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Heritage Auction Galleries have an upcoming auction that will include five US gold and silver coins minted in 1915 and once owned by the Egyptian King Farouk. (01/08/2009)

Sotheby’s will feature the most important, and perhaps the earliest, weathervane to appear on the auction market in recent history on January 24th 2009 during their sale of Important Americana. (01/08/2009)

Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. will be holding an exciting auction of fine and rare wines on January 31st at the award winning restaurant Tru, 676 North St. Clair Street, Chicago. (01/08/2009)

January 23rd & 24th Sotheby’s New York will auction the Silver and Furniture Collection of the First Parish Church in Cohasset, Massachusetts - a Unitarian Universalist Congregation - which will form part of the two day scheduled sale of Important Americana. (01/08/2009)

If the first sale of the year at Tennants is anything to go by and exciting 2009 lays ahead for the auctioneers despite the current problems on the high street. More than 700 lots were offered Saturday 3rd Jan including 180+ lots of Toys, Models and Comics and the toal realised over £100,000!

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The Leo Baeck College in London will be auctioning about 50 previously unseen drawings and paintings by Marc Chagall at Bloomsbury Auctions on January 29th. The works are featured on the title pages of books written about Chagall.

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A very large oil painting - one of two painted by the same artist - stars in the Charterhouse auction scheduled for Friday 23rd January 2009. (01/08/2009)

Skinner, Inc. is hosting an auction of American Indian and Ethnographic Art on Saturday Jan 24th at 10AM in their Boston gallery. 400+ lots of tribal art will be offered from North America, South America and Africa. (01/08/2009)

An 18th century Chippendale "plum pudding" mahogany bombé chest-of-drawers complete with provenance is the leading lot in this season’s sale of Important American Furniture and Folk Art. The January 23 auction features over 200 items of furniture, historic paintings, folk art, and a special added selection of English and Dutch Delft. (01/08/2009)

Pheebay member Passion Vine House appears to have suffered an attack of nostalgia for the great days of Vegas and the iconic stars that used to hang out in the Strip casinos. Seems our members have some interesting history to recount... (01/08/2009)

Among all the significant changes undertaken by eBay during 2008 I believe the introduction of the so called "Best Match" default search will be seen as the most controversial. Is it a coincidence that eBay have reportedly just purchased tech upstart Positronic Inc. and acquired their key staff in the process? (01/08/2009)

eBay have announced that they are making changes to several of their Asian site affiliate programs. They will be closing down the Singapore and Hong Kong affiliate programs as of February 1st 2009 and making the Indian site a limited invitation only program. (01/08/2009)