Monthly Archives: June 2008

After soaring fuel prices and other kill-joy motoring news this year, Shannons are giving performance car enthusiasts something to really smile about at their Sydney Winter Classic Auction on Monday July 21. The diverse collection of high performance classic vehicles assembled for the auction includes serious heart starters from Australia, Germany and [Read More]

DUE TO THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE TO THE BONHAMS & GOODMAN INAUGURAL SALE OF COLLECTORS’ MOTOR CARS AND MOTORCYCLES IN NELSON, NEW ZEALAND, THE AUCTION HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE 14TH SEPTEMBER 2008. Following a remarkable response to their advertising campaign Bonhams & Goodman has decided to postpone their inaugural New Zealand Collector’s [Read More]

Bonhams next sale of Old Master Paintings at New Bond Street on 9 July 2008 will feature a stunning scene of the Piazza del Popolo in Rome by the Dutch landscape artist Gaspar van Wittel (1653-1736). Last seen at auction in 1923, the painting is expected to fetch £500,000-700,000. The view of [Read More]

July can be a time when some auctioneers slow down, but not so at Charterhouse where they have two major specialist sales. First up it their specialist auction of classic cars, motorbikes an automobilia (on the A30 near Milborne Port) at Blackmarsh Farm, Sherborne on Saturday 12th July. As the West Country’s [Read More]

Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. teams up with WorthPoint, a social network and search engine for collectors. Atlanta, GA – WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. [Read More]

Cheffins’ fame for vintage sales spreads to Ireland with a major dispersal auction sale of classic and vintage tractors, spares, modern farm machinery and equipment on Saturday 19th July, at Castlewarden, Kill, Co. Kildare. The sale comprises a collection of Fordson Major tractors, by direction of the executors of Alan Ross Deceased, [Read More]

Bargain hunters should be advised to visit the Dorotheum in the months of July and August in order to snap up some of it’s hot deals this summer: furniture, paintings and antiques will be up for auction, starting bids will be set at especially attractive minimums. The summer auctions will take place [Read More]

The one-off, 1954 Cramer Comet – powered by a WWII Allison fighter engine – will lead an exciting line-up of customs and hot rods at RM Auctions’ much-anticipated ‘Sports & Classics of Monterey’ event in California, August 15th and 16th, 2008. The two-day event will present over 180 investment quality automobiles for [Read More]

James D. Julia recently held their spring antiques and fine art auction, receiving high marks on many of the first-rate objects. In recent months there has been concern about the impact of the economy and rising fuel prices on the collectibles market. This auction clearly reaffirms that the market continues to be [Read More]

LUXEMBOURG – More than 80 000 000 US$ were necessary to afford Le bassin aux Nymph as by Claude Monet. A new record for the master, whose previous record, dated May 6, was Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, awarded 41 481 000 US$ by the same auction house but [Read More]

DALLAS, TEXAS: On July 11 & 12, 2008, Heritage Auction Galleries will present their current auction of Vintage Movie Posters, featuring nearly 1600 lots of cinema classics. The auction will be held in their Dallas, Texas headquarters. “This is almost certainly our biggest offering yet,” said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Movie [Read More]

Bonhams has been conducting Modern British auctions for more than 20 years where Mary Fedden’s work has consistently featured. In March 2007, an auction world record was achieved at Bonhams for Still Life with Amaryllis and a Chair by Mary Fedden which sold for five times its estimate to realise £54,000. Bonhams [Read More]

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The week of July 7-12, auctioneers from the across the world will travel to Tennessee for the 59th International Auctioneers Conference & Show. This year’s conference will take place at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel and Nashville Convention Center. The “home of country music” will play host to over [Read More]

(McRae, Ga.) – An 80,000-square-foot building in south-central Georgia, currently home to an active flea market and antique mall, will be sold at auction on Thursday, July 24, at 10:30 a.m. The one-story building, situated on 4.4 acres and boasting direct access to a divided four-lane highway and over two acres of [Read More]

A James Bond style watch featuring a homing device gadget that ‘Q’ would be proud of will be auctioned by Fellows & Sons in Birmingham. The gentleman’s 18 carat gold Breitling Emergency SuperQuartz wrist watch has been valued at £4,000 to £6,000 for the auction on Monday 7 July, but retails for [Read More]

Complete Set Of Harry Potter Signed 1st Editions to go under hammer on July 1st 2008. Serious book lovers need to get over to Cameo Auctioneers and checkout lot 100 – 7 Original Deluxe 1st Edition Harry Potter Books signed by the Author, J K Rowling and estimated to go under the [Read More]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Halls Memory Garden is finally on the verge of a fresh start with a new owner. The cemetery on Salem Church Road in Knoxville will be sold in a two-part auction beginning August 19 with sealed bids and concluding a week later with a live auction. “Only qualified cemetery [Read More]

CARMEL, Ind. – ADESA, Inc. today announced that it plans to acquire Live Global Bid, Inc. (“LGB”), a leading provider of Internet-based auction software and services, on June 30, 2008. The LGB technology allows auction houses to broadcast their auctions through simultaneous audio and video feeds to all participating Internet users from [Read More]