Monthly Archives: September 2008

(Pittsfield, Mass.) – A splendid period Queen Anne lowboy, made around 1750 in New Hampshire and with front ball-and-claw feet and the original brass hardware, is the expected headliner at a multi-estate sale slated for Saturday, Oct. 18, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. The lowboy, showing great proportions at 31-1/2 inches tall by [Read More]

BOLTON, Mass. – September 30, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it has set several world records for some of the most expensive bottles of fine wine sold at auction. At the recent Boston sale of Fine Wines, held [Read More]

L. H. Selman Ltd., premier antique paperweight dealer, is gearing up for its forty-second semi-annual paperweight auction. “Due to the overwhelming response to the Alschuler Auction Part I, we anticipate another exceptional sale this fall,” says Larry Selman. The second half of the Sam and Winifred Alschuler collection includes many of the [Read More]

Hamburg (kk) – For € 80 000 it could be yours: the first empirical proof that the earth is round. The extremely rare original edition of a letter from Maximilianus Transsylvanus, secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is to go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst auction of Rare [Read More]

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., – Joseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. (“Finn”), Assignee of the assets of Spherics, Inc. (“Spherics”) for the benefit of creditors, said, in an interview today, that interest in the Company’s therapeutic drugs and technology platforms was strong. Numerous confidential agreements have been signed and conference calls between the Company’s [Read More]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Officials with the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company recently announced that vehicle consignment spots for the company’s inaugural Las Vegas event have been sold out, proving once again that economic woes are no match for the thriving collector car hobby. Barrett-Jackson will continue to accept bidder applications from collectors looking to [Read More]

SOLON, Ohio – Stopol Auctions, L.L.C. – the leader in hosting and managing plastics industry auctions — will host and web cast an auction October 8, 2008, to sell plastics manufacturing equipment from continuing operations at Little Tikes Co.’s Hudson, Ohio, plant. Stopol Auctions will conduct a live auction at 10:05 a.m. [Read More]

VANCOUVER, – Interested equipment buyers from more than 60 countries registered to bid in eight unreserved public auctions conducted in three countries last week by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (www.rbauction.com), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer. The largest auctions were held at two of the Company’s 38 auction sites: a (euro)44 million (US$64 million) [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – Christie’s has announced the single owner sale of Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, which will be offered on March 18, 2009. This is the first of a series of auctions consigned by the Arthur M. Sackler Collections Trust of its part of the large [Read More]

DUBAI – Christie’s, have announced their fifth auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai which will take place on 30 October 2008 and which will offer the strongest and most important selection of works to date in the region. The auction will present 157 exceptional paintings and sculptures from the [Read More]

(West Swanzey, N.H. ) – Part I of the living estate of Dolores Wettach Williams – the third wife of baseball legend Ted Williams – will be sold Sunday, November 23, by Knotty Pine Auction Service. Part I will consist of antique furnishings and accessories from the home the two once shared, [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC has announced an important auction of Russian, European, and Latin American art, to take place on November 5, 2008 in New York. The catalog for the auction has now been posted online at http://www.geneshapiro.com, and the printed full color catalog is available for purchase. [Read More]

DALLAS, TX – Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is legendary both for his appreciation of the female form and his timelessly sophisticated taste. With Playboy – The Art of Beauty, on the block in Dallas at Heritage on Oct. 15, a select group of lusty, irreverent original illustrations that thrilled generations of readers [Read More]

The residual contents of West End Garage, Bruton, are to be sold by auction by Charterhouse on Wednesday 8th October. “West End Garage has now successfully completed their relocation just a few hundred yards away and we have been instructed to dispose of the remaining items which are now surplus to their [Read More]

A pair of Doulton Lambeth vases, decorated an unusual scene of lions stalking deer, are included in the Charterhouse two day auction on 16th & 17th October. “It looks a somewhat bizarre grouping of animals by Hannah Barlow who is perhaps one of the best known decorators who worked at Doulton Lambeth [Read More]

Averaging over two million dollars per sale over its last three auctions, Huggins and Scott has completed preparations for its upcoming worldwide sports memorabilia catalog auction that will begin October 5. 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]

LONDON – Sotheby’s Arts of the Islamic World sale will offer an exceptional range of works originating from across the varying cultures and areas that are commonly considered to constitute the Islamic World. Fine examples of ancient manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, weaponry, textiles, ceramics and paintings from North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, [Read More]

PARIS – Christie’s has announced the sale of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection, which will take place in Paris on the 23rd, 24th and 25th February 2009 at the Grand Palais, in association with the Pierre Bergé & Associates auction house. As in many instances where an artist’s signature [Read More]