A birthday note from Jimmy Carter to his wife, Rosalynn, on White House stationary and a wooden coffee table the former ...

The third-most-expensive auction item, “No. 31 Yellow Stripe,” painted by Mark Rothko, was sold at Christie’s. The ...

A long-held lesson of economics is that the value of an item is what someone is willing to pay for it. Still, when it comes to auctions, that concept only partially explains the astronomical prices ...

There’s also one of two known all-black versions of the prototype Atari 5200 known as the Atari Video System X. The device dates back to 1982, but Jobs appears to have purchased this prototype in 2001 ...

You have to put your money somewhere, and you could do worse than these crazy auction items People buy the strangest things ...

One of the coolest items is Lynch’s personal version of the red curtains and zigzag patterns, Twin Peaks’ most iconic image. But the Holy Grail in this auction is Lynch’s actual director’s chair with ...

Some wacky items have hit the auction block over the years, especially when it comes to well-known celebrities. An old guitar, a signed photograph, an original comic or an article of clothing are all ...