(PALM BEACH, Fla.) – Over 250 lots of fine jewelry, artwork by renowned and listed artists, period furniture, desirable antiques and decorative accessories will be offered on Sunday, Oct. 28, by A.B. Levy’s, starting at 1 p.m. (EST). The auction will be held at A.B. Levy’s spacious showroom, at 211 Worth Avenue [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
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(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, will hold an exciting auction of finest and rarest wines on October 27th at award-winning restaurant Tru, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The auction includes over 1200 lots and is estimated to [Read More]
A magnificent and large pair of Imperial cloisonné enamel cranes from an Italian private collection will be sold by Bonhams on 8 November 2012 for £150,000 to 200,000. This magnificent pair, measuring over two meters high, would have adorned an Imperial throne hall, flanking the throne. Their majestic graceful form and impressive [Read More]
Perhaps the finest collection of maritime art ever assembled – including more than 100 unique and intriguing scale ship models – will cross the auction block on Oct. 27 at the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, MD, as part of Heritage Auctions Maritime & Ship Models Signature® Auction. An invitation [Read More]
Four 1930s chandeliers from London’s Adelphi Plaza hotel highlight Unique Auctions Antique & Vintage Chandelier and Lighting Sale on the 6th/7th October. 1930s Chandeliers from Adelphi Plaza Hotel London Each chandelier, made up of 2,500 crystals and weighing a quarter of a ton, hung in the Adelphi Plaza – a hotel formerly [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of Fine Musical Instruments on Sunday, October 14th in its Boston gallery. The sale offers more than 350 lots of fretted and bowed stringed instruments including guitars, violins, violas, cellos, and bows. Italian Violin, Enrico Rocca, Genoa, 1898, bearing the maker’s label, length [Read More]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – October 3, 2012 – Skinner, Inc. will host a Discovery auction on October 10th and 11th in its Marlborough gallery. The two-day sale presents an excellent assortment of toys & dolls, ephemera & collectibles, furniture, artwork, and decorative objects. Toys & Dolls The October Discovery auction features a fine [Read More]
The firm has taken on Shannon McQuerrey in Plattsburg as a point of contact in the area. (PLATTSBURG, Mo.) – An inaugural auction that will strengthen the breadth and reach of Mayo Auction & Realty in Missouri’s strategic St. Joseph-to-Plattsburg corridor is now online (at www.auctionbymayo.com) and will end Thursday, Oct. 11, [Read More]
Collectors and enthusiasts of scale model vehicles have a new destination on the internet, as two of the best-known websites on each side of the Atlantic have merged to create PlanetDiecast.com, combining a specialist marketplace designed to rival that of other internet giants with community, forum and social networking features. The new [Read More]
The two-session auction will be held at the Sedgwick County Extension Center in Wichita, Kan. (WICHITA, Kan.) – Two major single-owner lifetime collections – one of phonographs and stereo view cards, the other of pocket watches, wrist watches and jewelry – will be sold on Saturday, Oct. 27, by Woody Auction in [Read More]
Bonhams announce a strong result for its quarterly Salon Jewelry & Watches auction on September 24 in Los Angeles, simulcast to San Francisco. The sale featured an impressive selection of classically inspired vintage and retro brooches, bracelets, necklaces and accessories from the early 20th century to the 1980s. Leading the September auction [Read More]
The much anticipated public auction of part two of the Bentley Collection was held by Baldwin’s in London on the 27th September. The auction contained one of the rarest Australian coins, the fabled George V 1920 Sydney mint gold sovereign. Some voracious bidding between three ardent bidders culminated in the repatriation to [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. today announced strong results for its recent Fine Jewelry sale held Tuesday, September 11th. The highly successful sale grossed $2,788,405 including buyer’s premium, surpassing the pre-auction estimate high, with the estates of New York gallery owner Joan Sonnabend and American sportswoman Hope Goddard Iselin generating heated bidding. [Read More]
Bonhams will offer no fewer than seven magnificent Elizabeth Frink bronzes in the next 20th Century British and Irish Art Sale on November 14th in New Bond St, London. In total they are expected to sell in excess of £400,000. Dame Elizabeth Frink’s subject matter included men, birds, dogs, horses and religious [Read More]