A 1954 Fender Stratocaster electric guitar and a fine collection of bronze sculpture from the Estate of Harold M. Garonzik will headline Cordier Antiques & Auctions’ Fall Auction in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. The single owner Stratocaster includes exceptional provenance and is estimated to sell between $20,000 and $40,000. Items from the Estate [Read More]
Daily Archives: October 23, 2009
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More than 400 lots of superb English, French and Italian furniture and decorative arts from the collections of the late Antonio Mariani and his wife Liliane Mariani, owners of the well-respected firm Antonio’s Antiques, come to auction in Bonhams & Butterfields’ San Francisco salesrooms on November 2, 2009. The auction and pre-sale [Read More]
Sotheby’s London biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, which will take place on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 will present over 250 lots, comprising an important range of sculpture, ceramics and works of art in the wide variety of styles and media for which Chinese works of art are [Read More]
A new world record was achieved when a rare work by the Italian artist Giuseppe de Nittis soared past its estimate of $200/300,000 and sold for an astounding $1,133,000 at Bonhams’ October 21st European Paintings auction in New York. Depicting a couple riding along Paris’ Avenue des Champs-Elysées on horseback, the work [Read More]
Kobra Properties (“Kobra”), a California General Partnership et al., Bankruptcy Case Number 08-37271-C-11, is negotiating an asset purchase agreement and has filed a motion for order approving sale of certain assets free and clear of liens, claims and encumbrances and authorizing assumption and assignment of executory contracts in the United States Bankruptcy [Read More]
In the summer of 1465, as the Wars of the Roses raged, an unknown person hid his worldly wealth in a secret location in a Northamptonshire field and went into hiding. He never returned to claim his money. In 2005 – 540 years later – a metal detectorist stumbled across the hoard [Read More]