Yearly Archives: 2008

Baltimore, MD – When Fastspot launched Alex Cooper Auctioneers’ newly-updated Real Estate Website (http://realestate.alexcooper.com/) in March 2008, the premiere interactive agency’s Principal and Creative Director, Tracey Halvorsen, knew there was more to the site than a simple Web-based experience. “People don’t just view these properties from their homes and offices; they view [Read More]

The REINZ National Real Estate Auctioneers Championships showcase the industry’s top auctioneers. The 2008 competition has attracted a record level of entries from around the country, demonstrating the competitive spirit amongst auctioneers and the desire to lift standards. Twenty seven senior auctioneers line up for the heats and there are six new [Read More]

Western Themes and Works from the Society of Six Highlight Summer Auction The Summer 2008 sale of California and American Painting and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields is being assembled for August 5, 2008, highlighted by a desirable Maynard Dixon mountain scene. As California’s oldest and largest fine arts auctioneers, the house [Read More]

Theriault’s May 31 antique doll auction in Chicago was titled “A Fine Pretending Tea,” a phrase from a poem about doll’s tea parties. But there was no pretending about this auction. The dolls were abundant and awesome. The collectors responded, and prices soared. Buyers flocked to the auction and bid in person, [Read More]

Dallas – Heritage Auction Galleries’ latest auction of Civil War-era collectibles, held June 30, 2008 in Gettysburg, PA, realized $1,541,812 for 848 lots offered, with after-auction sales still ongoing and expected to raise the final total to even higher levels. (Click here to view after-auction buys.) The auction featured photographs, autographs, uniforms, [Read More]

Munich – Everything went off without a hitch so topping-out will be celebrated on 23 July in the authentic Bavarian way. A traditional toast will be followed by genuine Bavarian brass-band music, bouncing loaves of rye bread from Andechs accompanied by savoury Bavarian cheese and crispy grilled chicken. “The inaugural auction at [Read More]

At this summer’s seminal Bonhams & Butterfields motorcar auction, to be held on August 15, 2008 in Carmel, CA in conjunction with the prestigious Quail Motorsports Gathering, an absolutely incredible roster of racecars will be offered for sale along with collectibles including automobilia, motoring art and paintings, car mascots and advertising memorabilia. [Read More]

On 11 July 2008, at The Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, international fine art auctioneers Bonhams set a new world record auction price for any Jaguar motor car. The 1955 Jaguar D-Type Sports Racing Car ‘XKD509’ was sold to a British buyer for a magnificent £2,201,500. This figure betters the previous [Read More]

NEW YORK – Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for books and works on paper, today reported an impressive 35% increase over the same period as last year. The increased number of sales and the opening of new departments have both contributed, while the market for books and works on paper [Read More]

NASHVILLE, Tenn – During the opening session of the 59th International Auctioneers Conference and Show in Nashville, Tennessee, Dr. James Leiman of Morpace, Inc. announced the results of the industry’s mid-year research report to the members of the National Auctioneers Association. Dr. Leiman reported that if current consumer trends continue within the [Read More]

Seaside Heights, NJ – Max Spann Real Estate & Auction Company, a multifaceted, full service Real Estate firm has hired New Jersey based outdoor advertising company Pirate Billboard to advertise their upcoming auction in Seaside Heights, NJ. The July 20th auction is a big event involving the auction of 5 brand new [Read More]

LARCHMONT, NY – Clarke Auction Gallery announces a unique auction to benefit the volunteer firefighters of Mt Vernon New York. The city’s volunteer firefighters have a proud history that goes back to mid-nineteenth century. To their great credit, much of this history has been preserved by the volunteers for the past 150 [Read More]

An important 17th century oil painting of Thomas Boothby of Tooley Park, Leicestershire (1681-1752) attributed to Jonathan Richardson Snr (1665-1745) is to be sold by auction at Tennants in Leyburn, North Yorkshire in their Summer Catalogue Sale on 17-19 July 2008. Thomas Boothby of Tooley In 1696, and at only 15 years [Read More]

CHICAGO – Mastro Auctions, the world’s leading Sports and Americana auction house, has announced that it will deliver its second annual Live Sports Auction on Friday, August 1 at 8:30 p.m. at the ESPN Zone in Chicago. The event will feature more than 90 of the world’s most coveted pieces of current [Read More]

LONDON – Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Paintings totaled £51,488,650 /$101,530,469/ €64,813,991 well in excess of the pre-sale estimate of £30.2-44.2 million. In a sale that attracted bidders from across the globe, 19 new artist’s records were established, with 58% of the lots sold realising prices in excess of high estimate. Two [Read More]

SAVANNAH, GA – iGavel.com and Everard & Company’s highly anticipated Important Photographic Equipment Auction has big shoes to fill as it kicked off June 30th and is set to close July 18th. It is the sixth photographic equipment auction Everard & Company has produced at iGavel, with results climbing higher by the [Read More]

The June 22 sale at Burchard Galleries, Inc in St. Petersburg, FL featured inventory from the Daytona Museum of Arts and Sciences, the JP Morgan Collection and two mid Florida estates. The June 22 sale at Burchard Galleries featured an outstanding collection of American gold coins from an Orlando estate that far [Read More]

On Wednesday the 25th June, Yorkshire auctioneers Tennants, brushed away current economic fears with its most successful ever book auction. The Leyburn auction house was packed with prospective bidders and extra seating had to be rushed in at the last minute. The leading attraction was a first edition of Jane Eyre. The [Read More]