Bonhams is delighted to announce that they will be selling watches from the Private Collection of the Porsche Family in New Bond Street on the 2nd December with all proceeds donated to charity. Paul Maudsley, Director of the Watch Department at Bonhams, says: “Included in the 49 lots are watches by Eterna, [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 12, 2009
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(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – – Nearly 750 lots – most of them quality, fresh to the market items from prominent local estates – will be sold at a Fine & Decorative Arts Cataloged Auction scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m., by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The auction will [Read More]
If you have ever said the phrase ‘as poor as a church mouse’, then you would have something in common with one of our greatest furniture craftsmen Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson (1876-1955). Thompson was a British furniture maker working in English oak. Based in Kilburn North Yorkshire, he is credited as an important [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of 19th-Century, Modern and Contemporary art, to be held in Amsterdam on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, will have at its core a group of works from a celebrated Dutch private collection. Put together over some 30 years with enormous commitment and discernment, this exceptional collection includes works by leading Dutch [Read More]
Last night at Sotheby’s in New York, Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece, 200 One Dollar Bills, brought a remarkable $43,762,500, soaring past the pre-sale estimate of $8/12 million. Competition was fierce. Auctioneer Tobias Meyer opened the bidding at $6 million and was immediately met with an almost unheard of response – a bid [Read More]