Monthly Archives: April 2009

(TEMECULA, Calif.) – An outstanding single-owner collection of 111 rare and vintage cars – ranging from 1920s-era classics to muscle cars from the 1960s, most of them in pristine condition and ready to drive – will be sold at auction this weekend, Apr. 3-4, by Asset Forfeiture & Seizure Auctions. Online bidding [Read More]

The interests of rare U.S. currency collectors, and numismatists across the spectrum, have been piqued by Heritage Auction Galleries with the announcement of the discovery of a previously unseen significant rarity in the form of a 1915 $5 Federal Reserve Bank Note type. The newly listed Fr. 788a $5 1915 FRBN will [Read More]

Rockybid.com announced the launch of its innovative online auction website Wednesday, with the brand new Honda Insight hybrid, floor seats for the opening night of Michael Jackson’s sold-out final concert series in London and tickets to the opening game at the new Yankee stadium among the first items that will be auctioned [Read More]

Christie’s Prints & Multiples sale on April 28 in New York will feature a wonderful selection of works from private collections, many of which will appear for the first time at auction. Rich in quality, the sale presents collectors with opportunities to acquire historically important and rare works such as Wassily Kandinsky [Read More]

Poster Auctions International will offer more than 500 lots of rare, vintage posters in its semi-annual auction of Art Nouveau and Art Deco masterpieces, on Sunday, May 3. Including some of the rarest and best works on paper the auction house has ever seen, this sale is, in a word, unbeatable. One [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A full slate of blockbuster sales is planned for the rest of this spring by Philip Weiss Auctions, Long Island’s premier auction house. Two of the sales – April 24-25 and May 8-9 – will be two-day weekend affairs, while the May 30 auction will be a stand-alone event. [Read More]

Maas Companies of Rochester, MN will auction the 179-Unit City Center Hotel – Oshkosh on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. on-site at One North Main Street in Oshkosh, WI. The City Center Hotel – Oshkosh, formerly the Park Plaza, is a full-service hotel located in downtown Oshkosh adjacent to the [Read More]

The original movie poster for Universal’s 1931 Horror thriller Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, went to the auction block last Saturday night. Once belonging to famed actor Nicolas Cage, the poster sold for a record breaking $310,700. One of only three known copies, “Dracula is one of the most important movie posters in [Read More]

2008 was a successful year for Scottish Pictures at Sotheby’s with almost £9 million worth of Scottish Pictures sold and at least eight new auction records established. Now, the first of the bi-annual sales in the field this year will be staged on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 and it will bring to [Read More]

Excitement Builds For Baseball World’s Most Anticipated Auction! The Robert Edward Auctions catalogs will ship on April 9, 2009. The first copy off the presses will be presented to The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, for their library, as is the longstanding tradition. The other 10,000 [Read More]

Luxury Mid-Atlantic Development Features Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, Fitness Center, Private Fishing Pier, White Sand Beach, Water Park, and Indoor and Outdoor Pools Seven to be Sold Subject to Minimum Bids Starting at $200,000 New York, NY – April 1, 2009 –Eighteen three- and four-bedroom town homes and single-family villas at [Read More]

Advertising awards are nothing new for Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company, Inc., but the 65-year-old company has broken new ground on the international stage. Schrader’s marketing department was handed its first international award for excellence in Design and Printing. All entries from the United States were judged at a preliminary contest [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]

Quinn’s Auction Galleries of Falls Church, Va., will conduct its Great Estates in Washington auction series on April 15, 16 and 18, with each session focusing on a particular collecting specialty. Featured highlights include a small but highly select grouping of antiques and fine art from the estate of the late renowned [Read More]