Monthly Archives: January 2010

The 39th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction is underway in Scottsdale through Jan. 24, 2010 at WestWorld. As a record-breaking storm rumbled through Arizona on Thursday, Barrett-Jackson company officials, employees and volunteers joined forces to ensure the safety of all auction participants, spectators, and the more than 1,200 collector cars in town [Read More]

China Auto Logistics Inc. (“CALI”) (NASDAQ: CALI), one of China’s leading developers of websites for buyers and sellers of imported and domestic automobiles, a top seller in China of imported luxury cars, and a leading provider of auto-related services, announced that beginning today through January 24, it is providing a one-day delayed [Read More]

Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions will open to the public on Sunday, Jan. 24 at 8 a.m. to resume its collector car auction following the severe storm that hit Scottsdale on Thursday night causing the company’s “Decade of Distinction Celebration” to close. During a breakfast briefing for consignors on Saturday morning, [Read More]

Bonhams is delighted to announce that it is offering the second medal thrown into the crowds by José Mourinho at the 2005-6 Premier League final as part of its sale of Sporting and Golf Memorabilia at Chester on 24th February 2010. The Portuguese former Chelsea manager was presented with the second medal [Read More]

A new auction record for American silver was set this afternoon at Sotheby’s when a Silver Punch Bowl by Cornelius Kierstede, made in New York between 1700 and 1710, sold for an astonishing $5,906,500. With a pre-sale estimate of $400/800,000 auctioneer David Redden opened the bidding at $275,000 and almost instantly a [Read More]

Allegheny Power, the electricity delivery unit of Allegheny Energy, Inc. (NYSE: AYE), announced today that the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved the results of Allegheny’s fourth auction to purchase power for its customers for 2011 and beyond. Generation rate caps in Pennsylvania expire on December 31, 2010. Allegheny now has contracts for [Read More]

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – A Chalmers Catawba wine bitters bottle graded 9.8 for condition and considered one of the top five western bitters known, sold for $ 19,600 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 18 by American Bottle Auctions (www.AmericanBottle.com). The bottle was the top lot in a sale that [Read More]

Over the course of his 50-year career, antiques dealer Peter Tillou has helped to build some of the finest private collections of art and antiques in the U.S. Admired for his deep passion and relentless pursuit of knowledge about the items he sells, Mr. Tillou is a sought-after expert on an array [Read More]

Concierge Auctions (www.conciergeauctions.com), the leading luxury real estate auction company, today announced the sale of Cher’s home in the exclusive Hualalai Resort in Hawaii to a buyer from Arizona for $8.72 million. The January 18 auction included the successful sale of five properties in Kona, Hawaii, for a total of more than [Read More]

On January 18, 2010 Gateway Gallery Auction held it’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday auction, which consisted of an eclectic mix of fine antiques and artwork. The standing room only crowd was filled with motivated live and phone action, and received extensive absentee bidder interest. Of significant interest, two signed Lily [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions’ December Estates Auction, which took place December 28-29, 2009, offered a premier selection of items from the San Diego estate of Robert O. Peterson. Peterson, founder of the popular Jack-in-the-Box restaurant chain and noted patron of the arts, was a discerning collector of antiques and fine art with a fervent [Read More]

A hole was found in the market for an online source for people to either sell or acquire anything relating to the aquatics hobby. Aquatic-Auctions.co.uk is now being launched to full-fill the need. Mr Andrew Nixon stated that “He wants this to be a complete one stop aquatics auction website that fulfils [Read More]

The items being offered from the Gardiner Museum include a diverse body of material, donated by the estate of Helen E. Gardiner to be sold for the benefit of the Gardiner Museum. Included in this auction are European Ceramics from a variety of factories and Chinese Export Porcelain. Highlights from this group [Read More]

General Motors today announced that 100-percent of the proceeds from the auction of a limited edition 2008 Chevrolet Corvette at this weekend’s 39th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction will be donated to the American Red Cross relief fund to help earthquake-stricken Haiti. The proceeds from the auction of the limited edition 2008 [Read More]

Lovers of dog art will be treated to an extraordinary collecting opportunity as Bonhams New York presents its 28th Dog Art Sale on February 16th. Standing alone as the market leader in the genre, this popular sale has become a must for dog art collectors. Additionally, Bonhams will again partner with the [Read More]

From 20 January 2010, Christie’s will host a public exhibition showing masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Natalia Gonchorova that have been unseen in public for nearly 40 years, as well as an outstanding masterpiece by Yves Klein and important works by Henri Matisse, Peter Doig, Rene Magritte, Frank Auerbach, Kees [Read More]

Inglewood’s Fox Theatre, a historic art deco/moderne landmark that served as a main site for Hollywood premieres in the 1950s, will be sold via a sealed bid auction on February 5. The property will sell to the highest bidder above $200,000. Sperry Van Ness Accelerated Marketing Co. Inc. is conducting the auction [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial and agricultural equipment, will celebrate the Grand Opening of its new Tipton, California auction site with an unreserved public auction and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, February 12, 2010. The new Tipton site is the third Ritchie Bros. auction site in California and [Read More]