You're going to go and bid on a bunch of stuff, right?

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you should go!

I got the Lost Auction catalog from Profiles in History this week. It's a well put together collection, and I've got a short list of about 7-8 items to potentially bid on in a few weeks.

I am somewhat disappointed that two items I was hoping would be in the catalog never made it into the listing.

I bet you're wondering what they are. I'll tell you. I'm just that kind of guy.
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NPR has some coverage.

This is another one of those results that serves to remind people just how priceless the truly great old master works are. This is a drawing. A fine one, certainly, but still just a drawing and it sold for nearly $50M. What then, is the value of La Fornarina?

You guessed it. Truly priceless. Any value put on it would be so preposterous the conversation might as well not take place.

Take that Andy Warhol!

I kid! Warhol was the mack, and he's clearly the king of the art market these days. I just like to point out that one of the reasons that the top end of the auction records for art is dominated by art from the past 150 years is that no one sells the really good stuff.

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(BTW, what kind of world is it that I can't find an embeddable version of this song? YouTube has the video, but the audio track was pulled. WTF?)

Here's Last.fm's page. Listen to your heart's content.