(CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Serious Toyz’ Auction #55, twice delayed, is online now (at SeriousToyz.com) and will end May 30 (for Character and Classic Collectibles) and May 31 (for Toy Vehicles). Auction #55 is a nearly 1,300-lot colossus that features antique and vintage items in many collecting categories, not just toys. “We are [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Bonhams May 22 American Art auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom saw success across categories, particularly for 19th century paintings as well as sculpture from a variety of periods. Interest came overwhelmingly from the US, with discerning bidders from the UK and Europe also represented. Bidding by telephone proved to be the [Read More]
With English afternoon tea making a comeback the sale of 2,000 pieces of Spode porcelain service – at Bonhams sale on July 23 and 24 – offers a once in a lifetime opportunity for anyone wishing to purchase the ultimate tea set. This is without doubt the best collection of Spode to [Read More]
This watch has just broken an auction record by selling for over £6,000 at a Collectors’ Auction. It is a WWII German pilot’s Navigator or Observer’s wristwatch made for the Luftwaffe in c.1939 and used throughout the war. Measuring 5cm in diameter it needed to be large in size to allow for [Read More]
A Tyrannosaurus rex maxilla (upper jaw) from Montana achieved the top-selling spot in Bonhams auction of Natural History, May 22 in Los Angeles. The maxilla, featuring seven teeth – with five mature teeth and two emerging teeth seen, sold well within its $70,000-90,000 estimate, bringing $86,500. Highlights of the 145-lot sale went [Read More]
With Derby Day fast approaching on 1st June, Bonhams offers an insight into a bustling Derby, almost two hundred years ago. A full size copy by a 19th century artist of the masterpiece Derby Day by William Powell Frith RA, estimated at £10,000-£15,000 will be offered for sale at the Bonhams 19th [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of Fine Books & Manuscripts on June 1st in its Boston gallery. The sale will feature a large group of Audubon imperial folio prints of North American quadrupeds, literary firsts, modern first editions, theological works, presidential documents, and a group of fine maps. [Read More]
With an overall result of EUR 3,4 million* in the April auctions, the season made a promising start, especially as this result tops that of last year’s spring auction by EUR 1 million. “Besides the high quality on offer, it is particularly the crisis-proof form of investment that is most convincing. Some [Read More]
The event will be held at Chesapeake Auction House’s gallery in St. Leonard, Md., at 9 a.m. (ST. LEONARD, Md.) – A huge single-owner lifetime collection of Elvis Presley items promises to be the centerpiece offering in a Memorial Day antiques and collectibles auction slated for Monday, May 27, at Chesapeake Auction [Read More]
“We are honored to have been chosen to sell via the auction method of marketing this rare grand residence,” according to John Nicholls, president of the company. “This is a beautiful property with unlimited potential, including residential housing or as an income producing property.” “This property is well located in Louisa and [Read More]
Works by Russian artists Mihail Chemiakin and M.V. Brusilovsky are expected to draw attention (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – High-quality works of art with impeccable provenance – to include oil paintings by Russian artists Mihail Chemiakin and M.V. Brusilovsky – will headline a Fine Artwork & Decorative Arts Auction on Saturday, June 8, [Read More]
The bottle, one of only a few known in that color, could change hands for $20,000-$40,000. (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – A St. Drake’s Plantation X Bitters bottle, made circa 1862-1872 and one of only a few known in the very rare blue-green color, is expected to sell for $20,000-$40,000 at American Bottle Auctions’ [Read More]
A large end section of a Martian meteorite, packed with olivine and chromite ovoid crystals, is expected to bring $160,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ Nature & Science Signature® Auction June 2 in Dallas. The auction includes a strong selection of fossils, insects preserved in amber and meteorites in addition to the [Read More]
Soaring Prices set World Records at Largest US Wine Auction in 2013 (Chicago, IL) – Wine prices were high at Hart Davis Hart’s massive two-day auction this weekend in Chicago. Sale totals reached $6,420,962, surpassing a pre-sale auction estimate of $4,299,500-$6,415,440. Collections of Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California wines brought intense bidding and [Read More]
The signed, dated work (an original, not a lithograph) was impressive at 29 inches by 43 inches. (PALM BEACH, Fla.) – An original gouache (opaque watercolor) painting by renowned artist Alexander Calder (Am./Fr., 1898-1976), titled Red and Blue Egg, signed in the artist’s hand and dated 1969, sold for $114,000 at a [Read More]
Rago Arts and Auction Center’s Fine Art auctions on May 18 brings an impressive $1.9 million. “Results for the Contemporary Art in the Joshua Smith Collection were strong and the collection exceeded the high estimate,” said Meredith Hilferty, who directs Rago’s Fine Art department. The top price in Contemporary Art was for [Read More]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Great Gatsby would feel quite at home at Palm Beach Modern’s May 25 auction. A free-spending millionaire bootlegger, the fictional Jay Gatsby was the quintessential literary embodiment of Jazz Age extravagance. Living a life of unbridled excess, Gatsby decorated his spectacular Long Island mansion with the [Read More]
Boston, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. announced the launch of its newly designed website: www.skinnerinc.com. Skinner was one of the first auction houses to provide internet services, introducing interactive features and online bidding in the early 2000s. This site redesign introduces a completely new and modern look-and-feel, as well as enhanced features for [Read More]