Topic - Bonhams

Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. It has 700 employees. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - A framed copy of the napkin linking the 13-year-old Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona is seen in Barcelona, Spain on Jan. 5, 2012. British auction house Bonhams says the famous napkin that linked a young Lionel Messi to Barcelona has sold for $965,000. An agreement in principle to sign then 13-year-old Messi was written on the napkin almost 25 years ago at a Barcelona tennis club. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Messi napkin that sealed Barcelona move sells for $965,000 at auction

Associated Press

In this photo provided by Bonhams Auctioneers are banded travertine objects: from front left: a cosmetic spoon with the handle in the form of an ankh-sign and a small 'magical jar' vase with a stopper. From left, rear: a bag-shaped flask; a kohl-pot; and a cosmetic vase with lid, all part of Treasure of Harageh collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has purchased the objects, part of a collection of 37, 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts found a century ago by a British explorer, averting a plan to auction the antiquities that had drawn criticism from historians. (AP Photo/Bonhams Auctioneers)

Auction of ancient Egyptian relics averted

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER - Associated Press