(Pittsfield, Mass.) – A splendid period Queen Anne lowboy, made around 1750 in New Hampshire and with front ball-and-claw feet and the original brass hardware, is the expected headliner at a multi-estate sale slated for Saturday, Oct. 18, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. The lowboy, showing great proportions at 31-1/2 inches tall by 31-1/2 inches wide, will probably fetch $80,000-$120,000. “We got this fine piece out of a private home in New York,” said John Fontaine of Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. “It was bought in the 1950s by the ... Read the full story

J. P. King Auction Company, the nation’s leading real estate auction marketing firm specializing in luxury properties, has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Summit Creative Award. The award celebrates the creative accomplishments of small and medium sized creative companies throughout the world. Of the thousands of submissions from more than 20 countries, J. P. King scored among the highest in their category. Every year the Summit International Awards hosts several competitions with the goal of recognizing companies that excel in the communications ... Read the full story

BOLTON, Mass. – September 30, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it has set several world records for some of the most expensive bottles of fine wine sold at auction. At the recent Boston sale of Fine Wines, held September 19, 2008, Skinner sold three bottles of Domaine de la Romanee Conti, Romanee Conti 1911 for $60,750, including buyer’s premium. The lot was estimated at $15/20,000. Other record breaking lots included Lot 105, Screaming Eagle (est. ... Read the full story

L. H. Selman Ltd., premier antique paperweight dealer, is gearing up for its forty-second semi-annual paperweight auction. “Due to the overwhelming response to the Alschuler Auction Part I, we anticipate another exceptional sale this fall,” says Larry Selman. The second half of the Sam and Winifred Alschuler collection includes many of the most important paperweights to appear at auction, with individual lots valued up to $30,000. • L. H. Selman Ltd. Fall 2008 Paperweight Auction • Rare and important antique and contemporary paperweights and related ... Read the full story

Hamburg (kk) – For € 80 000 it could be yours: the first empirical proof that the earth is round. The extremely rare original edition of a letter from Maximilianus Transsylvanus, secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is to go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst auction of Rare Books – Manuscripts – Autographs – Decorative Prints in Hamburg on 17/18 November. In it, the secretary reports to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Salzburg on the first circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan. With a fleet of five ships and ... Read the full story

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., – Joseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. (“Finn”), Assignee of the assets of Spherics, Inc. (“Spherics”) for the benefit of creditors, said, in an interview today, that interest in the Company’s therapeutic drugs and technology platforms was strong. Numerous confidential agreements have been signed and conference calls between the Company’s science team and prospective buyers have been productive and informative. The intellectual property will be sold at a sealed bid auction on October 10, 2008. Persons ... Read the full story

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Officials with the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company recently announced that vehicle consignment spots for the company’s inaugural Las Vegas event have been sold out, proving once again that economic woes are no match for the thriving collector car hobby. Barrett-Jackson will continue to accept bidder applications from collectors looking to nab one of these amazing vehicles; tickets to the event are also still on sale. The Las Vegas event will take place Oct. 15-18, 2008, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip. The ... Read the full story

SOLON, Ohio – Stopol Auctions, L.L.C. – the leader in hosting and managing plastics industry auctions — will host and web cast an auction October 8, 2008, to sell plastics manufacturing equipment from continuing operations at Little Tikes Co.’s Hudson, Ohio, plant. Stopol Auctions will conduct a live auction at 10:05 a.m. (EDT) October 8 at Little Tikes’ Hudson facility and air the event on www.stopol.com’s webcast portal so that bidders from all over the world can participate in the event using their PCs. Stopol Auctions will hold a ... Read the full story

VANCOUVER, – Interested equipment buyers from more than 60 countries registered to bid in eight unreserved public auctions conducted in three countries last week by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (www.rbauction.com), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer. The largest auctions were held at two of the Company’s 38 auction sites: a (euro)44 million (US$64 million) auction in Moerdijk, the Netherlands and a US$42 million auction in Fort Worth, Texas (both held September 24 – 26, 2008). MOERDIJK, NETHERLANDS – Buyers from outside the ... Read the full story

NEW YORK, NY – Christie’s has announced the single owner sale of Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, which will be offered on March 18, 2009. This is the first of a series of auctions consigned by the Arthur M. Sackler Collections Trust of its part of the large collection amassed over many decades by the internationally well-known collector Arthur M. Sackler. The sale is expected to realize in the region of $4 million. Following the precedent set by the spectacular results of the December 1994 sale of Important Works of Art from ... Read the full story

