Yearly Archives: 2009

Southwest Airlines confirmed today that its bid to acquire Frontier Airlines was not selected. Southwest submitted a bid of more than $170 million to Frontier Airlines on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, in accordance with the procedures established in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. “We said all [Read More]

VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other agencies that are participating include: U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service and Secret Service. Proceeds from the auction are [Read More]

On August 22, 2009, Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals, located in Radford, VA, will host its Summer 2009 Catalogue Sale – Coins Auction live online with Artfact Live!. In this fascinating sale, Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals will offer more than 150 lots of rare coins and currency. A $1,000 Federal Reserve [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2009 will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 3 to 8 October 2009. This sales series will offer over 2,300 lots of Modern and Contemporary Chinese and Southeast Asian Art, traditional Chinese paintings, fine Chinese ceramics and works of art as well [Read More]

(IVOR, Va.) – Several prominent local estates – including one with collections that span multiple generations – will be sold at auction on Saturday, Sept. 12, by Jay & Wilma’s Local Estates, based in nearby Wakefield. The sale will be held at the Ivor Municipal Building, located at 8420 Bell Avenue. Ivor [Read More]

Perillo Auction and Liquidation Services, Inc. ( www.PerilloAuction.com ) announces the fax-bid auction of a 98-acre landscape and tree farm, according to Fran Brunelle, president. The property consists of a beautifully and fully renovated 4 bedroom 3.5 bath home with over $350,000 worth of renovations. The 98 acres host 70,000 landscape trees [Read More]

Rock Island Auction presents rare, famous and historical firearms in their September 11-13 firearms and antiques auction. There will be a Walter Earp (great grand nephew of Wyatt Earp) presentation Colt single action “Buntline Special”, a William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) presentation inscribed Colt Model 1903 Hammerless 32 Pocket Semi-Automatic Pistol, a [Read More]

Daniel Cooney Fine Art Late Summer Emerging Artists Auction, from August 12 to September 2, 2009. Highlighted in this sale are emerging artists never before offered for auction. The proceeds of this sale will directly benefit the artists in the pursuit of their careers, and empower them to continue their art. Included [Read More]

A GUN belonging to Legendary World Speed Record Holder, Sir Malcolm Campbell will be included in Gavin Gardiner’s auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns at the world-famous Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland on Monday, August 24, 2009. The sale, held in association with Sotheby’s, will start at 6pm. The 12-bore [Read More]

Grey Flannel Auctions of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., has announced details of its Sept. 12, 2009 Fourth Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Auction and other special events associated with the 2009 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony. More than 70 returning Hall of Famers are expected to attend the three-day [Read More]

Bidders unable to attend will be able to stream the auction live (audio and video) on iCollector.com. Visitors to the site will be able to bid on each and every lot, as if they were there, live and in person. (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) – Over 100 rare and vintage cars and hot-rods [Read More]

Alliance Land Auction (www.AllianceLandAuction.com) announces the absolute auction of 7,370 acres in Southwest Colorado, according to Brent Graves, auctioneer. “This is a truly unique offering on the Western slope of the Rocky Mountains, and high desert property with many Indian artifacts,” said Graves. Graves explained that the land will be offered in [Read More]

Christie’s, in collaboration with Pierre Bergé and Associates, announced the second sale of the Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection that will take place in Paris on 17th, 18th and 19th November 2009. Proceeds of the sale will benefit H.I.V research and the fight against Aids. Almost 1200 works of Art from [Read More]

(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – A Parker Brothers AA Pigeon Gun wood and metal advertising sign, one of only two known, sold for a record $7,543 in an Internet and catalog auction that concluded Aug. 1-2 by SoldUSA.com. The only other known example sold a few years ago at auction to a Parker Gun [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces its August Estates Auction. The two-day auction features antiques, fine art, collectibles and maritime memorabilia from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s second location in California. The auction takes place Saturday and Sunday August 22-23 next to the Windward Grille [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York 4 November 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature seven paintings from the Durand-Ruel Collection, encompassing works by a number of the Impressionist masters that legendary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel represented — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. All but one work [Read More]

A 1930s-era Emily Carr painting dubbed “one of the rarest treasures” among Canadian art has sold for more than $2.16 million, becoming one of the highest-priced Canadian paintings ever sold at auction. Carr’s oil-on-canvas titled Wind in the Tree Tops fetched a whopping $2,164,500 at the second sessions of Vancouver-based Heffel Fine [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – An historic archive comprising nine ambrotype and daguerreotype images of James A. Garfield – taken in the 1850s and the first known images of the slain president – sold for $21,470 at a massive weekend sale held July 31-Aug. 2 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Around 1,200 lots in a [Read More]