On June 5, 2007, Bonhams New York held two auctions of works by Contemporary Studio Artists. The early offering, titled International Contemporary Ceramics, was the inaugural New York sale of international Contemporary ceramics for the auctioneers. The later session featured Contemporary Studio Works of Art, including one of the largest groupings of Contemporary glass to come to auction in several years. The day-long sales brought more than $2-million and resulted in as many as 22 auction records being set. As the only international fine arts auctioneers with ... Read the full story

The weather will be hot, but so will the offerings at a sale planned for Thursday, July 26, by MV Auctions/Auctions of Cape Cod and the Islands, of Hyannis, Mass. Around 300 lots will cross the block, including a single-owner lifetime collection of canes; antique scrimshaw; fine period furniture; original paintings by listed artists; a Babe Ruth signed baseball; and much more. The auction starts at 6 pm and will be held under the tent at the Antiques Center of Yarmouth, 325 Route 28 in West Yarmouth, Mass., on Cape Cod. A preview will be held from 2 pm to the ... Read the full story

Bonhams announced this week that two key specialists in Japanese Art recruited from Sotheby’s will join Bonhams Asian Art Department, one of the company’s most successful specialist areas. Colin Sheaf, Bonhams Deputy Chairman and Head of Asian Arts said: “We are delighted to welcome Neil Davey and Suzannah Yip, specialists in Japanese Art to Bonhams. Neil, the Senior Consultant Specialist has a distinguished record in his field over five decades. Suzannah who has been working with Neil for over eight years will become the Department ... Read the full story

A collection of shop display items from Hilliard and Chapman, who were “Cutlers and Surgical Instrument Makers to The Queen and Prince Albert,” based at 56 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, will be sold at Bonhams annual Scottish Sale in Edinburgh between 22 – 24 August 2007. Hilliard and Chapman, one of Scotland’s most famous firms, produced medical equipment of great importance to the medical profession, and were at the forefront of invention in producing fine quality surgical instruments and artificial limbs for hospital throughout Scotland ... Read the full story

Proxibid, a premier provider of live auction broadcasting services, today announced that it will provide live Internet bidding for a Wal-Mart store liquidation auction on July 5 at 10:00 a.m. PDT. The live auction event, which will be hosted by Bonnette Auction Company, will take place at 3075 East Tropicana Ave. in Las Vegas. More than 650 lots of high quality store fixtures and equipment will be offered during the auction. Items available for online bidding include: – 4000lb Forklift — inferno gas — paint tinter — walkie stacker ... Read the full story

Bonhams record £6.1-million sale at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on 22 June 2007 is the best ever in the event’s 15-year history. It is the fourth most valuable motoring auction ever held in the UK. The sale saw no fewer than 14 cars surpass £100,000, with top spot taken by the 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Spider which realised a spectacular £1.4-million. In party atmosphere, six-hours of bidding saw 315 lots sold many way above top estimate – for a grand total of £6,158,731. The auction’s sold-by-value result was no less than ... Read the full story

Auction to Take Place During Midwest Commercial Real Estate Summit Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announced today it will hold a charity auction in support of the Little Heroes Pediatric Cancer Foundation. The auction will be held Aug. 13 as part of the opening gala for the Midwest Commercial Real Estate Summit at the Hilton Chicago. Inland Real Estate Auctions will also close the conference with a real estate auction event on Aug. 14, offering three properties at an open outcry auction and giving attendees an up-close look at the auction process. The ... Read the full story

A DE&S project team has combined MoD’s office supplies requirement with those of eight other Government departments in the biggest ever public sector reverse auction to generate combined savings over existing spending of £100M over the next four years. MoD combined its own office supplies requirement with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, Home Office, Dept of Constitutional Affairs, Metropolitan Police, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, HM Treasury, Office of Government Commerce and HM Prison Service to generate the savings. This ... Read the full story

Bonhams announced this week that it was extending its ongoing commitment to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival, the two world-class car events of which the company is a founding sponsor. The new long-term contract Bonhams signed with Lord March means that Bonhams has been involved with Goodwood for well over two decades. Bonhams Chairman, Robert Brooks, and motoring historian, Doug Nye, worked closely with Lord March to make the event the huge success it has become. Each year Bonhams holds multi-million pound classic car auctions at each ... Read the full story

A rare first edition of the very first Harry Potter book, written by the acclaimed British authoress J K Rowling, fetched a magical £9,000 today (26 June 2007) at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale in London. It was bought by an absentee buyer, who had left a commission bid with the auction house. The copy of Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, published by Bloomsbury in 1997, had a pre-sale estimate of £5,000-7,000, but as bidding escalated within the saleroom, the price was forced much higher. Bonhams sold the hardback on ... Read the full story

