Fine Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns Auction at Sotheby’’s, New Bond Street, London April 14, 2010 Commenting after the sale, Auctioneer and Expert-in-Charge, Gavin Gardiner, said: “I was delighted with the result of our sale, in the heart of London’s West End. The strength of private bidding is especially pleasing as buyers [Read More]
Daily Archives: April 14, 2010
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Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of restaurant equipment and memorabilia from Friday’s Front Row Sports Bar in Orlando, Fla., according to Jerry Jenkins. “This is a huge auction,” Jenkins said. “This is the second largest T.G.I. Fridays in the country, there are over 130 TVs in this auction plus [Read More]
Concierge Auctions (www.conciergeauctions.com), today announced the sale at auction of historic Tulip Hill in Harwood, Maryland on April 10. One of the finest Pre-Revolutionary War estates in the nation, the property sold above its listing price of $2.375 million, announced George Graham, CEO of Concierge Auctions. “We were pleased to conduct the [Read More]
CQout one of the largest UK online auction sites has announced that it has achieved an important milestone with listings of well over half a million books and comics. CQout which recently broke into the US market to offer its services to disenfranchised eBay users has grown to become eBay’s closest rival [Read More]
As the market leader in collectors’ motor cars and having sold some of the world’s most important Bugattis, Bonhams was the obvious choice to be the BOC’s new partner. Last year Bonhams sold a 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, which had been owned by the first BOC Chairman Earl Howe, for a [Read More]
Works by Gertrude Stein, a key figure in 20th century art and literature, is being offered for sale at Bonham Books and Manuscripts sale at Oxford on 27 April. The sale spans Stein’s literary career and includes first editions of her seminal early book of “cubist” poetry Tender Buttons (£200-400) and The [Read More]
Bonhams announce the addition of two fantastic new highlights to its motorcycle auction on 25th April 2010 at The International Classic MotorCycle Show, Stafford. One is the ex-Francis Williams, Basil Keys Norton-JAP 996cc Mk1 ‘Saltdean Special’ Sprinter (estimate £90,000-100,000) and the other a 1938 Brough Superior 982cc SS100 (estimate £110,000-130,000); both are [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong will hold its Spring sale of Fine Chinese Modern Paintings and Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy on May 28th at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, showcasing over 400 rare and exceptional works from the masters, valued in excess of HK$350 million (US$45 million). Xu Beihong is [Read More]
An important portrait by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) and undoubtedly the most important early masterpiece by Louis le Brocquy (b. 1916) will headline Sotheby’s annual Irish Sale in London on Thursday, 6 May 2010. Over 65 works from the sale are to be part of an extensive touring exhibition which starts at [Read More]
Paso Robles Wine Festival, the premier wine tasting event held along California’s Central Coast, incorporates an all new Wine Country Auction & Dinner during the 28th Annual event, May 21 – 23, 2010. The Wine Country Auction & Dinner held Saturday, May 22 in a chic, temperature controlled tent in the Downtown [Read More]
Remarkable selection of vintage toys to be auctioned by Estate Road Show over the weekends of May 8-9 and May 22-23. The 1,200-1,500-lot sale sessions, featuring toys amassed individually over several decades by five brothers, will be live events conducted in Killen, Ala., with Internet bidding through eBay Timed-Live, a service exclusive [Read More]