Yearly Archives: 2009

Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, is adding a division to its New York operations. The company is entering the fast-growing wine auctions segment though a partnership with Sokolin, LLC, America’s premier merchant of fine and rare wine. The inaugural Bloomsbury Wine Auction will [Read More]

Some believe this car may have the earmarks to set an “automotive auction record” due to the fact that this car was customized when Hughes was in his most creative stage of his life, about 1937. After a weeklong reunion with the Spruce Goose (H-4 Hercules), the “Aero-Mobile” has left the Evergreen [Read More]

Warner Real Estate & Auction Company [www.WarnerRealtors.com] announces the auction of two Southern New Jersey land tracts on Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 1pm, according to Rich Warner, auctioneer. “These properties were ordered sold by the developer,” explained Warner. “This is an excellent opportunity to acquire prime development property.” The first property [Read More]

A participant in the upcoming Breast Cancer 3-Day walk in Seattle, Washington has come up with a novel way to raise funds: she will sell a pink street sweeper at an unreserved auction in Olympia and put half the proceeds towards her team’s fundraising efforts. Tina McDonough, the owner of One.7, Inc., [Read More]

Rick Levin & Associates, Inc., a Chicago-based real estate auction marketing firm, announced it will conduct a multiple-property auction of properties in Illinois and Indiana on behalf of McDonald’s. The auction will take place at 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza-O’Hare located at 5440 N. River Road [Read More]

On 19 June 2009, Sotheby’s will present The Graham Arader Sale. For almost four decades, Graham Arader has been one of the world’s most recognizable collectors and dealers of color-plate books, atlases, cartography, and natural history watercolors. This June, Sotheby’s will offer a remarkable selection from his holdings, ranging from original watercolors [Read More]

The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place at Christie’s in London on 23 June and will offer 46 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Joan Miró, Camille Pissarro and Marcel Duchamp. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £40 [Read More]

Sotheby’s London will present the very best of decorative arts in its sale of Important Furniture, Silver, Ceramics & Clocks on Tuesday 7th July 2009. The sale of 68 lots is expected to raise in excess of £5 million and comprises the finest selections of both English and Continental furniture, in addition [Read More]

Metrovest Equities announced today that Sheldon Good & Co. Auctions N.E., LLC will auction off 25 one- and two-bedroom luxury condominiums at the landmark Beacon residential development in Jersey City, NJ as part of a proactive approach to closing out the community’s first phase of 315 homes which is approximately 80% sold [Read More]

An impressive and rare Tiffany and Co. bronze table, designed by Edward C. Moore, circa 1875, will highlight the June 4 Signature® 20th Century Design Auction at Heritage Auction Galleries’ Slocum Street Annex in the red hot Design District of Downtown Dallas. It carries a pre-sale estimate of $40,000-$60,000. “This Japanesque table, [Read More]

With the $600,000+ Chicorel Collection backing it up, the finest known copy of Showcase #4 – the comic that started the Silver Age – realized its rightful place as the most valuable 1950s comic book when it sold for $179,250 as part of Heritage Auction Galleries May 21-23 Signature Comics & Comics [Read More]

Two marquetry wood panels, made from Australian native timbers by an unknown maker in the 1860s, were the undisputed highlights at the Bay East Auctions over the weekend. These hidden gems were thought to be from the late 19th century and are considered to be highly unusual pieces of Australiana, given their [Read More]

Indy Event is Company’s Largest Auction Ever, Deals Continue with The Bid Goes On Hundreds of collector cars left the Indianapolis State Fairgrounds with new owners during the 22nd Annual Mecum Original Spring Classic Auction, May 13-17, 2009, in Indianapolis, Ind. The five-day auction boasted total gross sales (including buyer’s premium) approaching [Read More]

Several beachfront properties located in Puerto Penasco, Mexico – often called “Arizona’s beach” – will be sold by live auction on June 4. Five commercial land tracts, ranging from 0.8± to 102± acres, and two commercial buildings will be offered at the auction, a joint project for United Country Real Estate and [Read More]

This year’s spring auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on June 4, 2009 with the sale of Modern and Contemporary photography including a copy of only ten numbered that exist of the image of the French First Lady taken by U.S. photographer Pamela Hanson Also, among the 190 lots [Read More]

Christie’s New York sale of Important Botanical Books on June 24 featuring many of the most significant medicinal herbals and fine illustrated botanical books from the 15th through the 19th century. Over 200 works, including many of the most celebrated in the history of the field, document the development of the scientific [Read More]

A JACKET worn over 194 years ago, to the month, in one the most momentous battles in European history, the Battle of Waterloo, will be offered by Thomas Del Mar (in association with Sotheby’s) in his auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria in London on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at his [Read More]

For anyone who has ever considered owning a golf course, the upcoming court-ordered auction of Ohio’s Tanglewood Country Club presents a rare opportunity. Regarded as one of Ohio’s finest golf courses, Tanglewood has played host to the PGA Tour’s Cleveland Open, the Ohio Open and the LPGA Babe Zaharias Classic since opening [Read More]