(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A rare, second-class passenger list from the doomed ocean liner the Titanic, produced by White Star Line and with the words “Titanic, First Sailing, April 12, 1912” handwritten on the cover, sold for $33,900 at a three-day multi-estate sale conducted June 20-22 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The list was [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 26, 2008
8 posts
BOSTON, Mass. – June 26, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, today announced its upcoming European Furniture and Decorative Arts auction will take place on Saturday, July 12th in its Boston gallery. More than 900 lots will be sold, featuring an extensive offering of ceramics. CERAMICS [Read More]
TULSA, OK – Helen “Sassy” Johnston built her extensive collection the old-fashioned way during decades of visiting antique stores worldwide, but thanks to modern technologies her impressive collection will be available for purchase to avid collectors and hobbyists around the world. The three-day auction presented by Kruse International will be broadcast live [Read More]
Bonhams & Goodman have conducted another successful auction of Collectors’ Cars at their Bay East premises in Sydney’s Waterloo, with a 90% clearance rate. The NSW single digit number plate “6” has sold for an undisclosed amount post auction believed to be approaching a million dollars to a private Sydney collector/investor wishing [Read More]
An important painting by Sir Stanley Spencer “Crossing the Road” will go under the hammer at Bonhams’ 20th Century British Art Sale on the 2 July. The piece is estimated to sell for £100,000 – 150,000. Spencer’s love of his home village, Cookham, was immortalised in his series of paintings for the [Read More]
TORONTO AUCTION SEES BUYERS SCOOP UP WORKS BY RINDISBACHER, RIOPELLE AND LEMIEUX International fine art auctioneers Bonhams, which conducts 700 sales a year across four continents, held its first ever sale on Canadian soil last night, Thursday 19 June 2008, in Toronto. Collectors eager to snap up paintings by some of the [Read More]
VANCOUVER – Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers conducted the largest Australian auction in Company history this week, selling AU$55 million (US$52 million) of cranes, heavy equipment and trucks during a two-day unreserved public auction at its Brisbane auction site on June 24 & 25, 2008. Ritchie Bros. (www.rbauction.com), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is [Read More]
LONDON – Coinciding with the Master Drawings London, Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Drawings on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 will bring to the market a range of rare and important drawings from the 16th to the 19th centuries, encompassing all European schools. The sale will be spearheaded by an early and rare [Read More]