Following the success of Bonhams recent Collector’s Motor Car sale in February in Paris at the Grand Palais that realised close to €10 million, Bonhams announce the prestigious ‘Les Grandes Marques à Monaco’ sale in Monte Carlo on the 20th May. Now in its 25th year, Bonhams celebrated sale in Monaco is [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
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Leading briefcase manufacturer MEZZI has launched an auction system on its Website, allowing consumers to purchase its reasonably-priced products for significantly less than the company’s regular retail pricing. Shoppers can capitalize on the live product auctions on mezzi.com to place bids on various aluminum cases just as they do at eBay or [Read More]
A 1978 Ferrari 512BB Berlinetta Boxer owned by British Formula One driver, Jenson Button, is to be sold by Bonhams at its sale of Collectors’ Motor Cars at the RAF Museum, Hendon, on 11 April 2011. The car, which was bought last year by Button, the then reigning Formula One World Champion, [Read More]
NextLot, Inc. is known for its ability to help auction firms increase their visibility and reach more bidders through its online auction software solution. In a recent auction held in Jackson, MS, NextLot lived up to its reputation, and online bidding produced noteworthy results. The auction, which featured heavy equipment and machinery, [Read More]
ContainerAuction.com has expanded the services of their innovating container trading platform to help buyers find the containers they are looking for with less effort. If buyers are unable to find the exact containers they are looking for on the site, they now have the ability to complete a small request form that [Read More]
The first-ever art auction gallery field trip will be held in Baterbys Art Auction Gallery, at 9101 International Drive. (ORLANDO, Fla.) – Baterbys Art Auction Gallery will play host to the first-ever art auction gallery field trip at this year’s Conference & Show, a major annual event staged by the National Auctioneers [Read More]
Sotheby’s auction of Russian Art in New York will feature paintings and works of art with exceptional provenance and art-historical importance. The paintings on offer are highlighted by works from iconic Russian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaac Levitan, Nicholas Roerich, Boris Grigoriev, and Yuri Pimenov, whose [Read More]
Sotheby’s Asia Week auctions began in New York with the much anticipated sale of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from J.T. Tai & Co. The auction brought a stunning total of $36,312,493 and was nearly 94% sold by lot. The sale of more than 300 lots took over nine hours, with [Read More]
Woody Auction, based in Kansas, will conduct the sale, at the St. Charles Convention Center. (ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – The single-owner lifetime collection of Bill and Sue (Carolyn) Frick of Missouri – comprising over 500 lots of quality art glass and more – will be sold on Saturday, April 30, in the [Read More]
REA Presents Baseball Card and Memorabilia Treasures 1859-2009 WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY. The catalog for Robert Edward Auctions’ 2011 blockbuster sale will ship on April 12, 2011. As always, the first copy off the presses will be presented to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York for their [Read More]
It was a 1796 Half Dollar, 15 Stars AU58 PCGS, a stunning coin featuring one of the rarest designs in all of U.S. coinage, that emerged from spirited bidding as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ March 17-20 Signature® ANA U.S. Coin Auction, with a final price realized of $207,000. The auction [Read More]
The sale of a £13,000 bottle of Gordon & MacPhail Generations Glenlivet 70 Years Old, launched earlier this month, is to be auctioned at a special evening at Bonhams, Edinburgh on 29 March in aid of the victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Family owned whisky specialists Gordon & [Read More]
Highlights include James D. Julia’s Winter Antiques & Fine Art Auction with over 600 online bidders from 17 countries; Doyle New York’s sale of the Estate of Lena Horne with more than a thousand online bids and National Book Auctions’ February 27th auction with over 73% of the lots sold online. Gorringes, [Read More]
The Largest Selection of Lafite Ever Offered at Auction Portion of Proceeds Donated to Japanese Relief Efforts Hart Davis Hart, America’s largest wine auction house, conducted a highly successful auction over the weekend devoted exclusively to the wines of Château Lafite-Rothschild. The sale comprised the largest selection of Lafite ever offered at [Read More]
The most important collection of papers & Portraits to come to the market in 30 years – which includes two American discoveries- will be sold at Bonhams in London on March 29th as the Roy Davids Collection. Roy Davids was for many years the Head of Books at Sotheby’s. He is a [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Sale of Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints, on Wednesday, 30 March, 2011, will present for sale the earliest printed star charts, in the form of a pair of extremely rare woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer depicting A Map of the Northern Sky and A Map of the Southern Sky. These [Read More]
Hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market lots will cross the block, in a wide array of categories. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – No sooner had Philip Weiss Auctions closed the books on a huge weekend multi-estate sale March 4-6 than one just as big was being planned for a month later. The firm will host a [Read More]
Christie’s spring sale of Swiss art at the Kunsthaus Zurich on 21 March 2011 will bring together outstanding works from famous artist fathers and their equally famous sons. The top lot of the sale, which comes from a Swiss private collection, is Giovanni Giacometti’s family portrait Unter dem Holunder / Under the [Read More]