Yearly Archives: 2008

HONG KONG – Sotheby’s spring theme sales of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in Hong Kong totaled HK$623,788,248 (US$79,826,182). The sales included Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork – Ming and Qing Imperial Gold, A Tradition of Elegance – The Leshangang Collection, Two Song Treasures From a Japanese Collection, Tao – The [Read More]

NEW YORK – Christie’s is delighted to announce the consignment for sale of Marsden Hartley’s Lighthouse – an American Modernist masterwork and the finest painting of its kind to be offered in a generation. An oil on canvas measuring 40 by 30 inches, and created in Berlin in 1915, Lighthouse is presently [Read More]

Chattanooga, TN – The Krystal Company announced today that it will auction on eBay a specially issued Coca-Cola bottle commemorating the fast food icon’s 75th anniversary, with all of the proceeds from the sale benefiting the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The 8-oz. Coke collectible is bottle No. 75 from a limited run [Read More]

Kate Moss – Tilda Swinton – Faye Dunaway – Sammy Davis Jr. – Uma Thurman The iconic British supermodel, Kate Moss portrayed by three popular artists, Tracey Emin, Banksy and Albert Watson will be sold at Bonhams Vision 21 in Knightsbridge on Wednesday 16 April 2008. Works by Albert Watson include a [Read More]

SAINT LOUIS – Ivey-Selkirk auctioneers will conduct its semi-annual Toys and Collectibles Auction on Friday, April 18 at 9:30am at its St. Louis gallery. The auction preview takes place April 15-17. A collection of over 200 pieces of pre-prohibition breweriana from primarily St. Louis related breweries includes Anheuser-Busch, Lemp and Falstaff breweries. [Read More]

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – Grey Flannel Auctions, the official authenticator for both the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame and Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association, will launch its new Coin-op, Amusements & Entertainment division with an absentee/Internet auction closing May 14. The department’s 1,000-lot auction premiere will include a collection of arcade [Read More]

Dallas, TX – Twenty-six of the sought-after “Mile High” copies of Flash Comics from 1942-1949 will be auctioned by Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas on May 22, with a pre-auction estimate of well over $100,000. The designation “Mile High copy” refers to the Edgar Church Collection, discovered in Denver, CO in the [Read More]

Bloomsbury’s sale of Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings & Prints on 17th April has some interesting and noteworthy lots. The highlight of the entire sale may well be lot 49 Head of a Boy by Jean Baptiste Greuze. The black and white chalk drawing with washes, bears a striking resemblance to the Tête [Read More]

LONDON – An Abbasid ka’ba key, which unlocks one of the most venerated and highly honoured buildings in the world – certainly within the pan-Islamic community – today sold to an anonymous buyer for the remarkable sum of £9,204,500 in Sotheby’s biannual Arts of the Islamic World Sale. The price achieved, which [Read More]

The United Way Spring Online Auction is on now through April 30 with chances to bid on an amazing variety of items and experiences while supporting community service agencies. New items are added frequently. The items with the most bids so far include a 2007 Ford Edge SEL which was a VIP [Read More]

A dagger that once belonged to Shah Jahan, the Mughal Emperor, who built the Taj Mahal, as a memorial to his beloved wife, sold for £1,700,000 at Bonhams Indian and Islamic sale in London today, 10 April. The elegant and understated personal dagger carried by Shah Jahan, (reigned 1627-1657), with its fine [Read More]

Mullock’s next sale of Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera on the 8th May 2008 will feature the sale of the Sir Thomas Beecham archive and will include many rare items. The original typescript, heavily annotated and corrected of Beecham’s famous biography of Frederick Delius The original typescript, heavily annotated and corrected of [Read More]

HONG KONG – Today in an overflowing salesroom, on the second day of Sotheby’s Spring 2008 sales at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sotheby’s offering of the first part of the Estella Collection, the largest and most important collection of Chinese Contemporary Art ever to appear at auction, brought HK$139,352,010 [Read More]

Tradewinds is presenting their 32nd all-cane auction at The Salem Waterfront Hotel in historic Salem, Mass., on April 26, 2008, at 11:00 AM. The sale will be preceded the evening before, April 25 at 6:30 PM, by a special event and private auction preview at the Salem Waterfront Hotel. It will be [Read More]

John M. Steinbrugge, born in 1923 and still going strong, is selling at auction his fine library of books on the Pacific Northwest and most notably Oregon, which he built over a span of thirty years of avid collecting. PBA Galleries in San Francisco is handling the sale of the books, which [Read More]

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Auction Floor, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AFLO) (FRANKFURT: ZUI), a leading web-based technology provider to the auction industry, today announced the completion of system integration with AuctionZip.com, the highly popular website which posts extensive listings of U.S. live auction events, with 9500+ registered auction houses and over 660,000 unique visitors per [Read More]

NEW YORK – Sotheby’s three spring sales of Photographs in New York on April 7-8th totaled $17,302,050 (est. $9/14 million*), with each sale far exceeding its individual high estimate. This extraordinary season was highlighted by two single-owner sales: The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs, which brought $8,901,350 (est. $4.5/7 [Read More]

Dallas, TX – An 1838-O half dollar, one of less than a dozen known, is being offered at auction in Rosemont, Illinois on April 16-18. Classic numismatic rarities, these were struck to commemorate the opening of the U.S. Mint in New Orleans; opportunities to acquire an example are extremely limited, as perhaps [Read More]