Boston, MA – March 15, 2012 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts on Saturday, March 31st in its Boston gallery. The sale begins with nearly 450 lots of fine silver from England, the Continent, Asia, and the Americas. It continues with 400 more lots covering [Read More]
Daily Archives: March 15, 2012
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The gold cape that Elizabeth Taylor wore as Cleopatra in two pivotal scenes in the 1963 film of the same name is expected to bring $20,000 as the top entertainment lot in Heritage Auctions’ March 30 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature® auction. The top lot on the music side is expected to [Read More]
Sotheby’s Single Owner sale of property from The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla: Important Porcelain, Venetian Fine and Decorative Arts from their Residence in Geneva realised £4,575,733 / $7,173,834 / €5,503,686 well above the pre-sale estimate of £2.5 – 3.8 million. The auction was 89 % sold by lot and 96 [Read More]
Bonhams next sale of Antiquities on April 25th in New Bond Street features an important piece of Classical bronze sculpture, believed to depict a Hellenistic warrior of the 1st Century B.C., discovered in a London home. After conservation it will be sold for £50,000 to £80,000. Madeleine Perridge, Head of Antiquities at [Read More]
This one promises to be the best ever, with 500-600 lots of quality, fresh-to-the-market items. (BRISTOL, Conn.) – Get ready, all you hibernating snowbirds in Connecticut and lower New England. It’s time to shake off the winter snow (not that there was much of the white stuff) and make plans for the [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield, (UK) are delighted to have been appointed as agents to offer a watch believed to have once belonged to Lord Lucan, (Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, b.1934, legally declared dead by The High Court in 1999). The unnamed silver watch bears the following inscription on [Read More]