Monthly Archives: April 2008

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]

Dallas, TX: A piece of rare and never-circulated Hawaiian paper money – a $500 note that was to be issued in 1879 – is being offered at auction in Rosemont, Illinois on April 16-18. The $500 note, which exists only as a set of proof printings of the face and back plates, [Read More]

On April 26, Legacies Old and New, Inc., Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, will be auctioning quality Civil War items belonging to the late Kirk Kremer at the Red Men Lodge, 145 West Main Street, Tuckerton, New Jersey. Mr. Kremer was a lifelong resident? of Ocean County, New Jersey. His roots on [Read More]

Pasadena, CA –On Tuesday evening, March 25th, 2008, John Moran Auctioneers hosted their monthly fine antiques and estate sale at the Pasadena Convention Center. At the end of the evening, the sale would result in the highest-grossing fine antiques and estate sale the firms 39 year history earning $1.9+ million on the [Read More]

The variety of merchandise was as large as the crowd that gathered at Alderfer Auction and Appraisal’s Fine and Decorative Arts auction on March 5, 6, and 7 in Hatfield, Penn-sylvania. Interest was strong and was reflected in the large floor, phone, eBay audience, which included over thirty countries worldwide. There was [Read More]

Pasadena, CA – On the heels of their $3.4 million February 2008 California & American Paintings auction, the highest-grossing art sale in the firm’s 39-year history, John Moran Auctioneers smashed the record for their monthly Estates Auction series by generating just under $2 million in their March 25th sale. The Pasadena, CA-based [Read More]

LONDON – Sotheby’s announced that its annual sale of Sporting Art in London on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 will be headlined by a rare and important masterpiece by the most distinguished and reputed sporting artist of the 20th century, Sir Alfred J. Munnings (1878-1959). The sale of the painting, entitled A Boy [Read More]

Reston, VA – WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that Dallas Auction Gallery has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Dallas Auction Gallery will provide WorthPoint with upcoming and historical auction data to be published on the WorthPoint web site. With [Read More]

(Oceanside, N.Y.) – What was supposed to have been a quaint little single-owner collection sale of vintage comic books and comic art for Philip Weiss Auctions on Long Island has mushroomed into a colossal one-day event that will also comprise hundreds of pop culture collectibles in a dizzying array of categories. The [Read More]

DGSE Companies, Inc. (Amex: DGC), which wholesales, retails and auctions fine watches, jewelry, diamonds, precious metal and rare coin products via traditional and internet channels, today announced that Superior Galleries has acquired the Roadrunner Collection of Rare U.S. Coins and Currency to be auctioned in their Beverly Hills Pre-Long Beach Elite Auction [Read More]

Monday 7 April at 6pm, Bonhams & Goodman Sydney rooms A wonderful collection of 250 lots of fine contemporary and antique jewellery including several estate matters, a private collection and numerous private vendors. Illustrated: Lot 101, An 18ct gold full circle diamond and coloured sapphire set collier necklace $20,000 – 24,000 Good [Read More]

Dallas, TX – Heritage Auction Galleries’ recent Air & Space Auction, held March 25, 2008 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas, realized $1,106,695 for 383 lots, including several private treaty sales negotiated after the auction, although post-auction sales are still ongoing, and are expected to push the final total [Read More]

Dallas, TX – Some of the world’s most valuable comic books, collected by a Denver media executive, will be offered in a public auction by Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas, Texas (www.HA.com) on May 22, 2008. Described as the most complete collection of the world’s top comic books, it includes the 1938 [Read More]

An item rarely seen in a North Yorkshire saleroom is a wedding or ceremonial collar to be included in Tennants Spring Sale on 10-11 April. Of Indian or Pakistani origin the collar is set with a huge array of large, smooth precious stones comprising diamond set sections hung with ruby and emerald [Read More]

Charterhouse Auctioneers will be holding their bi-annual Decorative Arts auction on Friday 18th April at The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne. Amongst the Clarice Cliff, Lalique, Moorcroft and other design icons will be some extremely rare Poole Pottery factory designs sheets, which were rescued from a skip shortly before its closure. “Possibly the [Read More]

AMSTERDAM – In marathon sale of ten hours held on 1 April 2008, Christie’s hammered down the most valuable art object ever to appear at a Dutch auction. A pair of Bleau Globes, from the collection of the Princes of Liechtenstein, was sold to a European dealer for €793,850. Another 462 Princely [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – April 2, 2008 – iGavel.com, the online fine art and antiques auction house, is hosting a month of jewelry auctions on its site from March 28th through April 16th. iGavel Associate, Litchfield County Auctions kicked off its Jewelry sale on iGavel alongside its Modern Art and Design Auction [Read More]