Monthly Archives: June 2008

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Premier Collectible Auctions of Fountain City, Wis., has announced plans to produce and conduct live auctions of modern-era toys in association with Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pa. Premier’s debut live auction will be held July 25-26 at the Bristol Hotel in San Diego, and is timed to accommodate [Read More]

White’s City, NM – Higgenbotham Auctioneers International announced today that their firm would sell at auction White’s City, New Mexico. The entire municipality as well as its surrounding acreage will be offered on July 14th at 11am. The city, which was founded in the early 1920’s by Charlie L. White, is a [Read More]

CAMBRIDGE, MA – cMarket, the leader in online auction fundraising, announced the results of an economic impact survey completed by 255 charity auction managers across the United States who ran auctions between January and April of 2008. Results of the survey indicated that while still in the early stages of the economic [Read More]

Averaging over two million dollars per sale over their last three auctions, Huggins and Scott has completed preparations for their upcoming worldwide sports memorabilia catalog auction that will begin June 22. The Maryland-based company, which last year sold a single-signed Christy Mathewson baseball for $161,000 and a rare Joe Jackson-Buck Weaver autographed [Read More]

SPOKANE, Wash. – Top auctioneers and ring people from the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom came together earlier this month to compete in the 20th Annual World Auction Auctioneers Championship at DAA Northwest. Paul Behr, of the National Auto Auctioneers Association, announced the winners as: —Champion: Danny Schorno, of Yelm, Wash. [Read More]

Lakeland, FL – Higgenbotham Auctioneers International Ltd., Inc. (“HAI”), announced today that Shopko Stores Operating Co., LLC (Shopko) has retained HAI to offer at auction 28 surplus properties situated adjacent to operating Shopko stores. These out parcels range in size from .43± to 9.36± acres and will be sold on location in [Read More]

Savannah, Ga -based Gretsch Guitars has a foundation that donates guitars that are decorated by artists or signed by musicians and then sold to raise funds for music and arts education programs. Because Gretsch CEO Fred Gretsch believes in “Enriching lives through participation in music,” the Gretsch Foundation has generously donated a [Read More]

A recently discovered portrait by one of Britain’s most loved and respected 18th Century artists, Thomas Gainsborough, (British 1727-1788), is to be sold in Bonhams Sale of Old Master Paintings on 9 July at 101 New Bond Street, London. The oil painting, which has never been seen at auction before, is expected [Read More]

Bertoia Auctions welcomed spring with a 2,462-lot auction of toys, dollhouses, miniatures, and Christmas antiques that attracted global participation and intensely competitive bidding on top-tier selections. The company’s $1.8 million Open House Sale held April 17 to 19 achieved the predicted overall high estimate, with a superb, early Erzebirge-style ark stealing the [Read More]

LONDON – MacDougall Auctions announced the private sale of an exceptional collection of seven oil paintings and works on paper by Martiros Saryan, previously scheduled for MacDougall’s 12-13 June Russian Art Auctions. The works were purchased by an anonymous private collector at their high estimates, totalling US$ 1.2 million. Catherine MacDougall, Director [Read More]

EL SEGUNDO – Hollywood Roadshow, a partnership between Premiere Props and Super Auctions, have announced that they will be auctioning off thousands of one-of-a-kind movie props, including hundreds of super hero costumes from fan favorite movies and many classic movie themed pinball machines and arcade games, as well as this summer’s superhero [Read More]

Reston, VA – WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that Julien’s Auctions has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Julien’s Auctions will provide WorthPoint with upcoming and historical auction data to be published on the WorthPoint web site. With information provided [Read More]

A 1939 Hillman 14, owned by the same person for 45 years, is included in the Charterhouse auction of automobilia, classic cars and motorbikes in Sherborne on Saturday 12th July. “We often joke about vehicles being one lady or vicar owner, but in this case we can certainly say it has been [Read More]

Baltimore, MD (June 13, 2008) – Comcast SportsNet, the leader in local sports television, announced today an innovative partnership with Caddy For A Cure, a non-profit organization that allows fans to go inside the ropes and caddie for the world’s best players at PGA TOUR venues. Comcast SportsNet will host an online [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions is pleased to present its annual flagship sale of Modern & Contemporary Art, comprising some 95 lots and estimated at £1.5 – £2 million, presenting works by masters of the 20th Century alongside their contemporary counterparts. Coinciding with the major retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler of the highly influential French [Read More]

Local historians are promised some unique Darlington books, manuscripts and illustrations in Tennant’s forthcoming specialist Book Sale on Wednesday, 25th June 2008. This is an on-line sale whereby bids can also be made via the internet through www.the-saleroom.com A collection of illustrated notebooks and original artwork by Samuel Tuke Richardson is to [Read More]

Liquidation.com, a leading online auction marketplace for wholesale, surplus and salvage assets, today announced that is has added a new product vertical to its online auction marketplace to resell store fixtures and equipment from large retailers, convenience store chains and government agencies. Liquidation.com’s online auction sales channel allows small business owners to [Read More]

LONDON – Sotheby’s forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be highlighted by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s early masterpiece, Untitled (Pecho/Oreja), 1982-83. The work will be offered on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 and comes from the joint collection of Irish rock band U2. It is estimated at £4-6 million. The painting was first spotted by [Read More]