Monthly Archives: October 2008

RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, entered the history books again after selling a superb McLaren F1 supercar for £2,530,000 at the highly anticipated Automobiles of London event. Marking the first time the car has been offered since sold new by McLaren, tonight’s sale of one of the world’s fastest road cars [Read More]

Tennants Auctioneers are delighted to welcome Susan E. Stuart, the well respected Gillows expert, to a Valuation and book signing day, Friday 7th November 2008, at their premises in Leyburn. Visitors will benefit from Susan E. Stuart’s expertise at this free event, as well as that of our experienced valuers. The acclaimed [Read More]

Hudson & Marshall will auction nearly 120 bank-owned Chicago area foreclosures on November 2, 2008 at 1:00pm at the Chicago Marriott Southwest at Burr Ridge. “Buyers, particularly first time homebuyers, should take advantage of this housing slump and jump into the market,” remarked Dave Webb, Principal, Hudson & Marshall. “Right now there [Read More]

A single stamp issued by the U.S. post office in 1868 sold for $1,035,000 in an auction held in New York City. The price includes the 15% buyer’s premium. The stamp was bought by a collector who bid anonymously over the telephone at Siegel Auction Galleries, a firm that specializes in rare [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design in Paris on 26 November includes a section of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower, the global symbol of Paris, that has remained in the same collection since the landmark sale staged by Ader-Picard-Tajan in Paris on 1st December 1983. The section [Read More]

(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A Wagon Train playset, made around 1960 by Marx Toys and based on the popular television show of the time, sold for $15,255 – a new world auction record for a Marx playset – at a multi-estate sale held Oct. 24-26 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The playset (Series 5000, [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, takes bidders back in time with its unique annual offering of Fine Books & Manuscripts. The sale is set to take place on Sunday, November 16th at 11 a.m. in Skinner’s Boston gallery, [Read More]

LONDON – On 5 November 2008, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale an important range of sculpture, ceramics and works of art in its autumn sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. The auction will include many works from the early archaic period to the Qing Dynasty, displaying the wide [Read More]

Another major Beatles collectable will be offered for auction by Cameo Auctioneers on the 4th November 2008 at 10.30am Lot 330 is an 8mm silent colour film reel, approx. 2 minutes long from September 17th 1964, un-scheduled gig in Kansas City on the Beatles first tour of the USA. The film was [Read More]

`The Painter’s Family’, (1920-21) a masterpiece by Dimitrios Galanis, will be sold at Bonhams next sale of Greek Art in New Bond Street on 10th November for an estimated £200,000 to £300,000. Although it has not been seen for in public for 80 years its provenance includes time in the Collection Girardin, [Read More]

A remarkable secret letter written from Germany to the Admiralty in London has come to light – proving that the British knew that WWI was inevitable as early as 1906. The letter was written from Wiesbaden to Sir Evan Macgreggor, Secretary to the Admiralty, and discussed is great detail the feelings towards [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields, California’s oldest and largest fine arts auctioneers, is pleased to announce its November 24, 2008 sale of California and American Paintings and Sculpture. On offer are Barbizon and early 19th century landscapes; Western scenes; Impressionist and Modernist compositions including plein air paintings; genre scenes; and cityscapes by established California [Read More]

Country Store, Advertising, Coin-Operated Machines, and related items will be offered at the Rich Penn Auction Event in Des Moines, Iowa. This could be an early Christmas shopping opportunity, taking place at the Iowa State Fairgrounds November 1 & 2. “Our fall Country Store and Advertising Auction offers several great collections and [Read More]

Nearly 2,500 lots of American, European and Japanese toys will take the spotlight November 7 to 9 at Bertoia Auctions’ gallery, Vineland, New Jersey, with prestigious collections anchoring the sale. Automotive collectors will be treated to more of the late Bob Smith’s friction and pressed-steel toys, while holiday enthusiasts will be invited [Read More]

The live auction, slated for Oct. 25 and 26 at 9:07 a.m. CDT, will be presented by Official Auctions, Inc. of Kansas City, with live online bidding via Proxibid. Pre-bidding for this auction is already available at www.proxibid.com/official. Everything in this auction is more than 100-years-old. This auction has something for everyone, [Read More]

United Country Beloit Auction & Realty (www.beloitauction.com) announces the auction of assets from the estate of Richard “Dick” Ward on November 8, 2008, at 10 a.m., according to Richard Ranft, auctioneer. “Dick Ward’s life adventures could never be put into a single paragraph,” said Ranft. “He wrote many articles published in aviation [Read More]

Sotheby’s London has announced the sale of an exceptional collection of books on Greece and the Levant on 13 November, 2008. With a particular focus on Greek works, the selection of books is of a quality that has not been seen at auction for almost twenty years – since Sotheby’s important auction [Read More]

LONDON – Christie’s has announced that they will offer two masterpiece views of Venice by Canaletto at the auction of Important Old Master and British Pictures on 2 December 2008 in London. Believed to have been commissioned in 1738 through the artist’s agent Consul Smith, whose own collection of the artist’s works [Read More]