Monthly Archives: March 2009

On March 21, 2009, I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers, will present a spectacular “Natural History Auction” featuring rare and exotic dinosaur skeletons, fossils, meteorites, gemstones, and mineral specimens. This year represents the first time Chait’s Natural History Auction will be available to bidders and interested viewers around the world live online, exclusively through Artfact [Read More]

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is pleased to announce the sale of works from Robert Henry Adams Fine Art. These works will be featured in a single-owner evening auction May 4, 2009. Robert Henry Adams, the distinguished and beloved art dealer, passed away in 2001. The Chicago native, who began his career as a [Read More]

In April Christie’s New York will present three sales of European Decorative Arts, which will bring fresh to the market works from the 17th century to the modern day, from several private collections and museums. With a range of price points featured in each sale, collectors will find one-of-a-kind examples of furniture, [Read More]

The auction will begin at 11am on Sunday, March 22 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, with a preview starting at 10am and extending through the auction. The sale will offer a large variety of vintage toys including Schuco, Marx, Mamod, Nylint, Keystone, Buddy L, Tonka and other tin, wind-up, and battery operated toys. [Read More]

(Malvern, Penn.) – Gordon S. Converse & Co. – the fledgling auction house launched just last year – is preparing for its third-ever auction on Saturday, April 25, with a multi-estate sale loaded with vintage clocks, period furniture, estate silver, collectible books and more. The auction will be held in the firm’s [Read More]

Swann Galleries of New York is presenting a Fine Books auction on April 2, 2009 features a variety of Early Printing, Judaica, Art, Press, and Illustrated Books, and Works On Cards & The Occult from the Collection of Stuart R. Kaplan. Highlights include rare manuscripts and first edition books relating to playing [Read More]

Christie’s Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale on Tuesday 31 March 2009, in London, features over 200 works, rich in decorative beauty, rarity and academic importance and spanning a wide range of geographical areas, materials and time. Leading the sale is a 14th century Mamluk silver and gold inlaid large [Read More]

From March 12-26 artnet Online Auctions (http://www.artnetonlineauctions.com) will feature a special sale of original limited edition prints by 40 artists including Francis Bacon, Marc Chagall, Roy Lichtenstein, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Leading the sale is an exceptional group of Pop Art prints by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Twenty [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields’ monthly SoMa Estate Auctions will feature highly desirable furnishings from the noted San Francisco-based furniture makers McGuire Furniture Company in its March 15, 2009 offering. In 2007, Bonhams & Butterfields sold more than 300 lots of McGuire furniture and ever since, savvy clients have been asking for more. On [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions has announced its April 4th Important Books and Manuscripts sale which coincides with the highly acclaimed New York Antiquarian Book Fair. The sale brings together a wealth of important early printing and manuscripts, with over 40 medieval texts and illuminated manuscripts, 40 incunabula, and numerous 16th century volumes and early [Read More]

A wooden box and cover in the form of a book, which was a souvenir from Pitcairn Island, is one of the many unusual lots of eclectic collectors items going under the Charterhouse hammer in their auction on Friday 27th March. “Pitcairn Island is a volcanic island in the southern Pacific Ocean [Read More]

The Berkshire Estate, located in the New England countryside, will sell at real estate auction on Saturday, March 28th at 11 a.m. J. P. King Auction Company, the nation’s leading real estate auction marketing firm specializing in luxury properties will manage the sale of the home. “The Berkshire Estate is a newly [Read More]

WWA Group, Inc. (OTCBB: WWAG) today announced the results of its most recent auction, held in Dubai between February 21 and 23, 2009. Gross auction sales exceeded US$22.5 million and involved more than 410 registered bidders from 29 countries. Equipment consigned by 133 consignors from 21 countries, comprised of over 1,300 items, [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will celebrate the Grand Opening of its new permanent auction site in Medford just outside Minneapolis with an unreserved industrial and agricultural auction on March 19, 2009 starting at approximately 8:00 a.m. The unreserved auction is expected to draw both local and international [Read More]

AmeriCredit Corp. (NYSE:ACF) has named Grand Rapids Auto Auction in Jenison, Mich., its 2008 Auction of the Year as part of the company’s nationwide Auction of Excellence program. For the Auction of Excellence program, AmeriCredit representatives assess each auction’s performance in a variety of categories, including customer service, marketing promotions, pre-sale activities [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman has announced that two distinguished Australian artists have generously donated art works for the benefit of artists and art lovers. In the forthcoming sale at Bay East on 22 March 2009, two works by Margaret Olley and 63 works by the late sculptor Barbara Tribe are being offered at [Read More]

Dave Cockrum’s famous cover art for X-Men #102, a classic slugfest between Colossus and Juggernaut, proved equal to its iconic status during Heritage Auction Galleries’ Feb. 26-27 Signature® Comics and Comic Art Auction when it brought $65,725, the most ever paid for a piece of post-1970 comic art at Heritage. “This cover [Read More]

Bidders Worldwide Can Now Participate Live in Auction-Room Proceedings via the Internet * Real-time audio and video * Instant messaging * Multimedia catalogs * Secure transactions * No software downloads * Demonstrations are available Shotgun Life, the first online magazine dedicated to the best in wing and clays shooting, has expanded its [Read More]