Yearly Archives: 2009

Racebrook Marketing Concepts, LLC will acquire the assets of Sheldon Good & Company, the nation’s leading real estate auction firm, pursuant to a sale approved Tuesday by the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York. The new corporate structure will take effect on August 1, 2009, with the [Read More]

Sperry Van Ness/Guardian and MarketMaker™, have announced a regional commercial property auction for the Northwest to be held September 30. This announcement resulted from a surge in potential listings from investors and banks just weeks after they jointly launched the MarketMaker West Coast Auction being held in Los Angeles on July 30. [Read More]

Streambank, LLC today announced that a bid deadline and auction date have been finalized for the sale of the intellectual property assets of KB Toys, Inc. Bids may be entered until 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 4. The auction will commence Thursday, August 6 at 10:00 a.m. The US Bankruptcy Court for the [Read More]

Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, announced today worldwide sales of £1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) for the first six months of 2009, down 35% by £ on last year’s figure of £1.8 billion ($3.5 billion) for the same period (Figures include buyer’s premium). In Christie’s salesrooms around the world, 211 works [Read More]

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it will host an auction of Country Americana on Sunday, August 9th at 11 a.m. in its Marlborough, Mass. gallery. The auction features nearly 800 lots including marine paintings and ship [Read More]

The stunning 98 foot $7.8 million motor yacht that was the star of the 2008 Sanctuary Cove Boat Show is headed for auction. It was purchased in 2008 by Brisbane entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff’s DSB Cruises which is now in receivership. Under instructions from Receivers Ian Hall and Guy Edwards from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), [Read More]

Seoul Auction is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Alexandra House, Central, Hong Kong. To mark the occasion, Seoul Auction is also holding an inaugural private sales exhibition, “Cutting Edge”, featuring works by young Korean artists. The exhibition is being held at Seoul Auction’s new office, 1808, Alexandra [Read More]

Christie’s, the world’s leading auction house for fine jewels and the market leader in the category for the past 15 years, announced that The Annenberg Diamond, a spectacular D color, Flawless diamond of 32.01 carats, will be the leading highlight of Jewels: The New York Sale on October 21, 2009. Valued between [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Clark County Public Auction has selected the Company to provide live online bidding for an upcoming Michael Jackson memorabilia auction. The live auction is slated for Sunday, July 26 at Noon PDT, with live online bidding taking place at [Read More]

A pair of extraordinary late 17th Century Jacobean curtains – £4,000 – £6,000 – which have come from a couple in Nairn, Scotland, who put them up every winter and took them down each summer to protect them from the light, will be sold at Bonhams auction of Textiles in Knowle on [Read More]

A Burmese Arakan gilt bronze figure of a seated Buddhist Deity, possibly Avalokitesvara, The Bodhisattva of Compassion, 17th Century, given to Emma Harker by Mahatma Gandhi, will be sold by Bonhams at the sale of Asian Art on 8th September in Knightsbridge. The 13in high sculpture is estimated to sell for £3,000-5,000. [Read More]

A MAGNIFICENT townscape by highly respected 20th century Indian artist Sadanand K. Bakre is among the highlights of the sale at Bellmans, Wisborough Green, West Sussex as part of their three-day monthly auction from Wednesday, August 5 through to Friday, August 7, 2009. Sadanand K. Bakre Bakre (1920-2007) was one of India’s [Read More]

American antiques experts, authors and television hosts, Leigh and Leslie Keno are no strangers to the spotlight, regularly sharing their expertise with the American public as furniture appraisers on the popular tv series Antiques Roadshow. This August, it will be their family’s beloved 1938 Jaguar SS 100 Roadster 3 ½ litre taking [Read More]

Heritage Auction Galleries has just announced a new online feature – HERITAGE Live!TM Budget Bidding – that will afford budget-conscious buyers greater control over their spending while participating via Heritage’s real-time proprietary internet bidding platform. The budget feature activates after Internet bidding for an auction has closed and the HERITAGE Live!TM interface [Read More]

Cat Auction Services, recognized the world over for its commitment to building customer loyalty, announced today that it will hold an unreserved public auction in Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday, August 4, beginning at 9 a.m. at Nebraska Raceway Park (14200 238th Street, Greenwood, Neb. – I-80, Exit 420). This marks the company’s [Read More]

Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of furniture, fixtures and equipment from Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast receivership, according to Jerry Jenkins. Items in this online bank auction include: computers, executive office furniture, art works, leather chairs, office equipment, storage and shelving, filing cabinets, decorative items, jewelry, an antique [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields announced the November 8, 2009 auction of The Estate of Elizabeth Colyear Vincent, Newport Beach, California. Assembled over the course of a lifetime, the Estate features a diverse group of 18th and 19th century works with a focus on the Northern European aesthetic. The 300-lot Los Angeles-based sale will [Read More]

An engagement between an American and a British naval vessel during the War of 1812 by Derek Gardner is estimated to sell for £30,000 to £50,000 at Bonhams next auction of Marine Art on September 15th in New Bond Street, London. The painting depicts the action shortly before the ‘Macedonian’s’ main topmast [Read More]