Monthly Archives: August 2009

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on September 29, 2009. The 400 lot sale will offer a diverse group of high quality works spanning a century of design by well-known figures of the period. The sale will feature strong examples of Arts & Crafts, Art [Read More]

The acclaimed Glendorn Resort, located in Bradford, Pennsylvania, will sell at auction at www.williamsauction.com/glendorn (both on site and live via the internet) on Sunday, October 4, at 2:00 p.m. EDT/1:00 p.m. CDT/11:00 a.m. PDT. Williams & Williams, the premier brand in real estate auction, will manage the sale. Auction Network will telecast [Read More]

Maas Companies of Rochester, MN will auction the MH Technologies LLC facility on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 beginning at 10 a.m. in Mount Holly Springs, PA. The auction will be held on-site at One Mountain Road, Mount Holly Springs, PA. MH Technologies manufactured dielectric and electrolytic paper used in medical equipment for [Read More]

Jo Valentine, co-founder of central Ohio’s multi-dealer Valentine Antique Gallery, has established a new offshoot company in partnership with Ohio auctioneer Cynthia Schillig. Known as The Antiques Auction Gallery, the new business will base its operation and conduct its sales at the 12,000-square-foot Valentine Antique Gallery in Sunbury. A debut auction is [Read More]

Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first demonstration of the telescope, PBA Galleries of San Francisco will auction the first edition, second issue, of the book in which the first English translation of Galileo’s “famous dialogues” were published, arguing the correctness of the heliocentric theory of planetary motion, as demonstrated by [Read More]

Bonhams has unveiled an exceptional line-up for its annual sale at the Goodwood Revival (18th September). Leading the charge is the ex-Fred Stiles 1930 model/1938-assembled Alfa Romeo 6C-1750 Testa Fissa, the so-called “Stiles Threesome” Spider with bodywork by the leading British coachbuilder, James Young Ltd. Originally only twelve of these ‘Testa Fissa’ [Read More]

Once again the beautiful and sunny setting of Carmel Valley, California, drew collectors from around the world to Bonhams’ flagship Quail Lodge motorcar auction Friday the 14th August. As expected, the most hotly contested cars came from the Sidney & Jenny Craig Collection, which was 100% sold and included spirited battles for [Read More]

National Commercial Auctioneers, LLC, (www.natcomauctions.com) announces the auction of a 120-room hotel in Petersburg, VA, on August 26, 2009, according to Stephen Karbelk, CAI, AARE, President and Auctioneer for this foreclosure auction. “This property has excellent visibility from the heavy traffic volume on I-95,” commented Karbelk. “The property sits on 3.68 acres [Read More]

Sotheby’s London has announced the sale of fine furniture, paintings and works of art from two great British houses, Powderham Castle and Seaton Delaval Hall, in its New Bond Street galleries on 29th September 2009. The selection of 130 lots from Powderham Castle in Devon, the ancestral home of the Earls of [Read More]

This fall Christie’s Photographs sales will feature The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs at Rockefeller Center on October 8. Offered as a single-owner sale and comprising 118 lots, the collection is distinguished for its range and depth from vintage masterpieces to modernist prints, all of impeccable quality. A unique opportunity for collectors around [Read More]

One of the hobby’s high-end collectors has chosen Legendary Auctions, a premier Sports & Americana auction house, to exclusively conduct the sale of more than 3 million incredible images of Sports and Americana. The extraordinary collection of photographs spans numerous decades, and includes significant figures from various sports, poignant scenes from the [Read More]

For the first time in seven decades, the land along the Molalla River known as Hein Ranch will soon have a new owner. Larry Hein, who has owned and worked the land since 1965, is preparing to sell it at auction as he prepares to retire. The property — approximately 350 acres [Read More]

A single owner collection of early Derby ceramics has broken auction records by totalling a cool £1/4million at the Lichfield Auction Centre. The 250 Lot auction held by Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield last Thursday, (20th August) resulted in a 100% selling rate combined with prices never seen before for such items [Read More]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, conducted an auction of 35 luxury condominiums at the Dalton located near Old Pasadena on Arroyo Parkway on August 16, 2009. Over 1,000 enthusiastic prospective buyers, their families and friends filled one of the large [Read More]

Christie’s have been entrusted with the sale of Photographs by Sally Mann from a Private Collection, Washington, D.C. on October 7, 2009. One of four exceptional Photographs sales to be offered this fall season at Christie’s, Photographs by Sally Mann marks the first time such a comprehensive body of work by the [Read More]

One of the largest offerings of Continental currency and Colonial paper money to be auctioned off in decades will highlight the Official Currency Auction of the September 2009 Long Beach Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Expo conducted by Heritage-Currency Auctions of America, Sept. 9-13, at the Long Beach Convention Center, 100 S. Pine [Read More]

A private collector with a concentration in rare and pristine Hall of Fame baseball cards has chosen Heritage Auction Galleries’ Oct. 1 Signature® Sports Auction to present 40 of the rarest and most valuable specimens to the collecting hobby. “It absolutely ranks among the finest private collections of high-end cards in the [Read More]

Following the enormous success of two monographic sales of photographic works by William Eggleston and Diane Arbus in 2008, Christie’s announced the sale of a third segment of photographs from the extraordinary collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman. Kicking off Christie’s highly anticipated Fall Photographs season, The American Landscape: Color Photographs from [Read More]