Joining the World Championship-winning Helmut Fath URS sidecar outfit and Seeley-URS Grand Prix racing solo already on offer at Bonhams next motorcycle auction will be the customary eclectic mix of over 200 machines. The sale is part of The Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at Stafford County Showground on 17th October. A highlight [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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Bonhams is delighted to announce that two cars in the Veteran Motorcar and Automobilia Sale on Friday November 5th at New Bond Street have been entered into the fiercely contested London to Brighton run, which takes place two days later. Although Bonhams has been involved in the run for over twenty years [Read More]
On October 27 and 28 Swann Galleries New York will conduct a three-part print auction featuring material that is truly museum worthy. The sale begins on Wednesday, October 27 with more than 150 lots devoted to Whistler and His Influence, which offers rare and important etchings, drypoints and lithographs from the 1850s [Read More]
Starting with its launch October 6, SolutionAuctions.com is a new way to trade answers to any question. It’s an online auction site that allows anyone to post solutions to specific problems and sell them at their own price or to post a question and take bids for the answer. Every new solution [Read More]
BUFORD, Ga – Over 1,200 lots of self-taught art in a variety of forms – from face jugs to paintings, quilts to pottery – will be offered the weekend of Nov. 13-14 by Slotin Folk Art Auction at the Historic Buford Hall, located at 112 East Shadburn Avenue. The dates have been [Read More]
Seoul Auction held its Modern & Contemporary Art Autumn Sale in Hong Kong at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. 60 works by celebrated Western, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese artists were offered and a total of HK$78.52 million/ US$10.21 million was achieved. Discerning collectors from around the world congregated to compete for artworks [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will offer for sale, on December 8, 2010, arguably the finest painting by the British master George Stubbs (1724-1806) ever to come to the market: Brood Mares and Foals, estimated at £10-15 million. Painted in 1767, at the height of the artist’s career, the mares and foals scene is a [Read More]
This past weekend, a record breaking sale at Skinner grossed more than any other European Furniture & Decorative Arts auction in over a decade. The sale featured a major collection of Chinese export silver and the Kadison Collection of Wedgwood. In total, the sale grossed $2,407,896.00 (including buyer’s premium), far beyond it’s pre-sale [Read More]
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. – A Tiffany Studios leaded glass bronze floor lamp lit up the room for $135,600 at a three-day multi-estate sale held Sept. 24-26 by Philip Weiss Auctions. It was the top item of the estimated 1,800 fresh-to-the-market lots offered from prominent local estates and collections. The sale was held in [Read More]
Auction will also include several pieces relating to Nelson’s State Funeral A TREADPLATE from H.M.S Kelvin, the Scottish destroyer used by Winston Churchill to view the D-Day Landings at Juno Beach in June 1944, will be offered by Charles Miller Ltd on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 in his sale of Maritime & [Read More]
Fine Italian Violins, Bows, Guitars and More Than 150 Lots of Select Raw Material Up for Bid Oct 10th BOSTON, Mass. – September 30, 2010 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of Fine Musical Instruments on October 10th in its Boston gallery. Along with fine examples of Italian violins, bows and [Read More]
A Bakelite radio from the 1940’s has recently sold for £750 at auction, (30th September, Richard Winterton of Lichfield). The radio manufactured by British firm Ekco and introduced in 1945 is one of the most iconic of all radio designs, famous for the circular Art Deco case. Originally designed in the early [Read More]
Coker’s $1.82 million sale of the former Eastman Kodak CEO’s Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art collection contained 83 paintings, each offered without reserve. This added enticement attracted bidders from points as far afield as Germany and California. “There were retail dealers, private collectors and representatives from several institutions, as well as a few [Read More]
A second gem-encrusted gold finial from the octagonal golden throne of Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, will be sold at Bonhams New Bond Street on October 7th in the Indian & Islamic Art sale. This is the second such finial to pass through Bonhams Bond Street saleroom in 18 months. The [Read More]
Bonhams is selling a fine gold 18th Century Indian bezoar-stone holder from Gujarat, an object that once held a naturally produced object from the bodies of animals which was believed to have the power to cure plague and deflect witchcraft. It is estimated to sell for £10,000-15,000 at Bonhams next sale of [Read More]
The two-day, mostly unreserved auction will be conducted by Specialists of the South, Inc. FOUNTAIN, Fla. – A good old-fashioned on-site country sale, featuring over 800 lots in just about every category imaginable, will be held Oct. 15-16 at the home of Maryland Cress, a lifelong collector, at 11421 Ivydell Road in [Read More]
A striking, circular table originally placed in the Golden Drawing Room in the Winter Palace, the main residence of the Russian Imperial family in St. Petersburg, will be sold in the Russian Sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on 1st December. Estimated at £150,000 – £200,000, the intricate design and range of [Read More]
A COLLECTION of stones from the world-famous Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland are expected to fetch up to £40,000 when they are offered for sale next month as part of the auction of Garden Statuary and Fossil Decoration at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby’s). The auction which will take place [Read More]