Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are pleased to announce their Summer Fine Wine sale, offering collectors the chance to stock the cellar with over 350 lots of vinous treasure in a range of lot sizes from single bottles to cases of magnums. Following the success of their inaugural London Fine Wine auction, the [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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The wristwatch was easily the top lot of the sale – an Advertising, Scientific and Art Auction. GENESEO, N.Y. – A rare, handsome men’s Longines wristwatch, originally purchased around the time of World War II and descended in the same Buffalo, N.Y., family ever since, sold for $50,600 at an Advertising, Scientific [Read More]
Largest Sale in the US in 2014 Featuring Unique Offerings from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy, Germany and America (Chicago, IL) – With just under 3,000 lots available, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is excited to announce the largest offering in the company’s history. The sale, which will occur on June 27th and 28th [Read More]
The fire screen was the top lot in a two-session auction that grossed a little more than $800,000. REPAUPO, N.J. – A beautiful Moorish bronze jeweled fire screen, attributed to Tiffany Studios and featuring rope twisted brass with insert art glass and stones, sold for $60,000 at a Sunday-Monday estates sale held [Read More]
Dedham, MA: On Sunday, June 8th, Grogan and Company will conduct their annual spring auction featuring over 600 lots from various estates and collections. Collectors will be treated to a wide array of offerings including Fine Art, Jewelry, Silver, Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, and Oriental Rugs. The sale will begin with [Read More]
The 38th annual event will be held June 13 and 14 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis. MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Dr. Richard Bode Collection – an astounding compilation of worldwide banknotes ranging from the earliest known currency from China’s Ming Dynasty (1388-1664) all the way up to modern-day polymer notes [Read More]
One lucky person was thrilled to see their collection of first and early edition Ian Fleming ‘James Bond’ books total £2,900 at auction in Lichfield this week, (28th May). Fourteen hardback editions dating from the late 1950’s and early 1960’s had been consigned, including well-known titles such as ‘Goldfinger’, ‘Octopussy’, ‘Casino Royale’ [Read More]
About 400 lots will come up for bid. The auction will be held in Fontaine’s Pittsfield gallery. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The entire contents of Somerset – an extraordinary English country estate manor located in West Stockbridge, Mass. – will headline a cataloged antique auction scheduled for Saturday, June 21st, by Fontaine’s Auction [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are delighted to present an important group of early Grayson Perry works. These pieces, from the cross-dressing potter’s exploratory phase, post Art College, began his eccentric journey to becoming one of Britain’s most celebrated artists and a media sensation. This unusual group will be offered in a sale [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are delighted to present the extensive Michael Max Collection of railway books, periodicals, pictures, ephemera, medals, jigsaws and other collectables, in a sale of Railwayana at their saleroom in London’s Mayfair on Thursday 12th June 2014. The Collection will be auctioned alongside railway posters and collectables from other [Read More]
A rare, 8 x 10 Glossy Photo of The Beatles, signed by all four members, band manager Brian Epstein and host Ed Sullivan following the group’s historic appearance on his program, sold for $125,000 in Heritage Auctions’ $1.9 million Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction in New York. The two-day auction, April [Read More]
Fresh to the numismatic market, a collection of coins of Morocco will join more than 500 lots of Islamic, Indian, and world coins and medals in the inaugural online-only auction for newly established numismatic auction house, Wilkes & Curtis, on Monday 16th June. Tim Wilkes of Wilkes & Curtis said: “Our first [Read More]
The Lauren Stanley Collection of Fine American & Mexican Silver, a rich selection of the finest examples from the 19th and 20th centuries, brought $988,000 in Heritage Auctions’ May 8-10 Fine Silver & Vertu Signature Auction. The three-day Dallas event totaled $1.3 million and was 91 percent sold by value and by [Read More]
As David Bailey’s Startdust exhibition enters its final weeks at the National Portrait Gallery, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions offer Bailey lovers the opportunity to take home his iconic 1965 ‘Box of Pin-Ups’, featuring one of Bailey’s most celebrated images of Mick Jagger with a fur collar. ‘Box of Pin-Ups’ is a portfolio [Read More]
A complete first edition set of the novels by the three Brontë sisters sold at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Important Books and Manuscripts, sale on Monday 19th May. The unique collection was formed by American lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, founder of Chadbourne & Parke. Bidders competed online and on the phone for [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – An important oil on academy board painting by South Carolina artist William Aiken Walker (1838-1921), a French Belle Epoch Louis XV-style marble-top bombe chest, three outstanding pieces of English sterling [Read More]
The auction will be held in Elite’s gallery, located at 1034 Gateway Boulevard, Boynton Beach BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – A large and important 19th century Chinese porcelain screen, an extraordinary and intricately carved Chinese red coral figural grouping and a gorgeous pair of 19th century Japanese bronze and mixed metal floor vases [Read More]
Ms. Spedale was the wife of a world-renowned surgeon and only bought the finer things in life. ABERDEEN, Miss. – The lifetime estate of the late Zoe Spedale – a socialite, true Southern lady and wife of a world-renowned surgeon, who appointed their spectacular Louisiana home with the finest artwork, furniture and [Read More]