Two sites that went under the hammer earlier this year failed to rise above forecasts.
It went under the hammer in Fontainebleau, south-east of Paris, at 10 times the initial estimate.
Zambia has put over 145 state-owned companies under the hammer, ranging from a cement-maker to a dry-cleaner.
More than 20 pieces - many created by Italian jeweller Bulgari - went under the hammer on Tuesday.
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They are among 22 lots which will be put under the hammer at Taunton Racecourse on 25 February.
Works by Picasso and Miro also went under the hammer in the first of two weeks of major auctions in New York.
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However virtually all of the houses' contents, including pots and pans, mugs and ornaments and exercise machines, will go under the hammer.
Several other, lesser-known Tretchikoff pieces, including "Balinese Dancer" and "Lady with Crayfish" are also set to go under the hammer in the sale.
Airports, the national airline, a diamond mine, a parcel delivery service and a forestry company are all due to go under the hammer.
The piece of Porthmawr beach, which is currently privately-owned, goes under the hammer on 5 May at the Deganwy Castle Hotel, in Deganwy, Conwy.
An armour-plated "battle bus", believed to have been used by former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Northern Ireland, is to go under the hammer.
The hosiery, dating from the 1870s, is embroidered with the royal VR monogram and will go under the hammer at Tennant's Auction House in Leyburn.
There has been interest from as far away as Tasmania and Sri Lanka and the first lot will go under the hammer on Saturday morning.
Last year 70% of homes in Sydney went under the hammer.
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He knows his teammate has been under the hammer, is young, has had a bit of pressure, has something to learn and a point to prove.
They will go under the hammer on 22 March, 50 years to the day in 1963 when the band released their first album, Please Please Me.
Rare original manuscripts from the novel which spawned the hit film and West End musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are to go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month.
If you don't relish the thought of working in a chip shop, you might be interested in a genuine piece of showbiz memorabilia that is also under the hammer in cyber-space.
Other items coming under the hammer next week include the heart, eye and brains from the giant Body, arcade games and children's rides, and the exotic costumes from the Millennium Show.
Chase, also an author and auctioneer who puts Cuban cigars under the hammer every year in Cuba for charity, often with the former president Fidel Castro present, also smoked the Behike at its launch in Havana.
Hundreds of the personal possessions belonging to the former House of Commons Speaker Lord Tonypandy are to go under the auctioneer's hammer on Wednesday.
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As the taxi revved and accelerated, Mike Hammer fingered the gun under his jacket.
The ones that go under his hammer tend to cost a bit more, though.
In Sweden, English language news website The Local strikes a suitably Nordic note, reporting that workmen digging a rail tunnel under Stockholm have found Mjoelnir, the hammer used in Norse mythology by the thunder god Thor.
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Under the new legislation, public employees will have 30 days to hammer out any changes to their health benefits.
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All the same, any indictment, even under a technicality to do with perjury, would still be a hammer-blow if it involved Mr Rove.
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