Notes taken during Michael Faraday’s ground breaking Royal Institution lectures on the nature of light and magnetism are for sale at Bonhams Book Sale on 8 June (£5,000-10,000). The notes, bound in one volume, were put together by Maria Herries, daughter of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer John Charles Herries, and [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 4, 2010
8 posts
Two dresses from Alexander McQueen’s Autumn/Winter 2007 Ready-To-Wear collection, which was inspired by the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, are to be sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge as part of its Vision 21 sale on 30 June 2010 at 1pm. The dresses are among the first to be sold at auction since the [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris Summer Evening Sale of Contemporary Art achieved a successful total of €9,517,050 / $11,679,324 / £7,932,168, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €5.1-7.0 million / $6.3-8.6 million / £4.2-5.8 million. The sale achieved exemplary sell through rates of 93% by lot and almost 100% by value and these [Read More]
Gene Shapiro, President of the eponymous American auction house specializing in Russian art, has announced that his company has moved to new premises in New York, located at 506 East 74th Street in the Upper East Side section of Manhattan. The inaugural auction will take place on June 15th, 2010, beginning at [Read More]
A black 1999 Mercedes-Benz SLK230, which was bought new by Dannii Minogue, and subsequently passed onto her sister, Kylie, is to be sold by Bonhams as part of the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed sale on 2 July 2010, with part of the proceeds to be donated to charity. The celebrated Australian [Read More]
Rago’s invites you to take part in the June 18th Discovery Auction, where all of the items are wholly unreserved and the high bid – no matter how low – prevails. An abundance of smart, functional and affordable property is lined up for a 900 lot, no reserve sale. It features a [Read More]
Cowan’s inaugural World at War Auction will take place June 22, 2010 in Cowan’s Cincinnati, Ohio, salesroom. The auction is the first of its kind to feature international war regalia from the 20th century. The World at War sale offers items from 20th-century conflicts including World Wars I and II, the Korean [Read More]
The auction will be conducted in the gallery of Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd., at 9 a.m. (HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – Nearly 800 fresh-to-the-market lots in a wide variety of categories will be sold at a two-session Fine & Decorative Arts Catalog Auction slated for Saturday, June 19, by Leland Little [Read More]