Daily Archives: December 1, 2009

Ariotek was created in 2009 from the amalgamation of three very successful web based companies. All three companies have been privately owned and profitable since creation, the oldest of which started trading in early 2001. Ariotek now host thousands of web sites, all of which are hosted on Ariotek’s state of the [Read More]

Russian art continues to go from strength to strength as Bonhams Russian Art sale fetches an impressive £1.9 million. The eminent names on sale included Aivazovsky and Fabergé. The top lot by Aivazovsky, whose career spanned almost the entire 19th century, named “The Morning Catch”, reached an outstanding £378,400 from an estimate [Read More]

On Sunday 6 December at 4pm, Bonhams & Goodman will be hosting the To Life 2009 Fine Art auction to raise much needed funds for the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre in Elsternwick, Victoria. Artists, collectors and dealers have generously donated over 60 artworks to be sold at auction with all [Read More]

A packed audience of over 1,000 people in the fabulous surroundings of the BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, witnessed a total sell out auction of the Willy Neutkens Collection of BMW Motorcycles on Saturday 28 November, 2009. The Collection comprised 94 Lots (91 motorcycles; an Ural side-car; a BMW stationary engine; and [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Sculpture and Works Of Art in London on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 will open with an unusual collection of stone architectural carvings brought together over a period of 17 years by collector and enthusiast Richard Wiseman. Depicting demons, men and fantastic beasts, these carvings – including a [Read More]

From a busy saleroom opened to capacity, with two banks of 60 telephone lines reserved to execute bids on behalf of potential buyers, clients enthusiastically competed to acquire a piece of Russian Imperial history in Sotheby’s London Sale of ‘Romanov Heirlooms: The Lost Inheritance of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna’. The auction, [Read More]

KAR Auction Services, Inc. (the “Company”) today announced that it has commenced an initial public offering of 23,000,000 shares of its common stock. All shares included in the initial public offering are being sold by the Company. The estimated range for the initial public offering price is $15.00 to $17.00 per share. [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will be conducting a multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment and truck auction at its Chicago permanent auction site on Thursday, December 10, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. The Company has been conducting auctions at its Chicago auction site in Morris for nearly 10 [Read More]

Newmark Knight Frank has announced that it will offer 25 surplus properties in 14 states at auction as part of a post bankruptcy liquidation plan for a major building supply company. Tranzon Integrated Property Group has been designated by Newmark Knight Frank as auctioneer to handle all of the auctions on a [Read More]

The Counts Realty and Auction Group (www.CountsAuction.com) announces the auction of 10 lake front and lake view properties at Mariners Landing on Smith Mountain Lake, according to Bill Bryant. The auction is set for Saturday, December 5 at 10am, in the Bedford Room at the Mariners Landing Conference Center. “We have homes, [Read More]

On January 14th, Freeman’s will conduct its Books, Manuscript, Maps, Prints & Posters Auction. Amongst the exciting American manuscript material to be offered in the sale are a signed Carte-de-Visite photograph of Abraham Lincoln, an uncommon standing portrait from a Brady Studio negative priced at $8,000-12,000. Also of note is an autograph [Read More]