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    Expensive auction items

    •November 13, 2012
    • The baseball Mark McGwire hit for home run number 70 is shown at New York's Madison Square Garden Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1999, after it was sold at auction to an undisclosed phone bidder for $2.7 million, plus commission. The previous record for a baseball sold at auction was $126,000, the ball Babe Ruth hit for the first home run in Yankee Stadium. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
    • This Feb. 13, 2012 handout photo provided by Heritage Auction shows the CGC-Certified 3.0 copy of Action Comics #1 from the Billy Wright Collection at Heritage Auctions in Dallas,Texas. On Wednesday, the collection is expected to bring more than $2 million when Heritage Auctions offers the comics at auction in New York City. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)
    • Peter Siegel, a New York memorabilia dealer, poses with the dress Marilyn Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy, after buying the dress for $1,267,000 at auction at Christie's in New York on October 27. The sale smashed the record price paid for a dress at auction. Monroe was sewn into the form-fitting, flesh-toned dress minutes before her appearance at a May, 1962 birthday fete for Kennedy. Reuters
    • This undated photo provided by Christie's shows Tiffany's circa 1910 "Wisteria" leaded glass and bronze table lamp in deep purples, violets and blues. The lamp, which graced San Francisco's popular Eddie Rickenbacker bar, is being sold on June 14th by Christie's auction house in New York. Eddie Rickenbacker's colorful proprietor, Norman Jay Hobday, died in February 2011. Hobday's Tiffany collection of six lamps and one chandelier is expected to bring more than $2 million on June 14. (AP Photo/Christie's)
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    This Feb. 13, 2012 handout photo provided by Heritage Auction shows the CGC-Certified 3.0 copy of Action Comics #1 from the Billy Wright Collection at Heritage Auctions in Dallas,Texas. On Wednesday, the collection is expected to bring more than $2 million when Heritage Auctions offers the comics at auction in New York City. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)

    A look at the items to garner big price tags on the auction block.