Some divorcing couples auction everything off and divide the cash
For the rather exquisite diamond-tufted leather sofa, one ending was another new beginning. Although tonight, amid hundreds of bustling bodies at the Pacific Auction Company in Longmont, the details of this sofa's first life remain shrouded. All we know is that something fell apart. This is a divorce auction.

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How to price garage sale items
Pricing garage sale items isn't an exact science. But if you consult pricing guidelines, know your market and group like items together, you'll do well

Insurers play hardball as the number of complaints soars
The number of consumers asking the financial ombudsman to resolve disputes rose by 25pc last year but many providers are play hardball.

The 18th Annual American Cancer Society "Denim & Diamonds" Spring Gala in Santa Fe, New Mexico Saturday, May 19, 2012
Once again the American Cancer Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico is holding their “Denim & Diamonds Spring Gala. The event, scheduled from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday, May 19, is being held at La Fonda on the Plaza, which is located at 100 E. San Francisco St. • Santa Fe, NM. This is a SantaFe.com "Featured Event" on the company’s monthly event calendar.Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) May 02, 2012 The American ...

A Jack Vettriano original, from just £20
fOR years the furnishings of artist Jack Vettriano’s studio flat in Kirkcaldy have featured in his paintings, from chairs and sofas in which sexily-clad models lounged alluringly, to period telephones and chests of drawers.

Vettriano to sell flat contents
Artist Jack Vettriano is selling the contents of his flat in Fife

Artist Lucian Freud leaves $156 million in will: paper
LONDON (Reuters) - Portrait painter Lucian Freud left a record 96 million pounds ($156 million) in his will, the largest sum bequeathed by a British artist, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. Freud died in July last year aged 88, by which time his uncompromising, fleshy portraits had made him one of the world's most revered and coveted artists, whose subjects ranged from England's Queen ...

Artist Lucian Freud leaves $150m in will: report
Portrait painter Lucian Freud left a record 96 million pounds ($150 million) in his will, the largest sum bequeathed by a British artist, London's Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.

Artist Lucian Freud leaves $156 mln in will - paper
LONDON (Reuters) - Portrait painter Lucian Freud left a record 96 million pounds in his will, the largest sum bequeathed by a British artist, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. Freud died in July last year aged 88, by which time his uncompromising, fleshy portraits had made him one of the world's most revered and coveted artists, whose subjects ranged from England's Queen Elizabeth II to the ...