fetched
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Four years ago, one of the brand’s mint-condition watches fetched 51% of its original value at resale, 10 percentage points higher than today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Hugging Face fetched a private-market valuation of $4.5 billion back in 2023.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Collectors pay up for rare, vintage products like waffle irons and garden gnomes; a Grateful Dead pan fetched $4,100 in an auction at the Lodge Museum in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
And, speaking of holy grails: Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” fetched $32.5 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
His tobacco fetched a high price each year at the Auction Holdings Limited in Lilongwe, where the farmers sold their hundred-kilogram bales on the auction floor.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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