A 1952 New York Yankees team-signed baseball, signed by both Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, and still bearing Marilyn’s lipstick, kept in a box in a closet for years, is expected to bring in excess of $20,000 when it is offered as part of Heritage Auctions Aug. 4 Signature® Vintage Sports Collectibles [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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A truly unique, handmade automobile will be auctioned by Bonhams at its forthcoming Quail Lodge sale, held each August in Carmel, California during the world-famous Pebble Beach Car Week. The custom-made 1925 Rolls-Royce New Phantom was originally commissioned by Sahib Bahadur of India, officially known as Umed Singh II, Maharaja of Kotah, [Read More]
Cowan’s July 23, 2011 Summer Fine and Decorative Art Auction brought in some surprising sales over-estimate as bidders battled competitively for 362 lots. With 995 bidders from sixteen countries, the auction sales total reached just over $430,500.00. The sale, held at Cowan’s sales room, offered fine and decorative art items from the [Read More]
A design masterpiece by Virgil Exner and bodied by Ghia, this stunning 1952 Chrysler D’Elegance leads a host of sensational concept cars poised to cross RM’s Monterey auction podium next month, August 19 – 20 in California. Hemi-powered on a shortened New Yorker chassis, this stunning concept debuted at the 1952 Paris [Read More]
On July 28, Gray’s Auctioneers will be auctioning lot 177, a rare Civil War painting from1865 entitled ‘Our Flag is There’. The signature is indecipherable however the Gray’s appraisal team has discovered a sketch by Thomas Nast which was featured on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, February 13, 1864. The sketch is [Read More]
Signature Chef Auction Chairs Jason & Jaclyn Brodie and Joshua & Marcy Friedman of Brodie & Friedman PA are pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Signature Chefs Auction will be held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club September 9, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event begins with [Read More]
Morphy Auctions’ CEO Dan Morphy has announced the addition of a full-service sports memorabilia department to his company’s growing roster of specialty divisions. The new department is supervised by Morphy’s chief operation officer Tom Sage Jr. “We decided to open a sports department because of the increasing number of requests from collectors [Read More]
Sothebys London Finest and Rarest Wines auction totaled $1,387,218 £861,626 ($1,387,218). Stephen Mould, Head of Sotheby’s European Wine Department, said: “A solid end to one of our most successful first half years ever. We are already 70% up on last year’s total for the same period with sales in London exceeding £11,000,000. [Read More]
A case of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982, Pauillac, brought $50,788 to lead the day in the joint Heritage Auctions and Greg Martin Auctions $2.7+ million June 16 Signature® Wine Auction, held at the company’s Beverly Hills offices and simulcast live to Hong Kong. “Good results across the board,” said Frank Martell, Heritage’s [Read More]
artnet Auctions achieved a world record for the sale of an Andy Warhol 1978 painting entitled Flowers, which sold for US$1,322,500 (Premium), on Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1978. Acrylic and silkscreen inks on canvas, 22 x 22 in. Est. US$1,100,000–1,500,000. Sold for US$1,322,500 Premium The buyer was a private [Read More]
The World Land Trust and ethical coloured gemstones mining company, Gemfields, together with Jaguar Land Rover and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA India), have collaborated with ten of India’s top jewellery designers to create a unique ‘pop up’ collection of bespoke Zambian emerald jewellery. Following the success of ‘Emeralds for Elephants’ [Read More]
The August 9, 2011 sale of California and American Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields will offer a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and land and cityscapes. Noted artists represented in the summer auction include E. Charlton Fortune, Granville Redmond, Fredrick Remington and Arthur Grover [Read More]
JJManning Auctioneers is proud to offer a prime income opportunity on Cape Cod located at 251 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth (Quissett), MA k/a “Gardner’s House.” This is a fully leased 4-family home with a cottage in a prime location between Falmouth Village and Woods Hole Harbor. The property is just 16+/- miles [Read More]
Proxibid, will be the exclusive online bidding provider for Terry’s Furniture & Auction’s sale of a huge collection of fine arts, collectible toys, military items and vastly historic photo albums. The live auction will commence Saturday, July 30 at 2.00 p.m. Eastern, with online webcasting beginning simultaneously. To pre-bid or to view [Read More]
One of the highlights of The Marine Sale at Bonhams will be an exciting and previously unknown watercolour of ‘H.M.S. Terror and one of her boats off a spectacular iceberg, apparently in the Davis Strait, between Canada and Greenland.’ This remarkable work is estimated to sell for £10,000-15,000 when it is offered [Read More]
Seven images of a young Marilyn Monroe, then known as Norma Jeane – including one of Norma Jeane smiling in the California surf that, until recently, had remained unseen – are being offered by the family of acclaimed Hollywood photographer Richard C. Miller, as the Richard C. Miller Archive, as part of [Read More]
Churchill Told Doublas Bader Not to Lose this Book A small leather-bound book that powerfully evokes ‘The Few’ of WWII Battle of Britain, listing 107 signatures of RAF flying officers, goes on sale at Bonhams Militaria Sale in Oxford on August 2nd. Collected by Norman Phillips, a mess steward at RAF Marklesham [Read More]
Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, will showcase a significant selection of works on paper by 22 Modern Masters at its next 24-Hour Auction. The selection includes works by leading Indian artists Tyeb Mehta, V.S. Gaitonde, F.N. Souza, Nasreen Mohamedi, Arpita Singh, Jogen Chowdhury and more. The auction, which begins [Read More]