Monthly Archives: January 2009

The University of North Texas College of Music in Denton, Texas, one of the nation’s finest comprehensive music schools, has contracted with Slapsale.Com to sell at online auction 100,000 surplus LP records from its extensive collection. Labels include Capitol, Decca, Mercury, RCA, Reprise, Jazzology, Seraphim, Somerset, Angel, and many others representing all [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York will offer Rugs and Carpets from the Barbara Zidell Sedlin Family Collection on March 3, 2009. The auction is estimated to bring $2/3 million and will consist of nearly 130 lots from the personal collection of Ms. Sedlin as well as the remaining inventory of her gallery, The Ghiordian [Read More]

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on 11 February 2009 in London and will offer a comprehensive selection of 31 works of art representing the last 60 years. The auction is led by Man in Blue VI, an exceptional portrait by Francis Bacon (1909-1992) which is offered at [Read More]

(Northport, Ala.) – An important collection of over 35 pieces of John Henry Belter furniture, to include an exceedingly rare pierce-carved laminated bed (one of only two known), will be sold by Hal Hunt Auctions on Saturday, Feb. 21, beginning at 10 a.m. A preview will be held Friday, Feb. 20, from [Read More]

Action Figures, Character Toys & Video Games: To be sold at 9:00 am Original Star Wars figures and vehicles, assortment of LEGOs including Star Wars, Vintage Hasbro, Transformers, Robots, Ghostbusters, Simpsons, wrestlers, Gremlins, Pokemon, large selection of video games and systems, character toys, super heroes, Fisher Price and much more! Call 215.393.3029 [Read More]

Texas Revolution comes alive at Heritage Auction Galleries with legendary Alamo commander’s 1836 letter and Joseph Pulsifer’s early Texas Republic diary. Two of the most important items in early Texas history – a broadside (poster) of an urgent plea from Col. William Travis on March 3, 1836 for volunteers to defend the [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auctioneer of rare books and works on paper has thrown its hat into the ring with its first ever Americana week auction on Monday 26th January. The sale being held at Bloomsbury’s mid-town Manhattan gallery on West 48th Street focuses on decorative paper, Americana and includes works [Read More]

Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. the leading North American automotive and specialty vehicle salvage auction company, today announced the passing of Ohio Senate Bill 129. The Bill addresses insurance companies’ and subrogees’ ability to auction vehicles holding a clear certificate of title that have come into their possession through the operation of the [Read More]

In an extension of the well-known Patagonia grants program that has given over $31 million to grassroots environmental organizations since 1985, the new Patagonia store in Austin is sponsoring a ‘Land, Air & Water’ silent auction and concert from 4 to 8 pm on Friday, January 30, to benefit three Austin-area environmental [Read More]

(Yonkers, N.Y.) – Over 500 lots of historical items in a dazzling array of categories will be sold at auction by Cohasco, Inc., on February 25. The mail, phone, fax and e-mail auction will also go online at the firm’s website, www.cohascodpc.com starting the last week of January.The auction marks the latest [Read More]

The annual registration of riding pony stallions in the following year will be from February 6th to 8th. Parallel to the event there is organized a 2nd auction of registered and not registered riding pony stallions. Place of action will be a loaded atmosphere in the Holstenhalle with a capacity up to [Read More]

Gooding & Company has announced the addition of a unique piece of Ferrari history for its Scottsdale Auction on January 17, 2009 – the 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Competizione. Complete with its original engine and alloy bodywork, the Short Wheelbase Berlinetta is widely considered to be one of the finest and [Read More]

Christie’s next Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place on 4 February and will offer 47 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Kees van Dongen, Edward Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £60 million and is [Read More]

Proxibid (www.proxibid.com), the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it has joined in a strategic agreement with AuctionServices.com, Inc (www.auctionservices.com). Under the agreement, AuctionServices will help Proxibid’s auctioneer customers market live online bidding on their web sites as well as offer award-winning web design and trusted web [Read More]

Heritage will hold four back-to-back auctions comprising the very best of the American spirit in art, artifacts, sculpture, photography, books and manuscripts: American Indian Art • January 22 – From children’s toys to warriors’ weapons, this auction includes a wide range of material, including moccasins, pipes, parfleche cases, and tobacco bags of [Read More]

Sotheby’s has announced that one of the major highlights of its forthcoming sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, which is scheduled to take place in London on the evening of Tuesday, February 3, 2009, is Strassenszene (Street Scene), 1913, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), estimated at £5-7 million. The painting captures a [Read More]

Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas, Texas (www.HA.com), the world’s third largest auction company, is re-entering the philatelic market after 15 years with its Inaugural Signature® Stamp Auction to be held in Dallas and online, Feb. 5-7, 2009. A fantastic array of high grade stamps abound in this sale, and a few highlights [Read More]

Clarke’s first sale of 2009 offers its classic blend of fine American, French, and English antique furniture; fine art including rare works, Midcentury Modern Design, a strong collection of fine American and English Sterling Silver, Antique Italian Putti, Antique and Art Deco Chandeliers, semi-antique oriental carpets, and more. Antique and traditional furniture [Read More]