As many as 250 works of fine art in many genres will be offered. The sale will start at 6 p.m. (MILFORD, Conn.) – Quality consignments are currently being accepted for a fine art auction slated for Thursday, April 25, at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery located at 354 [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
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Bonhams will offer an exceptional selection of space related documents, memorabilia, and artifacts from space in the Space History Sale on March 25. This is the first major auction since a law was recently passed by Congress confirming that certain astronauts can retain or sell items they had used in space and [Read More]
Catering to the growing number of art patrons aspiring for International quality art has prompted Bangalore to feature the ‘Modern & Contemporary Indian Art Auction’. The rare event will host a blend of top notch Indian artists and their works. The event will be attended by a mix of art patrons and [Read More]
The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, along with Drs. James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, for “…their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material” will be auctioned with an opening bid [Read More]
Hose Rhodes Dickson Auction Rooms in Brading on the Isle of Wight are pleased to announce their next fine art sale will take place this Thursday 28th February at 10.30am. Many interesting and unusual lots including Paul Armand Bayard de le Vingtrie bronze, Isle of Wight Glass and London Underground signage. To [Read More]
The parlor suite was the top lot of the more than 600 quality lots that changed hands in the sale. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – A gorgeous four-piece laminated rosewood rococo parlor suite by renowned 19th century American furniture maker J. & J.W. Meeks, in the desirable Hawkins pattern, sold for $24,150 at a [Read More]
Baldwin’s are delighted to announce the sale of yet another multi-million pound collection in 2013. The David Fore Collection is the most impressive collection of Coins of British India ever to be sold at public auction. Comprising coins of British India, The Presidencies and Indian Native States, this collection will be sold [Read More]
Watchung, New Jersey – There was no bubble gum and it wasn’t packed in waxy paper but when Harry Wright decided he needed to do something special to get patrons into the St. George’s Cricket Grounds in Hoboken, New Jersey in the late summer of 1863, he ordered and distributed an item [Read More]
The pen and ink with crayon by Lucian Freud (British, 1922-2011) titled ‘Oil-bound Puffin’ is signed and dated ‘Lucian Freud/Oct 44’ and is estimated to sell for £200,000-300,000. A grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud arrived in England with his family from Berlin in 1933 at the age of ten. This drawing [Read More]
The beautiful, rare flask was the top lot in an auction that opened online on Jan. 27 and ended Feb. 6. (WOODSTOCK, Conn.) – A big, beautiful and colorful portrait flask showing George Washington and a classical bust (possibly that of the noted 19th century American orator Henry Clay) soared to $60,840 [Read More]
The auction will be held at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, 5055 Ann Arbor/Saline Rd. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – Over 2,400 lots from three major collections of country store, pedal cars, toys and firefighting memorabilia will be offered the weekend of Apr. 12-14 by Showtime Auction Services, at the Washtenaw Farm Council [Read More]
The artist Works ” Andre Pace ” Will be showing At The Lewis Ginter Botanical garden ” to benefit the children garden The art auction host ” Cheers to Art ” 2013 The work Is His series { Andre Brown } Sold Museum Art auction & Exhbition / broadcasted networks . Two [Read More]
The three-day event was held Feb. 15-17, in Raymond, at the gallery of Pope Auction Center. (RAYMOND, Ill.) – A standard glaze portrait vase showing a beautifully rendered cocker spaniel sold for $2,640 on the last day of a three-day auction held Feb. 15-17 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, based in Nokomis, Ill. [Read More]
A motorcycle designed by Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney was the top-selling lot at the Bonhams auction of Sporting and Golf Memorabilia in Chester, UK, on Wednesday 20th February, realizing £43,250. Wayne Rooney motorcycle The 2012 Lauge Jensen cruiser-style machine, designed by the world-famous striker and custom-made by the Danish [Read More]
London auctioneers Morton & Eden will sell important Spanish Colonial coins from the Archer M. Huntington Collection of Hispanic Coins, on March 6. Numbering almost 1,500 items, the sale is expected to raise a total in the region of £500,000. The Huntington Collection, a vast group of 37,895 coins relating to the [Read More]
The winter Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, February 17 at Bonhams in San Francisco brought a successful $716,038. It was led by the French edition of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius’ Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura, 1619, which brought $27,500, ahead of a $12,000-18,000 estimate. A rare [Read More]
BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. – For their March 1 auction titled “Antiquities, Ancient and Ethnographic Art,” Antiquities-Saleroom.com decided to think big – as in dinosaur big. Coming on the heels of their highly successful Feb. 1 auction, Antiquities Saleroom’s latest auction offers the biggest piece ever offered by this Colorado antiquities company. Lot [Read More]
Heritage Auctions’ Greg Holman joins a cast of pop culture experts for the new reality TV series, “For What It’s Worth.” Premiering Thursday, Feb. 21, at 10/9c on VH1 Classic, “For What It’s Worth” explores the intricate world of music and pop culture memorabilia and the mind of “The Collector.” Throughout six, [Read More]