A collection of thirty seven costumes from recent episodes of Doctor Who are being offered by Angels The Costumiers in the Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Thursday 15th December 2011 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London. Angels The Costumiers is the world’s longest-established supplier of costumes to the film, theatre, and television industries. Angels Chairman, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
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An original copy of 1964’s Meet the Beatles, signed by all the members of the Fab Four, is expected to bring $75,000+ when it comes to auction on Dec. 13 as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ Music & Entertainment Signature® Auction. “An original pressing of this classic album is cool enough in-and-of [Read More]
The FotoFest 2012 Fine Print Auction offers collectors the first opportunity to access leading contemporary Russian photography. Hand-picked vintage and later contemporary works by 30 Russian and Ukranian artists will be featured in the 2012 Auction. Alexey Kuzmitchev, (Russia) Untitled, 2006 Chromogenic print, Edition 3 31 ½ x 47 ¼ inches As [Read More]
The auction is part of a weekend of sales at the gallery and online including dolls, toys, trains and action figures to satisfy any age kids’ holiday dreams come true. The feature is a one-of-a-kind item that depicts Walt Disney’s dream before it came true. LOT #1194 – Disneyland Original 1953 Prospectus [Read More]
Early Marilyn Monroe photos by Joseph Jasgur have been sold for over $300,000 at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills. The settings for the photographs ranged from high atop buildings in Los Angeles to Zuma Beach. Joseph Jasgur photograph of Norma Jean Dougherty,1946 file image taken by photographer J. Julien’s Auctions. The photos [Read More]
The guns will be the centerpiece lots in a firearms consignment auction slated for Kansas City. (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) – A pair of vintage guns believed to have been owned and used by the notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde – a .45 caliber Thompson sub-machine gun and a 12-gauge Winchester model 1897 [Read More]
An unrestored works racing team 1953 Austin-Healey ‘100’ Special Test Car, which was campaigned in period by racing drivers Lance Macklin, Gordon Wilkins and Marcel Becquart, sold for a world record £843,000 on 1 December at Bonhams’ December Sale. The car, which was offered in ‘barn find’ condition for the first time [Read More]
A Rattray & Co. Scottish Gold Presentation Bowl, circa 1931, inscribed with the coat of arms of the 14th Earl of Strathmore, and the house’s motto, IN TE DOMINE SPERAVI, is expected to bring $50,000+ as the top lot of Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 7 Silver & Vertu Signature® Auction, taking place Dec. [Read More]
A circa 1860 studio camera that was used by Mathew Brady, the quintessential Civil War photo-documentarian and one of America’s greatest photographers, is being offered by Heritage Auctions on Nov. 30 as part of its Americana & Political Memorabilia Signature® Auction. It is expected to bring $25,000+. “Virtually every public figure of [Read More]
Sotheby’s global auctions of Russian Art in 2011 concluded this week realising a combined worldwide total for Russian Art sold by the company of $95.5 million, an increase of 16%($13.5 million) on our 2010 global total for sales in this field. This total of $95.5 million confirms Sotheby’s position as global leader [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York report that their American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture brought $24,557,750, above a low estimate of $22.3 million* and with 71.2% percent of the lots sold. Martin Johnson Heade, Orchids and Hummingbirds, signed M.J. Heade, l.l. Oil on canvas, 15 by 20 in. Painted circa 1875-90. Est. $500/700,000. Sold for [Read More]
GunBroker.com, the world’s largest internet auction site for firearms and related accessories, reported a 25.4 percent increase in 2011 Cyber Monday sales activity over 2010, signaling a strong final quarter for online sales of hunting and shooting sports equipment. “The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Cyber Monday online sales were [Read More]
A tiny oil painting discovered on a routine valuation day has just totalled over £4K in a Fine Art Auction this week. The 25cm by 19cm oil is by one of Scotland’s most sought after genre artists, Robert Gemmell Hutchison ((1855-1936). Hutchison was born and educated in Edinburgh and gained a love [Read More]
A first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, has set a record $2.16 million for a single comic book. The comic graded at 9.0, was auctioned online at www.comicconnect.com. The starting bid with a reserve price of $900,000. “When we broke the record in 2010 by selling the Action Comics No. 1, [Read More]
A pair of important Fran?ois Linke (French, d. 1846) Kingwood and Tulipwood Gilt Bronze Mounted Vitrine Cabinets with Wedgwood Jasperware Plaques, made in Paris, circa 1900, may bring $200,000+ as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 7 Decorative Art Signature® Auction, being held at the company’s Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 [Read More]
GunBroker.com, the world’s largest Internet auction site for firearms and accessories, has been named the Official Internet Auction Site of USA Shooting and the USA Shooting Foundation in a partnership that will feature a special edition of firearms that will be available exclusively on the popular auction site. “USA Shooting has benefited [Read More]
On Thursday, December 15 Swann Galleries will offer an unprecedented single-owner sale of The Complete Poster Works of Roger Broders, the celebrated travel poster artist whose name is synonymous with French Art Deco. Not only is this the first time that all of Broders’s work, including previously unknown variants and non-travel images, [Read More]
The only known copy of the Disney film Hungry Hobos, which was previously recorded as lost, has been found in a social history film archive in Herefordshire, UK and is to feature in the Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 14th December 2011 at Bonhams in Los Angeles, USA. The film features Oswald The [Read More]