Yearly Archives: 2009

On Thursday, February 5th, 2009, the Künker Auction House will be holding an auction of high-value historical coins and medals in Berlin’s Estrel Convention Center. The 38th World Money Fair, which is the world’s largest coin exhibition, begins a day later in the same location (February 6th to 8th, 2009). Up for [Read More]

Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty is holding an auction from a selection of 46 new condominiums on Saturday, February 14 at 11:00 am EST. The auction will be held at the Sportsman’s Lodge, located at 300 Broad River Place in Welaka. The auction for the two and three-bedroom condos should appeal to hunters [Read More]

Hudson & Marshall will auction over 300 bank-owned foreclosures in the greater DC area and cities throughout Maryland and Virginia February 3rd-7th. All homes come with guaranteed title insurance paid for by the sellers, ensuring there are no back taxes or liens on the properties. Bidders will be required to make a [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will conduct its first-ever six-day unreserved public auction at its Orlando, Florida permanent auction site from February 16 – 21, 2009. The auction already features more than 7,000 heavy equipment items and trucks, with more items being added daily – and every item [Read More]

Christie’s New York will hold its mid-season sale of 20th Century Decorative Art and Design on March 26, 2009. The 105 lot sale offers a wide range of high quality and affordable objects and furniture by well-known makers from the 20th century, featuring works by Tiffany Studios, Koloman Moser, Franco Albini, Jean [Read More]

On-site auction, carrying only a modest reserve, will be conducted by Poinsett Auction & Realty, Inc. (Travelers Rest, S.C.) – A castle-style manor home – surrounded by ten acres of private, wooded land and situated at the end of a winding drive in Travelers Rest, S.C. – will be sold at auction [Read More]

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – On February 2, 2009, Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will move from its long-time Bolton gallery to a new, state-of-the-art facility located at 274 Cedar Hill Street in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The 69,000 square foot space will house the company’s corporate [Read More]

The first Bonhams South African Art Sale in 2007 attracted paintings and sculpture from the UK and South Africa, but thanks to the growing success of these sales, a wider group of South African expats and nationals is sending art to London. Bonhams is holding the next South African Art sale on [Read More]

A major Beatles collectable will be offered by a provincial Berkshire Auction house on Tuesday 3rd February 2009 at 11am. (http://www.cameo-auctioneers.co.uk/Beatles-Scotland/) Rare Footage – 8mm Silent Film Taken from the Beatles 1964 tour of Scotland, the film contains clips of the ‘Fab Four’ and their entourage whilst staying at The Four Seasons [Read More]

Star cars are up for grabs at the Charterhouse auction of classic and vintage cars, motorcycles and automobilia at the Bristol Classic Car Show on Saturday 7th February. “We often come across cars and motorbikes which have interesting stories to tell or have been owned by the rich and famous. In this [Read More]

The Classic Name Plate with only the letters ‘BMW’ have been put up for auction by Evens Clarke Auctions. Woodville North, South Australia. The auction ends Feb 2. A distinctive or unique vehicle deserves a distinctive or unique identifier. The plates are available for bidding through Evans Clark; registered users will be [Read More]

alley’s house, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping teen mothers and their children achieve independence through support services, education and mentoring, is hosting its 5th Annual Art Auction fundraising event. Local artists have donated artwork for a live auction and for sale. The money raised helps fund educational programs, mentoring programs and [Read More]

Quinn’s auction Galleries of Falls Church, Va., will offer an outstanding Taos school artwork on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. Painted by Bert Geer Phillips (American, 1868-1956), it is an oil-on-canvas depiction of a Native-American brave in a wooded setting. Titled Voices of the Woods, the 35-inch by 48-inch (framed) artwork’s provenance includes [Read More]

Sotheby’s has announced that on Wednesday 4 March, 2009, it will stage the first dedicated sale of Turkish Contemporary Art in London. The 73 lots, comprising paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations by 53 artists, are estimated to raise in excess of £1.2 million. The selection of exceptional works represents the originality and [Read More]

A magnificent pair of cloisonne enamelled incense burners and covers from the Qianlong period (1736-95), lot 202, sold spectacularly for HK$4,800,00 (£420,000) at the Bonhams auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in Hong Kong on 4 December. Estimated at HK$1,000,000-1,500,000, they were hotly contested by fifteen bidders from Hong [Read More]

The Official Auction of the February 2009 Long Beach Expo has been posted by Heritage Auction Galleries on its HA.com Web site. Some 6500 lots from 280 consignors are included in the auction presented by Heritage Auction Galleries. The auction will take place Feb. 5-8, 2009. “This Long Beach auction is especially [Read More]

Five primary school composition notebooks are the unassuming vessels for the important debut novel of one of the most legendary sci-fi writers of all time: Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Prelude To Space. These influential blocks of neatly ruled paper, filled with 51,500 words in Clarke’s clear, cursive script, will be part of [Read More]

Part of Joan Bowers’ personal collection, being goods superfluous to her needs, is to be auctioned on Sunday 1st March in Sydney. Consisting of over 250 lots, highlights include five four poster Calcutta beds dating from 1840 to 1880, many rare antique figures, decorative items, miniature paintings, architectural details, columns, room dividers, [Read More]