s Harley-Davidson Motorbike Sold In Paris Auction original content from Ubergizmo. 
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People of Earth, dreamers of the universe and possible alien organisms of the beyond: you can swim like Scrooge McDuck in a Swiss bank vault in real life. Like, literally swim in money. This is incredible. A bank safe swimming pool filled with 8 million Swiss coins is being auctioned off to the highest bidder who wants to fulfill every person’s childhood (and adult) dream of swimming in money.
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Fans of the original Star Wars trilogy know that Han shot first. What you might not know is that the original prop blaster used by Harrison Ford when filming some of the Star Wars movies is headed to auction. The blaster below was used by Ford in “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the […]
A fully functional replica of the Batmobile from the 1989 Michael Keaton Batman film will be going up for auction Nov. 30. Many replicas have been made of the various models of Batmobile, but none with quite this level of authenticity. For starters, the flamethrower, afterburner, nine-inch-rise hydraulics and remote start all work. Oh, and […]
Jony Ive creates objects that end up in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. But for his latest trick—a RED charity auction at Sotheby’s tomorrow afternoon—he and designer Marc Newson are offering up something else: The one-of-a-kind.
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The New York City branch of Bonhams auction house hosted an eye-popping and widely hyped dinosaur auction in the city yesterday afternoon. At the center were the so-called "Montana Dueling Dinosaurs," a huge, combined fossil of two nearly-complete dinosaur skeletons apparently caught fighting to the death, valued as high as $9 million dollars.
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