The 55th Baldwin-Ma Tak Wo Hong Kong Coin auction, held at the Holiday Inn, Kowloon, on the 22nd August, proved to be one of the most exciting in the Groups history. 1187 lots went under the hammer, including lot 580, a sensational Sinkiang Province, 1898 Sungarei Silver Dollar. One of the rarest [Read More]
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The Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold an Unreserved Auction on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, followed by a Great Estates auction on Sunday, September 22. Friday, September 20 (lots 1-617) 632 lots Rago Unreserved: 600 lots+ of early 20th c. design pottery and furnishings, art glass, traditional furnishings [Read More]
British Car Auctions (BCA) is anticipating improved choice for used car buyers as the 63-registration plate hits the roads. As Tim Naylor, editor of the BCA Used Car Market Report explained this should be good news for hard-pressed motorists looking for a good deal, following the limited availability of good quality vehicles [Read More]
An exciting new venture brings together the art market auction expertise of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions and the Chinese cultural and artistic experience of Yourun International (UK) Art Investment & Management Ltd. With the combined aim of raising international awareness of emerging Chinese artists 150 contemporary works of art will, for the [Read More]
Christie’s is to auction an exceptionally rare Arithmetical machine. This ‘pocket-sized’ calculator, measuring 14.5 centimeters in width and 32.5 centimeters in length, is one of the earliest mechanical calculating devices known to exist and is the first portable device; only three other known examples of this design have survived. The French instrument [Read More]
On September 17, Christie’s New York presents The Art of Nandalal Bose, Abanindranath Tagore, and Rabindranath Tagore: The Collection of Supratik Bose, a single-owner sale of 81 exceptional modern Indian works of art. These works are coming to the auction market for the very first time from the collection of Supratik Bose, [Read More]
The auction will be held in conjunction with the 3rd annual Wall Street Coin, Currency and Collectibles Show, being held Oct. 17-19 at the Museum of American Finance in Manhattan. (FORT LEE, N.J.) – An important 1792 U.S. Federal bond, issued to and signed by George Washington while he was President, is [Read More]
(NEW ORLEANS, La.) – A pair of enormous mid-20th century African ivory elephant tusks, a large and unusual Peruvian silver box weighing a staggering 12 pounds, and a pair of 18th century Russian icons will all share top billing at a two-day multi-estate auction planned for Sept. 7-8 by Crescent City Auction [Read More]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Each year, basketball’s finest gather in Springfield, Mass., to honor the hardcourt superstars chosen for Hall of Fame induction. Together with the enshrinement and reunion dinner, there’s another exciting event that has become a tradition during the high-spirited weekend of honors: Grey Flannel’s Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Auction. [Read More]
Following the euphoria of our auction in Jodhpur in March 2013 that also included a performance by international rock star Sting, last month we launched our ‘Timed Online Auctions’ as well as our ‘Spot Sales at Whitefield’ to compliment our regular quarterly floor auctions. The inaugural edition of these SPECIALIST auctions had [Read More]
Country Americana: Painted Furniture, Folk Art & Accessories As summer winds down and kids head back to school, Garth’s is prepping for two solid auctions in back to back weekends. Kicking off Garth’s fall schedule is the September 6-7 Country Americana auction. Filled with a spectacular array of painted surfaces on furniture, [Read More]
RICHMOND HILL – Our September 12 auction FINE CHINESE CERAMICS & ASIAN WORK OF ART will feature a Guangxu Period Dayazhai Grisaiile Decorated Bottle at lot 423 – The body of globular form below a columnar neck and straight rim. Decorated on the body with grisaille painted peonies on an Imperial Yellow [Read More]
On Friday, September 6th and Saturday September 7th, Charlton Hall Galleries will feature numerous museum de-accessions at auction, including items from the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Georgia. These numerous and notable items have been within the museum’s collection for as long as fifty years and are being de-accessioned to raise [Read More]
A selection of ceramics created by Pablo Picasso will feature in the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on 23rd October at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Designed by the artist in the 1950s, the group includes plates, bowls, vases, ashtrays and pitchers modeled in ceramic and terracotta. Estimates are attractive, ranging from just £500-£700 to [Read More]
Highlighted by a selection of long lost masterpieces that have been brought back to public view, the auction will showcase colonial, impressionist and modern paintings. Featured in the sale is Russell Drysdale’s great portrait of Old Larsen (estimate: £550,000-650,000, illustrated above), a headline piece offered that returns to Christie’s forty-two years after [Read More]
Bonhams 16th annual Carmel automotive auction – the longest running sale during the Monterey Peninsula Car Week – was a resounding success with a nearly 90 per cent sale-through rate and nearly $33 million realized. The Bonhams pavilion, situated on the spacious western lawns of Quail Lodge in sunny Carmel Valley, hosted [Read More]
The auction will be held on-site, at the restaurant, by Ahlers & Ogletree, Inc., based in Atlanta. (ATLANTA, Ga.) – Items and equipment from Dante’s Down the Hatch – the iconic Atlanta restaurant and nightclub that stood for more than 30 years in the fashionable Buckhead section of town – will be [Read More]
On September 16, Bonhams will present “Chinese Art from the Scholar’s Studio,” a select group of fine Chinese furniture, paintings, snuff bottles, scholar’s objects and devotional pieces. Bringing together a variety of collecting categories, art from the scholar’s studio focuses on Chinese artworks of exceptional quality that are fresh to the market. [Read More]