Yearly Archives: 2009

Window World Cares, the charitable foundation of Window World, Inc., continues its commitment to St. Jude Children’s Hospital with an auction that raised more than $290,000. The money was raised through a motorsports art and memorabilia auction organized by Window World, the nation’s largest supplier of replacement windows. The event was held [Read More]

While there has been much discussion regarding the recent softening of the sports collecting market, no one seemed to be addressing it at the recent Legendary Auctions Live Sports Sale. In fact, more than 200 attendees at the high-end, sports memorabilia event, held July 31, 2009 at the House of Blues in [Read More]

(MACON, Miss.) – A beautiful four-piece parlor suite by the 19th-century New York furniture maker John Henry Belter, in the Rosalie with Grapes pattern, sold for $11,550 at an on-site auction held Aug. 1 at Belle Oaks, one of the most prominent old antebellum homes in Mississippi. Macon is located 30 miles [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE and TSX: RBA) announces net earnings for the six months ended June 30, 2009 of $58.7 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, and adjusted net earnings of $58.1 million, or $0.55 per diluted share. This compares to adjusted net earnings of $53.2 million, or $0.50 per diluted [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will offer Fine Prints on November 3, 2009. The auction, simulcast between the San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, will feature a diverse selection of old master, modern, contemporary prints and multiples ranging from the Renaissance to the Present. Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937), Standard Station (E. 5), 1966. [Read More]

In an unprecedented event, Bonhams & Goodman – Australia’s largest auctioneer of fine jewellery, is to offer at auction for the first time not one, but two exceptional pink diamonds from the Rio Tinto Argyle Diamond Tenders. Bonhams & Goodman has earned a reputation for jewellery auctions of distinction and the forthcoming [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions’ Early Summer Estates Auction, which took place July 25-26, 2009, attracted bidders both locally in Massachusetts and internationally via phone and live online bidding. Day one of this two-day sale featured general fine art, antiques and collectibles, while day two highlighted a wide selection of fine antique frames. Consignments hailed [Read More]

Hal Hunt Auctions will conduct the on-site sale, to be held under a circus tent on the mansion grounds (EUTAW, Ala.) – The contents of the Kirkwood mansion – one of the most famous and stately privately-owned antebellum homes in the South – will be auctioned on Saturday, Sept. 5, by Hal [Read More]

BidBridge, an eProcurement services provider for the public and private sectors, announced today that it worked with the City of Chicago to save nearly $1 million in a recent reverse auction. With the help of BidBridge, the City of Chicago successfully implemented an eProcurement system in place of the traditional sealed bid [Read More]

Antiques, camaraderie, tradition, and plain, old fun – that is focus of Garth’s Auctions’ Annual Labor Day Weekend Americana Auction scheduled to take place on September 4 and 5, 2009. Before you break out the barbeques on Monday, jump in your car Friday and follow the road to Ohio’s oldest premier auction [Read More]

(SEDONA, Ariz.) – One of the most important Colonial maps of North America – Henry Popple’s Map of the British Empire in North America, published in 1734 – will be the highlight of an online sale slated for Sept. 4-16 by Old World Auctions (www.OldWorldAuctions.com). The map is just one of hundreds [Read More]

Bonhams Celebrates 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns at Upcoming Scottish Sale This year’s tenth anniversary of Bonhams annual Scottish Sale will include an outstanding relic of Scottish heritage – a bible once owned by famous Scottish poet, Robert Burns. This somewhat antiquated small pocket Bible has evidently been well-used over the years, [Read More]

A painting by Thomas Daniell, R.A. (British, 1749-1840) titled ‘Carved rocks at Sultaungunge, Bihar’, an oil on canvas, estimated to sell for £70,000- £90,000, is one of the star lots at Bonhams Travel and Exploration Sale in London on 16th of September. The painting which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in [Read More]

Following a successful first two quarters of 2009, the Dorotheum now looks ahead to the autumn season and this year’s third major auction week. At the auction of old master paintings on 6th October 2009, Georg Flegel presents us with an exquisite bouquet, a still life of flowers with a vase decorated [Read More]

Preeminent international auction house, RM Auctions, is delighted to announce the consignment of a highly-desirable 1955 Aston Martin DB3S and a multiple-race winning 1937 Talbot-Lago T150C SS Teardrop Roadster to its Sports & Classics of Monterey auction event, August 13th to 15th in Monterey, California. One of just 20 customer DB3Ss built [Read More]

(ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – Several prominent lifetime collections of American Brilliant Cut Glass – known as ABCG and hugely popular with collectors – will be sold at auction on Saturday, Sept. 5, beginning promptly at 9:30 a.m. The sale will be held in the junior ballroom of the St. Charles Convention Center [Read More]

Within the Fine Books & Manuscripts auction at Bonhams & Butterfields on October 19, 2009 is an archive of rare correspondence and black and white photographs related to the personal life of Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne, his wife, and his son Christopher Robin. “The Milne family archive provides a rare look [Read More]

Sotheby’s today announced results for the second quarter and first six months ended June 30, 2009. For the quarter ended June 30, 2009, the Company reported operating revenues of $167.3 million, a $152.8 million, or 48%, decrease from the prior period. This decrease is primarily due to a 66% decline in net [Read More]