Original 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe to Headline Gooding & Company’s Upcoming Auction Gooding & Company, the official auction house for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, is thrilled to announce the sale of an incomparable piece of Bugatti history – the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe for its annual Pebble Beach auctions, [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 5, 2009
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Brilliant diamonds, rare art deco pieces and a unique collection from Belle Epoque actress Réjane featured BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of fine jewelry at its Boston gallery on Tuesday, June 16th at 10:00 a.m. Highlights include Art Deco jewelry [Read More]
Mecum Auction, the high-performance and collector car auction specialists, will offer 250 classic and collector automobiles for sale at the 2009 Mecum St. Paul Auction, June 20, 2009, at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Collectors are welcome to attend the one-day event to bid on classic cars ranging from 1930s Ford street rods [Read More]
A massive Mercedes Benz saloon, owned by the vendor for nearly 50 years, is going under the Charterhouse hammer at their auction of classic cars and motorbikes at Sherborne Castle on Sunday 19th July. “The vendor bought the car second hand in 1960 from Brooklands Ltd of Bond Street in London. As [Read More]
Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, has been selected by Pamela Rose Auction Company, LLC, to provide live online bidding for the auction of the corporate collection owned by The Dana Holding Corporation. The live auction will take place June 17 at 5:00 p.m. EDT, with live online [Read More]
An autographed version of one of the most iconic images of the 20th Century is being made available for purchase in the current RR Auction. In 1953, at the height of the 1950s Communist witch-hunt, Albert Einstein signed the photo for award-winning CBS and ABC anchor reporter Howard K. Smith as a [Read More]
In its second year running, the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary art is hosting an International contemporary art sale on Saturday 6th of June 2009. More than thirty renowned artists, many from Egypt, have donated work to support townhouse, a non-profit foundation. Their generosity is testament to the gallery’s ten-year history of promoting [Read More]
Christie’s New York Old Masters and 19th Century Art sale realized $6,486,150/ £4,053,843/ €4,632,964 and was 86% sold by value and 72% sold by lot. The top price of $722,500/£451,562/ €516,071 was achieved for two works: The Japanese Scroll by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) and La Leçon Difficile by William Adolphe [Read More]
1973 Chevy Impala goes on the block to fund work of Safety Advocate If you thought air-bags originated in Scandinavia in the 1990s, you need to look two decades back and to the heart of America’s Motor City for the first production car that was equipped with this protection. What is believed [Read More]