(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]
Daily Archives: March 30, 2010
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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]
Hollywood, its biggest stars, greatest movies and the amazing costumes that populate our most beloved films have been the very definition of glamour for the better part of a century. That luminous Silver Screen attire that will be ready for its close-up when screen-worn costumes from some of Hollywood’s greatest names, in [Read More]
National Commercial Auctioneers, LLC, (www.natcomauctions.com) announces the absolute auction of three hotels in Florida on April 19 and 20, which means they will trade to the highest bidder, according to Stephen Karbelk, CAI, AARE, President and Founder of National Commercial Auctioneers, a Tulsa-based commercial real estate auction company. “If you are a [Read More]
On March 24 Fine Snuff Bottles From The Collection of Margaret Polak came on the block. Consisting of over 100 bottles the highly anticipated auction totaled $911,005 and was remarkably 98% sold by value. The top lot was a Suzhou agate bottle which brought $42,700 (pictured, above), soaring above its estimate of [Read More]