The Bonhams sale of Collectors’ Motorcycles and Motor Cars held in association with the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Banbury Run on Saturday 15th June saw some 100 lots sold for a combined total of £1.51 million. Strong prices were achieved for many of the vehicles on offer, with a number sold well [Read More]
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P. Warren, Writer, for Online Sales Auction House Minneapolis, MN. – Twin Cities auction house ONLINE SALES announces their upcoming auction of vintage rock memorabilia, capped off by two rare, ELVIS posters that are expected to bid well into the thousands! Think “American Pickers,” “Rock and Roll,” and add a dash of [Read More]
The Lonsdale belt, awarded to the aptly named boxer Johnnie Basham in 1914, 1915 and 1916 will be offered for sale in Bonhams, Chester’s Sporting Memorabilia sale on 19th June valued at £30,000-£35,000. With a central oval enamel portrait of two boxers and an engraved ‘National Sporting Club Welter Weight Championship’ the [Read More]
Bonhams successful Fine Writings Instruments auction, June 11 in San Francisco, saw two pens tie for the top earning spot, each achieving $43,750. One was a sealed Montblanc John Lennon 18K Solid White Gold Skeleton Fountain Pen, created in tribute to the late legendary musician, and limited to 70 examples. The pen [Read More]
Rago Auctions has been chosen to handle the Collection of Tony Tenaglia – the finest pieces acquired over decades of buying and selling by this dealer and auctioneer. The multi-day auction is scheduled for December 6-8, 2013. Tony Tenaglia, who died last November at 55, was legendary in the Bucks County area [Read More]
Bonhams will offer a Bible inscribed and signed by Albert Einstein in which he refers to the book as a source of “inexhaustible wisdom” (est. $1,500-2,500). Featured in the June 25 Fine Books & Manuscripts auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom, the Bible was also signed by Einstein’s wife, Elsa, in 1932, [Read More]
An iron three pounder gun with attribution to the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 led Bonhams $937,971 Antique Arms and Armor and Sporting Guns auction, June 10 in San Francisco. This top lot, from the renowned U.S. Cartridge Company Collection (and prior to that, the first important American arms collection, the A.E. [Read More]
It will be just the fifth auction for the firm, which operates three retail stores in Greater Atlanta. (ATLANTA, Ga.) – An original oil painting by the renowned magazine and commercial illustrator Haddon “Sunny” Sundblom (Mich./Ill., 1899-1976), done in 1963 and depicting the 1914 Kentucky Derby horse race, is the expected top [Read More]
2pm on Friday, 21st June will be something of an historic moment for Wolverhampton’s Cuttlestones Auctioneers & Valuers, as it sells three iconic Film & TV sets on behalf of Wimbledon Studios. The lots will include and actual-size House of Commons set, as seen in The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep, alongside [Read More]
T206 Wagner hammered down at $402,900; Ruth-Gehrig Ball Sells for $343,650; Countless Baseball Card Auction Records Set In Most Successful Auction In Collecting History At REA!!! Watchung, New Jersey. The high-end baseball card and memorabilia market was on fire at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 18, 2013 auction. An incredible 172 lots sold [Read More]
It will be a tagged estate sale – not an auction – conducted by Kelly’s Estate & Auction Co. (ZEBULON, Ga.) – An astounding trove of antiques and collectibles that has been packed away in a house and outbuilding in Zebulon after being transported from New York in 1981 will finally see [Read More]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host a two-day Discovery auction on June 19th and 20th in its Marlborough gallery. The first day of the sale will feature a diverse and remarkable collection of vintage accessories that once belonged to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sale also presents an excellent selection [Read More]
CHICAGO – Imperial Auctioneers, will conduct an auction of Fine Chinese Jades, Paintings and Bronzes on Thursday, June 13th, 2013 beginning at 7PM CST. Highlights of the auction include a fine and varied selection of both Antique and Contemporary Chinese paintings. Among the contemporary paintings is lot 44, a fine work from [Read More]
The June 20-22 event will be preceded by a benefit preview opening for the Great Plains SPCA, scheduled for Thursday, June 13, from 3-8 p.m. Admission to the benefit preview opening is $20. (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) – Hundreds of centuries-old antiques and examples of modern art from the estate of George Potter, [Read More]
5 June 2013 saw the UK’s newest ‘top 5’ auctioneer hold their inaugural Military Sale of Medals, Orders, Decorations and Militaria. Presenting a fresh format for militaria auctions, Baldwin’s and Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions were delighted to be holding their first jointly branded auction having both been acquired by Noble Investments (UK) [Read More]
The auction will feature more than 140 “Outlaw” artifacts from the collection to the late Wilbur Zink, a resident of Springfield, MO — ideally situated not too far from the James Farm, the homestead of Frank and Jesse — and one of the most renowned collectors of such material. The Wilbur Zink [Read More]
Bonhams present a private New York collection of Art Nouveau lithographs by the master illustrator Alphonse Mucha at its June 14 auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts. Essentially an ode to the collector’s grandmother, an ethereal beauty who came of age at the turn of the century, the collection was formed over [Read More]
A trademark white suit and clip-on string bow-tie once belonging to Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, fast food pioneer and American corporate icon Colonel Harlan Sanders, is expected to bring $10,000 or more when it comes up for bid, June 22, as part of Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Americana & Political Auction. “It’s impossible [Read More]