(Northport, Ala.) – A dazzling 2.20-carat Marquise diamond ring set in white gold, with a total weight of 4.69 carats and carrying an appraised value of around $40,000, slipped onto a new finger for $18,700 at a multi-estate sale held May 4 by Hal Hunt Auctions. The auction was held at Hal [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 10, 2008
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Dallas, TX – Heritage Auction Galleries has selected winners in their 2008 Currency Auction Survey. Kelly Gobin of New Hampshire, the Grand Prize winner, received a Crisp Uncirculated $1000 bill. Additionally, Crisp Uncirculated 1929 National Bank Notes were awarded to members of the American Numismatic Association and the Society of Paper Money [Read More]
Dallas, TX – Heritage Auction Galleries auctioned over $2.5 million of Russian fine art in its inaugural Russian auction, held at its Design District gallery in Dallas, Texas on June 4, 2008. Headlining the auction was the sale of Mikhail Klodt’s 1858 masterpiece painting Riverside Farmstead which sold for $1,314,500 (including buyer’s [Read More]
MILL VALLEY, Calif – BioArts International is launching an unusual global online auction July 5th-9th. The auction item is rarer than a 1937 Mercedes Benz Roadster, a red diamond or an original Shakespeare manuscript. Five successful bidders, who bid over $100,000, will have their best friend, their beloved dog, cloned. Is it [Read More]
LONDON- Christie’s London is proud to announce a particularly fresh and multi-faceted celebration of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art in June 2008. Twelve works will be offered from The Harmony Art Foundation in association with Barclays Wealth as part of Christie’s London sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on [Read More]
New York. NY – Christie’s New York annual Ocean Liner sale is scheduled to take place on June 25 at the Rockefeller Galleries and is led by a life preserver from R.M.S. Titanic. Never before seen in public, and one of only six known to be in existence, the life preserver has [Read More]
(Aberdeen, Miss.) – A stunning and heavily carved Norman dining room suite, crafted in 1911 by the Oriel Cabinet Company and previously owned by a direct descendant of Guilford Dudley, former President Richard Nixon’s Ambassador to Denmark, sold for $83,600 at a multi-estate sale held May 30-31 by Stevens Auction Company. The [Read More]