Previews will be held on days immediately prior to the event at a showroom in West Chester, Pa. (WEST CHESTER, Pa.) – A little over 300 lots of quality merchandise will be sold in a two-session, Internet-only auction slated for Saturday, July 20, at 11 a.m. (EDT), by Gordon S. Converse & [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
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Christie’s announce the launch of two online-exclusive sales for a Chinese Works of Art in July 2013, the first internet exclusive opportunities for the collecting category. Blanc de Chine: Dehua Porcelain from the Galster-Ireland Collection will run from July 9-23, offering 57 lots of exquisite Chinese porcelain, while Miniature Treasures: Chinese Snuff [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Crescent City Auction Gallery, in their New Orleans gallery. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – An 18th century Chinese Qianlong celadon jade censer with a pre-sale estimate of $15,000-$25,000, items from the living estate of iconic New Orleans artist and photographer George Valentine Dureau (b. 1930) and an [Read More]
A Bible inscribed by Albert Einstein, in which he refers to the book as an “inexhaustible” source of wisdom and solace that deserves frequent reading, sold at Bonhams for $68,500 in the June 25 Fine Books & Manuscripts auction. Inscribed in German and signed by both Einstein and his wife Elsa in [Read More]
The auction was held on the second day of the annual Check the Oil Gas & Oil Show in Ohio. (DUBLIN, Oh.) – A round McColl-Frontenac Products double-sided porcelain petroliana sign with “Red Indian” logo, rated near mint at 9.5 out of 10 for condition, sold for $11,550 at a Check the [Read More]
In its auction sale at September’s Goodwood Revival Meeting (Saturday 14 September 2013), Bonhams is offering one of the most charismatic of all great pre-war Grand Prix racing cars. This is the 1935 supercharged Alfa Romeo 8C-35 which – when campaigned as new by Alfa’s proxy factory team, the celebrated Scuderia Ferrari [Read More]
The Bonhams Motoring Department is pleased to unveil the line-up for its annual auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, UK, which will take place on Friday 12th July. Leading the way is the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 in which five-time Formula 1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio won two grands [Read More]
A fine and rare pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector over and under guns by London maker James Purdey & Sons will be included in Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s Auction of Fine Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns & Rifles, which will be held at the World Famous Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perthshire on the [Read More]
Christie’s announce the launch of two online-exclusive sales for a Chinese Works of Art in July 2013, the first internet exclusive opportunities for the collecting category. Blanc de Chine: Dehua Porcelain from the Galster-Ireland Collection will run from July 9-23, offering 57 lots of exquisite Chinese porcelain, while Miniature Treasures: Chinese Snuff [Read More]
Bonhams wine sale at New Bond Street on 11 July offers one of the widest and most interesting selections of wine to come to auction this year. In addition to fine wines from the traditional areas of Bordeaux and Burgundy, the sale includes exceptional finds from Italy, Germany and Australia. Richard Harvey [Read More]
25 Blythe Road’s first auction on their newly launched iRostrum online auction platform will take place on Tuesday 9th July offering a selection of British and Continental Pictures following public viewing at their London auction galleries. Pictures will range in value from decorative works starting at £50 to higher valued works for [Read More]
Gallantry medals, Orders and Decorations collected by the late Peter Maren will be sold by specialist London coins and medals auctioneer Morton & Eden. The sale, on Tuesday July 2, will include some 175 lots from the collection and is expected to raise more than $500,000. Mr Maren wished his collection to [Read More]
The finest motorcars in the world continue to be added to what has fast become Bonhams’ most anticipated US automotive event in recent years: the forthcoming Quail Lodge auction. Leading the recent consignments is the very first Type 35 Bugatti – the prototype. This is in fact the very car in which [Read More]
Fourteen original Salvador Dalí watercolor fruit studies, previously unseen by collectors made their auction debut at Bonhams’ Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London on, 18th June. All fourteen lots in the series sold for the total of £726,700. The collection attracted interest from around the world culminating in battles between buyers [Read More]
Two other prominent estates will also be offered. In all, about 600 quality lots will be sold. (JACKSON, Tenn.) – The contents of one of Jackson’s stateliest and most historic Victorian mansions – Green Gables, at 1287 Hollywood Drive – will be sold in an on-site auction at the mansion itself, on [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture & Decorative Arts on July 12th and 13th in its Boston gallery. Session I of the two-day sale opens with The Bent Family Collection: Furniture and Decorative Arts from Quattro Venti. Session II features sculpture, pottery, and porcelain and presents The Harry A. [Read More]
Bonhams realized nearly $5.3 million in the June 19 Fine Jewelry and Salon Jewelry auctions, with both auctions selling an exceptional 90% by value. The Madison Avenue gallery was standing-room only when auctioneer and Bonhams CEO UK & Europe and Group Jewelry Director, Matthew Girling, led the Fine Jewelry auction in the [Read More]
The French term ‘pate de verre’ roughly translates as ‘glass paste’. It is a glassmaking technique exploited from the 1900’s by the French Daum factory in Nancy. It involves coloured glass powder mixed with a liquid to form a paste which is then packed into a re-usable mould and fired to the [Read More]