Bonhams announces the sale of a 1917 Curtiss MF Seagull Flying Boat, to be offered at auction on Tuesday April 13 in New York. Sourced from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio, the flying boat will be the first vintage plane auctioned in Manhattan, and it is expected to realize between $300,000-500,000. A plane designed by one of the leading pioneers of American aviation and archrival of the Wright brothers, Glenn H. Curtiss, the Seagull is an eloquent symbol for one of the Curtiss company’s greatest achievements – the perfection ... Read the full story

Bonhams London sale of 20th Century British Art once more exceeded expectations when it made a £2 million total and a brand new world record price for a Helen Bradley picture sold at auction, for £144,000. Bradley (1900-1979), who started painting in her sixties, and died shortly before she was due to be honoured with an MBE, had previously commanded £97,000 as a best price at auction, said a delighted Matthew Bradbury, Head of 20th Century British Art at Bonhams. The world record picture titled “Blackpool Beach” a sunny image of bathers, had ... Read the full story

(ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – The outstanding single-owner lifetime collection of Dale Gabel – a dedicated collector of antiques in a wide range of categories – will be sold without reserve (everything goes, regardless of price) the weekend of April 9-10 in the junior ballroom of the St. Charles Convention Center. Woody Auction, based in Douglass, Kan., will conduct the auction. Over 850 lots will cross the block over the course of the two days. Featured will be Daum Nancy, primitives, art glass, R.S. Prussia, lithographs, marbles, lamps, Royal Bayreuth, Flow ... Read the full story

Ferrari has raised $601,000 for relief efforts in Haiti by the CMMB (Catholic Medical Mission Board) and the William J. Clinton Foundation. At a gala event held last night, Ferrari, the world’s leading luxury brand, auctioned the first Ferrari 458 Italia to arrive in the United States for $530,000. Party was hosted by Piero Ferrari, Deputy Chairman, Amedeo Felisa, worldwide CEO of the company, and Marco Mattiacci, the newly appointed North America CEO. Over 500 guests and Ferrari aficionados, including John Mayer, Jeremy Renner, Patrick Dempsey, Aaron ... Read the full story

Bonhams & Butterfields is honored to feature property from the Estate of renowned Los Angeles Philanthropist, Nancy M. Daly during the spring auctions of 20th Century Decorative Arts, California and American Paintings and Sculpture and Fine European and American Furniture and Decorative Arts. The sales will include a strong offering of Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre, silver, works by Tiffany, California Impressionist paintings and American furnishings as well as one of the most important collections of Rookwood pottery to be featured at auction in recent ... Read the full story

ROUSH Performance® and Barrett-Jackson have teamed together to offer a limited edition, high-performance version of the Ford Mustang. The concept car for the Barrett-Jackson Edition ROUSH Mustang will be sold at No Reserve during the 8th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Palm Beach on April 1-3, 2010, at the Americraft Expo Center at the South Florida Fairgrounds. “The 2010 Barrett-Jackson Edition ROUSH Mustang ties two leading automotive brands together in an amazing package combining performance and unique styling,” said Jack ... Read the full story

Sotheby’s to Sell Important American Indian, African, Oceanic and Other Works of Art from the Studio of Enrico Donati 14 May 2010Sotheby’s is pleased to announce the sale of Important American Indian, African, Oceanic and Other Works of Art from the Studio of Surrealist painter Enrico Donati, which will be sold as a single-owner collection 14 May 2010 at 2pm. Comprising approximately forty lots of works from Donati’s New York studio housed in the landmark Gainsborough Building on Central Park South, the sale will be exhibited alongside the various ... Read the full story

On Sunday, March 28th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell 460 lots including hundreds of items stored in a locked and darkened warehouse since the late 1970’s. Ronan Clarke, founder and owner of Clarke Auction, wasn’t sure what he would find when he finally unlocked the door of the decaying warehouse. He had quickly viewed the estate in 2005 and remembered tripping over great things in the dark. But then the estate vanished. Five years later, as he finally got a second chance, spectacular pieces from an untouched collection emerged from the ... Read the full story

More than 90 Luxury vehicles at Pickles Auctions Luxury, Exotic and 4WD motor vehicles will go under the hammer on behalf of Finance companies (Repossessions), Fleet Lease companies and other vendors in the first quarterly Luxury Auction for 2010. The massive auction will be held in Sydney on Monday 29 March at 6.00 pm and it is predicted that the sale will attract media attention and hundreds, if not thousands of bidders. Branch Manager – Belmore – Steve Allen says “The quarterly auction attracts an enormous amount of interest, with buyers having ... Read the full story

After a stunning success in 2009 for their very first live auction and multiple online auctions each month since last July, new auction house Spectrum Wine Auctions has confirmed dates and locations for their first live auction of 2010, another global event. The auction takes place simultaneously on Saturday, April 24 at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, and on Sunday, April 25 at Crown Wine Cellars in Hong Kong. The auction will present more than 850 lots, which includes collections of two anchor consignors: The ... Read the full story

