It was just the 51st auction for the young firm, and it may have been their best sale ever. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – An outstanding, mint condition Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb bitters bottle, patented Feb. 11, 1868, […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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One of the most famous and sombre images of the 20th century is for auction at Bonhams Madison Avenue New York on 9 December. Hours after the assassination of John Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B Johnson […]
Children all over the world will be looking forward to opening their presents on Christmas day in a few weeks time. One such lucky child back in the 1920’s/30’s would have been in awe finding this […]
On Sunday, December 5th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction’s Holiday Sale will feature 400+ lots drawn from estates on Sutton Place, Park Avenue, and Gramercy Park as well as Larchmont, Princeton, Scarsdale and Greenwich estates. Antique […]
A splendid and monumental celebration of Scotland’s military heritage is to be auctioned at Bonhams Fine Picture sale in Edinburgh on 7 December. ‘The Scottish Volunteer Review, Edinburgh 1905″, (£20,000-30,000) which is over 5 feet wide, […]
With an overall result of EUR 1,9* million, the two day auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst made for the best result in this section for the last twenty years. The evening auction alone realized […]
Gray’s Auctioneers’ Oriental Rugs, Runners and Carpet Auction features an assortment of 109 beautiful lots. Included in this auction is a rare and important Silver and Silver-Gilt Thread Embroidered Calligraphic Panel measuring 48 x 66 inches […]
An extremely rare Patek Philippe Advanced Research Ref. 5250 timepiece, one of only 100 ever made by the legendary watchmaker, is the hotly anticipated lead lot of the Heritage Auctions’ Saturday, Dec. 4 Signature® Fine Timepieces […]
Sotheby’s London sale of 19th Century European Paintings (which included works by Spanish, Orientalist, German, Austrian, Scandinavian and Symbolist artists) brought a total of £11,166,050 (€13,168,101). Vilhelm Hammershoi, Unge Egetræer (Young Oak Trees), oil on canvas. […]
Clars Auction Gallery will host their final sale for 2010 on Saturday and Sunday, December 4th and 5th marking the end of what will have been a landmark year for the 62 year old firm. The […]
Two important Cartier pieces are among the top lots of the Bonhams Art of Jewels: Fine Jewellery and Iconic Gems sale on December 9th at New Bond Street. An impressive Art-Deco diamond necklace by Cartier, 1936 […]
Christie’s have sold an exceptional example of the first Apple computer ‘ the Apple 1’ for £133,250 / $212,267 / €156,169. The first personal computer with a fully assembled motherboard, the Apple 1 heralded the home […]
Fresh-to-market finds from the holdings of an important Fortune 500 company – including photographs from such luminous names as Harold Edgerton, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Sandy Skoglund, Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, Annie Leibovitz, O. Winston Link […]
The auction will be conducted by Tim’s, Inc., based in Bristol, Conn., starting promptly at 1 p.m. BRISTOL, Conn. – The contents of numerous safety deposit boxes, filled with treasures accumulated over the course of a […]
RAYMOND, Ill. – An outstanding Texaco Marine Lubricants single-sided porcelain sign, made in 1959 and rated 9.25 out of 10 for overall condition, sold for $6,325 at a two-day, three-session sale held Nov. 6-7 by Matthews […]
The first Rolls-Royce Phantom III to be sold to America, which featured in the award-winning 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth, is to be sold at Bonhams traditional end of year sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine […]
Bonhams are to sell a guitar once owned by Jimi Hendrix which his girlfriend of the time said he “used for almost everything he composed in this country”. It will be offered in the Entertainment Memorabilia […]
Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture in New York, on 2 December. will offer works by important American artists and genres, spanning Impressionism, Modernism, 19th Century Paintings, American Illustration and Western Art. The sale […]