(CEDAR POINT, Ill.) – The lifetime single-owner collection of Don Fiedler – comprising over 700 lots of vintage toy trucks, cast-iron and tin motorcycle toys, full-size antique motorcycles and bicycles, advertising signs and displays, petroliana items, coin-op machines and more brought strong prices at an auction held jointly May 2-3 by Matthews [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 17, 2009
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JJManning Auctioneers is proud to offer this newly constructed luxury home in Oyster Harbors, an exclusive resort community on Osterville Grand Island set within Cape Cod Bay in the Barnstable village of Osterville. The gated island is easily accessible by car and features the top-rated Oyster Harbors Club private golf course, surrounded [Read More]
Purple Wave Auction, a local online auction firm, announced that Doug Regehr will be the Director of the Equipment Auction Division, effective immediately. An expert in the agricultural equipment industry, Regehr will lead Purple Wave’s Equipment Team in locating and marketing vehicles, agricultural, construction and heavy equipment to its nationwide network of [Read More]
To provide supplemental funding to schools, Main Street Fair, the online classified ads and auction website that is branding itself as the easiest to use e-commerce site, is now open for business. “We believe Main Street Fair is the easiest classified ads and auction website to use online,” said Lisa Porter, Main [Read More]
With the automotive industry in peril and over 2400 dealerships closing in the following months, BidSpotter.com is offering a special program to assist in liquidating the assets of those being sent to the auction block. The program will allow auction firms to broadcast the sale of these dealerships at a discounted rate, [Read More]
The Dog Bone Boutique auctions will open 07/01/2009. The auctions will consist of only pet and livestock related products. Final bidding prices on items that retail for over $100.00 will never exceed 50% of the MSRP. This will give bidders the opportunity to get expensive items, such as riding saddles, dog kennels, [Read More]
A cache of letters penned by George Orwell sold for a record £84,000 at a Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts auction, a figure double its pre-sale estimate. The sale room was buzzing with interest from buyers eager to acquire lots from this largely undocumented period in the writer’s life. All the winning [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields’ Entertainment Memorabilia auction on June 14, 2009 in Los Angeles featured a wide variety of items related to Hollywood, Rock ‘n Roll and Animation Arts. Highlights included pieces connected to screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, Property from the Estate of beloved ‘Golden Girl’ Estelle Getty and costumes from the private [Read More]
While the auction of the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr. Collection of American Art was taking place at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, TX, on Wednesday night, June 10, it was a strong core of top-notch Hudson River School paintings that was drawing the bidders in a Signature American Art Auction that [Read More]
On Sunday, October 18, 2009, in Paris Enchères Rive Gauche will put some one hundred Asian works from the Vérité Collection up for auction at Hôtel Drouot. Started in the 1920s by Pierre and Suzanne Vérité and then expanded by Claude and Janine Vérité, this collection was created by two couples impassioned [Read More]
Bonhams & Goodman’s growing Collectors’ Motor Car team has appointed two further specialists, expanding the department into Victoria and Western Australia to assist with national and international consignments. Cath Davison has taken on the role of Assistant Specialist, Collectors’ Motor Cars and will be based in the Melbourne office. Cath brings more [Read More]
On Tuesday & Wednesday, June 23 – 24, 2009, Greg Martin Auctions (GMA) offers over 1,300 antique arms, armor and collectibles with a focus in four distinct and distinctive areas: 1) Fine Collectible Firearms, Sporting Guns & Militaria, offering Winchesters, Colts and more; 2) Colt Factory Archives Collection, Part 3, featuring 350 [Read More]
Two Baltimore businessmen have been indicted for conspiring to rig bids at tax lien auctions in Maryland for more than five years, the Department of Justice announced today. The one-count felony indictment filed today in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore alleges that Harvey M. Nusbaum and his business partner, Jack W. [Read More]
During the week of June 8, 2009, Markit and Creditex conducted Credit Event Auctions (CEAs) to facilitate settlement of credit derivative trades referencing five global companies, including General Motors. The auctions have been used to settle transactions in connection with the defaults of 38 companies so far this year in the U.S. [Read More]
It has been announced that Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. has been chosen to conduct a commercial real estate auction in Stedman, NC, Cumberland County. The auction will feature an ultra modern car wash, which includes 5 self serve bays, an automatic bay & 9 vacuums. Included in this development is a [Read More]