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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 Sotheby’s

Manga artwork: $48,387 (£37.2k)

Popular Japanese comic and cartooning style Manga has fans all over the world – fans willing to pay big bucks for the most popular pieces. This acrylic artwork from Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya was produced between 1987 and 1988, and its good condition and popularity led to it selling for an astonishing $48,387 (£37.2k) at an auction last summer, making it the most expensive Manga animation to be sold last year.

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Hannah Ward-Glenton

02 March 2021

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