Monthly Archives: October 2008

The unique and quintessentially Southern Californian, or “SoCal”, auction featuring all things automotive – cars, bikes, hot rods and related memorabilia – is once again approaching. Now in its sixth year, the world’s premier auction house, Bonhams & Butterfields, is proud to be hosting their annual autumn motoring sale at the Petersen [Read More]

When bidding on the showroom floor at Heritage’s inaugural Vintage and Contemporary Photography Signature Auction starts on Dec. 12, there will be conversations with larger than life figures like Hemingway, Jackie O and Clark Gable going on, facilitated by some of the greatest names to ever pick up a camera. Edward Curtis, [Read More]

DALLAS, TX – A large portion of one of the world’s most incredible science fiction and fantasy art collections will be sold at auction October 15 in Dallas by Heritage Auction Galleries. Jane and Howard Frank met on a blind date while he was in college and she was in high school [Read More]

DALLAS, TX – Masterful explosions of lurid menace, scantily clad women, and frenzied mayhem, providing an expressway to the Cold War-era American id, are featured in Heritage Auction Galleries’ selection of 61 pulp and magazine cover paintings by legendary illustrator Mort Künstler, to be sold at auction October 15. Künstler is now [Read More]

A special auction will be held on October 11 and 12, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 815 East Baltimore Pike/US Route 1, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (just 1 mile south of Longwood Gardens). Some of the important pieces of Pennsylvania history are the 1880’s photos of George Sharpless (son of Joshua, and Philadelphia [Read More]

An Early Concord Stage Coach, will be on the auction block at Martin’s Annual Fall Auction of Carriages, Sleighs and Antiques on Friday, October 17. This coach is one of over 400 horse-drawn vehicles and several thousand lots of coaching and driving appointments, equine items and collectibles. The Concord Coach has been [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – Sotheby’s New York sale of 19th Century European Art including The Orientalist Sale on October 23 features a tightly curated selection of choice, high-quality works across the range of artistic genres which flourished at the time. A separate catalogue, entitled Painters of Perfection, will be dedicated to a [Read More]

NEW YORK, NY – Sotheby’s November 3, 2008 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature an outstanding group of six works by an artist who is among the most celebrated and loved artists in all art history, Edgar Degas. The collection captures the classic themes of the [Read More]

(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A coveted T206 Honus Wagner baseball card – often called the Holy Grail or Mona Lisa of sports collectibles – will be sold as part of a huge weekend multi-estate sale planned for Nov. 22-23 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Nov. 22 will be dedicated mainly to sports memorabilia; Nov. [Read More]

The auction includes approximately 300 items, including the breastplate from the late Muromachi period, armor, helmets, swords, sword fittings (swordguards, decorative hilts and pommels owned and used by Masanori Fukushima, saddles decorated with gold lacquer and mother-of-pearl, and traditional Japanese matchlock rifles. Dates and Times: from Friday, October 17, through Sunday, October [Read More]

(Matthews, N.C.) – An extremely rare American Ammunition Company Smokeless 12-gage empty shell box, one of only a few examples known and in nice condition, sold for a new world record price of $6,859 in an Internet and catalog auction that went online Sept. 1 and concluded the weekend of Sept. 27-28. [Read More]

Eight to be sold, absolute, regardless of price; minutes from Hunter and Ski Windham Resorts in Hudson Valley vacation mecca (New York, NY and Catskill, NY, September x, 2008) – The waterfront townhome condominiums at Catskill Creek are residences for all seasons and all reasons. Serenely and perfectly located with excellent Hudson [Read More]

Bonhams sale of the contents of Great Brampton House made £2,031,698 with 94% of all items sold. The top lot consisted of the two paintings by the Russian artist Roslin which made £144,000. There was standing room only as Bonhams sale of the contents of Great Brampton House began in the grounds [Read More]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., – The end is near for an online auction of 14 brand-new townhome-style condominiums in Whitefish, Montana, by the LFC Group of Companies, a Newport Beach-based online real estate auction marketing firm. Interested parties should register on LFC’s residential auction website, Freedom Realty Exchange(R) by the bid deadline of [Read More]

Bloomsbury’s two day auction of 26th and 27th September was a great success. ‘We were delighted with the two day sale of Architecture, Travel & Topoghraphy, Hunting & Shooting on the 26th and 27th September,’ said a spokesman for Bloomsbury Auctions. ‘The working library of the late Sir Howard Colvin, one of [Read More]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz – As the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company prepares for its inaugural Las Vegas auction on Oct. 15-18, 2008, the company is already making waves for its 2009 event in Scottsdale, Ariz. One of the many highlights of the 38th annual automotive lifestyle event on Jan. 11-18, 2009, will be the No [Read More]

LONDON – Christie’s will present a series of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to Post-War and Contemporary art and 20th century Italian art from 15 to 21 October 2008, during a week when the international art world will gather in London for a showcase of contemporary art exhibitions and events including The Frieze [Read More]