Monthly Archives: August 2008

LONDON – A previously unrecorded boomerang (estimate £40,000-£60,000) and two clubs (estimate £20,000-£30,000) from New Holland, Australia, likely to have been collected by Captain Cook on his first voyage in 1770, will be offered at the auction of Exploration and Travel at Christie’s on 25 September. Captain Cook was the first European [Read More]

LARCHMONT, NY – On Monday, August 25, Clarke will conduct its final auction of the Summer 2008 season. This sale is especially strong in midcentury modern, always a Clarke speciality, with pieces from Karl Springer, Arteluce, Paul Evans, Paavo Tynell, Tapi Wirkkala, John Widdicomb, Ron Schmidt, JL Metz, Sonneman, Toshiko Takaezu, Harvey [Read More]

BOSTON – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses, today announced that it will move from its long-time Bolton, Mass. gallery to a new facility located at 274 Cedar Hill Street in Marlborough, Mass. This newly purchased site will host the auction house’s corporate offices, suburban auction gallery, and warehouse. [Read More]

This upcoming Georgia Real Estate Auction and Georgia Land Auction will be conducted by Myers Jackson, Georgia real estate auctioneer and broker, onsite at Hillsboro Road in Lyons, Georgia on Saturday, September 13th at 10:00a.m. This real estate auction event will provide an excellent opportunity for interested parties to attend the live [Read More]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – WWA Group, Inc. (OTCBB:WWAG) today announced record revenue, gross profit and net income for the six-month period ending June 30, 2008. Gross revenue for the January through June 2008 period increased by 15% over the same period in 2007, to nearly $16 million. Gross profit for the [Read More]

London – Supermodel Erin O’Connor is to sell a selection of dresses, jackets, shoes and bags from her personal wardrobe at Christie’s South Kensington on Tuesday 16 September at 1pm. Proceeds will go to the British Fashion Council, which provides financial support to aspiring fashion designers and models and helps them during [Read More]

SEATTLE, WA, – The 21st annual Auction of Washington Wines, held August 14-16 in Woodinville, WA, dramatically surpassed earlier auctions in revenues, attendance and sheer enthusiasm, raising $2,250,000 for uncompensated care at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle and the Washington Wine Education Foundation. The Auction of Washington Wines, the [Read More]

BERN – On the 13th of September 2008, Kunsthalle Bern will auction off works by a total of 72 artists who, in the course of their careers, participated in exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bern and defined crucial moments and tendencies in art history. The proceeds will be dedicated in full to Kunsthalle Bern’s [Read More]

(Roanoke, Ala.) – A rare and beautiful laminated rosewood bed, made around 1850 by John Henry Belter and with the original finish, sold for $33,350 at a multi-estate sale held June 21 by Grand View Antiques & Auction. The bed, in excellent condition and with seventeen layers of lamination, featured a raised [Read More]

Sales of World-Famous Williamson Bugatti Collection, Oprah Winfrey Charity Car Collection and Carl J. Schmitt Collection are First Night Highlights PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., – Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the 58th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance(R), elevated car collecting to an art form once again as 74 of the [Read More]

At its Early Summer Quality Auction held on June 22 to 23, B.S. Slosberg, Inc. Auctioneers of Philadelphia featured some 350 lots of paintings, prints, and furniture during the first session, and a similar number of lots of fine art glass, porcelain, sculpture, and jewelry among a broad array of decorative objects [Read More]

A fabulous collection of more than one hundred teacups by the renowned designer, Clarice Cliff will be offered in a sale of Design 1860-1945 on Tuesday 23 September 2008. The collection, estimated at £25,000, is thought to be the largest collection of Clarice Cliff teacups to have come up for sale. Each [Read More]

James D. Julia’s spectacular antiques & fine art auction at the Samoset Resort in Rockland, Maine, has long been the pinnacle of the summer auction season. With each passing year, the Fairfield, Maine, auction firm amazes and delights auction goers with an even greater offering of fine antiques than the previous year, [Read More]

NEW YORK – The last auction of Christie’s Asian Art Week, Japanese and Korean Art takes place on September 18. Following last season’s record-breaking sale, the Fall auction again presents a wellbalanced selection of Japanese and Korean works of art, offering exceptional paintings, traditional hanging scrolls, ceramics, and sculpture. The sale is [Read More]

CARMEL, Ind., – ADESA announced today that it has acquired ABC Minneapolis in Dayton, Minnesota, and ABC Nashville in Old Hickory, Tennessee. Both used car auctions are located in major metropolitan areas, which attracted ADESA to the sites. “I have always considered Mike Hockett, CEO of ABC Auctions, to be a visionary [Read More]

SAN MATEO, CA – More than seven decades of horse racing history will be on display at the auction of the assets of Bay Meadows Race Course, California’s oldest continuously running race track, starting Saturday, August 23 and running through Monday, August 25. Among the 2,500 lots that will be up for [Read More]

The auction of the Robert Lesser Robot and Space Toy Collection went out with a bang. The phone and online sale by the Smith House Toy & Auction Company was a fantastic success, breaking house records for length and website hits, and attracting bidders from across the U.S. and overseas who wouldn’t [Read More]

(Flat Rock, N.C.) – In February 2007, Richard D. Hatch & Associates held a sale that most auction houses only dream about. It had been consigned a treasure trove of modern Irish art – about 40 pieces, from the estate of Alan Breedon Malcolm Brush, born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1918. The [Read More]