• On December 7, 2024 Heritage Auctions sold what was dubbed, "The Holy Grail of Hollywood Memorabilia" for $32,500,000. "The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939), Judy Garland "Dorothy Gale" Screen Matched Ruby Slippers." • In November 2024, art collection of The
Boy Scouts of America’s including
Norman Rockwell paintings, was auctioned by Heritage Auctions to raise funds for the compensation of
sex-abuse survivors as part of a bankruptcy settlement. • Heritage Auctions, in partnership with HBO launched an event to auction more than 2,000 costumes, props, set decorations and other items used in
Game of Thrones from October 10–12, 2024. • On August 25, 2024,
Babe Ruth's called shot jersey was sold via Heritage Auctions for a record $24.12 million, making it the most expensive sports collectible in history, eclipsing the $12.6 million paid for a 1952
Topps baseball card featuring
Mickey Mantle in 2022. • On April 7, 2024, 1938 Action Comics #1 featuring Superman's first appearance sold for $6 million, becoming the most expensive comic book ever. • Many rare coin price records were broken in the January 14, 2024, Florida United Numismatist (FUN) auction, including the finest known example of an 1855 Kellogg & Co. $50 for $1.26 million, one of only two known examples of an 1860 Half Eagle for $1.14 million, and the finest known example of an 1851 Schultz & Co. Half Eagle which drew $1.02 million; thus was more than double the previous top price. • A near-perfect copy of “
The Amazing Spider-Man #1” sold for over $1.3 million at auction on January 14, 2024, breaking the record for the highest price the issue has ever fetched. • In August 2023 Heritage Auctions concluded the auction of
Harry W. Bass Jr. rare coins, achieving $83.6 million for the late oil man and philanthropist’s collection. The proceeds of the sale will benefit dozens of North Texas nonprofits supported by Bass’ foundation plus a $40 million gift to found the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the
University of Texas at Dallas. • An X-wing fighter miniature built by
Industrial Light & Magic and used in the original “
Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope” (1977) sold for $3,135,000 on October 15, 2023. • In July 2023, Heritage Auctions sold a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence for $2,895,000.00. Printed in Massachusetts, only six copies of this broadside edition exist, and this is one of two in private hands. • The original cover art for the first issue of
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by
Frank Miller achieved US$2.4 million in June 2022, making it the most expensive mainstream American comic book cover art sold publicly. Published by DC Comics in February 1986, issue #1 follows the superhero’s return after retiring 10 years earlier. •
Frank Frazetta’s painting
Dark Kingdom (1976) sold for $6 million at Heritage Auctions in June 2023, setting a new record for a Frazetta painting, and any original comic book or fantasy art
. Dark Kingdom was first used as the cover of Karl Edward Wagner's 1976 novel Dark Crusade and as the album cover for Molly Hatchet's 1979 ''Flirtin' With Disaster''. • Heritage auctioned a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card on August 27, 2022, for $12.6 million, setting a new record. • Russian journalist
Dmitry Muratov's
Nobel Peace Prize, sold to benefit refugees from Ukraine through
UNICEF. The medal sold on June 21, 2022, for US$103.5 million, the highest price ever recorded for a Nobel medal. • The original cover art for the first issue of Batman:
The Dark Knight Returns achieved $2.4 million at a June 2022 Heritage Auctions sale, making it the most expensive American comic book cover art sold. • In May 2022, an 1863 Liberty Double Eagle from The
Bob R. Simpson Collection, the finest known example of ten to twelve remaining in all grades from a mintage of only 30 coins, more than doubled the previous auction record for this coin. • An original poster promoting a 1953
Hank Williams concert in Canton, Ohio, on New Year's Day sold for a record $150,000 on May 1, 2021, beating out
The Beatles as the world's most expensive concert poster ever sold at auction. Subsequent, to that, in April 2022, Heritage Auctions broke the record for the highest priced concert poster with a $275,000 sale of a rare Beatles 1966 Shea Stadium poster. The previous record of $150,000, a poster for Hank Williams' last scheduled performance, was set by Heritage Auctions the previous year, as well as the same price for a concert poster for the Beatles at Shea stadium All of those records were shattered in November 2022, when the poster for the concert that Buddy Holly was headed to when he died, sold for $447,000 to
