An auction yesterday at Bonhams & Goodman’s secondary Bay East Rooms in Waterloo performed exceedingly well. The marathon sale of over 1,350 lots started at 11am and concluded at 5:00pm. The most notable highlight of the sale was undoubtedly a Grant Featherstone R160 Contour armchair with original upholstery c 1970. It made [Read More]
Daily Archives: April 7, 2008
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A pair of polished steel spurs with 49 six inch diameter rowels (or spikes) is included in the Charterhouse auction in Sherborne on Friday 18th April. “We often come across the weird and wonderful in our business and these certainly fit into this box.” Commented Richard Bromell. “The spurs, resplendent in polished [Read More]
New York – Today, Christies, the world’s leading art business, is launching a redesign of www.christies.com. The new site is a virtual showroom where novices and connoisseurs may discover and buy objects and art from any of Christie’s worldwide salerooms. Michael O’Neal, Christie’s Digital Media Director, says, “With new features designed to [Read More]
OMAHA, Neb – Proxibid, the premier provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced record-breaking results for the month of March. The Omaha-based Company reached a significant milestone as it hosted 482 auctions in a single month. An impressive $227 million worth of goods were offered on Proxibid, with a record amount [Read More]
WESTCHESTER, Ill – Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leader in automotive total loss and specialty salvage remarketing services in North America, today announced the opening of two new auction centers, each co-located with ADESA (a leading remarketing auction for institutional sellers and dealers) in the Sioux Falls, S.D. and Fargo, N.D markets. [Read More]
Mapleton, IA – Some 40 major pieces of heavy construction equipment will be for sale at auction on April 24 as Anderson Construction Company, Inc., of Mapleton, IA, closes its business. The equipment includes GPS-ready Caterpillar dozers as new as 2006 and Caterpillar excavators, motor graders, all terrain dump trucks (2005), scrapers [Read More]
A selection of stunningly decorated horse and camel saddles from Persia, China and India will be sold on April 10 at Bonhams, London, in the single owner Jacques Desenfans Collection of Arms and Armour from the Middle and Far East. The saddles are small by today’s standard but with decoration that no [Read More]
Orange County, CA – http://www.ChaseTheChuckwagon.com is a recently launched auction site dedicated to providing modern and classic video gaming auctions. Launched as a less expensive auction alternative within the video game space, ChaseTheChuckwagon.com looks at getting a piece of the 300,000 daily video game auctions found on another popular, more fee intensive [Read More]