(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – An exceedingly rare 1899 United Metal Cartridge Company factory bullet board in excellent condition sold for $11,769 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Mar. 20-21 by SoldUSA.com. It was the first of two variations and the rarer variety, better known as the “Elk Scene” board. It was [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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A pair of Queen Victoria’s black and white hand-stitched silk stockings have been sold at Lyon and Turnbull for almost £700, in Edinburgh. The hammer price was £690 as part of a fine antiques sale. Lyon and Turnbull said the sale of the underwear, attracted interest from “Victoriana” collectors worldwide. Specialist Lee [Read More]
A 1938 Superman comic has sold for $1.5 million in an online auction. The comic, which originally cost 10 cents, was sold by comic experts ComicConnect.com and went to an anonymous bidder. It is one of around only 100 copies of this issue, but was in very good condition. Stephen Fishler founder [Read More]
Archives International Auctions and Dr.Robert Schwartz announce the auction of rare and historic worldwide banknotes, security printing ephemera, stocks and bonds from the American Bank Note Company archives to take place in Englewood, New Jersey April 15th and 16th, 2010. Dr.Robert Schwartz, President of Archives International Auctions, originated the well received American [Read More]
Bonhams Jewellery Department Looks to Emulate Success of 2009 with Outstanding April Sale A magnificent 14.6 carat diamond pendant expected to fetch £200,000 – 300,000 is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street as part of its first Fine Jewellery sale of the year on 21st April 2010. The sale also [Read More]
Christie’s South Kensington sale on 13 May 2010 will offer approximately 200 lots, embracing the best of illustrative and graphic poster design. With a particular emphasis on football and the World Cup as the 2010 South African tournament prepares to commence in June, estimates range from £600 to £15,000, offering the chance [Read More]
An extremely rare work by the celebrated 19th century Javanese artist Raden Sarief Bustaman Saleh will lead the sale of Christie’s Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art in Hong Kong on 30 May. Titled “Javanese Landscape, with Tigers Listening to the Sound of a Travelling Group” (estimate: HK$10,000,000 – 14,000,000 /US$1,282,000 – [Read More]
Cat Auction Services, recognized the world over for its commitment to building customer loyalty, announced recently that it will hold an unreserved public auction in Houston, Texas, on Thursday, April 22 beginning at 9 a.m. at Houston Raceway Park (2525 FM565 South, Baytown, Texas). This marks the company’s third Houston-based auction in [Read More]
The only surviving privately owned example of a Victorian ‘Lion’ treadle lock-stitch sewing machine is for sale at Bonhams Fine Mechanical Music and Scientific Instruments auction at Knightsbridge on Wednesday 21 April. This dramatic looking machine was made in 1868 for the American market by Kimball and Morton, a Glasgow based manufacturer. [Read More]
Feizhu Farms, LLC has partnered with United Country – Lippard Auctioneers, Inc., to sell a 1,280-acre Springfield, Colo., ranch, formerly one of the largest free-range hog producers in the U.S., during an absolute auction event on Tuesday, April 6. In addition to the land, which will be sold in six separate tracts [Read More]
(ATLANTA, Ga.) – The oldest original “flying car” – built in 1935 and the brainchild of Frank Skroback, a retired industrial technician and electrician from Syracuse, N.Y. – soared to $65,175 at a massive weekend auction held Mar. 13-14 by Red Baron, the Southeast’s premier auction house. The craft was meant to [Read More]
A replica of the Ferrari 250GT Spyder California specially created for the 1986 Paramount hit film ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ is to be sold at Bonhams Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia auction at 11am on 19th April at the RAF Museum, Hendon. Only around one hundred genuine 250GT Spyder California’s were created [Read More]
2009 proved to be the second most successful year in the Dorotheum’s history and there is every reason to expect that 2010 will likewise turn into a highly successful year, especially in light of the superlative items presented at the first major Dorotheum Auction Week. Among these will be a newly discovered [Read More]
BLENHEIM, Ontario – RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house, will drop the hammer on an outstanding private collection of high-powered muscle cars in June as part of a single-day sale in San Diego, California. Scheduled for June 19, 2010, and billed Classic Muscle & Modern Performance, the sale will [Read More]
The annual Mecum St. Paul Auction has been expanded to two days and will feature 400 collector cars up for bid on June 18-19, 2010, at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Held in conjunction with the Minnesota Street Rod Association’s 37th annual “Back to the ‘50s” rod and custom show, Mecum’s St. Paul [Read More]
Collectors everywhere coveted the striking and extremely rare Insert Movie Poster for Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis – from the collection of Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett – in the Friday, March 19 Signature® Movie Poster Auction at Heritage Auctions. In the end, however, it came down to just two devoted [Read More]
On Thursday, 22 April 2010, the first of Sotheby’s biannual London sales of Scottish Pictures in 2010 will include a group of important works by the Scottish Colourists that unequivocally demonstrates the pivotal position occupied by these artists in the formative years of British modernism during the early decades of the twentieth [Read More]
Domestic buyers and sellers of Chinese decorative arts, no matter how experienced in the trade, have come to face each major sale on the auction calendar expecting the unexpected. China’s dynamic economy and the subsequent explosion of that nation’s antique and decorative arts market has created surging, wave-like trends that suddenly, unexpectedly [Read More]