Bonhams new saleroom adjacent to Oxford’s airport, took off with no problem this weekend with 500 people participating enthusiastically for 40 stunning cars at the first Bonhams classic car sale in the city. The sale on Sunday March 8th achieved a total £968,493 with over 95 percent of cars sold, 41 were [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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CrossHarbor Capital Partners, LLC, a national leader in commercial real estate investment, today announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Montana (“the Court”) has approved the Yellowstone Club’s (“the Club”) motion to approve plan solicitation procedures that include the appointment of CrossHarbor as the lead or “stalking horse” bidder [Read More]
VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of loose diamonds on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division. The 605 loose diamonds being auctioned were seized during the investigation of a money laundering scheme in New York City’s [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong will stage the Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, on the 6th April 2009. Highlighting this sale is a sophisticated selection of seminal contemporary creations that underscore the exceptional artistic expressions by prominent Chinese, Japanese and Korean artists. Over 155 works will [Read More]
Kaminski Auctions’ Fine Art and Estates Auction, which took place February 28 and March 1, 2009, attracted bidders both locally in Massachusetts and internationally via phone and live online bidding. The auction offered a wide selection of fine art, antiques and collectibles, highlighted by a first-rate selection of fine art once owned [Read More]
(Northport, Ala.) – An exceedingly rare and magnificent pierce-carved laminated rosewood bed, beautifully crafted by John Henry Belter (circa 1850s) and one of only two known, soared to $201,250 at a multi-estate sale held Feb. 21 by Hal Hunt Auctions. The bed was the top earner of the 437 lots that crossed [Read More]
On Tuesday 19th May Bonhams, in association with Dan Klein Associates, will be holding its inaugural sale of Modern and Contemporary Glass, the first of its kind in the UK. The decision follows the sale in 2007 of a piece of contemporary glass by Bonhams in New York, a cast glass sculpture [Read More]
Buyers with a taste for the rare and the exotic flocked to Waterloo on Sunday 1st March where the lifetime collection of Joan Bowers, went up for auction. A glorious array of artifacts, antiques and furniture, sourced primarily from India and assembled over 30 years, took just under 5 hours to sell [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions presents their second Photographs sale in New York with a curated selection of historic, modern and contemporary work in addition to a new section dedicated to Photographic Editions. Bloomsbury Auctions is delighted to announce a various owner auction of extraordinary photographs in its New York City headquarters on 2 April [Read More]
Clarke’s Monday March 9th Auction features decorator and custom pieces from the Hotel Pierre suite of Lord Hanson, American Empire furniture from Larchmont; a period gilt-bronze French Empire clock with an Apollonian attributes from Bronxville and great period bronze and rock crystal lighting. Midcentury Design From the Hotel Pierre suite of Lord [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s forthcoming Fine Chinese Painting Spring Sale 2009 will be held on 5th April 2009 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The sale will present exceptional works by outstanding artists from 19th to 20th century, comprising of collections namely ‘Reminiscence – 35 Years of Chinese Paintings in Sotheby’s [Read More]
High performance collector car specialists Mecum Auction will offer collectors a chance to own a piece of American race history when they auction the 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe CSX2601 at the 22nd Dana Mecum Original Spring Classic Auction taking place May 13-17, 2009, in Indianapolis, Ind. And when this Crown Jewel [Read More]
(Oceanside, N.Y.) – An astounding 2,000 lots – mostly fresh-to-the-market merchandise from prominent estates and collections – will be sold at auctions planned for Mar. 28-29 and Apr. 4 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The sales will be conducted at the firm’s spacious gallery, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, N.Y. Bids [Read More]
On March 30th Sotheby’s will offer a fine selection of photographs ranging from one of the earliest images of New York City, to a modernist work by László Moholy-Nagy, to iconic images by photographic provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. Also included will be images by many of the 20th century’s top photographers including Robert [Read More]
(Dickinson, Tex.) – While the business pages are filled with stories about a collapsed housing market, massive job layoffs and an economy in seeming free-fall, LL Auctions reports it is off to a record start so far for 2009. The firm, based in Dickinson, Tex., just south of Houston, specializes in estates, [Read More]
Never before auctioned space flown mementos from the personal collection of John Young – the first man to fly into space six times, one of only three men to fly to the moon twice, and the only man to pilot four different classes of spacecraft – will highlight the April 1 Space [Read More]
Toronto-based online auction and e-commerce management solution, Kyozou, announces plans for full integration of its online auction technology with Bidtopia. Currently, Kyozou’s tool works with eBay, Amazon and Overstock, among others. “We have had numerous requests for Kyozou to support alternate marketplaces and our partnership with Bidtopia is our first effort to [Read More]
Sotheby’s Inaugural sale of Turkish Contemporary Art realised the strong total of £1,307,400 ($1,838,597) against a pre-sale estimate of £1.1-1.5 million and saw several works more than double their pre-sale high estimates. Over 60 clients registered to bid in the auction, which was 78.5% sold by value and 70.8% sold by lot, [Read More]