A secluded retreat of approximately 304 acres, including Murray Knob in Franklin and Roanoke counties, will sell at absolute auction Thursday, Nov. 19, with Woltz & Associates managing the sale. The land, some of which is at an elevation of 2,286 feet, straddles Roanoke and Franklin counties on Easter Mountain, 10 miles [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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Bronze animalier sculptures from the collection of the city’s premier business and social club highlight Nov. 9 Decorative Arts event at Heritage Auctions Membership to The Tower Club of Dallas may be by invitation only, but the chance to own a piece of animalier sculpture from the club’s collection may be much [Read More]
Excitement surrounds the discovery and sale of a tiny iron casket that sold for a jaw dropping £10K at a local auction. The 8cm wide iron casket was discovered by Chief Valuer Adrian Rathbone of Richard Winterton Auctioneers in Lichfield in a box of junk. The box of ‘junk’ had been consigned [Read More]
Sotheby’s fall Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 11 November 2009 comprises an extraordinary offering of paintings and sculptures anchored by classic works by key artists from the 1960s. The sale will begin with 20 works from the collection of Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Myers, noted American collectors and arts [Read More]
It was announced today that the William Wise / Millennium Bank assets will be sold at Public Auction in Raleigh, NC. The auction is being conducted by Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. of Rockingham, NC and Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. of Hillsborough, NC. The auction is being conducted under [Read More]
Christie’s highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will offer collectors a fascinating selection of works on November 10, 2009. The sale is led by a major work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, two seminal paintings from Andy Warhol’s pivotal Death and Disaster series, and important works by Donald Judd, Jeff Koons, Peter [Read More]
On Tuesday, October 27, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper spanning nearly one hundred years of Israeli and Jewish art will be sold at auction by Montefiore Auction House in Tel Aviv, Israel. The auction will also be showcased live via iCollector.com, enabling visitors from around the world to participate in [Read More]
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]
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]
Auction was conducted by Matthews Auctions, LLC, in Peotone, Ill., the day before an annual show. (PEOTONE, Ill.) – A dazzling cardboard diorama, advertising Mayo-Skinner Automatic Windshield Cleaner and graded 8.5 on a 1-10 scale for condition, sold for $5,060 at a Fall Peotone Petroliana & Advertising Auction held Oct. 16 by [Read More]
Auction offerings include early Americana marine paintings, weathervanes, naïve portraiture, Federal furniture and clocks BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host an auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, Nov 8h at 11 a.m. in its [Read More]
A collection of maps and atlases worth many thousands of pounds are included in the Charterhouse auction of pictures, books and antiques in Sherborne, Dorset. UK on Friday 23rd October. “They were collected by the Somerset vendors’ uncle for many years. Although he had a keen interest in geography, he was also [Read More]
Christie’s will offer a highly curated auction of 24 Orientalist masterpieces on November 25, 2009 in London. An important Private Collection of 9 works will form the core of the sale and includes four works by Jean-Léon Gérôme and three exceptional watercolors by John Frederick Lewis. These works will be complimented by [Read More]
A very original 1960 model Porsche 356B Super 90 coupe requiring some refurbishment was the top priced vehicle at Shannons Spring Classic Auction in Sydney on 12th October, selling for $67,000 – well above its pre-auction high estimate of $48,000. The unmolested Porsche, which had been in the hands of the same [Read More]