Bonhams are to sell a truly unique motorcycle which has spectacularly covered over 1million kilometres at the hands of one careful owner. It will be auctioned at the International Motorcycle Show in Staffordshire on April 24th 2011 and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £35,000 – £40,000. Fondly nicknamed Vinnylonglegs, this 1955 [Read More]
Daily Archives: February 9, 2011
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Stephenson’s Auction, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a full service auction company General Auction, Friday, February 11, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 11th 2PM-4PM General Auction, Friday, February 18, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 18th 2PM-4PM General Auction, Friday, February 25, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 25th 2PM-4PM Stephenson’s Auction 1005 Industrial Blvd Southampton, [Read More]
Jewellery and silver belonging to the daughter of the famous French society painter Paul Cesar Helleu, one of the models for a central character in Marcel Proust’s monumental novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (sometimes known as ‘Remembrance of Things Past’),’ is to be auctioned at Bonhams in Edinburgh on 2 March. [Read More]
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening sale in London was led by Pablo Picasso’s iconic 1932 painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter, La Lecture, which sold to a round of applause for £25,241,250 /$40,711,612 / €29,744,296, more than double the low estimate (est. £12 – 18 million/$18.5-27.8 million). Following a heated bidding contest that lasted [Read More]
The vase, which measures 11.5″ (29cm) tall, is the largest recorded from a rarefied group of early Ming moonflasks dating from the Yongle period (1403-1424), could fetch over a million pounds when it goes under the hammer in Dorset. The vase epitomises the taste of the Yongle Emperor and demonstrates the exceptional [Read More]