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Pele’s iconic World Cup final jersey heads to auction as fans get chance to own a piece of football history

Pele’s famous World Cup jersey is heading to auction

The Independent UK

Pelé’s No 10 Brazil shirt from 1958 World Cup final expected to fetch £4.5m at auction

Pelé’s iconic blue No 10 shirt from the 1958 World Cup final is expected to become one of the most expensive football artefacts ever sold after being put up for auction

The Guardian - UK

Lucian Freud's Sue Tilley portrait tipped fetch $US47m

Regarded as one of Lucian Freud's masterpieces, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, is up for auction next month with a pre-sale estimate of $US47 million.

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Lucian Freud subject says late painter was a ‘perfectionist’

Sue Tilley sat for the artist three times a week for approximately nine months as he painted Sleeping By The Lion Carpet.

Evening Standard

Benefits supervisor Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud three decades ago. Now a painting of her could fetch £35m

‘Big girls can do well,’ says Tilley, who was painted by Freud in numerous works between 1993 and 1996

The Independent UK

When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her could fetch $47 million

Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud

The Independent UK

‘Big girls can do well’ Lucian Freud subject says as portrait could fetch £35m

The painting, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, will go up for sale for the first time as part of Sotheby’s The Lewis Collection in June.

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Fake ancient statues worth £680,000 exposed after UK fraudster slipped up on paperwork

In an audacious plot, a man from Gloucestershire aimed to peddle counterfeit ancient sculptures, purportedly valued in the hundreds of thousands, at a prestigious Sotheby’s auction. However, forensic experts quickly dismantled his charade, pinpointing that the invoices were produced with contemporary printing methods rather than the 1970s technology he claimed.

The Times of India

Fraudster trying to sell fake ancient statues to Sotheby’s foiled over bogus invoices

Paperwork supplied by Andrew Crowley, 46, found to be made using printing methods 25 years too modern

The Guardian - UK

Fraudster who tried to sell grandfather’s ancient statues to Sotheby’s foiled by fake invoices

Prosecutors alleged that, if real, the items together would have been worth about £680,000 based on previous sales

The Independent UK

'Ocean Dream' blue-green diamond sells for more than $17 million at Christie's auction in Geneva

Christie's says a 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist has sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs or $17.3 million

The Independent UK

Recovered John Keats love letters to fiancee to be exhibited before auction

The letters, which were stolen 40 years ago, are expected to fetch $1.5 million and 2.5 million dollars

The Independent UK

Collection including masterpieces by Klimt and Schiele to fetch ‘up to £150m’ at auction

Collection comes from Joe Lewis and his daughter Vivienne, whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur

The Independent UK

Masterpieces by Klimt, Matisse and Freud set for London’s most valuable auction

Sotheby’s said collection of billionaire Spurs’ owner Joe Lewis and daughter Vivienne expected to fetch more than £150m in June sale

The Guardian - UK

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Guitar World

“The amount of songs that were coming out of him is almost unprecedented”: Noel Gallagher's workhorse Epiphone – featured in the Wonderwall music video – is expected to exceed expectations at auction

The Epiphone EJ-200, used during the writing sessions of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, is currently subject to an online bidding war

Guitar World

Elvis’ 1968 Comeback Special Hagstrom Viking II is heading to auction (again) – and is now expected to sell for more than $1 million

The history-making guitar – which was only played by Elvis once and originally belonged to one of his session players – fetched $625,000 in 2021

Euronews

Noel Gallagher guitar from Oasis ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ sessions goes up for auction

Noel Gallagher's signed acoustic guitar used on Oasis' second album '(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?' about to go under the hammer at Sotheby's and could fetch up to £60,000.

Fashion Times

You Won't Believe What These 12 Vintage Luxury Fashion Pieces Are Worth at Auction Today

From Schiaparelli surrealist couture to the original Hermes Birkin, explore 12 collectible designer items in vintage luxury fashion worth millions.

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The Guardian - UK

Some might pay: Noel Gallagher guitar used to write Oasis’s second album to be auctioned

Signed acoustic guitar used on (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? – the bestselling album of the 90s – could fetch up to £60,000 at Sotheby’s

Fortune

Watches like this $455,000 timepiece can't be made by a machine—and that's exactly why they're the ultimate flex amid the analog revival

Watches with maximum 'complications' are the stars of the $60 billion luxury watch boom.

Digital Camera World

Someone bought this photo at a yard sale: it could now be worth $1 million!

The extraordinary provenance of Edward Steichen's image tells us something profound about how photography gets valued

The Mary Sue

Woman walks into Hermès without an appointment. She can’t believe the response when she asks for a Birkin: ‘Begging to spend 10s of thousands is wild’

With Sotheby’s reporting that prices range from $15,000 to $35,000, Birkin bags are the must-have accessory for any serious luxury shopper. According to Sotheby’s, demand for the Hermès product has never been higher. Birkin sales were up by 70% in 2025, compared to 2024. Moreover, they’ve nearly doubled since 2023.

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Guerrilla Artist Banksy’s True Identity Finally Revealed By Bombshell Investigation

"I was thinking he'd be a young bald Polish guy with a bunch of tattoos."

The Guardian - UK

‘He paints phalluses the way others paint landscapes’: the disturbing genius of erotica pioneer Félicien Rops

A new exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich revisits the Belgian artist whose wild women of the demimonde scandalised the belle epoque – and still shock audiences today

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney’s first English landscape on show for first time in almost 30 years

English Garden, painted in 1965, is on display before it goes under the hammer with estimate of £2.5m-£3.5m

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