Monthly Archives: June 2008

Two paintings by the visual poet of the industrial landscape, Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (British, 1887-1976), belonging to the environmentally conscious Co-operative Financial Services (CFS), will go under the hammer in Bonhams next sale of 20th Century British Art on 2 July, New Bond Street. LS Lowry’s The Footbridge, (estimated at £120,000-180,000) [Read More]

Determined, competitive bidders did not let the sweltering 98-degree heat deter them from vying for the rare collector motorcars and automobilia Bonhams offered on Sunday, June 8th, at the site of the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance event in Connecticut. Spirited action kept the standing-room only crowd riveted to the podium where chief auctioneer [Read More]

Pasadena, CA – International 20th Century design, décor and art will take center stage at John Moran Auctioneers’ July 22nd, 2008 Antiques and Fine Estates Sale. Items by Georg Jensen, Tiffany, and Pairpoint, and artistic works by Lyonel Feininger, Claude Vernard and Cesare Lapini are expected to command enthusiastic bidding from an [Read More]

LONDON – Sotheby’s London will present Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, a major auction of new works by Damien Hirst, on 15 and 16 September 2008. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever is an historic sale which incorporates an extraordinary range of works by Mr. Hirst, all created over the past two years. [Read More]

Heffel’s announces their inaugural live auction of Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art to be held on Wednesday, November 19th at the Queen’s Park Ballroom of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Toronto. Heffel’s will be the first auction house in Canada to hold bi-annual live sales devoted to Post-War & Contemporary Art. The [Read More]

On May 31st Heffel’s May second session online auction of Fine Canadian Art set numerous artist records and brought in $1,913,000. Heffel’s first session live auction of Fine Canadian Art held on May 22nd brought in $12,024,975, making the total for the first and second session an impressive $13,938,000 in the spring [Read More]

Mangold Auction Service, LLC of Wickenburg recently won a national advertising award that will be presented during the awards ceremony at the National Auctioneers Association Conference and Show at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville in July. The award was for the “Best Online Catalog for Antiques.” More than 1300 entries were submitted [Read More]

(Pittsfield, Mass.) – A magnificent E. Howard & Co. #61 astronomical floor regulator, consigned from an estate in Baltimore and never before offered for sale, soared to $195,500 at a Spring Clock Auction held June 14 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. It was the second highest amount ever paid for a Howard astronomical [Read More]

SEATTLE, WA, – “Seattle to Ghana” is sponsoring an auction fundraiser and free concert Sunday, June 29, 2008 from 12-4 PM at Mercer Island’s beautiful Luther Burbank Park. Featured performances include Seattle Kokon Taiko, Lost Pedro, Rhythms of India, Background Noise, and more. The public is welcome to join this fun-filled day [Read More]

This is going to be a big sale and will include mares and stallions that were carefully selected throughout the years having excellent pedigrees, good conformation and beautiful color. Selling approximately 100 head of good quality APHA and AQHA horses all owned by J & J Paints and Quarter Horses, LLC. We [Read More]

Omaha, NE – Proxibid, a premier provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Antiques & Estate Auctioneers has selected Proxibid as its provider of live Internet bidding for an upcoming auction featuring high-quality firearms, pocket watches and collector vehicles. The auction will take place June 22 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. [Read More]

LONDON – For five out of the last six seasons, Sotheby’s London Impressionist and Modern Art department has led the field in sales of works from one of art history’s most important, and keenly collected, eras. This season, Sotheby’s will again bring to the market a host of rare and important works [Read More]

A glittering array of diamonds that are rarely seen outside London’s Bond Street are to be auctioned at Fellows & Sons in the heart of Birmingham’s jewellery quarter next month. The five diamonds – including two rare coloured diamonds – are expected to fetch over £1/4 million at the Antique & Modern [Read More]

Geneva – Following the big success of its last auction in Geneva, today’s Hong Kong auction realized a total of HK$ 36,051,200 (US$ 4,616,716/CHF 4,840,234/EUR 2,997,657). Of the 417 first-class timepieces offered, 112% was sold by value and 72% was sold by lot. Fierce bidding came from the packed auction room at [Read More]

(Matthews, N.C.) – An extremely rare California Powder Works “Diana Cartridges” 10-gage empty ammunition box sold for $9,730 in an Internet and catalog auction that went online mid-May and concluded June 7-8. The auction was conducted by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting collectibles auction site. The shotgun shell box was one of 989 [Read More]

One of the largest online dealers in stamps ( www.thetenoclockshow.co.uk ) and collectables in the UK has launched a monthly live auction, to be held in the village of Stoke Poges, near Slough, in Southern England. The Ten O’Clock Show Ltd, based in South Leicestershire, has sold more postage stamps( www.thetenoclockshow.co.uk/content/view/124/45/ ) [Read More]

A pair of National Benzole petrol pump globes, which languished in an attic for decades, are included in the Charterhouse auction of automobilia, classic cars and motorbikes in Sherborne on Saturday 12th July. “We often come across old petrol pump globes, but invariably they are chipped or faded. However, these have survived [Read More]

NEW YORK – Bloomsbury Auctions will hold an auction of Literature and Modern Firsts this Thursday, June 19th at 2 pm. The sale presents masterworks of modern literary icons, including April Twilights by Willa Cather, Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote, Mosquitoes by William Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest [Read More]