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Edison’s Light Bulbs Turn On Bidders, World’s First Sports Car Sells for $650K, and More Fresh News

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Archive of Thomas Edison's lightbulbs that sold together with his laboratory keys for $64,375. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Archive of Thomas Edison’s light bulbs that sold together with the inventor’s laboratory keys for $64,375. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • An archive of Thomas Edison’s lightbulbs, court evidence and the keys to his famed Menlo Park, N.J., laboratory where he invented the phonograph, sold for a combined $64,375 at a Dec. 3 auction in Dallas. The bulbs were entered as evidence when Edison sued three different companies for allegedly infringing on his patent for the incandescent bulb. [Read more from the Associated Press]
  • Regarded by many as the world’s first sport car, a 1914 Vauxhall Prince Henry Sports Torpedo sold for $655,000 in London over the weekend. In its day, it was quite a head-turner, as it could hit speeds of up to 80 m.p.h. [Read more from Yahoo! News]
  • A Pennsylvania wax museum that features the likeness of every U.S. president and first lady has closed, and the figures are headed to auction. The entire collection will be sold on Jan. 14 at the Inn of Gettysburg. [Read more from the Associated Press/Pocono Record]
  • On Thursday, a cricket bat that belonged to the 19th century’s most famous cricketer, W.G. Grace, will be auctioned on Thursday in England. The bat somehow ended up in an auction house in Canada, where it was purchased 30 years ago and has since remained in the same family. [Read more from the Daily Mirror]

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