Monthly Archives: April 2008

(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A pair of original Charles Schulz “Peanuts” comic strips – one daily, one Sunday – sold for a combined $106,270, and original cover art by Dave Cockrum for the “X-Men” #99 comic book hit $55,370 at a multi-estate sale held April 26 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The Dave Cockrum [Read More]

EDINBURGH – The first of Sotheby’s bi-annual sales of Scottish Pictures will take place on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh. With a strong focus on the 20th century, the sale will showcase important and quality works from all periods and movements of Scottish Art over the course [Read More]

Bedford, PA – They say “a picture is worth a thousand words”, and in the auction industry that saying certainly holds true. AuctionZip.com the nation’s largest live auction website features over 20,000 auction listings from 11,000 auctioneers nationwide. About half of those listings have photo galleries attached showing the buyers items that [Read More]

The Classic MotorCycle Show, Stafford, 27 April 2008 Bonhams celebrated its best ever motorcycle sale at Stafford yesterday (27 April 2008), achieving several world record prices in a storming sale that realised £2,112,099. This is the highest ever sale total for any UK motorcycle sale, emphatically confirming Bonhams’ position as clear market [Read More]

Motorbikes owned by Steve McQueen, Evel Knievel, Private and Corporate Collections on the Block An exceptional offering of celebrity motorbikes and rare models from private and corporate collections come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields’ second annual auction in concert with Legend of the Motorcycle, the eagerly-anticipated international concours d’elegance returning to [Read More]

Proxibid, a leading provider of live auction webcasting services, will provide online bidding for an upcoming four-day auction featuring more than 4,000 pieces of jewelry valued at approximately $5 Million from Rochester, MN-based Rochester Lapidary Jewelers. The live auction event, presented by Grafe Auction Company, will take pace at the Mayo Civic [Read More]

There are certain ‘magic’ words that excite buyers, such as ‘fresh to the market’ and ‘a find’. Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of 20th century British Art has many ‘fresh to the market’ paintings, ‘a find’ and even one or two artists whose work has never been sold at auction before. Each sale is [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – April 29, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced that its spring painting sale will be held on May 16th in Skinner’s Boston gallery. The auction of American and European Paintings will include more than 500 [Read More]

A Clarice Cliff vase, featured on the cover of the Charterhouse April auction catalogue sold for a high hammer price of £5,800 despite the vendor hoping it could be worth a few hundred pounds. “The vase was a true piece of Art Deco geometric design boldly decorated in black and orange.” Commented [Read More]

On Sunday 4 May at 1pm, Bonhams & Goodman will conduct a Bay East Art auction at its Waterloo rooms at 224 Young Street. The auction of nearly 400 lots includes many collectable traditional and contemporary works by leading Australian and international artists. One of the more interesting lots is Rock Forms, [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – Sotheby’s offers the Artek Pavilion by internationally recognized architect Shigeru Ban in collaboration with UPM, one of the world’s leading forest products groups, as part of the June 14, 2008 sale of Important 20th Century Design. Made primarily from recycled materials, this prefabricated pavilion, which has been exhibited [Read More]

Leonard Auction’s April 19, 2008 sale featuring Tramp Art was a rousing success as bidders had the opportunity to take home many important and unique items not often seen in the Midwest. The auction was well received attracting more than 120 live and phone bidders in addition to 350 internet bidders. “We [Read More]

(New York City, N.Y.) – A stylized and historical acrylic on canvas portrait of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, done in 1989 by the Russian artist Semyon Faibisovich (b. 1949) and originally intended as cover art for an issue of TIME magazine, soared to $144,000 at an auction of important Russian art [Read More]

New York, NY – The Autograph Store, a leading online celebrity autograph auction site, offers a constantly updated selection of authentic autographs, signed memorabilia, celebrity photos and much more. Users can register for free on AutographStore.com to bid on authentic celebrity autographed items. Registered users can monitor their auction watchlists and check [Read More]

No longer is distance a barrier to participation in Australian thoroughbred sales. With the adoption of Live Global Bid’s (LGB) real-time, online auction bidding technology the Australian thoroughbred industry is now a worldwide business. After introducing Live Global Bid’s online auction technology at this year’s Australian Easter Yearling Sale, William Inglis and [Read More]

Despite the doom and gloom pervading the current economic climate, H&H enjoyed a notably successful sale on its first visit to Harrogate. Auction goers both old and new were bowled over by the Harrogate International Centre’s spacious indoor exhibition facilities. Newly refurbished but not yet open to the general public, the adjoining [Read More]

One of Australia’s rarest Porsches – a 1989 911 Wide Body Speedster – will be going under the hammer at Shannons Sydney Autumn Classic Auction on Monday, May 5. One of an estimated 10 open Speedsters delivered in Australia out of a total production of 2,103 built on the wider Porsche 911 [Read More]

Zachys Wine Auctions will hold the last New York auctions of the Spring on Wednesday, May 14th, Thursday, May 15th and Friday, May 16th. The weekend starts with An Evening Sale of Extraordinary Wines at 6:00PM on Wednesday, May 14th in the Private Room at DANIEL. This 198-lot session contains pristine high-end [Read More]