Daily Archives: March 25, 2008

ST. LOUIS – Charter Communications, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CHTR) innovative marketing campaign is opening new sales channels and driving heightened awareness of its blazing fast high-speed Internet service. Charter’s “High-Speed for Life” Internet auction is aimed at surfers of social networks, blogs and other online communities. Consumers can bid on receiving Charter High-Speed(R) [Read More]

LONDON – Christie’s announce the rediscovery of La Surprise by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). The painting has been missing for almost 200 years, presumed to have been destroyed, and was previously known only by a copy in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace and through a contemporary engraving. It was found in the [Read More]

Over 200 years after the world’s first passenger locomotive was built, a very rare and highly important detailed working model of a early 19th century steam engine called Hercules is to be sold by Bonhams. It is expected to fetch £15,000-20,000 at Bonhams’ annual Henley Sale on 19 July 2008. The American [Read More]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, – In response to the growing interest in real estate auctions, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers will conduct free “real estate auction buying” seminars at MW Johnson Construction in Lakeville, Minnesota this week. The seminars start at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26 and Thursday, March 27, 2008. On Saturday, March 29, [Read More]

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., – Moniker.com (http://www.moniker.com), an Oversee.net company and provider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, today announced additional premium domain names will be available for purchase via a live and online domain name auction at the Casino Affiliate Convention (CAC) in Amsterdam. The exclusive live auction will take place onsite next [Read More]

MENLO PARK, Calif. – ATC-Onlane, Inc., the leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles, today announced that the Company’s shareholders and board of directors approved a company name change to OPENLANE, Inc. effective immediately. This new corporate identity better reflects the company’s evolving [Read More]

New York, NY – On April 18, 2008, Sotheby’s New York is proud to offer The Orientalist Sale, highlighted by exceptional masterpieces covering the entire region including North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. This dedicated sale represents a retrospective of 19th century Orientalist art, presenting some of the finest examples of [Read More]

Tallahassee, FL – Abal Auction Real Estate, a Tallahassee, Florida, based auction brokerage, announced the auction sale of Party Pleasers, Inc. Party Pleasers, Inc. was a veritable institution mainstay in the equipment, party banquet rental business operating for 9 years at their Tallahassee location. Auctioneer Broker, Dr. Joe Abal was quoted “In [Read More]

Theodore Baierl, ‘St.John the Baptist’. Sold for £26,000. Cheffins’ first Fine Art sale of the year on March 5th and 6th proved that good quality items at the right price have still got a strong appeal in the market. In the first day’s morning section, an early 20th century Meissen group, realised [Read More]

A stunning picture by the noted Scottish painter William McTaggart – once owned by the renowned Glasgow curator and collector TJ Honeyman – could make £15,000 at Bonhams’ Spring Sale of 19th Century Pictures and Prints on 16 April 2008 in Edinburgh. Honeyman’s daughter Elizabeth, a farmer of Aberdeen Angus cattle, dropped [Read More]

Carrying the momentum from yesterday’s record Japanese and Korean Art sale, today realized the highest total at Christie’s New York for a series of Chinese Works of Art sales, with an average lot value of 80% sold between the three sales. Tina Zonars, International Director of Chinese Works of Art said, “Today’s [Read More]