Monthly Archives: September 2009

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will be conducting a large, three-day, multi-million dollar unreserved public auction at its permanent auction site in Fort Worth, Texas from Wednesday, September 23, 2009 to Friday, September 25, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. each day. The upcoming auction marks the fourth auction [Read More]

“Our spring auctions have shown that art as a means of investment is more in demand than ever before”, says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. “It is a time for connoisseurs, and the perfect moment to buy art. High quality works and moderate starting prices coincide.” The Munich Ketterer [Read More]

The Dawson & Nye September 23rd & 24th, 2009 Auction will feature Property From the Estate of John G. Scanlon, Naples, Florida, as well as classic and vintage automobiles, several leaves from John James Audubon’s Double Elephant Portfolio, a New Jersey painted and smoke-grained blanket chest, a collection of Norman Rockwell paintings [Read More]

Abamex Auction Company (www.abamex.com) announces the online auction of a large assortment of boutique European wines on behalf of a secured creditor, according to Olga Lemeni. “These are European wines with a story,” said Lemeni, “from small hand picked wineries, distinctive flavors, traditional terroir-driven wines, most from France and Spain.” The former [Read More]

The Counts Realty and Auction Group (www.CountsAuction.com) announces the auction of 471 acres of timberland in 10 tracts, according to Bill Bryant. “It is an excellent time to invest in land,” explained Bryant. “This property has an excellent timber stand valued at approximately $371,000.” Conveniently located between Boonsboro and Forest in Bedford [Read More]

Included within the Bonhams & Butterfields’ Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on October 19, 2009 are two remarkable documents dating from the birth of the State of California: The first is a registrar leaf from the 1849 California State Constitutional Convention signed and inscribed by 46 members of the delegation. Signatures include [Read More]

Sotheby’s autumn series of Asian art sales concluded yesterday, bringing the combined total to $19,280,279, double the pre-sale low estimate of $8.8/12.3 million. The series was 78.6% sold by lot. Today’s sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art, Including Indian Miniature Paintings brought $3,747,800 (est. $2.5/3.5 million) and was 70.8% sold [Read More]

Christie’s London will offer a masterpiece by Rembrandt (1606-1669) at the Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale on Tuesday 8 December 2009 in London. Unseen in public for almost 40 years and offered at auction for the first time since 1930, Portrait of a man, half-length, with his arms akimbo, [Read More]

John Moran Auctioneers will kick off the fall 2009 auction season with their Tuesday, September 29th Estates Auction featuring decorative and fine art and collectibles from estates and private collections in Southern California, Nevada and Texas. The two-session sale will begin with the popular no-reserve Discovery Sale offering a large selection of [Read More]

Bonhams raised a grand total of £1,304,032 at yesterday’s highly-anticipated Exploration & Travel Sale at New Bond Street, which featured an extraordinary array of books, manuscripts, artefacts and pictures. The highlight of the sale was undoubtedly the archives of Dr Edward Wilson (b.1872), arguably the most important member of Captain Robert Falcon [Read More]

The excitement surrounding the Sept. 11, 2009 induction of Michael Jordan into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame set the pace for a weekend of unforgettable reunions and highlights, capped off by Grey Flannel’s $1.2 million Hall of Fame Auction held at Mohegan Sun resort in Uncasville, Connecticut. Grey Flannel’s respect [Read More]

Sotheby’s autumn auction season in New York kicked off this morning with a sale of Fine Chinese Furniture, Works of Art and Carpets from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, which brought $4,615,054 and tripled the presale estimate of $1/1.5 million. The sale was 95.4% sold by lot and 99.5% sold by value [Read More]

A painting by Adam Neate, an artist who is known to have left his works leaning against lamp posts and dustbins is to be sold at Bonhams East Anglian View sale in Bury St Edmunds on 3rd December. Previously his work has sold for as much as £80,000. Leaving his paintings for [Read More]

Weekend extravaganza will be held by Philip Weiss Auctions, at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, New York (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market items in an impressive array of categories – to include stamps, coins, rare books, autographs, postcards, sports items, comics, comic art, rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, pop culture collectibles [Read More]

(NORTHPORT, Ala.) – The world-famous jukebox and advertising collection of the late John Gurrech of Houston, Tex., will be sold at auction on Saturday, Oct. 3, starting at 10 a.m., by Hal Hunt Auctions. The sale will be held at Hal Hunt’s spacious gallery, located at 5925 Hwy. 43 in Northport. Dozens [Read More]

This fall Garth’s Eclectic auction on October 2nd will feature a large selection of 20th century furniture, artwork and accessories in addition to Garth’s usual assortment of quality Victorian and country antique furniture and decorative accessories. It will be a virtual one-stop shop through the ages for collectors and dealers alike. Buyers [Read More]

Bonhams forthcoming jewellery sale promises an array of treasures, including a unique piece of history – a ring containing a lock of Mary Tudor’s hair. The ring will be one of the exceptional pieces of fine jewellery auctioned at Bonhams New Bond Street on 23rd September. Passed down the generations by the [Read More]

When the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) invited the public to donate artworks for a Big Art Sale fundraiser, the response was remarkable. The museum accepted 180 objects, each valued between $250–$30,000, to auction off on Thursday and Friday, October 1 and 2. The Big Art Sale will take place at DuMouchelle [Read More]