The auction house said the price paid for the 110.03-carat gem set a world auction record for yellow diamonds.
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The site now hosts real-time webcasts of live auctions once a week or so, with web bidders represented in the real-world auction room by a Dove employee with a paddle.
The two major players in the auction world are going for gold.
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As par for the course in the timepiece auction world, a Patek Phillipe attracted the highest bid of the evening for its Ref. 3939.
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The second most-complained about ad ever is for shopping channel Auction World , which attracted 1, 360 complaints focusing on poor customer service, misleading guide prices and delays in delivery of goods.
Cindy Sherman, a 59-year-old chameleon who spends years planning portraits of herself in various personae, briefly held the title as the auction world's highest-priced photographer, female or male, in 2011.
The trial threatens to pop the cork on the dirty secrets of the wine auction world, which like the art market has been stung in recent years by a proliferation of fakes.
The ITA says the tea industry in Bengal - and also in Assam - is in crisis, with falling demand for Indian teas across the world, falling auction prices for teas and rising production costs.
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An unnamed bidder is trying to take over London-based Christies International , the world's leading auction house.
Still, the way things are going, he may end up owning the world's biggest auction house anyway.
That spurred a boom in the wine trade and by 2011 vaulted Hong Kong ahead of New York and London as the world's top auction hub for fine wines.
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The world's largest online auction site eBay has been targeted by new credit card scams.
Some have decades of expertise in the museum, auction or gallery world.
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Ministers claim proudly that Britain is holding the first auction in the world for third-generation mobile phone licences, and that many other countries are studying Britain's approach.
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"Three years later it was sold to a European banker, and kept in France, locked away in a safe deposit box, where fortunately it remained undiscovered during World War II, " the auction house said.
At the other extreme is Australia, the only place in the world where most homes are sold by auction.
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Nine other of Diana's dresses were sold to bidders, which came from around the world and included three museums, the auction house said.
Christie's - the world's number one in the auction market - has agreed to co-operate fully with the US Department of Justice, and in exchange has been granted a "conditional amnesty".
At a recent lecture at the LSE in London, market editor of The Art Newspaper Melanie Gerlis illustrated this new art world order with a description of the recent auction of a painting by Dutch artist Lawrence Alma Tadema, a long-forgotten Victorian favourite.
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But to a whole art world insider culture of private collectors, dealers and auction houses, antique frames are themselves worthy of scholarship, connoisseurship and trophy hunting.
Ms. Rowling's agent, Neil Blair, said that he negotiated directly with Little, Brown in the U.K. for world English rights rather than offering the title for auction.
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Fellow fast bowler James Anderson also opted out and although Tim Bresnan and spinner Graeme Swann - who will also be in England's squad for the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean - were in the auction, they were not picked up by any of the IPL franchises.
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