Super-Rare Pokemon Hologram Card, Haunted Telephone, and More Fresh News
News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- $50,000 for a Pokemon card? It could happen. Next month Heritage will auction a mint-condition 1998 Pikachu Illustrator promo hologram card that’s one of only 39 made. [Read more from Twinfinite]
- A Montana family says a telephone they bought at an antique shop is creeping them out. As soon as they brought it home, strange things started to happen. [Read more from the Billings Gazette]
- Around 1,000 artifacts from Disneyland and Disney World are being auctioned by a California gallery. How about a “stretching” portrait painting from the Haunted Mansion, or a complete, original “It’s a Small World” Audio-Animatronic doll? [Read more from Art Daily]
- An American couple has bequeathed 600 masterworks from the late 19th/early 20th centuries to the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. The collection is said to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. [Read more from the New York Times]
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