New York – The world’s most valuable private collection of South American postage stamps, assembled over four decades by a retired college professor who now lives on an island, will be offered in a public auction in New York City and online on June 5 and 6, 2008. One 1840’s item from [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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Dallas, TX – A major, sophisticated collector of comic book art paid $200,000 for the original cover art of a 1952 horror/science fiction comic in a transaction brokered by Heritage Auction Galleries, the Dallas-based firm announced today. Wally Wood’s cover art for Weird Science #16 (EC Comics, 1952) had been the property [Read More]
The future of two important pieces of South Australian history was secured following an auction by Bonhams and Goodman in Sydney on 20 May 2008, when a Victoria Cross medal group awarded to Vietnam War hero Major Peter Badcoe VC, along with a breastplate related to the Burke and Wills expedition, was [Read More]
On Thursday night at the Vancouver Convention Centre’s Parkview Terrace, Heffel Fine Art Auction House held the one of the top Canadian fine art auctions in history. The auction was the first of Canada’s major spring auctions, featuring 164 lots, one which sold for just over a million dollars. The $11.5 million [Read More]
NEW YORK, NY – Sotheby’s, spring sale of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture brought a total of $87,006,200 (est. $52,615,000), the second highest total ever for a sale of American Paintings. Seventeen works sold for over $1 million, three of which sold for over $5 million. Fourteen artist records at Auction were [Read More]
LONDON – Hot on the heels of The Orientalist Sale at Sotheby’s New York in April – which realised $8.7 million and saw Jean- Léon Gérôme’s Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul sell for $1.9 million – Sotheby’s London is now delighted to announce that it will present an impressive range of Turkish, North [Read More]
(Flat Rock, N.C.) – A pair of scarce Confederate Civil War buttons soared to $8,000, and an image of Georgia Confederate Sgt. Nathaniel Gardner hammered for $7,000 at a three-day Antiques, Coins and Art Auction held May 1-3 by Richard D. Hatch & Associates. They were the top two lots in a [Read More]
The lifetime collections of art, antiques, jewelry, silver and famous name shotguns from two outstanding estates will cross the block at Turkey Creek Auctions in Citra, FL on June 21. (CITRA, FL) – Turkey Creek Auctions owner in Citra, FL, Charles David Glynn, has been a busy fellow recently. He secured the [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – May 22, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of American furniture and decorative arts on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 11 a.m. in its Boston gallery. The sale will feature well over 500 lots of material from American craftsman [Read More]
Tennants is delighted to be offering a large collection of vintage and modern high quality 35mm cameras by Leica and Nikon in their specialist Scientific and Musical Instruments, Cameras and Tools Sale on Saturday, 31st May 2008. Included in the 75 lots of cameras to be sold, approximately 20 Leica and 20 [Read More]
HARRISBURG, Pa – The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission will auction more than 300 items no longer needed as part of the collections at six museums and state historical sites. “These are items that have no special significance to the history of Pennsylvania, or they duplicate what is already in the commission’s [Read More]
NEW YORK – Christie’s Spring 2008 Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture sale totaled $72.6 million, set new records and established major new benchmarks across the category. The highest total for an American Art sale at Christie’s, the auction also saw new records set for 19th Century American art, American Modernism – [Read More]
LONDON – Sotheby’s announced that it will offer Study for Head of George Dyer, 1967 by Francis Bacon (1909-92) in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008. Francis Bacon is widely regarded as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century and this work is not only [Read More]
Bonhams twelfth sale of Greek pictures realised a total of £4,623,580. which was £2million over the pre sale low estimate, making 12 new world records for Greek pictures. Bidders crowded in to the New Bond Street rooms to attend the sale in which nearly 80% of the lots on offer were sold. [Read More]
The top lot was an exceptionally rare vertical coil pair of 1908 2-cent stamps that brought $644,100 (Oceanside, N.Y.) – Rare stamps, original “Peanuts” comic strips, rare books, autographs and more combined for a dizzying $5.2 million gross at a two-day sale held May 17-18 by Philip Weiss Auctions. It was a [Read More]
Bonhams Prints Sale: Tuesday 3 June 2008 at 1pm, New Bond Street, London Horticulturists and garden lovers alike will have the opportunity to bid in Bonhams Prints sale on 3 June on a range of botanical works whose blooms are guaranteed to please year after year. Included in Bonhams sale is a [Read More]
New York, NY – Autograph Store, a leading online auction dealer of celebrity autographed photos and signed memorabilia, will team up with Naomi Judd to help sponsor the Huntington, West Virginia Ronald McDonald House’s Charity Auction. The dinner, dance and auction to benefit the Huntington Ronald McDonald House will be held Saturday, [Read More]
A stunningly original, unmolested 1969 HT ‘Bathurst’ Monaro GTS 350 coupe with just 71,000 miles on its odometer is one of the highlights of Shannons’ up-coming Melbourne Winter Classic Auction on Monday June 2. Still finished in its original Platinum Silver paintwork with pristine red trim, the flagship model Monaro is totally [Read More]