AuctionPublicity.com – On Friday, November 16, 2007, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers – the world’s largest industrial auction company – will conduct a retirement dispersal auction for Frost Construction in Lovell, Wyoming. Close to 180 items will be sold in the unreserved public auction, which features asphalt and crushing equipment as well as trucks and construction equipment. Like every Ritchie Bros. auction, the sale will be completely unreserved – meaning there are no minimum bids or reserve prices. Every item will be sold to the ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – Auction Floor, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AFLR) (FRANKFURT: ZUI), a leading web-based marketer and technology provider to the auction industry, announced the commercial launch of its new Auction Managerâ„¢, a comprehensive “back of the house” desktop tool and auction management system. The Company’s Auction Managerâ„¢, a proprietary software solution for auctioneers, enables the auctioneer to centralize their management for auction events from a single platform. Easy-to-Use features include the ability to upload ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – Barretts Equine Limited, a leading California Thoroughbred auction facility, recently became the first West Coast auction house to employ the Eklin Digital Repository(TM) for review of digital radiographs (DR). Six review workstations were installed at Barretts October Yearling Sale, held earlier this month, by Eklin Medical Systems to accommodate rapid veterinary evaluation of sale horse extremity (legs) health. Barretts is the second U.S. equine auction facility to use this state-of-the-art technology which is based on ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – It seems collectors just can’t get enough of what Mastro Auctions offers in its popular Classic Collector auctions. On October 25, the leading Sports and Americana auction house closed its final Classic Collector event of 2007. The results indicate there is no let up of excitement surrounding these much anticipated sales that are packed with diversity. “Another two million dollar plus Classic Collector event puts an exclamation point on the success of these great hobby sales,” said Doug Allen, president of ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – Bell Rock Lighthouse in The North Sea is one of Scotland’s greatest engineering feats of the early 19th century. Every lighthouse across the world that sits in the sea today has been built to Robert Stevenson’s same design and specification. On 28 November 2007, the original scale model for the lighthouse, which was presented by the engineer to his daughter, will be sold at Bonhams’ Scientific&Marine Works of Art Sale in Knightsbridge, London. The model, which is being sold on behalf of direct descendents of ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – A number of amazing pictures by some of Greeces greatest artists will be auctioned at Bonhams next Greek Sale on December 13 in New Bond Street. Perhaps the single most powerful evocation of landscape in the sale is lot 62, titled Landscape, painted by Constantinos Maleas (1879-1928), circa 1914-1917. This 65.5 x 90 cm oil on canvas is estimated to sell for £150,000-200,000. Landscape, perhaps more than any other painting by Maleas, begs comparison to Claude Monets famous Norman seascapes. The picture was exhibited at the ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – Bonhams & Butterfields, international fine arts auctioneers, bring exquisite diamonds and period jewelry to auction in Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 17, 2007. The firm’s Winter Fine Jewelry sale comprises nearly 200-lots and will be simulcast to the Bonhams New York salesroom. Highlighting the December sale is a highly desirable French diamond and platinum rivière necklace (est. $350,000/550,000). The rivière necklace is considered a timeless design, of interest to collectors and those with classic ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – International fine arts auctioneers Bonhams will celebrate 20th Century design in December with an auction of decorative arts and furniture comprising examples spanning a century of innovation. The December 19, 2007 auction at Bonhams New York features works of Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modern design, including an important collection of Greene & Greene furnishings with seating from the noted Cordelia Culbertson House (1911) in Pasadena, California expected to attract serious interest. Brothers Charles and Henry Greene began ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – (Hyannis, Mass.) – Don’t make other plans for Thanksgiving weekend if you’re a fan of antiques – in particularly fine art. On Saturday, November 24, MV Auctions / Auctions of Cape Cod and the Islands will conduct a multi-estate sale, featuring items from homes in Brewster, Falmouth, Chatham and other Cape homes. The sale will be held at the Bearses Way Function Hall in Hyannis. Slated to cross the block will be over 50 original paintings, all of them framed and done by noted, listed artists; fine china and ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – Buying and selling quality aircraft just got a lot easier thanks to FlyBoysToys.com, an auction service based out of Idaho. The company backing FlyBoysToys.com aircraft auctions is Armstrong Auctions, an established 15 year old auction house that has facilitated over 1,000 auctions. FlyBoysToys.com will be having its premier aircraft auction on Saturday November 10th at 10 am MST. The auction will take place at the Caldwell Idaho Airport, and will be broadcasted live over the internet around the world. Those interested in bidding ... Read the full story

Rhonda Duffy, licensed auctioneer, radio personality and owner of Duffy Realty where she is the #1 agent in Georgia, has been doing charity auctions for AMCA, GE Money, Good Mews and will ring at Starry Night. Most charity auctioneers charge a 10% fee of the proceeds of the auction. Duffy does it as a contribution to good charities. Not only does a professional team of auctioneers bring a certainty to the auction, the team usually raises far more money to the charity according to the National Association of Auctioneers. A professional team is trained to bring ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – October 29, 2007 — NAXCOM, the country’s premier sports and collectibles marketplace, has announced that it will be launching their No Listing Fees Auctions on Wednesday 11/7 at 12:00 p.m. (pst). “Since we launched our main NAXCOM site back in 2001, our users have continuously requested for us to expand into auctions,” said Eric Beckerman, CEO OF NAXCOM. “However, we didn’t want to expand into auctions until we had enough critical mass where there would be a lot of listings and bidders to make ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – HALLANDALE, FL, October 30, 2007 – Lawyers Realty & Auctions, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to spearhead real estate brokerage and assist in obtaining financiers for one of the largest developers in the southeast on a billion-dollar resort and casino development project in Mississippi. The project is a multi-phased resort and casino project, with the first phase to include 150,000 sq ft of gaming area with restaurants, a conference center, and the first of two 500-room hotel operations ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – New York – On the evening of November 20 and morning of November 21, 2007, Sotheby’s will offer an impressive selection of Latin American Art, highlighted by the triptych painting, Et At It (lot 15, est. $2.5/3.5 million), by the Chilean artist Matta, from 1944, a pivotal point in the artist’s career, when Matta along with several other European Surrealist artists were living in exile in New York during the Second World War. Additionally, the sale will feature several important works by Rufino Tamayo, ... Read the full story

AuctionPublicity.com – DENVER, Pa. – On Oct. 27 as a CBS Television film crew rolled tape, the 489-lot Stephen and Marilyn Steckbeck collection of antique mechanical banks and related ephemera set a new world record for a toy auction, grossing $7.7 million. A near-mint-plus example of J. & E. Stevens cast-iron ‘Jonah and the Whale/Jonah Emerges’ bank led the sale’s top 10 with a selling price of $414,000 (all prices quoted are inclusive of a 15 percent buyer’s premium). The late-1880s moneybox depicting Biblical ... Read the full story