Fall sale to feature strong examples of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern and works by Contemporary Studio artists Bonhams & Butterfields’ fall 2007 auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts, to be held in Los Angeles on September 24, 2007, features a diverse group of works spanning a century of design. The works on offer will highlight the full range of 20th century artistic output, from the important early years through the modern period. One highlight of the Fall sale is a selection of Ron Arad designs. Arad, a ... Read the full story

Auction to Take Place in Public at Midwest Commercial Real Estate Summit Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announced today it will auction Chicago’s Igoe Building, 600 W. Van Buren St. The 285,000-square-foot loft office building will be auctioned as part of a live auction event at the Midwest Commercial Real Estate Summit, to be held Aug. 14 at the Hilton Chicago. Named for James T. Igoe, a former U.S. representative who served as Chicago’s city clerk from 1917 to 1923 and later as chairman of the executive committee of Chicago Mercantile Bank, ... Read the full story

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (TSX: RBA)(NYSE: RBA), the world’s largest auctioneer of trucks and industrial equipment, conducted more than a dozen unreserved industrial and agricultural auctions in North America, Mexico, Australia and Europe over the past week. The two largest were a US$26 million auction in North East, Maryland and a CA$27 million (US$25 million) auction in Grande Prairie, Alberta, both conducted on June 20-21, 2007. North East, Maryland (June 20-21, 2007) Interested buyers from across North America and around the world participated in ... Read the full story

George Plumptre, for several years the Gardening Correspondent for The Times newspaper, founder of ‘Greenfingers,’ and the author of numerous critically-acclaimed books on the finest gardens of Great Britain and Europe, has added yet another string to his bow as the curator of Bonhams’ inaugural Garden Sale, which will take place at 101 New Bond Street, London, on 16 July. The auction will include works of art and artefacts of horticultural interest from a cross-section of disciplines, including pictures, prints, ceramics, glass, books, ... Read the full story

A stunning Louis XV commode thought to be made by Pierre II Migeon (1701 – 1758), who supplied furniture to Madame de Pompadour, has been shipped from Sydney, Australia, to be sold at Bonhams’ sale of Fine Continental Furniture and Works of Art at 101 New Bond Street, London, on 10 July. Having travelled roughly 12,000 sea miles, it is expected to fetch up to £60,000 at the auction. Tim Goodman, CEO of Bonhams & Goodman in Australia, came across the commode in the private collection of an important family in Sydney, who decided that, ... Read the full story

Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces their July 14 Estate Auction. This exciting auction features an eclectic mix of antiques, art, furniture and decorative accessories from multiple estates in Massachusetts and beyond. The auction takes place under the large tent at Kaminski Auctions on Saturday, July 14, 2007 commencing at 11 AM with previews on Friday from 10 AM – 5:30 PM and Saturday from 8 – 11 AM. Auction-goers are also invited to a walkaround garden architectural and ... Read the full story

Home to the Queen Mother, Birthplace of Princess Margaret, “One of the Most Haunted Palaces in the Country”, The Site of King Malcom II’s Murder and Shakespeare’s MacBeth: Thane of Glamis A stunning 17th century Antwerp cabinet that reputedly stood in Glamis Castle, Angus, is to be sold at Bonhams in July. Glamis Castle is one of Scotland’s most famous sites, and is today best known for having been the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the birthplace of Princess Margaret, and for its role in ... Read the full story

Stunning works by Forbes and Harvey increasingly in demand. A number of charming paintings by renowned Newlyn artists Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA (1857 – 1947) and Harold Harvey (1874 – 1941) sold for far beyond their estimates prices at Bonhams’ Sale of Victorian Paintings at 101 New Bond Street today (21 June 2007). Harold Harvey’s Unloading the Boats, Newlyn Harbour, fetched £62,400 (estimate £30,000 – 50,000); and Snared by Stanhope Alexander Forbed made £43,200.Figures on a Country Road, by the same artist, ... Read the full story

An impressive Victorian oak writing table thought to have been designed by A.W.N. Pugin that stood in Prince Albert’s bedroom in Abney Hall (now Cheadle Town Hall), is to be sold at Bonhams in London next month. The desk, which is expected to fetch between £6,000 -“ 8,000, will go under the hammer at Bonhams sale of Fine English Furniture and Works of Art at 101 New Bond Street, London, on 3 July 2007. ‘The Grove’ was built by Alfred Orell, a former Stockport Mayor on the site of the Cheadle Grove Print Works, which burnt to the ground in ... Read the full story

Ableauctions.com Inc. (AMEX:AAC) (the “Company”) announced today that it will be hosting the Canadian Coinoisseur June Torex® Auction on June 22 and 23rd, 2007, on eBay Live Auctions through its subsidiary iCollector.com. The unique auction of 1918 lots is expected to attract spirited bidding for many of the rare and valuable lots. The auction features a complete collection of Canadian Decimal Coins amongst its offerings of coins, tokens, medals and paper money. Highlights of the auction included two rare Indian Peace Medals and 1921 fifty-cent ... Read the full story