BUMPER BUNKER.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  August 16, 2007 ;     17 words ...A MYSTERY buyer paid a whopping pounds 25,000 for a 15ft by 8ft Cold War bunker on moors near Peak Dale, Derbys

FIRST HOMES COST GBP108K

The Sunday Herald;  December 31, 2006 ;     39 words ...The average price a first-time buyer paid for a home in Scotland hit more than GBP100,000 for the first time in 2006, a Bank of Scotland survey has shown. The research found the cost increased by 17per cent to GBP108,922, up from GBP92,842 in 2005.

WINGS OF DESIRE.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  May 23, 1996 ;     21 words ...An anonymous buyer paid pounds 199,500 at Sotheby's for a four-ton copy of the famous winged statue of Eros in London's Piccadilly Circus.

POSH PLONK.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  May 21, 1999 ;     23 words ...A MYSTERY phone buyer paid pounds 11,000 for a rare bottle of 1951 Grange Hermitage at an auction in Adelaide - a new record for an Australian wine.

Farm costs pounds 1m.(Business)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  September 15, 2006 ;     24 words ...A buyer paid pounds 1.18m at auction for 67-acre Meadow Nook Farm, Haddingley Lane, Upper Cumberworth. The auctioneer was William Sykes and Son, of Holmfirth.

SEA WHAT EBAY SOLD.(News)

Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 13, 2005 ;     26 words ...AN unnamed eBay buyer paid pounds 50 for a bucket of Bournemouth sea water. Seller Sasha Gardner said: 'I only did it for a bit of fun. I've no idea how I'll post it.'

Bard works fetch pounds 4.9m.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 10, 2001 ;     40 words ...FOUR of the earliest printed copies of all Shakespeare's plays fetched pounds 4.9 million yesterday - nearly twice as much as expected. One buyer paid pounds 4.1million for the First Folio, the most valuable of the works, at the sale at Christie's in New York.

Update: pounds 33K Titanic ticket.(News)

Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  April 20, 2008 ;     42 words ...A TITANIC survivor's ticket for the ill-fated voyage in April 1912 sold for pounds 33,000 at auction yesterday. A US collector snapped up the brief, while a Swedish buyer paid pounds 31,000 for a pocket watch. They belonged to Lillian Asplund, who died in 2006, aged 99.

pounds 1.3m on a plate

The Independent - London;  March 2, 1996 ;     37 words ...Eighty personalised car number plates sold for pounds 1.3m at a London auction. One buyer paid more than pounds 71,000 for N1 CKY. N1 NJA went for pounds 21,780, N1 XON for pounds 37,480, 1 GW for pounds 69,800 and 1 EM for pounds 47,800.

Bloodstained purse highlights auction of Horatio Nelson memorabilia

AP Worldstream;  October 21, 2002 ;     512 words ......letters linked to Britain's greatest naval hero. An anonymous buyer paid four times what Sotheby's auction house had estimated the...left his wife when Hamilton bore him a daughter. An anonymous buyer paid 31,070 pounds (US$47,900) for a letter Hamilton wrote Davison...

Mail Box: In the picture.(Features)

Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 13, 2005 ;     39 words ...Byline: B. Williams SO a secret buyer paid pounds 3.9million for the nude portrait of supermodel Kate Moss. After spending pounds 1000 on a painting for Jack's Christmas, I hope Bridget McConnell wasn't getting his birthday. - B. Williams, Blantyre.

LOCAL LONDON

Evening Standard - London;  March 7, 2008 ;     66 words ......today before being sent to New York for auction. The "Strad" is nicknamed The Penny after the previous owner, Englishwoman Barbara Penny, who died last year. The instrument, crafted in around 1700 in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari, could fetch up to Pounds...

Fortune for strad.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  November 19, 1998 ;     64 words ...A SECRET buyer paid pounds 529,500 at auction yesterday for a Stradivarius violin. The instrument, named the Joachim Kortschak after two earlier owners...

Gold alert.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  December 17, 2005 ;     46 words ......when buying gold on internet auction sites. Trading standards officers say buyers have been conned and urged shoppers to check that sellers comply with UK hall-marking regulations. One buyer paid pounds 995 for a ring worth less than pounds 100.

Painting fails to reach expected price

The Press;  August 29, 1997 ;     52 words ......000, was sold for $40,000 subject to the owner's consent at a Wellington auction on Wednesday night. Auctioneer Dunbar Sloane said a buyer paid $30,000 for the Pat Hanly oil painting Golden Age B, a record price for a Hanly work at auction.--NZPA