Sun-Times Media, the Chicago region’s most trusted source of local news and information, has teamed up with Ranger Data Technologies, Inc. and joins nearly 300 local newspaper and broadcast partners in North America today to launch Boocoo.com, a national online auction house. Boocoo.com offers consumers a highly competitive, local alternative to eBay [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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(DES MOINES, Ia.) – More than 500 lots of petroliana items – mostly gas and oil signs but to include globes, cans and a great collection of rest room signs – will be sold by Matthews Auctions, LLC, on Friday, Aug. 6, at 9 a.m. (CST). The auction will be conducted at [Read More]
A London scene by English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930), entitled Skating at Hampstead, 1929, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been estimated at £50,000 – 70,000. The picture was bought by the present owner [Read More]
Three missing preparatory oil sketches for one of golf most iconic pictures, “A Grand Match played over St Andrews Links in 1841” are to be sold by Bonhams Sporting auction in Chester on 16 June. The paintings are portraits of three prominent gentlemen who feature in the picture including the Earl of [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York, presented the second offering of rare books and manuscripts from The James S. Copley Library achieving a total of $2,783,347, bringing the total for the first four auctions of the Library to $7,146,231. The Mark Twain Collection totaled $936,012 and was led by Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ unpublished autobiographical manuscript [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions is delighted to bring to market an important selection of works from two major 20th century authors featured in its June 23rd, Travel, Literature, Autographs and Fine Books sale. The two-part sale, which takes place at 10am and 2pm in Bloomsbury’s Manhattan salesroom, presents 580 lots split into six sections [Read More]
The fantastic Procida Mirabelli di Lauro collection of Italian porcelain is to be auctioned at Bonhams, New Bond Street on Tuesday 6th July. This Italian single-owner collection, the most comprehensive of its type to ever come on to the market, is expected to fetch £300,000-500,000. Among the highlights of the sale are [Read More]
Swann Galleries auction of American Art and Contemporary Art on June 8, top lots, were Louise Nevelson’s Maquette for Monumental Sculpture II, welded black steel, 1977, which sold for $78,000*, and Willem de Kooning’s The Devil at the Keyboard, lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache, 1976, $40,800. Highlights of the [Read More]
The 21st annual Old West Show brings together 200 dealers from across the country selling their best Western art, antiques, apparel, jewelry, furnishings, cowboy gear, historic firearms, books, boots and more. In addition to merchants, there will be book signings, museum exhibits, and live demonstrations by Navajo Master Weaver Mary H. Yazzie. [Read More]
Magic Brands, LLC, and Fuddruckers, Inc., announced today that Luby’s, Inc. (NYSE:LUB) has been selected as the highest and best bidder in a competitive auction held Thursday for substantially all of its assets. The bid remains subject to bankruptcy court approval. Luby’s bid has been valued by the Company and the Official [Read More]
(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) – Hundreds of pieces of R.S. Prussia – the cream of the crop in the antique porcelain world, and enormously popular among collectors – will be sold without reserve (everything sells, regardless of price) on Saturday, July 24, by Woody Auction at the Holiday Inn Airport West (3700 Rider [Read More]
TRANZON, Integrated Property Group (“TRANZON, IPG”) has announced that it has received mandates from Small Business Administration (“SBA”) lenders to hold auctions for commercial REO properties throughout the country. The auction campaign will commence on June 29th, 2010 with a former daycare facility in Catonsville, Maryland and a former retail grocery store [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts on Saturday, July 10th at 10 a.m. in its Boston gallery. Skinner’s July European auction always features a great offering of Fine Ceramics and this sale is abundant, with 450 lots of ceramics, much of it coming [Read More]
More than 4,250 bidders lined up to take part in the offerings of Heritage’s June 3-6 Long Beach Signature® U.S. Coin Auction, sending a remarkable 1866 $1 Motto PR67 Cameo NGC, CAC to the top of the pile with a $69,000 final price in an auction that saw solid bidding across the [Read More]
One of the 20th century’s most controversial and fabled motor cars, a 1981 DeLorean DMC12 Coupé, owned by Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh, is to be sold by Bonhams as part of the Goodwood Festival of Speed on 2 July 2010. The car, which has been on long-term display at the Robert [Read More]
John Moran Auctioneers offered an eclectic selection of twentieth century design, Continental furnishings and European and American fine arts at their May 25th Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction. Sale result highlights demonstrate increasing market interest across a broad spectrum of collecting areas, including those in which John Moran is currently expanding their [Read More]
Christie’s New York will offer Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including the finest collection of William Faulkner books and manuscripts, on June 22, 2010. This unique collection comprises a virtually complete representation of Faulkner’s work, with every major novel, each in an exceptional state of preservation. Formed over a quarter century, this [Read More]
The auction comprises nearly 400 lots of cameras and related material dating from the 1870’s to 2000’s including a No. 1 Kodak camera of 1889, an original Brownie camera of 1900, an early English wood camera and an important series of American detective and hand cameras from the 1880’s-1910. Estimates range from [Read More]