Auction

Titanic survivor’s signed life jacket sells for over $900,000

Laura Mabel Francatelli was on Titanic’s lifeboat No. 1, with only eleven other passengers, despite the small vessel's 40-person capacity.

A life-preserver of Laura Mabel Francatelli, a survivor of the Titanic disaster is displayed before the auction of Maritime Models and Maritime Pictures at Christie's Auction House in West London, 16 May 2007.
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A rare first edition copy of a Superman comic, forgotten for many years in an attic, sold for more than $9 million at a Texas auction house, making it reportedly the most expensive comic ever sold.

Forgotten treasure: First-edition Superman comic fetches millions at auction after attic discovery

 Digital art of the RMS Titanic at sunset.

Titanic tragedy of prominent Jewish couple resurfaces in record auction


Christie's Auction House honors 25 years of Nazi-confiscated art restitution efforts

Christie's Restitution Department will organize a year-long, worldwide series of events.

File photo of a U.S. soldier viewing art stolen by the Nazi regime and stored in church at Ellingen, Germany

Self-portrait of artist who fled Nazis sells for record 23 million euros in Germany

The auctioneers, in Berlin, had estimated that "Self-portrait in yellow-pink," painted in 1943, would attract bids of between 20 million and 30 million euros.

 Max Beckmann: Self-portrait

Australian auction house to sell Nazi memorabilia – again

The auction features Nazi firearms, uniforms and even a Luftwaffe helmet that already has a high bid of AUD 17,500 ($11,330).

 A collection of Nazi memorabilia

Infamous antisemitic Dreyfus Affair documents for sale

Many pieces of history from the Rennes trial will be up for auction, including courtroom sketches of Dreyfus' wife Lucie, Captain Alfred Dreyfus himself and French officer Georges-Marie Picquart.

Alfred Dreyfus

Goodwill posts listing for Nazi memorabilia mugs on online shop

A Goodwill online store put on their site a trio Nazi memorabilia mugs listing them as "3 Vintage Adolf Hitler German Mugs with Pin."

 Screenshot of the mugs and pin that was being auctioned off on the Goodwill online shop

Albert Einstein letter noting Jewish solidarity to go to auction

Einstein made an interesting comment regarding Jewish solidarity, which is rarely seen in the famed scientist’s correspondence throughout his life, in a 1928 letter.

Albert Einstein

Maryland auction house sells Hitler's watch for $1.1 mil

An auction house in Maryland sells a watch given to Hitler on his birthday in 1933 for $1.1 million.

Nazi memorabilia found for sale in New South Wales, Australia.

Rabbis call on Maryland Auction House to cancel sale of Nazi memorabilia

Alexander Historical Auctions will be auctioning off valuable items owned by Nazi officials and used for the persecution of Jews during World War II, including a gold watch that belonged to Hitler.

 A collection of Nazi memorabilia

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 flight jacket fetches $2.8 million

Neil Armstrong and Aldrin were the first humans to walk on the moon. Aldrin, who is now 92, is the only surviving member of the mission's three-man crew.

 A view of a detail of Buzz Aldrin's flown inflight coverall jacket, worn by him on his mission to the Moon and back during Apollo 11, that was sold for $2,772,500 at Sotheby's, in New York City, U.S. July 21, 2022 in this screengrab from a video.

Scottish auction house selling replica Nazi memorabilia

Nazi memorabilia offered at auctions have drawn disdain from antisemitism watchdogs in the past.

 A Nazi Swastika flag captured and signed by members of a black segregated U.S. Army unit in World War II is displayed amid the collection of Elizabeth Meaders, New York, February 2, 2022.