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An amazing barn find collection of dry Western, rust-free classic cars, trucks, tractors, stationary gas engines and more – over 500 items in all, spanning multiple generations in the Dielman family – will be sold in an online-only auction. Bidding is live now and ends Monday, July 28th, starting at 10am Central Time. Previews will be held July 18-19.“Every collector is looking for those rust-free originals and this collection has many,” said Yvette VanDerBrink, whose Minnesota-based firm VanDerBrink Auctions is conducting the sale. “I have spent many hours with this collection, and they are wonderful. You won’t want to miss

A signed carte de visite photograph of Abraham Lincoln PSA/DNA graded MINT 9, a document from 1783 signed by George Washington in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and a mortgage deed from 1957 co-signed by Marilyn Monroe and her then-husband Arthur Miller are a few of the expected top lots in University Archives’ next online-only auction planned for Wednesday, July 16th, beginning at 10am Eastern time.All 461 lots in the Rare Autographs, Lincoln & Space Items auction are up for viewing and bidding now on the University Archives website – www.UniversityArchives.com – as well as Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com

Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, already entangled in a US$115 million loan default dispute with Astor Asset Management 3 Ltd, has once again changed legal counsel – his third switch during the same legal proceeding. The move follows growing controversy surrounding his legal team’s use of materials allegedly gathered by Black Cube, a private Israeli intelligence firm linked to previous global scandals and exposes a rift with his legal team.Salinas originally retained Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, later turning to Enyo Law of London. Most recently, he has been represented by LK Law of London, which appears to

A game-used, team-signed Bill Barilko hockey stick from the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 1950-51 Stanley Cup championship season soared to $70,800, and a 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle “holy grail” baseball card finished at $59,000, in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.’s online-only Pre-1980 Sports Cards & Memorabilia auction held June 22.All prices in this report are in Canadian dollars and include an 18 percent buyer’s premium.The Barilko hockey stick was the undisputed sleeper item of the sale, easily blasting through its $5,000 high estimate on its way to top lot honors. The Mantle card was no surprise, having come into the

A large oil and acrylic on canvas painting by Syd Solomon (American, 1917-2004) sold for $12,100; a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941) realized $9,075; and a color lithograph on Arches paper by Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983) changed hands for $6,655 in two days of auctions held June 4th and 5th by Ahlers & Ogletree, online and live at the firm’s gallery in Atlanta.The June 4th event was a Modern & Contemporary Art & Design auction, one in which 420 lots came up for bid and grossed $551,216. The June 5th sale was titled Translucence: Contemporary Studio Art