SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company will sell seven vehicles at No Reserve to benefit various charities during its inaugural Collector Car Event in Las Vegas Oct. 16-18, 2008, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The world leader in automotive auctions has been an advocate for charitable causes since its inception [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
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LARCHMONT, NY, – Clarke Auction is finalizing the catalog for its Monday, October 27th, 2008, Fifth Annual Fine Art Auction. Clarke’s previous Fine Art Auctions uncovered the rare, the emerging, and the exceptional in 19th and 20th Century art . This sale not only continues, but aggressively builds upon this tradition. Orientalism [Read More]
DALLAS, TX – In the early days of American cinema’s Golden Age, between the melodramas, westerns and comedies, the success of the first wave of great Universal horror movies – Dracula, Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera – made the genre – and its stars – shine brighter than the rest [Read More]
Bloomsbury’s forthcoming two day sale of Manuscripts, Literature & History, Modern First Editions (16th/17th October) has some especially tasty morsels. Particularly interesting are the two privately owned letters from Albert Einstein, lot 83 is in long hand and lot 84 which consists of four letters, is typewritten. This important letter to Dr [Read More]
Briggs Auction kicked off the Fall 2008 antiques season with a bang Friday, September 19 in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania. While prices were strong overall for the more than 700 lots offered that evening, two of the night’s pieces stole the show. “There was a definite buzz in the air when we got [Read More]
DENVER, Pa – Morphy Auctions, a subsidiary of Geppi’s Entertainment, will take a giant step forward into the field of American fine art and historical antiques with its Nov. 22 no-reserve sale of the Arthur Richmond Collection. Amassed over a 39-year period, the Arthur Richmond Collection is an extraordinary testament to history, [Read More]
Dallas, TX – Heritage Auction Galleries’ Sports Collectibles division will present a wide and diverse array of late 19th and early 20th century trading cards in its upcoming Oct. 17 and 18 Signature Auction, with some legendary pugilists topping the bill. “This is without a doubt one of the finest early boxing [Read More]
Denver, Pennsylvania-based Morphy Auctions, has announced the opening of its new Toy Trains division. The company anticipates hosting one to two annual specialty sales of antique and vintage trains, and will soft-launch the department with a 600-lot selection of mostly Lionel and other American-made trains in the December 11 to 13 Winter [Read More]
William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, will conduct a two session sale of antiques, fine art, decorative arts, silver, jewelry, and other items on October 20 and 21. The fine art section is anchored by a major, previously unknown religious theme work by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the African-American artist [Read More]
DALLAS, TX – With the original covers for early Golden Age masterpieces leading the way, Heritage Auction Galleries is offering “The Zoltan M. Szenics” collection in its Nov. 13-15 Comic and Comic Art auction – 43 lots expected to bring in well over $100,000. Zoltan Szenics and his wife Theresa were both [Read More]
DALLAS, TX – When a 1493 first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle comes up for auction at Heritage’s downtown Dallas headquarters, as part of the Grand Format Rare Books Auction on Oct. 16, bidders will be competing for a monumental work from a period of history that shook the western world. This [Read More]
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J., – Sollo Rago Modern’s sale of October 25 and 26, draws from the artist’s hand to tell the whole story of the Studio movement — from furniture to jewelry, ceramics, and glass — in an expansive 1,000 lot sale. “We’re representing some of the best pieces ever crafted, from every [Read More]
NEW YORK – Christie’s have announced the sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (Boxer), 1982 from the collection of musician and renowned collector Lars Ulrich in the New York Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 12 November 2008. One of the most important works by Basquiat to come to auction, Untitled (Boxer) [Read More]
Photography enthusiasts have the opportunity to snap up a bargain when King Sturge dispose of the assets of camera manufacturer Vivitar. Around 13,000 digital cameras and camcorders, all brand new and boxed, will be sold at an online auction along with other photographic equipment. Vivitar UK’s warehousing equipment will also be sold [Read More]
NEW YORK – Bloomsbury Auctions presents for auction an eclectic selection of vintage and modern posters representing a pictorial narrative of the 20th century Bloomsbury Auctions New York is proud to announce for sale a spectacular collection of 282 posters nostalgically capturing the evolving zeitgeist of the 20th century in print. The [Read More]
NEW YORK – On November 11, 2008 Bloomsbury New York will host an extraordinary Natural History sale, featuring material from The Trust of Lynn Abbott and other private collections. The sale is the first special themed sale in New York dedicated solely to Natural History in over a decade. A cornucopia for [Read More]
(Natchez, Miss.) – A complete and authentic vampire killing kit – made around 1800 and complete with stakes, mirrors, a gun with silver bullets, crosses, a Bible, holy water, candles and even garlic, all housed in a handsome American walnut case with a carved cross on top – hammered for $14,850 at [Read More]
Neatly placed in fine rose-wood book cases in the personal office library at the cottage-style medical offices of Dr. Gerald I. Sugarman was a select group of rare books on medicine, science and related subjects, the product of decades of collecting. Rare works on midwifery and obstetrics from the 16th century; early [Read More]