Monthly Archives: February 2010

Devi Kroell, an up-and-coming New York luxury fashion house, today announced that a Devi Kroell One-of-a-kind Barbie Doll was sold for $1,075 in a charity auction organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). The eBay charity auction generated over $16,500 benefiting the CFDA Foundation’s educational initiatives and scholarship program [Read More]

Morphy Auctions Winter sale went beyond the $2 million mark (inclusive of 15% buyer’s premium) over the weekend of Dec. 10-12, 2009. Part I of the extensive Pat and Lowell Wagner lifetime collection of antique steam engines and toys – abundantly stocked with examples by Marklin, Weeden, Doll et Cie., and Bing [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, announces their first sale of the winter season- Autographs & Fine Printed Books (web, 3D, pdf) on Wednesday, February 24th with sale times at 10:00am and 2:00pm. The sale will showcase over 100 lots of autographs which will [Read More]

Bonhams is pleased to announce that the iconic Aston Martin DB2 Team Car ‘VMF 65’ is to headline at the 11th annual Bonhams auction of Aston Martin and Lagonda Motor Cars and Related Automobilia – the only auction in the world solely dedicated to this iconic marque. The auction will be held [Read More]

Guest speaker will be Paul Crist, a Tiffany lamps expert and author of Mosaic Shades II (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Fontaine’s Auction Gallery is offering a free one-day seminar and appraisal on the lamps of Tiffany and other 20th century lighting, to be held Sunday, Mar. 21, in the firm’s gallery facility, located [Read More]

After the success of Sotheby’s inaugural auction of Turkish Contemporary Art in March 2009, which realised a total of £1.3 million and attracted bidders and buyers from across the globe, Sotheby’s London announced that it will stage its second sale in this collecting category, on Thursday, 15 April, 2010. The forthcoming sale [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it will provide live online bidding for an upcoming U.S. Marshals Service auction presented by Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc. The live auction will take place on Saturday, February 13 at 10:00 a.m. CST, with online bidding commencing at [Read More]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the international real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, (NYSE Amex: KWIC) announced today that Jack F. Kennedy has been named vice president, Business Development. Jack is joining the group’s rapidly growing business development team nationwide and will be working in Kennedy Wilson’s New [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Spectrum Wine Auctions has selected the Company to provide live online bidding for its February Internet-only wine auction, which includes a selection of wines from The Aubrey McClendon Collection, considered by many to be the greatest American collector of [Read More]

Visitors to top Rocky Mountain resorts have a new way of renting a vacation home thanks to an innovative new web site called VacationRentalsByAuction.com. This unique new service lets visitors bid on available dates on up to 1,000 privately owned vacation homes — many of which still have open dates for this [Read More]

Primo Center for Women and Children (“PCWC”) board member Trish Hoffman has secured two unique items that are being auctioned-off on CharityBuzz.com to raise money for the center. Bidders can go to http://www.charitybuzz.com to make an offer on a 7-Night stay at Villa Amanecer located in the exclusive The Bay of Dreams [Read More]

Christie’s announced that it will offer at auction this spring in New York major works from the collection of the late Michael Crichton. Best-selling author and screenwriter, film director and producer, Crichton is renowned for his terrifying and sometimes controversial scientific thrillers such as The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, The Lost [Read More]

At High Noon’s 20th Anniversary Show & Auction held January 30 & 31, 2010 in Mesa, Arizona, 150+ dealers reaped the benefits of record attendance propelled by the Roy Rogers Museum consignment to the popular Saturday evening auction. At the end of an exciting evening, just shy of $1.8 million was realized [Read More]

Six of Austin Art Space’s resident artists have joined together to support services that enhance the independence and quality of life for older adults. Each artist has donated a work that will be auctioned off by the Faith in Action Caregivers-Southwest Austin on February 18, 2010. Other auction items include prized wines [Read More]

On February 9th, seventy eight years of breadstick manufacturing in the Bronx will come to a close with the public auction sale of equipment from the Stella D’oro baking headquarters on West 237th Street. This announcement follows years’ worth of struggle between the new owners of the facility and the employees, whom [Read More]

The California Department of General Services fleet division is in the midst of auctioning 50 vehicles online; its largest ever online vehicle auction. The auction will close on February 10, 2010. Participants must register with the site in order to bid on available vehicles. This is the first wave of statewide online [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to present the extensive archives of the New York theatrical agency, American Play Company (APC)/ Century Play Company (CPC), including correspondence, contracts, company records, and theatrical scripts covering the first two quarters of the 20th century (est. $120,000-180,000), during the Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that the Company signed on several marquis heavy equipment, farm machinery and truck auctions during the month of January. The addition of Blackmon Auctions, PacLease Truck Sales, Weeks Auction Co., JD Equipment Inc., Biliske Schuster Auctioneers, and Fastline to Proxibid’s [Read More]