The News Review:
- Mad magazine to auction early works
- Myanmar Gem Auction Nets $175M
- Celebrity duds on auction block
- Habitat for Humanity holds charity auction
Mad magazine to auction early works
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
On Buckingham Palace stationery and mailed from a nearby post office, it was published in Mad’s letters column. Pretty tough to deny the resemblance, though. Witness a last batch of original drawings of Alfred and other early works being put up for auction by the magazine, which since 1952 has kept legions of American youths reading under the covers with flashlights. The sale is scheduled for Nov. 14 at the Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas and online. A preview exhibition of the 36 items to be sold will be held at New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on Oct.
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Myanmar Gem Auction Nets $175M
Diamonds.net, NY
The most recent government sale of gemstones in Myanmar fetched about $175 million during a two-week auction, which ended October 16. The amount was up about 46 percent from the country’s auctions held in June and March, and up 17 percent from fourth-quarter auction in 2007. Myanmar generally holds three auctions per year. An organizer of the gems emporium, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that 2,648 gem merchants participated in the auction. It was estimated that some 2,000 buyers from China attended the event.
Celebrity duds on auction block
London Free Press, Canada
A renowned Calgary designer who caters to Hollywood’s biggest stars is rolling out the red carpet for dress-up fanatics looking for threads immortalized on celluloid. Some are going for online auction, such as the original demonic get-up donned by Ron Perlman in Hellboy and the original half-blood vampire costume worn by Wesley Snipes in Blade II. Thirty years of creating and collecting have led to too much clutter, said wardrobe diva Wendy Partridge of Momentum Design. “Some of the speciality pieces are too identifiable to ever be used again in a film so we thought we’d open up for Halloween — we’ve never done this before. fctAdTag(“bigbox”,MyGenericTagVar,1);.
Habitat for Humanity holds charity auction
Sun Shopper, AZ
The gala will take place from 6 to 10 p. at the Prescott Resort.
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