Monthly Archives: May 2009

In its 17th year, the 2009 High Museum Atlanta Wine auction reached a live auction total of more than $900,000. Silent auctions on Friday and Saturday and a Paddle Raise during the live auction, coupled with event ticket sales, brought the net profit for the 2009 Wine auction to $1.3 million. Proceeds [Read More]

Christie’s New York 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. Eric Widing, Head of [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – May 21, 2009 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it will host an auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, June 7th at 11 a.m. in its Boston gallery. Quintessential Americana – and in [Read More]

From the scientific to the superbly decorative, astoundingly unique fossil specimens will be offered by international fine arts auctioneers Bonhams on June 1, 2007 during the firm’s Natural History auction in New York. The 525 lot sale offers a diverse group of high quality and distinctive mineral specimens, gold nuggets, lapidary works [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is conducting a three-day, multi-million dollar unreserved public auction at the Company’s permanent auction site in Orlando, Florida, from Wednesday, May 27, 2009 to Friday, May 29, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. each day. More than 2,650 construction, transportation and other equipment items, [Read More]

The Western End of Historic Monk’s Island, located at the Shallotte Inlet between Holden Beach and Ocean Isle Beach, NC on the Intracoastal Waterway, will be sold at Public Auction. The auction firm of Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. of Rockingham, NC, National Professional Real Estate Auctioneers has been chosen to conduct [Read More]

IronPlanet® (www.ironplanet.com), the world’s leading online auction company for used construction and agricultural equipment, reported a record-breaking first quarter performance, with gross auction sales of $91.3 million — an increase of 26 percent over the first quarter of 2008. “IronPlanet’s continuing record-breaking performance is a direct reflection of the value that our [Read More]

A MAGNIFICENT and truly Scottish gun, that has been engraved to look like a Crocodile will return to its country of origin to be offered in Gavin Gardiner’s annual flagship auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns at the world-famous Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland on Monday, August 24, 2009. The [Read More]

April 25 event, featuring about 250 fine antique clocks, also does well, as Cottone enjoys active spring (GENESEO, N.Y.) – A beautiful Tiffany Studios maple leaf floor lamp, in excellent condition and with the original patina, sold for $103,500 at a multi-estate sale held Mar. 21 by Cottone Auctions. The lamp, standing [Read More]

Renowend antique collector, dealer and decorator, Kenneth Greene is choosing to auction his life collection and waterfront estate in Norfolk, VA. Greene is changing his career path and decided use the accelerated sales services of Atlantic Asset Management Norfolk, VA – On Saturday, June 13, 2009 Atlantic Asset Management Group will be [Read More]

Bonhams first dedicated sale of Middle Eastern and South Asian Art to be held outside of Dubai features works of art by artists from no fewer than 13 countries. It takes place in Bonhams main saleroom in New Bond Street, London on 3rd June. With this auction Bonhams hopes to emulate the [Read More]

Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the absolute online auction of assets from the Omni National Bank receivership, according to Jerry Jenkins. Assets in this online auction include: Floridian art, computers, office furniture, phone equipment, office equipment, decorative items, lighting, electronics, and banking equipment. “There are some really nice pieces of original Floridian [Read More]

Sotheby’s spring sale of Swiss Art will take place in Zurich, at 83 Talstrasse, on Monday 8 June 2009, at 6 p.m. For this auction, Urs Lanter, specialist in charge of the sale, and his team have gathered together 117 works covering 250 years of Swiss art history. While the sale does [Read More]

SimplexDiam Inc. has announced that it would liquidate 7 figures in closeout diamonds for the Bankruptcy estate of Fortunoff Holdings, LLC. & Fortunoff Cards, LLC. This is the logical next step for a company that has won almost every major retail bankruptcy residual in the past 12 months. In a coup for [Read More]

Hart Davis Hart experienced their heaviest day of bidding of the year this weekend in Chicago, realizing $2,449,140 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,458,870 to $2,182,870. Two cases of 1982 Lafite, estimated at $14,000-20,000, brought $31,070 each. Two other cases brought $28,680 each and a fifth case brought $26,290. 1996 Lafite [Read More]

Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an online auction of hundreds of electronics and computer equipment from the former IndyMac Bank. Bidding began Friday, May 15th 2009, and ends Thursday, May 21st at 10:00 a.m. PDT On-site previews will begin at 8:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. on May 20th, 2009 located [Read More]

Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce that on Monday, June 8, 2009, as part of its Russian Art Evening auction, it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered oil on canvas painting, Nanny with Children by acclaimed Russian artist Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (1883-1939), signed in Cyrillic and dated 1912. The painting, which [Read More]

RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s have made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello when a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for euro 9,020,000 at the third-annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record for the most expensive motor car ever to be sold [Read More]