(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Three early Detective Comics from the late 1930s sold for a combined $77,790 at a multi-estate sale held the weekend of Feb. 27-28 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The top lot of the sale was Detective Comics #28, from June 1939 and featuring Batman in only his second comic book [Read More]
Daily Archives: March 9, 2010
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Cordier Antiques & Auctions, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, has hired Edward E. Rowe to head the company’s Onsite and Variety Auction department. He will oversee the planning and execution of onsite, estate and multi consignor variety auctions for the firm. Mr. Rowe has worked in the auction business since 2005 and became a [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – March 9, 2010 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. announced today that it will host an auction of 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts on March 27th at 10 a.m. in Boston. The auction features a wide array of Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, Mid-century Modern and Studio [Read More]
Bonhams achieved superb results last weekend at the Collectors’ Motor Car and Automobilia sale in Oxford, fetching a grand total of £1,017,317 and an 86% sale rate with 44 out of 51 car lots selling. The top price (£166,500) was paid, as expected, for a fabulous 1956 Bentley S1 Continental Fastback with [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam saleroom was filled to overflowing as the company’s offering of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection became the most heavily sale attended in Sotheby’s history in Amsterdam. The sale – Sotheby’s first auction of 2010 in Amsterdam – exceeded all expectations, achieving the remarkable [Read More]
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers has announced an auction featuring over 75 lots of early Italian and Latin literature from the antiquarian book library of John Sisto of Berwyn, Illinois. The books, maps and engravings comprise what remains of the over 3,500 items seized by the Chicago division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [Read More]
Salvage Direct announces Avis Budget Group (NYSE: CAR), operator of two of the most recognized brands in the global vehicle rental industry through Avis and Budget, as its latest seller partner. Avis Budget Group will use Salvage Direct’s leading auction platform, SalvageDirect.com, to sell its vehicles to buyers worldwide. “This new partnership [Read More]
Bideo.com is hosting an online auction for a never before published amateur video of Marilyn Monroe on the set of the film Some Like It Hot. The listing marks the 50 year anniversary of Monroe’s Golden Globe victory for her historic performance in the highly acclaimed comedy on March 8, 1960. The [Read More]
K2 Sourcing, a Wisconsin-based technology firm, announces it has been awarded an order to provide a single-event Reverse Auction service to the Washington D.C.-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA, the federal agency responsible for the nation’s aviation safety, selected K2 Sourcing’s reverse auction technology as a good fit for an acquisition [Read More]
Tranzon Integrated Property Group and Tranzon Fox (“Tranzon”) announced today that it has been engaged by Wells Fargo to market and auction off two light industrial buildings at a foreclosure auction to be held on March 25th at 1pm at the Babylon Town Hall on Long Island. The properties are located at [Read More]
Erol Akyava?’s masterpiece, “The Siege”, brought 1.274,000 EURO at Antik A.S. in Istanbul. Exceeding pre-sale estimation of 700,000 – 1,000,000 EURO. Erol Akyavas’s “The Siege” was top-selling lot in the Modern & Contemporary sale of Antik A.S. auction house. The painting signed and dated 1982 and was exhibited in Überse Museum, Bremen, [Read More]
Pix2Press has been set up specifically to deal with the insatiable demand for photographs and videos from newspapers, magazines and TV stations. The digital age has made it easy for ordinary members of the public to take and sell their photos and videos to the media. With millions of people now carrying [Read More]