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]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
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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]
(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A block of six rare Canadian error stamps (Scott 387A), never hinged, from the corner of the sheet, sold for $50,850 at a multi-estate sale held May 8-9 by Philip Weiss Auctions. It was the first of two weekend May events conducted by the firm; the other was held [Read More]
Rick Levin & Associates, Inc., a Chicago-based real estate auction marketing firm, announced it will conduct four multiple-property auctions of 135 residential properties including single-family homes, condominiums, townhomes and rowhomes located in Chicago, Grayslake, Libertyville, Lombard, Mt. Prospect and Schiller Park plus a homesite in Lincolnshire and a vacant parcel in Chicago. [Read More]
A realistically carved circa-1910 Looff “jumper” carousel horse with a ruffled mane and patriotic symbols on its saddle crossed the finish line in first place at Mosby & Co’s May 15 auction premiere. The 63-inch-long figure, with real horsehair tail and a custom-made, wheeled platform left the gate with a $5,000 bid [Read More]
(PANAMA CITY, Fla.) – About 300 fresh-to-the-market lots from a pair of prominent local estates will be sold on Saturday, June 27, in a live and Internet auction to be held by Specialists of the South, Inc. (www.SpecialistsoftheSouth.com). Offered will be fine period furniture; rare and vintage postage stamps; collectible china and [Read More]
Interest from European and American collectors and dealers was particularly noticeable in Bloomsbury’s recent Posters sale on 28th May. Transport and sport played a big part in the auction; luxury travel of the 1920s was especially popular and The Golden Arrow, Cie Wagons Lits by WS Bylityilis (lot 12) made a very [Read More]
Rare works by top Russian artists Konstantin Somov, Alexei Harlamoff and Nikolai Bogdanov-Bel’sky are just some of the lots at the Russian sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on Monday 8 June. One important piece set to go under the hammer is Repose at Sunset by Somov, dated 1922. The painting is [Read More]
Heavily discounted distressed properties are attracting droves of homebuyers and driving sales gains in foreclosure laden states like California. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), in the first quarter of 2008, California home sales surged 80%. Buyers hungry for foreclosed property will find plenty of deals on investor and move-in [Read More]
Legendary Auctions, a leading Sports and American auction house will offer collectors a unique opportunity to own a treasured piece of baseball history. The auction house will offer a one-time sale of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (MSHOF) bronze plaques of diamond legends in their June sales events. Bidding in the [Read More]
The Charterhouse auction of collectors’ items, including stamps, medals, coins, Dinky model vehicles and railwayana in June will attract many buyers to the sale with the vast array of items going under their hammer. “These specialist sales are always very well attended with collectors and dealers travelling hundreds of miles to be [Read More]
“Today’s art market demands, apart from high quality, the factors of rarity and market freshness,” thus Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. And he adds: “I’m very glad, especially at our grand Welcome Auctions on 19/20 June 2009 in our new Munich House, to be in a position to provide [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, is adding a division to its New York operations. The company is entering the fast-growing wine auctions segment though a partnership with Sokolin, LLC, America’s premier merchant of fine and rare wine. The inaugural Bloomsbury Wine Auction will [Read More]
Some believe this car may have the earmarks to set an “automotive auction record” due to the fact that this car was customized when Hughes was in his most creative stage of his life, about 1937. After a weeklong reunion with the Spruce Goose (H-4 Hercules), the “Aero-Mobile” has left the Evergreen [Read More]