Jim Irsay • In January 2022 a single sheet of original comic artwork from page 25 of Marvel Comics'
Secret Wars No. 8, showing the first appearance of Spider-Man's black suit, sold at auction for a record $3.36 million. • In December 2021 Heritage Auctions sold a first edition ''
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' for $471,000, a record for the book with a first printing of 500. • A copy of
Amazing Fantasy #15 graded CGC 9.6 sold by Heritage Auctions in September 2021 set an all-time record price paid for any comic book at $3.6M, surpassing the $3.25M paid for an
Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5, the first appearance of Superman, in April 2021. • An unopened copy of Nintendo's
Super Mario 64 from 1996 sold at auction for $1.56 million on July 11, 2021, a new record for a video game. The previous record was an unopened copy of Nintendo's
The Legend of Zelda, which sold only two days earlier for $870,000. • On May 9, 2021, a game-worn jersey belonging to Michael Jordan from his sophomore season at the
University of North Carolina was sold for $1.38 million, making it the most expensive Jordan jersey sold. • The
Joseph Christian Leyendecker painting Beat-up Boy, Football Hero, which appeared on the cover of
The Saturday Evening Post, sold for a record $4.12 million on May 7, 2021. • The Paramount Collection of world and ancient coins reached $41,941,592 on March 25–27, 2021, making it the most valuable world and ancient coins auction. The auction included a $2.28 million world record for the most expensive British coin ever sold at public auction. • A signed
Michael Jordan card fetched $1.44 million on February 4, 2021, making it the most expensive Jordan card ever sold at auction. • On January 24, 2021, Heritage Auctions sold the world's most valuable gold coin, a 1787 New York-style
Brasher Doubloon, for $9.36 million. • A
Pokémon First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box sold for a world record-setting $408,000 on January 17, 2021. • A near-mint copy of Batman #1 from 1940 sold on January 14, 2021, for $2.22 million, setting a world record for a Batman comic book and the second most expensive comic ever sold at auction. • A US
$20 bill with a Del Monte sticker sold for $396,000 on January 5, 2021, becoming the most expensive error note sold. • On December 13, 2020, a
Wayne Gretzky 1979–80
O-Pee-Chee rookie card sold for $1.29 million, becoming the most expensive hockey card sold at auction and the first to break the million-dollar barrier. • In January 2019, a rare 1943
Lincoln cent sold at Heritage auction for $204,000. The copper coin was
created in error in 1943, when copper was meant to be reserved for the war effort. An original 1930 ink-on-paper drawing from the first
Tintin comic book,
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, was sold by Heritage Auctions in June 2019. On November 20, 2019,
Blueberry Custard (1961) by
Wayne Thiebaud sold at a Heritage auction for $3.225 million, the second highest price brought in for a piece by the artist from
Sacramento, California. The next day a near-
mint condition Marvel Comics #1 sold for $1.26 million, setting the record for the most expensive
Marvel comic sold in a public auction. • In a continuing series of auctions starting in 2018, Heritage Auctions is auctioning a collection of memorabilia from the estate of
Neil Armstrong, who died in 2012. The event was the first ever auction of the astronaut's personal collection and is billed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of
the first landing on the Moon in 1969. and, as of October 2019, the auctions have brought in about $12 million. • A
baseball-themed print by American illustrator
Norman Rockwell was sold by Heritage Auctions in August 2017 for $1.6 million. The work was a study of Rockwell's
Tough Call. • In December 2015, an auction brought in more than $3 million for memorabilia from
Sylvester Stallone's personal collection. • In October 2011, Heritage auctioned the personal property and movie memorabilia of the actor
John Wayne for $5.4 million. The beret he wore in
The Green Berets fetched $179,250. The following month, a copy of
Action Comics #1, previously owned by
Nicolas Cage, sold for $2.16 million, beating the previous record price for the comic of $1.5 million. • In December 2005, a 2003 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection dual logo man, All-NBA Access Pass Patch, of Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant was sold for $3,172,000. == Controversies ==