auction
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In January, RR Auction held an auction to celebrate the anniversary that included rare items such as Jobs’ bedroom desk and bow ties.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
"Auction will always only benefit a few and probably deserved for those few players," Billings wrote on X.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
Items from Phyllis Rice, the former housekeeper of Christie's holiday home Greenway House in Devon, will go under the hammer at Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham, Wiltshire, on Friday.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
The items on RR Auction feature colorful clip-on bow ties from Jobs’ bedroom closet.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026
His tobacco fetched a high price each year at the Auction Holdings Limited in Lilongwe, where the farmers sold their hundred-kilogram bales on the auction floor.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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