Monthly Archives: March 2009

(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – An extremely rare Winchester three-panel triangle mobile-style die-cut poster soared to $13,080 in an Internet and catalog auction held by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting, fishing, militaria and collectibles site. The auction went online in February and concluded March 21-22. It was a new world auction record for a Winchester [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A sepia postcard, depicting a Hall of Fame plaque of baseball legend Babe Ruth and boldly signed by the Bambino himself, sold for $62,150 at a two-day, three-session multi-estate sale held March 28-29 by Philip Weiss Auctions. It was a new record for a signed postcard by Ruth – [Read More]

Real estate auction firm, Radius Management, LLC is pleased to announce it is placing over 80 brand new homes up for public auction and all properties Must Be Sold. The majority of homes being offered for bid are composed of new builder’s inventory, most of which have never been occupied and fall [Read More]

A group of four modern medals sparked a bidding war in the Charterhouse March auction of collectors items in Sherborne when they sold for £6,000 “The medals, which were consigned for auction by the recipient generated a good deal of presale interest with collectors and dealers alike.” Commented Richard Bromell. “On the [Read More]

It might be yours for just € 25 000: the Bernard edition of Maria Sibylla Merian’s two great books on the insects of Suriname and Europe. Published in Amsterdam in 1730, the work, featuring 256 stunning copperplate engravings, is to be sold at the Ketterer Kunst auctions in Hamburg on 18 und [Read More]

NEW AFRICAN WORK SHOWS LINK BETWEEN RITUAL & MODERN ART Such is the growing interest in modern and contemporary African painting that Bonhams has organised a first ever sale on 8th April of Contemporary African Art featuring artists from at least six African countries. A key work in this sale sums up [Read More]

Madonna’s charity Raising Malawi helps to launch the new book I Am Because We Are (PowerHouse Books, $49.95), and an online auction on April 2nd to benefit children in Malawi, a country of only 13 million people, yet home to over 1 million AIDS orphans. I Am Because We Are is a [Read More]

Gottschalks Inc. today announced that, after completing the Court-supervised auction for its business, the Company, in consultation with the agent for its senior secured lenders and the unsecured creditors’ committee, has agreed to the proposed liquidation of certain of the Company’s assets by a joint venture comprised of SB Capital Group, LLC, [Read More]

Christie’s announces the auction of Glin Castle; A Knight in Ireland on 7 May 2009 at Christie’s in London. The sale will offer selected works from the personal collection of Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, the renowned collector, scholar and a leading campaigner for the conservation of Irish heritage. The pre-sale [Read More]

Sotheby’s spring sale of Modern and Contemporary Prints presents a strong selection of works from the 19th century to present day and will take place on April 30 and May 1, 2009. Works from the sale will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning April 26. Within the American prints offered [Read More]

(Chicago, IL) – A single cellar auction of French Classics from a Magnificent Cellar brought heavy bidding at Hart Davis Hart in Chicago this weekend. The auction realized $2,673,549, far surpassing the pre-sale auction estimate of $1,607,600-2,412,060. Underscoring the strength of the bidding, 227 of the 590 lots hammered over the pre-sale [Read More]

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – A rare North Carolina surveyor’s compass, made around the late 18th century by Guilford County artisan Camm Moore (1755-1845), soared to $28,750 at a quarterly cataloged auction held March 21 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It was the final sale held in the firm’s South Nash [Read More]

The second auction of DVLA number plates in 2009 has just ended and results are hinting that there may be some cause for celebration. Not only was the total raised up from £3.3 million at January’s auction to £3.65 million but this follows the increase from £3.1 million for the last sale [Read More]

Bloomsbury’s 2nd April Bibliophile Sale consists of 710 lots, as always encompassing a variety of subjects to appeal to collectors and would-be collectors as well as the trade. The highest value lots are in the Continental Literature and History section, for example lot 297 Rhetorica Vetus et Noua by Cicero with a [Read More]

On April 3 and April 4, 2009, Eldred’s Auction Gallery in East Dennis, MA will present its annual spring auction of “Americana, Paintings, Sporting Items and Marine Art.” This two-day sale features over 1,100 lots of furniture, paintings, silver, ceramics, decoys, maritime and folk art. The Eldred’s auction will be available live [Read More]

RAML Real Estate and Auctions is a company that creatively markets and auctions unique properties. In the past they have auctioned luxury resort and residential properties, commercial properties, and land. Martin Raml, president, conducted his first auction in 1973. RAML is a creative auction company engineering the bidder assistance programs. In this [Read More]

Alberto Giacometti’s Le Chat from 1951 will appear at auction for the first time in 34 years. This iconic bronze has been in a private European collection since the 1960s and will be one of the highlights of Sotheby’s spring sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on the evening [Read More]

When Charles Martignette passed away in February 2008 his collection was already the stuff of legend, containing every major name of American illustration – on multiple canvasses – from the last century. A full 4,300 pieces, comprising his entire art collection, will be featured in a series of auctions at Heritage Auction [Read More]