Rare document will be sold by Philip Weiss Auctions on final day of a massive three-day sale (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Just weeks after successfully selling the original marriage certificate issued to Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in 1994 (for $70,800), Philip Weiss Auctions is offering yet another blockbusting piece of rock [Read More]
Daily Archives: March 23, 2010
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An important single owner sale – the entire stock in trade to be auctioned on site Leonard Joel are honoured to have been engaged as agent for the dispersal of this extraordinary collection from one of the last great Melbourne antique dealers in the golden mile of the antiques trade, High Street [Read More]
Firm Leads the Market with $8 Million in US Sales Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart achieved strong results from their two-day auction of Finest & Rarest Wines in Chicago, IL with 99.9% of lots sold realizing $4,436,497 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,878,770 -$4,299,740. A prominent private collection featuring a comprehensive [Read More]
The renowned Scottsdale Art Auction, held April 10, 2010, will have one-of-a-kind works of fine art expected to break records at this year’s event. A rare Charles M. Russell painting is estimated at $1.8 to $2.8 million, for example. Attendance at the 2010 auction is expected to exceed 400 art buyers, many [Read More]
The bell from HMS Kelly, the ship commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten from 1939 until it sank at the Battle of Crete in 1941, is to be auctioned at Bonhams, New Bond Street as part of The Marine Sale on 24th March at 2pm. The bell (estimate £2,500 – 3,500) was saved [Read More]
Rock Island Auction strives to meet each individual collector’s desire with every auction it builds. Every auction offers a plethora of opportunities for the firearm enthusiast, the April 30, May 1 & 2 Premiere Auction is no exception. This sale has many high conditioned and unique firearms from antique to modern that [Read More]
The spotlight will be focused on estate jewelry and fine art at John Moran’s two-session Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction to be held on April 27th. The evening session’s many pieces of exquisite jewelry include an abundance of diamond solitaire rings of all cuts and sizes. Among those are a 10.79 ct [Read More]
Russian fine and decorative arts have yielded increasingly strong results at Moran’s for several years, and the March16th sale confirmed this trend. A watercolor portrait of a girl in traditional Russian costume by Konstantin Egorvich Makovsky (1839 – 1915) sold for $12,650 (estimate: $2000 – 3000) to a European phone bidder. A [Read More]