A check linked to the "Curse of the Bambino" goes on sale here Tuesday. Signed by Jacob Ruppert in 1922, the check for $50,000 helped secure the trade of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox in 1919. That sale is said to have begun the "Curse of the Bambino. "

A man from North Potomac, Maryland made a goldmine out of the domain name he had been maintaining since 1994 for $20 a year after the web address sold for $2. 6 million in an online site that auctions domains. Chris Clark's pizza. com received the highest bid from an anonymous bidder when the auction closed Thursday. The bidding ran for a week.

Anna Plumstead didn't know that her attic in Wiscasset,Me. held a very priceless treasure: A rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence delivered to her town in 1776 as part of a campaign to spread the message of independence throughout the original 13 coloniesThe copy, printed in Salem Massachusetts in 1776, was discovered after Plumstead died in 1994. The document changed hands through a series of auctions after finally ending up with a private collector from Virginia who paid $475,000 for it in 2001.

An 81-year-old bottle of Scotch was auctioned at New York's first liquor auction since Prohibition and was sold for $54,000. The auction was held at Christie's sale of wines and spirits and an anonymous collector bought the pricey potable on Saturday.

A woman who participated in a blind auction got a real surprise when she bid on a mystery box and found a human skull inside. The Phoenix, Ariz. woman, whose name has not been released, bid on the box Tuesday at an Apache Junction woman's treasure hunt when she accidentally discovered the human skull and then turned it over to police.