Yearly Archives: 2008

Zetabid, the pioneering firm redefining home auctions in the U.S., today announced that Christopher Connelly, a financial services executive with more than 20 years of experience, has been appointed Senior Managing Director of Zetabid. Connelly is responsible for Global Business Development at Zetabid. Together with a veteran sales team, Connelly will be [Read More]

The lure of Hollywood’s Golden Age proved to be a tremendous draw on Nov. 9, as Heritage Auction Galleries Vintage Movie Poster Auction brought intense bidding from the Internet, the phones and the auction floor. The end result was an amazing $2.17 million total in prices realized, with a poster for one [Read More]

On November 19th, one of the most venerable collections of fine and rare manuscripts, books, broadsides and maps devoted to the City of Brotherly Love achieved more than $2.3 million at auction. Spirited bidding in a full room and a solid sold by lot rate of 77% belied the art market’s recent [Read More]

Tennants three day Catalogue Sale produced a strong total of £1.8 million from 1936 lots, 20-22 November at The Auction Centre, Leyburn. After their busiest viewing period ever, the auctioneers were delighted by the reaction of their buyers – responding favourably to “fresh to the market” objects at sensible pre-sale estimates. In [Read More]

An important collection of forty-four first edition sculptures modelled by Salvador Dalí will be offered for sale at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale in New Bond Street on Thursday 11 December 2008. Dalí created the works in the sunshine of Port Lligat in Spain, where he and his wife Gala spent [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields’ Made in California: Contemporary Art auction on November 18, 2008 did exceptionally well, signaling that the market for California art is still very strong. The auction brought more than $1.6-million, with roughly 80% of the lots sold by value. The sale was simulcast from Los Angeles to San Francisco, [Read More]

Sotheby’s has announced its first ever major international auction series in the Middle East will take place on Wednesday, March 18 and Thursday, March 19, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha, Qatar. Sotheby’s two-day international auction series will include sales of Orientalist Art, Watches, Arab, Iranian and International Contemporary Art. [Read More]

VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other agencies that are participating include: U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service and Secret Service. Proceeds from the auction are [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Russian Art Evening Sale realised a total of £14,155,600, against a pre-sale estimate of £17,535,000-24,810,000. The sale attracted over 100 registered bidders and saw 59.4% of the sold lots bring above their low estimates. Commenting on the Evening Sale, Jo Vickery, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby’s Russian Art Department, [Read More]

ASIAN AND INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS AUCTION Dec 14 2008 13:00 Growing from an auction house that specialized in Chinese arts dating to the Bronze Age into an gallery that handles Natural History items dating back eons was not exactly what Isadore M. Chait had in mind 40 years ago when he established [Read More]

At the recent Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite auction in Hong Kong the highest bid was for a spectacular Jacob & Co. cushion-shaped diamond ring. Featuring a 34.07 carat, D color, internally flawless stone, the ring commanded an impressive $5.78 million, and was acquired by a private collector. The fourth highest selling [Read More]

(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A rare T206 Honus Wagner baseball card – one of only a handful of known examples released into circulation in the early 1900s by the American Tobacco Company and often called the Holy Grail of sports collectibles – soared to $791,000 at a three-day multi-estate sale held Nov. 21-23 [Read More]

(St. Charles, Mo.) – An exceptionally rare, dark cranberry cut to clear tankard by Dorflinger, cut in the fine #99 pattern and boasting a fine embossed vintage spout with monogram “S.V.S.” signed Tiffany & Company, with mark “C” (for Charles C. Cook, the president of Tiffany from 1902-1907), soared to $49,000 at [Read More]

The auction of UK Carbon Allowances for Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading System will be conducted via the auction system on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service. This will be the first-ever auction of UK Carbon Allowances. The United Kingdom Debt Management Office (“DMO”), the Executive Agency of Her Majesty’s Treasury for [Read More]

J. P. King Auction Company, the nation’s leading auction marketing firm specializing in high-value properties, is selling seven Soaring Eagle Lodge condominiums at absolute auction, to the highest bidder in Snowshoe, West Virginia on Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 1 p.m. “The area features more than 60 trails and is considered one [Read More]

Christie’s will present their bi-annual series of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to Russian art from 24 to 27 November in London. Russian Art Week will offer important Russian paintings and works of art, a fine selection of Russian Silver including a unique soup tureen in the form of a battle ship, selected [Read More]

The sale, at Nantwich, Cheshire, fine art auctioneers Peter Wilson on Saturday December 6, is expected to raise around £50,000. One car – the Bugatti Type 59, the pinnacle of any Scalextric collection – will draw enthusiast bidders to the sale from around the world. Of the 40-50 original examples made, probably [Read More]

The top auctioneers in the nation lent their fast-talking skills and high energy to bring smiles and toys to the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer research centers, during the 13th annual Toy Auction, sponsored by the National Auctioneers Association (NAA). The special auction [Read More]