DUBAI – Christie’s, have announced their fifth auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai which will take place on 30 October 2008 and which will offer the strongest and most important selection of works to date in the region. The auction will present 157 exceptional paintings and sculptures from the leading artists of the UAE, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Turkey, Europe and the United States. The auction will take place at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel and is expected to realise US$12 million to US$18 million. ... Read the full story

(West Swanzey, N.H. ) – Part I of the living estate of Dolores Wettach Williams – the third wife of baseball legend Ted Williams – will be sold Sunday, November 23, by Knotty Pine Auction Service. Part I will consist of antique furnishings and accessories from the home the two once shared, near Putney, Vt. The sale will be held at Knotty Pine’s showroom, located at 787 West Swanzey Rd., in West Swanzey, N.H. Ted and Dolores were married for six years, from 1967-1973. They had two children: a son, John Henry (1968-2004), and a daughter, ... Read the full story

NEW YORK, NY – Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC has announced an important auction of Russian, European, and Latin American art, to take place on November 5, 2008 in New York. The catalog for the auction has now been posted online at http://www.geneshapiro.com, and the printed full color catalog is available for purchase. Gene Shapiro, President of the company, is confident that this sale will attract many buyers, “Due to the success of our last several auctions, we have been very fortunate to get numerous inquiries about consigning with us, especially from ... Read the full story

DALLAS, TX – Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is legendary both for his appreciation of the female form and his timelessly sophisticated taste. With Playboy – The Art of Beauty, on the block in Dallas at Heritage on Oct. 15, a select group of lusty, irreverent original illustrations that thrilled generations of readers will be made available to discriminating art lovers around the globe. Under Hef’s direction, Playboy magazine has introduced millions of devoted readers to some of the finest artists, illustrators and writers in the world. The ... Read the full story

The residual contents of West End Garage, Bruton, are to be sold by auction by Charterhouse on Wednesday 8th October. “West End Garage has now successfully completed their relocation just a few hundred yards away and we have been instructed to dispose of the remaining items which are now surplus to their requirements.” Commented Matthew Whitney at Charterhouse. “There is pretty much everything there for the professional, home mechanic or someone restoring a classic car with nearly 400 lots going under the hammer estimated from just a few pounds for ... Read the full story

A pair of Doulton Lambeth vases, decorated an unusual scene of lions stalking deer, are included in the Charterhouse two day auction on 16th & 17th October. “It looks a somewhat bizarre grouping of animals by Hannah Barlow who is perhaps one of the best known decorators who worked at Doulton Lambeth in the late 19th century and I am struggling to think where she encountered a group of lions attacking a herd of deer – I guess it is a bit of artistic license, it certainly was not at Longleat as the Safari Park was not opened until 1966!” Commented ... Read the full story

Averaging over two million dollars per sale over its last three auctions, Huggins and Scott has completed preparations for its upcoming worldwide sports memorabilia catalog auction that will begin October 5. The Maryland-based company, which last year sold a single-signed Christy Mathewson baseball for $161,000 and a rare Joe Jackson-Buck Weaver autographed baseball for $69,000, will offer over 1,400 consigned lots of vintage and modern sports cards and memorabilia in a two-day auction with bidding conducted by phone and Internet via the company’s Web ... Read the full story

LONDON – Sotheby’s Arts of the Islamic World sale will offer an exceptional range of works originating from across the varying cultures and areas that are commonly considered to constitute the Islamic World. Fine examples of ancient manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, weaponry, textiles, ceramics and paintings from North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, Islamic Spain and South Asia all feature in the sale. METALWORK The highlight of the sale is an important silver-inlaid brass incense burner, probably made in the city of Mosul between 1240-60 (Lot 146, ... Read the full story

PARIS – Christie’s has announced the sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection, which will take place in Paris on the 23rd, 24th and 25th February 2009 at the Grand Palais, in association with the Pierre Bergé & Associates auction house. As in many instances where an artist’s signature style defines a décor, the word “Collection? is uniquely qualified by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. The works of art found in their respective apartments at the rue de Babylone and the rue Bonaparte, are brought together to ... Read the full story

NEW HOPE, Pa. – On Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15-16, Noel Barrett opens a treasure chest of rare and unusual childhood antiques in his Fall 2008 auction of ‘Toys & Other Things.’ We’ve become accustomed to the Houdini-like ways with which Barrett is able to unearth exquisitely rare antique toys, even within a collecting landscape that has been well trodden. Just when collectors think “all the good stuff” is accounted for, along comes a great surprise, together with a hefty price realized. A recent example of the unexpected consignments that ... Read the full story