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“Most people don’t get to see guitars like these”: Meet the 1968 Gibson Super 400 that was customized for Merle Travis – the ultimate artist’s guitar (even if the materials aren’t that great)

With a thinner neck and P-90s instead of humbuckers, this is the kind of unicorn that pops up very rarely on the vintage guitar market

Guitar World

Cancer patient becomes world’s first to receive ‘landmark’ treatment

Tracy Tomlinson, 58, was given the drug at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester as part of a clinical trial evaluating a new type of treatment for several types of cancer

The Independent UK

Woman becomes first to receive pioneering new cancer therapy

Tracy Tomlinson was diagnosed with ovarian cancer which had spread shortly before Christmas 2020.

The Independent UK

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'Didn't Have the Ability to Read': Kate Middleton Opens Up About Severe 'Chemo Brain' Battle

During a visit to The Christie in Manchester, Kate Middleton revealed she 'didn't really have the ability to read' during cancer treatment and turned to colouring to cope with debilitating chemo brain.

International Business Times UK

Kate Middleton 'lost herself' in calming hobby during cancer treatment after being left with 'no ability to focus on anything'

She admitted this was 'just a way of playing' and didn't require an 'end product' which was very freeing for her

Woman & Home

Celebrity guitar auctions: teenage dreams or billionaire boys’ club? How A-list gear sales became the hottest ticket in town

From Johnny Marr to Mark Knopfler, big-name guitars seem to have become so valuable that even their owners don’t want to play them anymore…

Guitar World

Portrait of Duke of Wellington sells for record £9.6m at London auction

The portrait was painted after the Duke helped to defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo

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Duke of Wellington portrait by Thomas Lawrence sets new record at London auction

The portrait was painted after the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815

The Independent UK

Rare Winston Churchill despatch boxes from Second World War go to auction

The pieces will be sold next week in Christie’s Exceptional Sale: Masterworks Across Cultures

The Independent UK

“It’s bittersweet to be parting with these guitars but I want them to go to new homes and new people who will love them as much as I have”: Johnny Marr is auctioning off his most-famous guitars

After documenting them in Marr's Guitars, the indie icon couldn't bear consigning them to storage once more, and they'll be auctioned via Christie's in September

MusicRadar

Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man

Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard Sumner

The Guardian - UK

“I couldn’t imagine them being put away and left unplayed”: Johnny Marr to sell nearly 100 pieces of gear at auction – including prized Smiths-era guitars

Guitars that have featured on some of the Smiths’ biggest songs, and moonlighted in Oasis, are up for grabs

Guitar World

Rare first edition of ‘Wuthering Heights’ (complete with spelling mistakes) to go up for auction

It’s the first copy of the Gothic novel in the publisher’s original cloth binding to be auctioned since 1908.

Euronews

Rare first edition of Wuthering Heights to be auctioned for first time since 1908

The auction comes as the romance continues to captivate new audiences, fueled by a recent big-screen adaptation

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Evening Standard

Bronze Rodin sculpture to go under hammer for up to £1.5m

The piece, Eve au Rocher, will feature as part of a series of six specialist sales at Christie’s.

International Business Times UK

Kate Middleton Says Cancer 'Changes You Physically and Emotionally' During Moving Hospital Visit

The Princess of Wales visited The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, highlighting holistic cancer care, emotional wellbeing, and art therapy.

The Independent UK

Rare JMW Turner watercolour of Swiss landscape heads to auction

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Evening Standard

‘Evocative’ painting by JMW Turner expected to fetch up to £600,000 at auction

The ‘luminous’ Turner painting is going under the hammer at a Christie’s auction.

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The Independent UK

Famous JMW Turner painting set to fetch up to £600,000 at auction

Since the British artist’s death in 1851, the watercolours from his final tours of Switzerland have become some of his most celebrated and highly prized works on paper

Fortune

What Christie's $1.45 billion blockbuster art auction tells us about the 'Great Wealth Transfer'

Some $1 trillion worth of art will change hands over the next decade.

Euronews

Churchill on canvas: London exhibition for rarely seen paintings by Britain's wartime leader

Winston Churchill place in history is secured by his role as Britain's wartime leader but his private and prolific passion for painting is less known. Now, a new exhibition at London's Wallace Collection aims to explore his life as an artist.

Evening Standard

Ellie Bamber on playing Kate Moss: ‘She's one of the most photographed women — that's scary’

The walk, the accent, the laugh — even the smoking. Turning into Kate Moss was the challenge of a lifetime for Ellie Bamber, who plays the supermodel in a new film

The Independent UK

'Ocean Dream' blue-green diamond sells for more than $17 million at Christie's auction in Geneva

Christie's says a 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist has sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs or $17.3 million

Louder

"The whole truck just disappeared, all our gear, gone!" How a $40,000 robbery in New Orleans in 1970 forced Pink Floyd's David Gilmour to purchase what has become the highest-priced guitar in history

"The police hadn't helped us much, but the FBI got to work"

Evening Standard

King’s congress address was the words of a ‘wise friend’ – Lionel Richie

The King and Queen are coming to the end of a four-day state visit to America.

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