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The most spectacular auction sales of the last year

Angelina sells her Winston Churchill painting for a record sum
Toilet seat cover: $1,152 (£887)
Manga artwork: $48,387 (£37.2k)
Disney entrance sign: $56,250 (£43.3k)
Baseball button: $62,980 (£48.6k)
Bottle of red wine: $74,000 (£57k)
Video game: $114,000 (£87.8k)
Cognac: $154,000 (£118.6k)
Motorcycle: $225,500 (£173.7k)
Pokémon card: $236,831 (£182.5k)
James Bond gun: $256,000 (£194k)
Handbag: $297,000 (£230k)
Video game console: $300,000 (£231k)
Gandhi's glasses: $340,000 (£240k)
Bass guitar: $384,000 (£297k)
Number plate: $389,000 (£300k)
Beach buggy: $456,000 (£352k)
Sheep: $477,000 (£367.5k)
Plastic crown: $594,750 (£458.5k)
Sneakers: $615,000 (£457k)
1794 'flowing hair' silver dollar coin: $1.05 million (£780k)
Winston Churchill painting: $1.3 million (£983k)
Comic: $1.5 million (£1.1m)
Watch: $1.58 million (£1.2m)
Basketball card: $1.81 million (£1.4m)
Pigeon: $1.9 million (£1.4m)
Bridget Riley painting sold by British Airways: $2.5 million (£1.9m)
Kurt Cobain’s guitar: $6 million (£4.6m)
Work of literature: $9.98 million (£7.6m)
Car: $12.3 million (£9.5m)
Diamond: $15.7 million (£12.1m)
Pink diamond: $26.6 million (£20.1m)
Dinosaur fossil: $31.8 million (£24.5m)
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Courtesy Julien’s Auctions

Toilet seat cover: $1,152 (£887)

It’s not often that a toilet seat cover is keenly snapped up by auction-goers, but this wasn’t just any old bathroom accessory – this belonged to ex-Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. The plush yellow seat cover features the band’s iconic tongue and lips logo and is believed to date back to the Stones’ 1975 American tour. Auctioneers underestimated how much this piece would fetch, and 10 bidders drove the price up to $1,152 (£887), which was twice the original estimate, at an auction in September.

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Hannah Ward-Glenton

02 March 2021

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