Treasure Auction #7 In three sessions, Wednesday-Friday, April 7-9, 2010 As usual our latest Treasure Auction is full of surprises, but this time we feel it is also very well balanced across many fields, with more general world coins than ever before. Here are some highlights: In great deference to the Sedwick patriarch, for the first time ever we are offering selections from the Frank Sedwick study collection of 1715-Fleet gold cobs, including plate coins from past editions of the Practical Book of Cobs and other pieces never seen or offered for sale, coins ... Read the full story

Christie’s has announced that they will offer an exceptionally important and highly celebrated masterpiece by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on 23 June 2010. Painted by the most influential artist of the 20th century, Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, 1903 comes from the artist’s celebrated Blue Period, arguably the greatest period in Picasso’s career. The painting will be priced at £30 million to £40 million and all the proceeds will benefit The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, a charity ... Read the full story

The Roy Rogers Personal Firearms & Hunting Collection will be sold at Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction (www.DenverOldWest.com) at the Denver Merchandise Mart. Roy’s firearms will be sold including his very first belt and double holster rig, made by Ed Gilmore of North Hollywood, CA in 1938, his gold-plated 101 Ranch revolvers, the shotgun he bought off Clark Gable, and one of Dale Evans’ only guns, a pearl handled Colt. The collection includes antique, modern & commemorative firearms. Artifacts supporting Roy’s avid hunting interests will be ... Read the full story

An extremely rare poster protesting against the hanging of a prominent black Jamaican citizen and printed in Birmingham by E.C. Osborne of Bennett’s Hill as part of a campaign for a Royal Commission is being offered by Bonhams at its Manuscript, Maps and Books Sale at 101 New Bond Street on 23 March. George Gordon, a magistrate and elected member of the island’s Assembly, was executed on trumped up charges following the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865. A long standing and effective spokesman for the landless black community, Gordon was loathed by ... Read the full story

(CHESAPEAKE, Va.) – Part 3 of the estate of Carl and Barbara Moulton – comprising the couple’s lovely home at 200 Tara Circle in Chesapeake, plus over 700 lots of antiques and collectibles – will be sold at the home itself in an on-site auction slated for Saturday, Apr. 17, at 9 a.m. The auction will be conducted by Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals, based in Suffolk, Va. “I’m not going to say we saved the best for last, because there were some truly outstanding items sold in Parts 1 and 2,” said Tom Perry of Tom’s Auctions & ... Read the full story

Bonhams is proud to announce the sale of the ‘Haslinger Collection’ of fine and rare Heuer watches on Wednesday 15 December at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. We are honoured to be working in partnership with TAG Heuer for this very special sale to celebrate its 150th Anniversary. Paul Maudsley, Director of the Watch Department comments, “These 81 watches in the collection represent the ‘best of the best’ which is why TAG Heuer are happy to showcase highlights of them as part of their anniversary celebrations. The watches range ... Read the full story

A delicate wreath made of fine gold oak leaves with acorns, of the type worn by Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II of Macedon, is one of the highlights of Bonhams sale of Antiquities on April 28 in New Bond Street. This stunning artefact, estimate £100,000-120,000, may once have graced the head of a ruler or dignitary over 2,000 years ago. “The fact that this delicate collection of fine gold leaves and acorns formed into a wreath has survived the centuries is almost miraculous,” says Madeleine Perridge, Antiquities Specialist at Bonhams. ... Read the full story

Gooding & Company, the internationally-recognized auction house, garnered more than $16.1 Million* in sales, with a total of 58 out of 71 lots sold (an average sales price of $278,300 per car), at its inaugural Amelia Island Auction on Friday, March 12, 2010 at the Amelia Island Plantation. The auction’s top-seller was the star 1931 Voisin Mylord Demi-Berline that sold for $2.75 Million, an outstanding sale and world record for the Best of Show 2009 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance winner. “One of my favorite moments at this auction ... Read the full story

Bloomsbury Auctions, in New York, announces the sale of the William E. Fischelis Collection of Victorian-era works on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10 a.m. This immaculate single-owner sale, a culmination of over 40 years of thoughtful collecting, consists chiefly of 18th and 19th century British art, with the inclusion of French and American artist’s works as well. Although diverse in its foundation, the collection is an elegant representation of the Fischelis’s interest and passion for Victorian portraiture, accented with several pre-Raphaelite, female ... Read the full story

Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, announces The Irish Sale which will be held in its Manhattan rooms on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10am. The sale is held in conjunction with Whyte’s, Ireland’s premier auction house for Irish art and collectibles. The focal point of the 70-lot Irish Sale is the Tricolour flag. This unique icon of the Irish Revolution and the only recorded full sized tricolor of the 1916 Rising in existence, is of the utmost rarity and importance (lot 26). It is accompanied by a ... Read the full story