Monthly Archives: July 2008

LARCHMONT, NY – Clarke Auction Gallery announces a unique auction to benefit the volunteer firefighters of Mt Vernon New York. The city’s volunteer firefighters have a proud history that goes back to mid-nineteenth century. To their great credit, much of this history has been preserved by the volunteers for the past 150 [Read More]

An important 17th century oil painting of Thomas Boothby of Tooley Park, Leicestershire (1681-1752) attributed to Jonathan Richardson Snr (1665-1745) is to be sold by auction at Tennants in Leyburn, North Yorkshire in their Summer Catalogue Sale on 17-19 July 2008. Thomas Boothby of Tooley In 1696, and at only 15 years [Read More]

CHICAGO – Mastro Auctions, the world’s leading Sports and Americana auction house, has announced that it will deliver its second annual Live Sports Auction on Friday, August 1 at 8:30 p.m. at the ESPN Zone in Chicago. The event will feature more than 90 of the world’s most coveted pieces of current [Read More]

LONDON – Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Paintings totaled £51,488,650 /$101,530,469/ €64,813,991 well in excess of the pre-sale estimate of £30.2-44.2 million. In a sale that attracted bidders from across the globe, 19 new artist’s records were established, with 58% of the lots sold realising prices in excess of high estimate. Two [Read More]

SAVANNAH, GA – iGavel.com and Everard & Company’s highly anticipated Important Photographic Equipment Auction has big shoes to fill as it kicked off June 30th and is set to close July 18th. It is the sixth photographic equipment auction Everard & Company has produced at iGavel, with results climbing higher by the [Read More]

The June 22 sale at Burchard Galleries, Inc in St. Petersburg, FL featured inventory from the Daytona Museum of Arts and Sciences, the JP Morgan Collection and two mid Florida estates. The June 22 sale at Burchard Galleries featured an outstanding collection of American gold coins from an Orlando estate that far [Read More]

On Wednesday the 25th June, Yorkshire auctioneers Tennants, brushed away current economic fears with its most successful ever book auction. The Leyburn auction house was packed with prospective bidders and extra seating had to be rushed in at the last minute. The leading attraction was a first edition of Jane Eyre. The [Read More]

A rare early 17th century silver chalice and paten, which languished in a Kew attic for over 25 years has been entered into the Charterhouse auction of silver and jewellery in August. “It originally belonged to the vendors father who collected silver many years ago. After his death, the vendors mother put [Read More]

LONDON – A recently rediscovered masterpiece by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) sold at Christie’s auction of Important Old Master and British Pictures for £12,361,250 / $24,376,385 / €15,513,369, a world record price for any French Old Master painting sold at auction. La Surprise had been missing for almost 200 years, presumed to have [Read More]

New York, NY – Historic printing press plates of well-known corporate logos used in the process of producing early and mid-20th century advertising and marketing materials and stock certificates will be offered in a public auction conducted on July 27 and 28, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland by Stack’s (www.Stacks.com) of New York [Read More]

BALTIMORE – Ironclad Authentics recently announced the launch of IroncladAuctions.com, an online auction platform designed to give collectors an opportunity to purchase and sell unique, authenticated memorabilia through a trusted name in the sports industry In addition to the daily auction platform, IroncladAuctions.com will host its first annual Ironclad Legends Auction, a [Read More]

In today’s marketplace, on-line auctions are replacing everything from garage sales to department stores. The on-line auction industry has revolutionized the way people buy and sell. Local Yokel, Inc. is a breath of fresh air. Boise, ID – Now you can get a piece of the action. A new company, Local Yokel [Read More]

Dallas, TX – An unprecedented “lot” will be offered in conjunction with the official auction of the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money® convention in Baltimore: lunch with Heritage Auction Galleries Co-Chairman, best-selling author, comics collector and acclaimed numismatic authority, Jim Halperin. All proceeds from the winning bid, including the buyer’s [Read More]

If you raise your bidding paddle at the right moment in this year’s Bonhams sale in Henley, Saturday 19 July, you could sail home with ‘Belle’, a magnificent Victorian river launch. Licensed to carry 100 passengers on the river and kitted out to cater for 70, ‘Belle’ has worked on the Thames [Read More]

A painting of The Queen Mother with her daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, sold for £90,000 in Lyon & Turnbull Fine Paintings sale on 29th May. The painting by Charles Edmund Brock is accompanied by a letter dated November 1933 from HRH The Queen Mother asking the artist for a price to [Read More]

BLENHEIM, Ontario – Preeminent international auction house, RM Auctions, is delighted to announce the return of former partner Dan Warrener to their vintage car specialist team. A lifelong enthusiast and passionate car collector, Warrener first joined the RM team in 1987, becoming a partner in 1988 along with Mike Fairbairn and remaining [Read More]

A 1945 Supermarine Spitfire MK XVI to star in Bonhams & Goodman’s inaugural sale of Collectors’ Motor Cars and Aircraft in New Zealand on the 14th September. The sale comes in a double anniversary year for military aircraft – it is the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force [Read More]

London – Christie’s is pleased to be offering the contents of Langford Hall, Nottinghamshire on Sunday 6 July at 11.30am. Both Patrick Radford and his wife Evelyn were fascinated by antiques and design and over the course of their lives together at Langford Hall, collected a variety of items that filled the [Read More]