The largest and most valuable single owner collection of Moorcroft pottery ever to come to auction is for sale at Bonhams in London on 21 September. The Richard Wright collection has been put together over 25 years by Jackie and Richard Wright and is estimated to be worth over £300,000. It includes [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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Kennedy Wilson today announced that its auction division offered and sold 26 units of Edge condominiums at an auction that it conducted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at Hilton Americas-Houston. Gross sales totaled $6 million, and prices averaged 204% of starting bids, exceeding the seller’s expectations. “The seller chose a Kennedy Wilson [Read More]
Highlighting Sotheby’s fall 2010 Asia Week sales in New York will be a single owner offering of the Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles on 14 September 2010. The bottles date from as early as the beginning of the 18th century and reflect a broad variety of Chinese decorative arts from [Read More]
Doyle New York, one of the world’s leading auctioneers and appraisers, will hold an auction of Asian Works of Art on Monday, September 13 at 10am (EDT). The sale offers over 430 lots showcasing the arts of China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia dating from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. [Read More]
John Moran Auctioneers announce that their November 30th Antiques Auction, showcasing fine antique, vintage and signed jewelry and watches, is open for consignments. This will be Moran’s largest and most important jewelry sale of the year, with several hundred pieces gathered from private collections and estates across the country. Items already consigned [Read More]
An authentic Colt Gatling Gun (Model 1875, Serial No. 135) could fetch $150,000+ on Sept. 12 (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A full slate of three auctions, including a Civil War & Militaria Auction planned for Sunday, Sept. 12, will be held by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s spacious gallery facility at 1485 [Read More]
After more than a solid year of dominating Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Auctions, Pin-up and Glamour Art, while still performing superbly, was forced to cede the spotlight on Aug. 17 to classic Pulp Art, as several icons of the genre burst into the spotlight, led by Hu gh Joseph Ward’s The Evil [Read More]
North Carolina based Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc., a MarkNet Alliance member, was recently the first auction company to ever conduct a multi-parcel auction on location with live internet bidding available through an interactive map. The team at Iron Horse Auction broke new ground on their August 20th auction offering a winery/vineyard [Read More]
Swann Galleries auction, Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900 2000, will offer some of the finest and most significant examples of printmaking depicting New York City in the first half of the 20th century on Thursday, September 16 A selection of rare drawings and paintings are [Read More]
This important event will be held on Saturday, September 11th and Sunday, September 12th, 2010 and will have the attention of collectors world-wide focused on Clars. One of the most massive and rare granular crystalline gold specimens ever mined will have gold collectors around the globe captivated. Named the “Siskiyou Dragon” for [Read More]
Bonhams, international auctioneers, will bring rare collector motorcars to auction on September 12th, at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in Westport, Connecticut with their inaugural event held in conjunction with the Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance. Commencing at 10:00 am, Sunday morning with the auction of over 200 lots of automobilia, followed by [Read More]
A first day cover signed by Charles Schulz featuring an original, hand drawn sketch of Snoopy is expected to fetch as much as £1,000 at auction next month. The first day of issue postage stamp and envelope (First Day Cover), dated May 30 1969, bears the signature of legendary writer and illustrator [Read More]
Christie’s New York will auction selections from the estate of the renowned collector Alastair Bradley Martin. For more than 50 years, Mr. Martin and his wife Edith built an encyclopedic collection of rare and important art works and sculpture known as The Guennol Collection, and donated or loaned many of their most [Read More]
National Commercial Auctioneers [www.natcomauctions.com] announces the bankruptcy auction of nine oil lease packages in Okmulgee, Okla., on September 30, according to Stephen Karbelk, CAI, AARE, Broker. The oil lease packages have a total producing capacity of 30+ BOPD from 26 wells, and most packages include a water disposal well. There are more [Read More]
AMERICA’S CAR MUSEUM® has partnered with the LeMay Family to host the 33rd Annual LeMay Car Show & Auction at Marymount Academy and the LeMay home grounds in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday, August 28, 2010 from 9:00am-5:00pm. Visitors will see over 1,000 different vintage, specialty automobiles, trucks and motorcycles from the LeMay [Read More]
Christies New York sale of Japanese and Korean Art features Arts of the Meiji Period will offer a dynamic and varied array of over 250 works on September 15. The Japanese section of the sale will feature a group of enamel arts of the Meiji Period, screens, and bronze works, and the [Read More]
Cat Auction Services has announced it will hold an unreserved public auction in Denver, Colo., on Thursday, September 30. Coming on the heels of heavy construction and agricultural equipment auctions in Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Neb., Cat Auction Services returns to Colorado for the first time since its successful Grand Junction [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Important Watches Autumn Sale 2010 will be held on 6 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This season’s sale will offer a total of 300 lots estimated over HK$43 million / US$5.5 million. Highlighting a notable private collection of highly complicated creations by renowned independent watchmakers, [Read More]