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 the USA. The […]
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 Motor Cars sale […]
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 the Piazza del […]
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 leading such specialist […]
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. will provide WorthPoint […]
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, and will be […]
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 every Wednesday at […]
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 bids, including a […]
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 strong and vibrant. […]
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 in New York […]
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 Poster Auctions for […]
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 will be holding […]
