Monthly Archives: July 2009

A piece of history – a community’s and a family’s history – will be sold to the highest bidders on July 11. Located in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Hills, The Gables Condominiums offer a rare combination of modern luxury living and old world architecture, conveniently located halfway between Boston and New York City. The [Read More]

Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will sell 400 lots fresh from Manhattan, Larchmont, New Rochelle, and Scarsdale estates. Signed Antique and Margolis Furniture Highlights include a signed Lamb of Manchester Aesthetic Movement etagere; a dining suite of highly carved, possibly Horner pieces; American Empire furniture, a selection of Victorian oak tables [Read More]

The sale of Important European Furniture, Sculpture & Clocks realised £7,012,750 and was 79% sold by value and 65% sold by lot. The top lot was a pair of Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry coffres en tombeau (coffers-on-stands), by André-Charles Boulle, circa 1688, which was bought by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and realised [Read More]

A stunning William Dyce painting that has been lost for over a century is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in London next week. The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel is expected to fetch between £100,000 – 150,000 when it is offered for sale in Sotheby’s Victorian and Edwardian Art sale [Read More]

It was a full house with many new faces that filled the Pasadena Convention Center on Tuesday, June 23rd, in anticipation of John Moran’s second California and American Paintings Sale for 2009. The number of new bidders and attendees perhaps reflects the change in investment strategies from Wall Street to tangible property. [Read More]

On Aug. 13-15, Dan Morphy Auctions will conduct the biggest cataloged sale in its history – a 3,000-lot no-reserve absolute auction featuring long-held private collections of Kentucky rifles, fine dolls and toys, mechanical music boxes, decorative art, jewelry and gold coins. All goods will be offered in logically organized categories, selling to [Read More]

Tranzon Integrated Property Group (“Tranzon”) has announced that it has been engaged to conduct an auction of the property known as the Adel R. Coccomo Residential Center in Middlesex County, Connecticut. The property is currently operating and was completed in early 2008 at a cost of $14,500,000. Tranzon has been authorized to [Read More]

Concierge Auctions will conduct a luxury real estate auction of four properties near Jacksonville, Florida on July 25, including a waterfront estate in Ponte Vedra Beach previously offered to $5.9 million, two beachfront development opportunities in Saint Augustine Beach, and an Atlantic Beach townhouse previously offered to $1.435 million, the company announced. [Read More]

Gray’s Auctioneers is pleased to announce its 22nd Fine Art and Antiques auction to be held Saturday July 25th at 1pm. Gray’s Auctioneers Llc has quickly established itself as the region’s premier auction house and appraisal facility, capitalizing on both its extensive industry experience as well as its strategic positioning in the [Read More]

International autograph auctioneers Alexander Autographs Inc. of Stamford, Ct. will offer in their August rock and entertainment auction a telling set of lyrics handwritten by Michael Jackson indicating that the late singer may have been in a suicidal frame of mind at the time of their composition. The hastily-scribbled lines were written [Read More]

Christie’s inaugural Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale realised £20,284,400 / $32,840,444 / €23,550,188, and was 76% sold by lot and 91% sold by value. Offering important paintings, drawings and watercolours representing nearly 700 years of European history, the sale took place in a packed saleroom and saw 4 works [Read More]

Last night in London, Sotheby’s sales of Old Master Paintings and Renaissance & Baroque Masterworks from the Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson brought a combined total of £36,022,625/ $57,917,177/ €41,645,761, a strong figure comfortably within the pre-sale expectations for the evening of £29,222,500-42,470.000. The Old Master Paintings Evening Sale made an individual [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is conducting an unreserved public equipment auction on Thursday, July 30, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. in the city of Grand Junction situated close to the Utah and Colorado state border. It’s the first time in more than 50 years of business that [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announced that in November this year it will bring to the market, for the first time ever, the extraordinary and rediscovered collection of personal and rare objects, including many exquisite pieces of Fabergé, which belonged to Her Imperial Highness Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess Vladimir (1854-1920) and her late husband, His [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Around 1,200 lots in a wide array of categories – to include toy trains, transportation, advertising, militaria, ocean liner, World’s Fair, railroadiana, automotive, Hollywood memorabilia, historical items and more – will be sold at a three-day event slated for July 31-Aug. 2 by Philip Weiss Auctions, in the firm’s [Read More]

AutoLookout has integrated access to CARFAX Auction Quick Check. The tool is initially free for Carfax-subscribing dealers through AutoLookout’s network of auction Web sites. Buyers get vehicle history details such as ownership history, branded title information and damage records reported to Carfax. Using this information, dealers can better evaluate online auction units [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces its July Estates Auction. The two-day auction features antiques, fine art and collectibles from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s second location in California. The auction takes place Saturday and Sunday July 25-26 next to the Windward Grille at 109 [Read More]

Hundreds of antiquarian books are currently on the Internet auction block through the website www.manions.com. The company, which specializes in militaria and historic collectibles, has recently received a large consignment of collectible volumes. “Antiquarian books certainly fall within the realm of historic collectibles,” said company representative Andrew Turner. “We’re pleased to offer [Read More]