Monthly Archives: June 2009

Universal Live Auctions (ULA) is proud to announce the launch of its new internet Live Auction platform (www.universallive.com) on July 2, 2009. ULA was one of the two companies contacted by eBay to aggregate non-auctioneer sellers into eBay’s Live Auction platform. ULA also ran and participated in auctions on Sotheby’s, Proxibid, Live [Read More]

“It was an outstanding auction, an exhilarating auction,” was the comment made by auctioneer Robert Ketterer on the auctions he held on 19/20 June to officially inaugurate the new Ketterer Kunst headquarters. “The sales quotient by lot numbers was comparable to the best results achieved in the golden age of the past [Read More]

Kristine Mayberry, president of Second Chance Pet Adoptions (www.secondchancenc.org), has announced that the ninth annual Auction for the Animals will be held on from 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, July 25 at Delightful Inspirations in Casper Park, located at 5511 Avent Ferry Road. The event will feature three auctions, live, silent [Read More]

Concierge Auctions will conduct a luxury real estate auction of a 25,000-square-foot mansion in Boca Raton, which was previously on the market for $21.9 million, the company announced. The gated Italian Renaissance style waterfront estate, located at 450 East Coconut Palm Road in the prestigious area of Royal Palm, is widely considered [Read More]

It was announced today that Oakland Plantation of Person County, NC will be sold at public auction regardless of price. The Plantation was granted to the Holeman Family in 1669 by King Charles. It has been in the same family since and has never been offered for sale. The Plantation consists of [Read More]

Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art brought a total of £33,531,150/ US$55,323,044/ €39,479,519* – a figure comfortably within the pre-sale expectations of £26,750,000-37,270,000 – and saw 23 of the 27 lots offered find buyers. The sale achieved the best sellthrough rates since last June for an Evening Sale in this [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions announces its first No Reserve Bibliophile Sale on Tuesday, June 30th at 2:00pm, with over 400 lots of titles, interesting manuscripts and fine sets. The sale contains property from Heritage Book Shop, Colonial Williamsburg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and others. The Bibliophile Sale includes historic, modern and contemporary works [Read More]

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Over 500 lots of important Civil War items, rare and vintage firearms and all manner of militaria will cross the block in an auction slated for Saturday, Aug. 15, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, beginning at 11 a.m. Featured will be the lifetime collection of the late George J. Bisacca, [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts, featuring Fine Ceramics, on Saturday, July 11th at 10 a.m. in the Boston gallery. The sale boasts more than 800 lots and features [Read More]

H&H weaved their traditional Buxton magic this week (June 9/10) and delivered some excellent results from their latest sale of collectors’ vehicles and related ephemera, the total proceeds of which were c.£1million. Despite the inclement weather, the auction had a typically summery theme, with approximately half the car lots being of a [Read More]

Bonhams has announced its latest appointment north of the border with the move by the Christie’s Director, Grant MacDougall to Bonhams Scottish business. As other auction houses cut back in Scotland, Bonhams is growing. The company which now has a presence in 27 countries on four continents prides itself on being the [Read More]

In the entire world, there are but a handful of companies that attempt the level of furniture making for which West Coast-based Burton-Ching has developed its sterling reputation. On July 13, 2009, international fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields, will pay homage to the noted design firm and offer part II of [Read More]

L.S. Lowry’s painting of the village that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights will go under the hammer on 1st July at Bonhams New Bond Street Sale of 20th Century British Art estimated at up to £180,000. The painting is one of four Lowry’s included in the sale, the other three representing more [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sale of Western Manuscripts on Tuesday 7th July 2009 has a combined total sale estimate of £3 million and will include the sale of Medieval Illuminated Miniatures from the Collection of the Late Eric Korner. The highlight of the various-owner sale is a stunningly illustrated manuscript dating to the mid-15th [Read More]

A “musketeer” painted by Pablo Picasso was one of the big attractions at an auction of impressionist and modern art at Christie’s held in London, where it sold for 5.7 million pounds ($9.3 million). The 1969 work, “Homme a l’Epee,” was the second most expensive lot of the session, after Monet’s “Au [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it will provide live online bidding for Manheim Harrisonburg’s June 27 heavy equipment auction. The live auction event will take place at Manheim’s Harrisonburg location beginning at 9:00 a.m. EDT, with live online bidding beginning at that time. Auction [Read More]

The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company, creator of “The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions(TM),” announces its second annual Las Vegas event, taking place Oct. 7-10, 2009, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. A fourth day has been added as a result of the overwhelming participation in the inaugural Las Vegas auction that hosted [Read More]

World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES; TSX: XWE), an operator of online exchanges for energy and green commodities, today announced it successfully supported the fourth carbon allowances auction administered by Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc. (RGGI, Inc.) on June 17, 2009. According to the RGGI independent market monitor, all 30,887,620 allowances for [Read More]