Hurley Auctions is proud to announce the auction of a 771+-acre farm in VA on June 18, 2010. The property is located at 3186 Bridgeport Rd., Scottsville, VA and is currently owned by Alan Michael. In addition to the abundant acreage and two ponds, the property has a quality built brick rancher, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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Skinner, Inc., one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, has named L. Emerson Tuttle as its new Director of Institutional Relationships. In this strategic role, Tuttle will be responsible for developing, cultivating and maintaining the firm’s ties with trust and estate settlement professionals, museums, and other corporate [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields will bring diamond jewelry to auction in its second 2010 Salon Jewelry & Watches sale – a three-city simulcast auction on June 16, 2010. Bidders can participate from the San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City auction galleries for necklaces, rings, bracelets, brooches, watches, earrings and cufflinks. The [Read More]
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) has announced the launch of a new weekly series of Internet Wholesale Watch Auctions, with each auction ending on Tuesday night – beginning with this Tuesday, June 15 – and the next one opening the following day. “We’re confident this weekly watch auction will prove a ‘must follow’ event [Read More]
The Beverly Hills auction gallery is featuring fine collections of Chinese porcelains, carved jades and ivories, antique Japanese netsuke, inro and lacquer as well as fine scroll paintings. The final third of the auction features luxury Swiss wristwatches, European decorative arts and American sterling silver. As with all I.M. Chait Asian and [Read More]
A featured collection in Morphy’s June 15 Discovery Auction consists of two dozen highly desirable guitars, most of which are autographed by celebrated rock musicians and offered with certificates of authenticity. “This collection is every music fan’s dream. Every one of these guitars is autographed by an A-Lister,” Morphy remarked. A black [Read More]
At Sotheby’s New York, a Marble Torso of an Emperor (possibly Augustus, Tiberius or Claudius), Roman Imperial, Julio Claudian, 1st Half of the 1st Century A.D., surpassed expectations, selling for a remarkable $7,362,500, more than six times the high estimate of $1.2 million. At least seven bidders in the room and on [Read More]
The live, on-site auction luxury real estate auction of a 150-acre estate near Camp David with 15,000-square-foot main residence, equestrian facilities and some of the best private property hunting in the Northwest has been moved to June 25, and the reserve has been lowered to $2.5 million, announced George Graham, CEO of [Read More]
On Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Sotheby’s in London will bring to the market a first class array of works that track the course of Indian art: from classic Modern masterworks to cutting-edge Contemporary art. The sale is further distinguished by the rare group of works by Rabindranath Tagore from the collection of [Read More]
On Monday 14 June 2010 Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer both 19th Century European Paintings and Modern & Contemporary Art. Sotheby’s has combined these two collecting fields into one sale since there is a demonstrable overlap in interest in Hague School and early 20th century art. From 11 till 13 June, more than [Read More]
Sotheby’s sales of Asian Art in Paris totalled €13.2m ($15.9m), well ahead of pre-sale total estimate of €3.9-5.5m and a 106% increase on the corresponding sale in June 2009. The sale was 93.8% sold by value and 71% of lots cleared their high estimate. The auction’s star lot was a magnificent gilt-bronze [Read More]
Christie’s London Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale will take place on 6 July 2010 and will offer a rich array of 68 paintings, drawings and watercolours spanning 600 years of European art history. Leading the sale is A Commander being armed for Battle, a highly important portrait by Sir [Read More]
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) announced recently that they have been engaged to liquidate the “Gallery of Creation” Museum created by Joseph Hurt Studio, Inc. The museum features rare and spectacular displays of the development of the Earth, all shown from the perspective of God’s magnificent creations. Many of the items in the [Read More]
Watchung, New Jersey. The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market amazed collectors at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 1, 2010 auction. An astounding 181 lots sold for $10,000 or more. The most anticipated baseball card and memorabilia auction in the world always generates great excitement and strong prices. Collectors, dealers, [Read More]
A HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT collection of objects from one of the greatest Battles in British Military History, the Battle of Waterloo, are to be sold by the descendants of Lieutenant-Colonel Fiennes Sanderson Miller CB of the 6th (or Inniskilling) Dragoons in an auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria in London on Wednesday, [Read More]
Sutton Kersh helped the cheeky Mankey Monkey tribe send Liverpool bananas on Thursday 28th April at a charity auction event, which raised over £7,000 for the Alder Hey Imagine Appeal. Money is still pouring in with collectors snapping up Monkeys that weren’t in the live auction on the night, and the Monkey [Read More]
Dan Morphy Auctions 1,300-lot July 16-17 Premier Auction is a collection of mostly mint/boxed toys that has flown under the radar for nearly three decades. Running the gamut from European, early American and Japanese toys to pressed steel, pedal cars and even two actual hot rods, the collection was amassed by retired [Read More]
Christie’s London two day sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Including Property From The Estate of Francis Newton Souza realised a total of £12,462,425/$18,092,364/€15,056,174 and was 98% sold by value and 91% sold by lot. The top lot was Syed Haider Raza (b. 1922), Saurashtra, 1983 which fetched £2,393,250/ $3,486,965/ [Read More]