Saturday, October 2, Early 20th C. Design Online September 13 Previews start September 25 Featuring to date: • A collection of Roycroft furniture and lamps, purchased directly from the Roycroft Inn in the 1960’s including a Dard Hunter/Roycroft, leaded glass, oak and copper table lamp estimated at $15,000-25,000. • A Dard Hunter/Roycroft [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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Two of the Scotland’s finest women artists, Anne Redpath and Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, are strongly represented in the year’s Scottish Sale at Bonhams on 17 August. Redpath’s beautiful and subtle view of Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera painted in the late 1930s (£60,000 – 80,000) is one of the artist’s first major [Read More]
Christie’s London announce the landmark sale of 21 works by the iconic British artist Laurence Stephen Lowry, R..A. (1887-1976) to be offered at auction on Thursday 11 November 2010 from the private collection of Selwyn Demmy (b. 1932), renowned bookmaking magnate, boxing organiser and club owner. Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976), The [Read More]
About 1,200 lots of rare and vintage firearms, militaria, ammo and advertising changed hands. (MATTHEWS, N.C.) – A beautifully restored first generation Colt single-action .45 caliber Army revolver with a 5 ½ inch barrel, made in 1899 (serial #188013), hit the mark for $3,723 in an online sale of rare and vintage [Read More]
Hundreds of classics, Hot Rods, Resto-Mods and muscle cars are set to take center stage in Las Vegas during the 3rd Annual Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Thursday, Sept. 23, to Saturday, Sept. 25. Founded in 1971, the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company will kick-off its year-long 40th [Read More]
Elvis Presley’s beloved White Knabe Grand Piano, as featured in his music room at Graceland from 1957 to 1969, is expected to bring $1,000,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auction Galleries’ Signature® Elvis Memorabilia Auction, Aug. 14, in Memphis, TN. “This elegant musical instrument, so well-loved and played by Elvis, is presented [Read More]
A nearly 2,500-year old silver coin of Rhegion, an ancient Greek city located in would become Italy, is expected to bring upwards of $25,000 at the Heritage Signature® Auction of Ancient and World Coins at the ANA World’s Fair of Money in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 12, starting at 6 p.m.. The silver [Read More]
Swann Galleries New York summer auction of Vintage Posters will take place on Wednesday, August 4 and offers fine selections of summer resort and beach posters, World War I and II and other propaganda posters, and Mather Work Incentive posters. There are also posters advertising tourism to Bermuda; ocean liner and airline [Read More]
A live, on-site auction of a new exquisite island residence perfectly situated on more than 1.6 acres in Kuki’o – home to the exclusive Kuki’o Golf and Beach Club – at 72-3203 Punaloa Place will take place September 3, Concierge Auctions has announced. The bank-owned property has never been offered for sale, [Read More]
Grey Flannel Auctions of Westhampton, N.Y., has announced details of its Fifth Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Auction and other special events associated with the 2010 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The live auction will take place on Friday, Aug. 13, onsite at the Hall of Fame in [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields, California’s oldest and largest auctioneers, is pleased to announce the August 17, 2010 sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture. On offer are variety of important early 19th century landscapes; Western scenes; Impressionist and Modernist compositions including plein air paintings; genre scenes and cityscapes by established California and [Read More]
(SCHODACK, N.Y.) – A beautiful pair of Huanghuali Chinese folding hunting chairs with hemp seats and brass trim sold for $26,880 at a sale of the estate of the late Dr. Kevin-John McIntyre, held June 12 by Finney’s Auction Service. The sale was held in Finney’s spacious gallery facility, at 1568 Columbia [Read More]
In what is anticipated to be the largest auction of luxury high-rise condominiums this year, Wonmore Ltd. announces it will sell all 35 of its remaining Endeavour Clear Lake residences on August 21, 2010 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Houston. Chicago-based Chartwell Group, LLC, specialists in real estate auctions, has been retained [Read More]
James Service has been appointed Senior Business Consultant in East Anglia by Bonhams, the international fine art auction house. His brief is to develop client business across the region from Bonahms regional headquarters at Bury St. Edmunds. Matthew Girling, Bonhams CEO Europe and the Middle East, commenting on the appointment, says: “We [Read More]
The auction was conducted online from July 15-22 by American Bottle Auctions of Sacramento (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – An Agnew & Brown 3-inch target ball from the 1870s, showing an embossed pigeon on the reverse side and quite possibly the only picture target ball ever made in glass, soared to $29,120 – a [Read More]
Christie’s New York announced the upcoming sale of twenty original paintings by the celebrated naturalist, artist, and educator Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996). Peterson’s best-selling field guides, beginning with his seminal 1934 book A Field Guide to the Birds of North America, have been a must-read for generations of ornithologists and bird-watchers alike. [Read More]
National Commercial Auctioneers (www.natcomauctions.com) announces the foreclosure auction of a fully-leased, 14-unit apartment complex in Portland, Oreg., on August 26 at 10am PDT, according to Stephen Karbelk, CAI, AARE, President. “What an excellent investment opportunity,” explained Karbelk. “This is a fully-leased complex consisting of 10 three-bedroom / one bathroom units and four [Read More]
A handwritten account of an extraordinary trip to the remote areas of Western Australia’s North-West Coast is being auctioned at Bonham’s Travel and Exploration sale in London on 15 September 2010. In 1982, five famous Australians, the artist John Olsen, writers Dame Mary Durack and Geoffrey Dutton, the conservationist Vincent Serventy and [Read More]