Monthly Archives: May 2009

Wagner Sells For Record $400,000, Old Judge Collection sells for $211,000, T206 Doyle hammered down at $329,000, Countless Baseball Card Auction Records Shattered At REA Watchung, New Jersey. The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market shocked collectors at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 2, 2009 auction. The most anticipated baseball [Read More]

Australian Muscle Car collectors will be closely monitoring Shannons upcoming Melbourne Winter Auction on June 1, when three highly desirable limited-build vehicles will go under the hammer. Ford fanciers will be particularly interested in the multi-award winning two-owner 1978 Ford XC Falcon Cobra Coupe (build number 392 out of 400) that has [Read More]

The countryside south of Lake Billy Chinook has unique scenery and some of the best hunting in the Pacific Northwest. But what it doesn’t have is a current firm market value on which everyone can agree, because land in the area has rarely been placed on the market. That’s why Ralph De [Read More]

An extensive grouping of original Harry Potter editions – including three complete sets, two of which are signed, and an original first printing English hardcover, with all first edition points – will be auctioned during Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 16-17 Grand Format Rare Books Auction. The trove of English and American first [Read More]

On June 12th 2009, Sotheby’s New York will hold its sale of Important 20th Century Design which will included a unique offering by Frank Gehry, a Tuyomyo bench (est. $250/350,000). The sale takes a reverse chronological look at both American and European design in the past century starting with contemporary pieces and [Read More]

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – More than 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise, in a broad array of categories, will be sold at a two-day Historic Hillsborough Auction the weekend of June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It is the grand opening event for the firm at its new, 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman sold an original Superman costume in its Melbourne salerooms yesterday. The atmosphere was electric as eager bidders in the saleroom and on the telephone all vied for the rare piece of cinematic history. One bidder in the room dropped out early and three bidders from the United States, Dubai [Read More]

On 26 & 27 May 2009 at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, auctioneer Rodolphe Tessier will offer for sale a wealth of items from the Estate of Marcel Marceau. The exceptional auction pays homage to one of the most fabled French performing artists of the 20th century, whose poetic genius was renowned [Read More]

A gem-like blue vase, that has survived intact for five centuries and was once owned by the Rothschild family, is estimated to sell for around £220,000 at Bonhams next sale of Fine British and European Glass on 3rd June. Known as the Field Cup, it is a highly important Venetian enamelled and [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman salerooms were packed full throughout the entire auction of Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts held in Sydney on 9 May 2009. Bidding was competitive across the board with a range of desirable items, fresh to the market, on offer. The highlight of the sale was undoubtedly the early Colonial [Read More]

Inspired by Governor Jodi Rell’s Staycation concept of keep-it-in-Connecticut day-trips and vacations, a group of merchants and antiques dealers in Woodbury has tapped into the picturesque town’s vein of ‘antiques gold’ to come up with a collaborative village spree called Woodbury Auction Week. From now until May 31, so-called “participating merchants” will [Read More]

Christie’s Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Sale achieved a total of $16,820,400, with works by Milton Avery, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole commanding the highest prices. Three new world auction records were set for American artists Edwin Willard Deming, Charles H. Humphriss, and Eric Pape. Works by the 19th century American [Read More]

Building on the success of the recent April London Design sale, Phillips de Pury & Company has announced the highlights from its New York Design sale to be held on June 3, 2009. 128 lots will be offered with a total pre-sale estimate of $2,729,300 – 3,677,000. This sale offers an array [Read More]

Sotheby’s in New York will hold the final sale of its spring season on June 13, 2009. The sale’s 1,217 lots (the first 330 to be sold without reserve) will include a selection of Bordeaux, Rhône and California wines, Champagne, and great value white Burgundy. It is expected to bring in excess [Read More]

The Counts Realty and Auction Group (www.CountsAuction.com) announces the auction of two large acreage tracts of standing timber in Bedford and Rockbridge counties, according to Bill Bryant. The first property totals 650 acres in Northeastern Bedford County, making up part of the area known as Rocky Mountain. The property will be offered [Read More]

Bonhams Greek sale shrugged off any semblance of economic gloom to return a stunning £3.6m result and 17 new world records at its New Bond Street saleroom on 19.5.2009. The sale gives Bonhams Greek Art Department market dominance in the UK, beating all other auction houses operating in the Greek Art Market. [Read More]

The medals of Robert Shankland, including the Victoria Cross will go on sale in Toronto at Bonhams May 25th Canadian Sale, valued at up to £185,000. The Victoria Cross is the token by which much of the English speaking world has come to acknowledge and define the outer limits of man’s capacity [Read More]

Sotheby’s annual sale of Indian Art in London will this year take place on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 and it will bring to the market a fine assortment of works by leading Modern and Contemporary Indian artists as well as rare and important Indian Miniatures. A significant number of the works on [Read More]