Yearly Archives: 2009

An evening of entertainment and fundraising that included performances by Elton John, Billy Crystal, Tony Bennett, and Gladys Knight resulted in Starkey Hearing Foundation, the global leader in delivering the gift of hearing, raising more than $5 million to support its mission of helping the world to hear. Starkey Hearing Foundation hosted [Read More]

Noel Barrett’s June 19-20 Toys of Summer auction recalled the simple charm of village life in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe with a parade of predominantly German-made tinplate characters and scale-model marvels that grossed nearly $1 million (all prices quoted include 15% buyer’s premium). It wasn’t just the toys that came [Read More]

Inertia Beverage Group (IBG) announced today that the auction scheduled for the sale of New Vine’s assets will take place on Monday, July 27th at 10 a.m., an extension of 13 days to allow both registered and potential new bidders incremental time to evaluate all available assets. Under the management of Sherwood [Read More]

A new world auction record was established for an antique doll this weekend when Theriault’s, the specialty auction house for antique childhood items, drew heated bidding for a seldom seen French art doll, circa 1914, by sculptor Albert Marque. The doll realized $263,000.00 (including buyers premium), shattering the previous record for a [Read More]

A logbook from the famous 1872-1876 journey of HMS Challenger, described at the time as “the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries” will go on sale at Bonhams 16th September auction of Exploration, Travel and Topographical Pictures. The Book is estimated to sell for [Read More]

The Vered Gallery in East Hampton has withdrawn an Andy Warhol portrait of Michael Jackson from the auction block. Pre-sale estimates ranged from one to 10 million US dollars. The painting shows Michael Jackson wearing a red jacket from his Thriller era. Lehr told the new York Daily news last week that [Read More]

Stiles Auction, LLC of Lena, Wisconsin and Zurko Promotions of Shawano Wisconsin have teamed up for a fantastic Duck Decoy, Fishing Lure, Gun and Outdoor Sporting Auction scheduled for October 24th 2009. The auction which is featuring rare, and some signed vintage decoys from the midwest decoy makers as well as a [Read More]

Lost Cove Marina and RV Park on Alabama’s Smith Lake will sell at auction Friday, July 31, with Advantage Auction & Realty Inc. managing the sale. Also selling separately in the same auction will be a nearby waterfront home site. The marina, located on approximately 1.04 acres with approximately 300 feet of [Read More]

Market trends notwithstanding, the trade still does play an important role in the auction world. With that fact in mind, and once again proving that marketing on each side of the Atlantic can pay off in droves, it is interesting to note the sale’s most expensive painting, a fabulous Roy Nuse painting [Read More]

A painting by Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), estimated to sell for £150,000-250,00 in Bonhams sale of Old Master Paintings on 8th July, made a world record price for the artist at £1.3m. Titled `View of the Tiber looking towards the Castel Sant’Angelo, with Saint Peter’s in the distance’, the painting was previously thought [Read More]

With a laudable 82 percent sell-through rate by lot, or nearly ninety percent sold by value, Freeman’s June 21st sale of ‘Fine American & European Paintings and Sculpture’ proved to be a great success, with 102 of the 127 lots on offer finding buyers and the sale totaling $1,182,000 hammer with premium. [Read More]

The remaining classic trucks and equipment of the long standing Archie Crippen Excavating Company in Fresno, CA will be auctioned off to the public next Tuesday, July 14th.. It is widely known that Archie had a lifelong love affair with restoring old trucks and cars, as is evidenced by the large quantity [Read More]

Art Source for Design is proud to announce the date of a fundraising art auction to benefit LifeUnfolded, a local non profit organization dedicated to to providing an artistic outlet for foster children to enable them to discover their talents and use those talents to succeed in life. The event will be [Read More]

A piece of history – a community’s and a family’s history – will be sold to the highest bidders on July 11. Located in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Hills, The Gables Condominiums offer a rare combination of modern luxury living and old world architecture, conveniently located halfway between Boston and New York City. The [Read More]

Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will sell 400 lots fresh from Manhattan, Larchmont, New Rochelle, and Scarsdale estates. Signed Antique and Margolis Furniture Highlights include a signed Lamb of Manchester Aesthetic Movement etagere; a dining suite of highly carved, possibly Horner pieces; American Empire furniture, a selection of Victorian oak tables [Read More]

The sale of Important European Furniture, Sculpture & Clocks realised £7,012,750 and was 79% sold by value and 65% sold by lot. The top lot was a pair of Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry coffres en tombeau (coffers-on-stands), by André-Charles Boulle, circa 1688, which was bought by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and realised [Read More]

A stunning William Dyce painting that has been lost for over a century is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in London next week. The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel is expected to fetch between £100,000 – 150,000 when it is offered for sale in Sotheby’s Victorian and Edwardian Art sale [Read More]

It was a full house with many new faces that filled the Pasadena Convention Center on Tuesday, June 23rd, in anticipation of John Moran’s second California and American Paintings Sale for 2009. The number of new bidders and attendees perhaps reflects the change in investment strategies from Wall Street to tangible property. [Read More]