Yearly Archives: 2009

But first, an important estate sale will be held on Friday, Nov. 27, at 1 p.m., in Oceanside, New York. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – The original marriage certificate issued to Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley on May 26, 1994 in the Dominican Republic, where the couple embarked on their brief but highly [Read More]

Heritage Auctions, on behalf of the American Red Cross, will auction off the one and only Rose Percy, an historic and beloved wax doll originally sold in 1864 as a benefit for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. It will be featured in Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 17 Political & Americana Auction, and is estimated [Read More]

(LITCHFIELD, Conn.) – A major auction to help finish the interior of the new addition to the Litchfield Firehouse will be held Saturday, Nov. 21, beginning at 5 p.m. at the firehouse, located at 258 West Street. The auction will be conducted by Tim’s, Inc., of nearby Bristol. The sale will feature [Read More]

Carfax announced today that DealerTrack Inventory Optimization, powered by AAX, has integrated access to Carfax Auction Quick Check. With this new functionality, auction buyers can quickly get key vehicle history details such as ownership history, branded title information and damage records reported to Carfax. Using this information, dealers can better evaluate online [Read More]

Lion’s Gate, a magnificent 23,000-square-foot architectural masterpiece, situated in an extraordinary recreational setting within the coveted gated community of Sea Horse Ranch on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, will be sold at public auction by New York based Sheldon Good & Company — America’s Real Estate Auctioneer. The auction has [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is privileged to announce the consignment of cars from discerning and eclectic collector Sam Garrett for their forthcoming sale at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles on November 14th. Known for having invented the mascara brush for women by taking a brush used in the maintenance of camera [Read More]

Interesting books and manuscripts offered by Bloomsbury Auctions in their Important Books and Manuscripts sale on 19th November The first part of the sale is devoted to a collection of maritime and naval books (1-122), one of the most noteworthy and very rare items being The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirror, Containing the [Read More]

Offered for Auction for the First Time at Bonhams and Goodman in Melbourne ‘As one might expect, this chess game of a painting can be played and understood on many levels: firstly, the immemorial chess structure that underlies the conception of the Through the Looking-glass game; secondly, in a mirror of the [Read More]

Map collectors with an interest in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will be offered the first collection of maps focused on Scilly, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, ever to come to auction, in a Bonhams sale at Oxford on 1st December. The 40 items in this group include the [Read More]

Christie’s announced the sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe on November 24, which will include over 450 treasures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. With a range of estimates, the sale offers superb private and institutional collections such as carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art and one-of-a-kind examples of [Read More]

Record prices were achieved at RSL Auction’s 477-lot Bountiful Harvest sale held Oct. 17, 2009 in the Baltimore suburb of Timonium, Maryland. The multiple-consignor offering anchored by top-tier pieces from long-held collections ended up being the company’s most successful auction to date, according to Ray Haradin, who owns RSL Auction in partnership [Read More]

Sotheby’s Israeli and International Art sale is a much anticipated annual event held in autumn in New York. The sale this year will take place on November 24th and will feature superb examples of classic and contemporary Israeli art spanning 100 years. Works from the sale are estimated to bring more than [Read More]

Sotheby’s fall evening sale of Latin American Art will take place on Wednesday 18 November 2009 and will be led by one of the most lyrical surrealist paintings by Roberto Matta ever to appear at auction. Endless Nudes, estimated at $2-3 million is an abstract work filled with volcanic eruptions that create [Read More]

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York 7 – 9 PM Cocktails and Silent Auction 8 PM Live Auction with Eliza Osborne of Sotheby’s. Also introducing exclusive Limited Edition Create necklaces and key chains by jewelry designer Karen Karch to benefit The Kitchen and its artists. [Read More]

(PORT GIBSON, Miss.) – An authentic 19th-century vampire killing kit – containing a pistol with silver bullets in a coffin-style case, Holy water vials, a cleaver, a prayer book and a looking glass – sold for $8,800 at an estate sale held (appropriately enough) on Halloween, Oct. 31, by Stevens Auction Company, [Read More]

One expects interesting, off beat, quality images from Bloomsbury Auctions well viewed and well attended Photographs sales and the auction on 10th November is no exception. Irving Penn and Willy Ronis have recently died, and Bloomsbury is delighted to offer some of their major works. The exquisite Lily Meldridge (lot 222) on [Read More]

Significant Modern Design will take center stage in Manhattan on Dec. 10 when Heritage Auctions offers more than 300 period pieces of furniture and lighting from the collection of internationally renowned dealer and collector Michael Playford (Two Zero C Applied Art Ltd.) in its inaugural New York City auction of Important 20th [Read More]

RM Auctions will shine the spotlight on a historic range of 1950s concept cars when it’s highly anticipated Automobiles of Arizona event returns to Phoenix, January 21 and 22, 2010. Blenheim, ON (November 3, 2009) – Five very unique and exciting cars created by Detroit’s automakers are set for RM’s Automobiles of [Read More]