Yearly Archives: 2009

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE and TSX: RBA) announced today the closing of the acquisition of the auction business and certain assets of Martella Auction Company, Inc., an agricultural and industrial equipment auctioneer based in Tipton, California. As part of the agreement, Ritchie Bros. will lease Martella’s 65-acre auction site to conduct [Read More]

(ORLANDO, Fla.) – Baterbys Art Auction Gallery has been named Best Art Galley for 2009 by an arts and entertainment magazine (Orlando Style Magazine) and a website dedicated to arts and entertainment (SneakySunday.com). For Orlando Style Magazine, Baterbys placed first in a Readers’ Choice Award poll. SneakySunday.com’s choice was based on visitor [Read More]

For nearly half a century, family-owned Stephenson’s Auctioneers & Appraisers has served the Philadelphia tri-state area with its popular weekly sales, but the company’s most highly anticipated event of the year is always its New Year’s Sale, this season to be held on Jan. 1 and 2, 2010. The New Year’s Sale, [Read More]

Heritage Auctions presents a dramatic array of natural history treasures in its Signature® Natural History Auction, live, in-person and online at www.HA.com on Jan. 17, 2010. “Heritage Natural History auctions are always about offering the broadest array possible,” said David Herskowitz, Director of Natural History Auctions at Heritage, “and one look at [Read More]

Bonhams has announced a highly exciting line-up of exceptional and rare motorcars for its sale at Retromobile, held in Paris at the earlier date of 23 January 2010. An exceptional collection of twenty-eight collectors’ motor cars is being offered by Bonhams, representing the first time that these cars have been offered in [Read More]

(MATTHEWS. N.C.) – Around 1,500 lots of high-quality and mostly fresh to the market items – ammo, firearms, militaria, advertising and general collectibles – are for sale in an online auction that is already underway and concludes Jan. 23-24. The sale is being conducted by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting and fishing, militaria [Read More]

Cowan’s Fine and Decorative Art Department will hold its first Décor auction on Friday, January 8, 2010 in Cowan’s salesroom. The inaugural sale will include a fine selection of paintings and prints, furniture spanning the 18th to the 20th centuries, ivories, carved and gilt frames, rugs, baskets, sterling, and early and Bohemian [Read More]

Frigid temperatures, snow and ice in Manhattan failed to keep bidders from hotly contesting the best examples in Heritage Auctions’ $1.6 million+ Signature 20th Century Design Auction in New York City on Dec. 10. The auction, featuring the collection of renowned dealer Michael Playford, the finest assemblage of Lalique in a single [Read More]

Top names commanded top prices at Bonhams Prints auction on December 15 in a sale that made a total of £462,792 with 83 per cent sold by value. Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, William Blake prints all performed well at prices that ranged from £14,000 – £42,000. An iconic image of [Read More]

On the afternoon of 23 January, 2010 Sotheby’s will offer over 280 lots of Chinese export porcelain and China Trade paintings from the private collection of esteemed longtime dealer Elinor Gordon. A fixture at the “Winter Antiques Show” since its inception in 1955, Gordon is largely credited with elevating Chinese Export Porcelain [Read More]

Christie’s announced the sale of a fine single owner collection; “The Country House Sale: Newton Hall, Northumberland” to be held on January 20, 2010. The Widdringtons of Newton were a powerful and influential land owning family associated with Northumberland as far back as the 12th-century. Theirs is a fascinating history coloured by [Read More]

Cowan’s, an international leader in auctions of historical Americana and early photography, held a successful American History auction on December 9, 2009. Auction proceeds totaled $665,000, with 508 bidders from 6 countries vying for 400 lots. Additionally, December’s American History auction was the department’s first sale with iCowans Bid Live available for [Read More]

Two versions of Ansel Adams’s iconic image of “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”, 1941, sold to collectors at Swann Galleries’ auction of Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs on December 8. Ansel Adams, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”. Silver print, 13 x 17 6/16 inches. Estimate $350,000-450,000. Photo: Swann Auction Galleries. A very rare vintage [Read More]

The fantasy trip of a lifetime just in time for holiday gift giving to Green Bay Packers fans. One lucky fan will spend the first home game of the Green Bay Packers 2010 season playing golf, enjoying the game with three friends and former Packer quarterbacks Bart Starr and Zeke Bratkowski. Proceeds [Read More]

Remarkable Chris Crabtree Collection and other notable examples of fine glass raise over £600,000 at Bonhams New Bond Street Bonhams raised an exceptional total of £666,468 at yesterday’s Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights Sale. With 86.35% of lots sold by value, this sale generated widespread interest from collectors and enthusiasts [Read More]

Sotheby’s has announced that it will offer for sale 163 works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT), on Monday, March 8, 2010 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam. The works from the collection to be offered for sale are estimated to realise in excess of €.4 million. [Read More]

Led by the sale of New Hope impressionist Daniel Garber’s “Quarries at Byram,” which realized $229,000 (estimate $200,000-300,000), Freeman’s December 6th Fine American & European Painting and Sculpture sale was a great success, with 91 percent of the lots finding buyers (95 percent by value) and realized a sale total of $2,230,000. [Read More]

On Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 the Luxury Swiss Travel Agency, Leo Trippi, in collaboration with Antiquorum, will hold its first charity auction benefitting Swiss association FXB International. For the auction, proprietors have made their exceptional international homes available, offering bidders an exclusive selection of dream vacations in the most beautiful properties in [Read More]