FASCINATING PROTOTYPE GUN AMONG HIGHLIGHTS OF ANNUAL GLENEAGLES AUCTION A HISTORICALLY important prototype 12-bore over and under single trigger ejector gun by London gunmaker Boss & Co.. is among the highlights of Gavin Gardiner’s annual auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns, which will be held in association with Sotheby’s at [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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Christie’s has arranged for an international, three-month tour of highlights from her expansive collection that starts in September 2011 and includes stops in Moscow, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, and Hong Kong. The tour will culminate in New York in early December with a special ten-day, museum-quality exhibition of Elizabeth Taylor’s [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields announce its September 19, 2011 auction of Salon Jewelry and Watches in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles. The sale, timed to coincide with the firm’s SoMa Estate Auction with Jewelry the day prior, will dazzle with diamonds. Leading the auction will be a diamond and platinum bracelet (est. [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale brought £108,803,550 / $174,129,201 /€120,923,897 – in excess of pre-sale expectations (estimate: £74-105 million) and establishing the highest total ever achieved for any sale of Contemporary Art in London. Buyers from 14 countries participated in the auction, which achieved remarkable sell-through rates of 89.8% by lot [Read More]
Barry Fantoni is selling his archive of 3,500 original Times cartoons at Bonhams Modern Picture sale in Knightsbridge on 19 July. Fantoni produced cartoons for the paper every weekday from 1983 – 1990, summing up the burning issues of the time with a few strokes of his pen. Some of the drawings [Read More]
Bonhams is to take part of the ground floor of Royal Victoria House in the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, as its new operational base in Kent and Sussex from Monday July 4th. The building is so named as Queen Victoria stayed there presumably when taking the waters. Royal Victoria House is situated within [Read More]
The IRS is to hold an auction in O’Fallon on 6/30/2011 at 10:00 AM. The auction will be held at 10 a.m. at Dodge Moving & Storage at 1430 N. Frontage Road in O’Fallon. Property and can be previewed from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday and 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Sale items include [Read More]
A recently discovered, English ebony bracket clock attributed to Ahasuerus Fromanteel sold for a remarkable £692,000 on 28 June at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Fine Clocks and Watches. The clock, which was found in a private European collection in mid-May this year, and had been in [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart closed the first half of the year with a successful two-day auction this weekend, realizing $6,275,781.50 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $4,597,360-$6,882,000. Bidders participated from 38 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris, sale devoted to Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings, yielded €7.6m – the highest total for a sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings by Sotheby’s France to date, including three world records. The sale’s highest price of €1,241,252/$1,773,492 was paid by a French buyer [Read More]
Christie’s have auctioned Margaret Thatcher’s Asprey handbag for $39,953. The handbag was used by Thatcher during Cold War negotiations with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. “The handbag makes you automatically think of Margaret Thatcher,” said former politician and author Jeffrey Archer, who hosted the auction. “Someone has [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale, on 6th July 2011, will offer a selection of newly discovered and important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades. Estimated to reach a total in excess of £31 million, the auction of 73 [Read More]
Christie’s fine art auctioneers will offer a selection of works from the collection of Kay Saatchi at the Post-War and Contemporary art auctions in London on 28 June, 2011. The collection features an outstanding and rare group of early works on paper by Lucian Freud, executed in the 1940s, Ron Mueck’s Big [Read More]
Bonhams are to sell Triumph Motorcycles’ 500,000th production bike since 1990 after comedian and keen biker, Ross Noble, took it on a tour of Britain. The uniquely liveried Speed Triple is estimated to fetch £5,000-7,000 when it is auctioned on Friday 1st July at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Between 24-30th May, [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers report that the antiques valuation day at Far Fillimore Care Home was a resounding success last Saturday (25th June). The odd rain shower did not dampen the spirits and many turned out for a fun packed day at the fete. The antiques valuation session hosted by Adrian Rathbone, Associate [Read More]
Bonhams is to build a new international headquarters in London to provide the most advanced salerooms in the world. Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands plans for a new international headquarters for world-famous auction house Bonhams in London – view from Haunch of Vension Yard Designed by award-winning architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, the building is [Read More]
Cowan’s Summer Fine and Decorative Art Auction is slated to take place on July 23, 2011. The 364-lot sale, will offer fine and decorative art items from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Highlights in the sale include a 1944 Martin D-28 Herringbone Guitar, and a Cincinnati Art Carved Sideboard with Benjamin [Read More]
RM Auctions, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, posted over £5.1 million* (over $8.2 million USD) in total sales with a solid 77% sell-through at its debut Salon Privé sale in West London last night. Held in conjunction with the Salon Privé Luxury Super Car Show and Concours [Read More]