A significant collection comprising the signatures of many prominent cricket, rugby, golf and tennis stars of the 1930s is part of the impressive sporting memorabilia section of next month’s Specialist Collectors Sale at Cuttlestones’ Wolverhampton Auction Rooms. Contained within a single album, sporting luminaries such as 1935 Wimbledon Champion Fred Perry, the [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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The manuscript of W. H. Auden’s famous poem Stop all the Clocks is to be sold in Part I of the Roy Davids Collection Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 10 April. It is estimated at £6,000-8,000. The work became known around the [Read More]
“The Marye Road property is well built and the Hall Lane property needs a little TLC. Both properties offer new owners a great opportunity to own or invest in property in this historical area,” according to John Nicholls, president of the company. “Make plans now to purchase these great residential/investment properties.” “The [Read More]
Bonhams first auction of the year in San Francisco, the 639-lot Period Art & Design sale, January 20, achieved a successful $516,688. The leading lot of the multi-category auction, from the strong-selling European paintings portion of the sale, was an After Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) oil on canvas, “Saint Dominic in prayer,” [Read More]
Heritage Auctions has announced the expansion of its New York staff with the hiring of Aviva Lehmann as Director of American Art, New York, Kate Waterman, Director of Jewelry, New York and Alex Miller, Comics Consignment Director. “Heritage saw an opportunity to bring on top level talent in crucial categories while expanding [Read More]
Bonhams hosted a record crowd for its second annual Scottsdale Auction with buyers participating from around the world. Bidders and registrants from no less than 28 countries participated, thus demonstrating the global reach of the Bonhams International Motoring Department. As is Bonhams’ trademark, a tremendous variety of vehicles were on offer, including [Read More]
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) will offer a portfolio of real estate investments during a three-day multi-property auction on behalf of Maranatha Properties Inc. a Florida real estate holding company. The list of available real estate includes, a ranch home, commercial warehouses, commercial buildings, industrial tracts, lake front home, home sites and vacant [Read More]
The Smith & Wesson .32L caliber revolver will be the centerpiece lot of a big firearms auction. (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) – A weapon retrieved from the stolen car driven by the outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after they were killed in a hail of bullets from a police ambush in 1934 [Read More]
Boston, Mass. – January 18, 2013 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of American Indian & Ethnographic Art on February 9th in its Boston gallery. Skinner is proud to offer more than 200 lots of evocative Plains Indian artifacts, including four rare pieces collected by the Burr family in 1855-1857. The [Read More]
Heritage Auctions experienced its fourth straight year of record sales in 2012: more than $860 million, the highest tally yet for the world’s third largest auction house and largest auctioneer of high-end collectibles. Markets ranging from U.S. Coins, Comics and Comic Art and Historical Americana showed strong gains as did sales of [Read More]
Following in the footsteps of The Staffordshire Hoard, Lichfield has revealed an exceptional collection of over 800 Greek and Roman coins. The collection represents a lifetime’s passion of a local gentleman and was discovered at a coin valuation day at Lichfield’s Auctioneers Richard Winterton last year. Stephen Wrenn, Coin and Medal Consultant [Read More]
Imperial Auctioneers will host a Fine Asian Art auction on January 24th, 2013 starting at 8PM EST in Chicago, Illinois. Liveauctioneers.com will provide the live Internet bidding. Highlights of the auction include: A monumental Cloisonne enamel charger circa 1900 (estimate: $10,000-$20,000). Measuring 30 inches in diameter with a beautiful mille-fleur design this [Read More]
With a strong tradition of offering the world’s greatest supercharged Mercedes, Bonhams is proud to announce that it will be representing the stunningly beautiful and highly sough-after 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet A at its approaching Scottsdale Sale. The rare pre-War supercharged convertible with coachwork by the Sindelfingen works is a marvel of [Read More]
Included will be an Emmerson pattern rose bowl, the Sinclaire chest with stemware, a Delphos pattern tray, a Rex pattern tray, an Aztec pattern punch set, and a turquoise to clear claret jug. (ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – Woody Auction will ring in the New Year with a sale packed with over 400 [Read More]
A striking and intense painting by Fernand Léger is one of the highlights of Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale on 5th February 2013. Estimated at £70,000 – 100,000, the painting is a highly personal work that communicates the artist’s strong stand on disarmament and against biological warfare. Painted in a graphic [Read More]
Kaminski Auctions’ Annual New Year’s Auction and DéCoR Auction premiere were a stunning success. Over 2,300 registered online bidders from over 30 countries added their bids to the 200 placed by phone for the two-day auction. A large in-person audience filled the Kaminski gallery for the sale of a variety of impressive [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, will hold an auction of Finest and Rarest Wines February 2nd at award-winning restaurant TRU, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The auction, which includes 1339 lots, is estimated to fetch $2.8-$4.34 million [Read More]
The last known handwritten poem by John Keats in private hands is one of the star items in the sale of the Roy Davids Collection III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets which will be held in two parts on 10th April and 8 May 2013 at Bonhams, 101 New Bond [Read More]