Active bidding online, global participation and strong prices achieved Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart held another immensely successful auction this weekend in Chicago, realizing $8,520,955 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $5,045,970-$7,568,530. This sale was the second largest auction in the history of the company, and was the second blockbuster auction [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible that is offered at Russo and Steele’s 11th Annual Scottsdale auction event is one of the only 14 examples of a built 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertibles and one of only 9 of these to have left the factory with an automatic transmission. Finished in its correct and [Read More]
Bonhams announce the results of its Fall European Painting sale in New York. The highly anticipated event on October 29, 2010 brought in more than $2.5 million. Simulcast to San Francisco, the fall auction offered a broad range of European Works of Art with an emphasis on the Eastern aesthetic and 19th [Read More]
Freeman’s auctioneers have announced their upcoming Americana and 5th Anniversary Pennsylvania Sale auctions, to be held November 20 & 21. The sales, which will contain 462 and 275 lots respectively, will highlight the best in American craftsmanship with objects that herald from extraordinary American families. To see the exhibition of works is [Read More]
Bonhams announce that they are to sell a very creepy horror film prop at their next Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 15th December 2010 – Damien’s tricycle from the blockbuster film The Omen. The tricycle is owned by the film’s main character Damien Thorn who was played by British child actor Harvey Stephens. [Read More]
Marble collectors will be gathering around the circle at Morphy’s gallery on Saturday, Nov. 6, as the Pennsylvania company known for its top-quality toy sales presents at auction 300+ lots of marbles, boxed sets and affinity items. The inventory includes early handmade, transitional and machine-made marbles, as well as coveted boxed sets [Read More]
Turkish auction house, Antik A.S. will offer masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art, on 7 November. The sale consisting of selected 180 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. galleries during the dates 27 [Read More]
Sotheby’s autumn Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from the 1970s, the sale features classic Impressionist paintings, key Modern works, [Read More]
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. – A 1954 Superman vs. The Robot lunch box in mint condition – widely regarded as the Holy Grail of rare and vintage lunch boxes – soared to $11,865 at a three-day multi-estate sale conducted Oct. 22-24 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Around 1,200 lots changed hands at the event, held [Read More]
An extremely fine collection of medieval hammered gold and silver coins has been discovered on a valuation day in Lichfield this week. The collection discovered by Stephen Wrenn, (Richard Winterton’s coin & medal expert) is one of finest collections he has seen throughout his career. The collector, a local man bought the [Read More]
Bonhams announce the November 11, 2010 auction of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art in New York. The fall sale will feature unique and traditional works from Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia, Australia, Central and South America from as early as 1200 B.C. to the 15th Century, prior to European contact. Highlighting the [Read More]
With a respectable overall result of EUR 2 million* and many world record prices, the auction of “Modern and Contemporary Art”, intended as an interim auction with works of up to EUR 20.000, was one of Germany’s very important auctions this year. “24 per cent new customers and an average increase of [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Stevens Auction Company, based in Aberdeen, Mississippi BROOKHAVEN, Miss. – The contents of two majestic and architecturally important homes in the modest town of Brookhaven, Miss. – located along I-55, south of Jackson and northeast of Baton Rouge, La. – will be sold in an on-site [Read More]
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – An exceptional cataloged antique auction featuring over 500 quality lots will be held Saturday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m. (EST), by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s gallery at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Internet bids may be placed via Live Auctioneers.com or the Fontaine’s Auction Gallery website [Read More]
A pair of Purdey shotguns once owned by Colonel William Stirling, who formed 2 Special Air Service in 1943, will be sold by Bonhams Sporting Gun Department on December 8th in Knightsbridge. The pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons are offered for sale with an estimate [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York 4 November auction of 19th Century European Art will feature three works by the prominent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. This offering comes just after the close of the important exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, which opened at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 2009 and traveled to [Read More]
Two letters written by Beatrix Potter just before the Second World War to the sculptress, Josefina de Vasconcellos, form part of an archive of papers being auctioned at Bonhams Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on 23 November (est £4,000-8,000). They provide a fascinating insight into the famous author’s no [Read More]
On October 21, 2010, PBA Galleries, Auctioneers, Rare Books & Manuscripts conducted a 450 lot auction of Americana, the Collection of Alex Schwed which included a large collection of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, California Pictorial Lettersheets, Gold Rush and California ephemera and Hawaiiana. Schwed, a California collector, has in recent years devoted [Read More]