The H.B. Harris, Jr. Collection Brings $7.5 Million Against Pre-Sale Estimate of $4.0-$6.0 Million (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart, America’s #1 Wine Auction House in 2012 and 2013, opened 2014 with a blockbuster auction, selling 100% of lots offered and posting $7.5 million in sales. A remarkable sale, the Harris collection [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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A William IV silver dinner service presented to Peter Greenall Esquire by the residents of St. Helens, as a token of their esteem and gratitude, will be sold alongside a selection of fine silver and objects of vertu at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions Donnington Priory saleroom on Wednesday 26th February. A leading [Read More]
A fine selection of books from the library of a south-coast Gentleman will be offered in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale on Thursday 27th February. Displaying the owner’s passion for natural history, the collection includes an extremely rare and complete hand-coloured florilegium of Abraham Munting’s posthumously published Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aargewassen. Naauwkeurige [Read More]
The auction of mostly fresh to the market items will be an eclectic mix of specialty collections. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – A record album signed by Lou Reed and Andy Warhol, a fur coat owned and worn by George Harrison, an 1812 British presentation sword with scabbard, the original Groucho Marx secret-word duck [Read More]
(WOODSTOCK, Conn.) – Heckler’s absentee Auction 108 will offer 96 exceptional glass items in a compact but potent sale, beginning March 17th and ending March 26th (at 10 p.m EST). A full color catalog will be available online soon, at www.hecklerauction.com. “This won’t be our biggest sale ever, but I’m extremely pleased [Read More]
Christie’s auctioneers announces five senior appointments: Eric Chang, Deputy Chairman of Asian 20th and Contemporary Art, Ben Kong, Deputy Chairman of Chinese Paintings, Vickie Sek, Deputy Chairman of Jewellery and Jadeite, Jinqing Cai, President of Christie’s China and Rebecca Wei, President of Christie’s Asia (Excluding China). “In a world where so much [Read More]
On February 16th, Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, California, will bring to auction what is perhaps one of the most significant and inspiring collections of winter sports memorabilia offered in recent decades. Peggy Fleming feels strongly that it is time to share her personal memorabilia with this country’s and the world’s fans [Read More]
Robert Edward Auctions will be presenting what is by far the finest and most advanced vintage Three Stooges lobby card and movie poster collection to ever come to auction. All Three Stooges movie posters and lobby cards are extremely rare and have long been recognized as “blue chips” by advanced collectors in [Read More]
The auction will be held in Onolonka; the reenactment will be held in Pontotoc, not far away. The auction – conducted by Stevens Auction Company – will feature Civil War memorabilia. (OKOLONA, Miss.) – A reenactment of the Battle of Okolona in Mississippi – a pivotal event in the Civil War, a [Read More]
Bonhams April 7 Fine Books & Manuscripts sale Treasures from The Caren Archive will feature an autographed personal letter written by Titanic survivor and first class passenger Emily Ryerson in which she recounts her deck-side conversation with White Star Line Chairman J Bruce Ismay as it took place just hours before the [Read More]
A bottle of Krug Collection 1949 will go under the hammer in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Fine Wine, Port & Champagne Sale on Thursday 20th February, alongside high quality wines with first class provenance for every taste and budget. It is believed there are fewer than a dozen bottles of Krug Collection [Read More]
Nov. 17 was a Fall Extravaganza Estates Auction; Dec. 8 was an It’s a Wonderful Life Auction. (BRISTOL, Conn.) – The original plan called for a tidy, internet-only, 500-lot Fall Extravaganza Estates Auction on Nov. 17. But so many estate items poured in during the days leading up to the event, Tim [Read More]
The event, the first of five planned auctions, will be held at the Airport Hilton in Wichita, Kan. (WICHITA, Kan.) – The first of five planned auctions to sell the huge lifetime collection of mostly porcelain and glass pieces accumulated over 50 years by the late Dr. Ernest Rieger and his wife [Read More]
The inaugural auction will feature more than 300 lots of furniture pieces, fine art, clocks and watches, a nice selection of lamps, a general line of decorative accessories and Asian antiques. (MALVERN, Pa.) – Gordon S. Converse & Company will “march forth” into the New Year with a March 4th auction scheduled [Read More]
Heritage Auctions announces the sale of the rare coin collection of Eugene H. Gardner, to be sold in four unreserved auctions to take place in New York in 2014 and 2015. Highlights of the first auction will be on display at the Central States Numismatic Society Convention in April. Lot viewing of [Read More]
A Demetre Chiparus bronze and ivory sculpture danced its way to a £5,952 as part of a two-day sale of ceramics and interiors, including antiques from the home of collector and dealer John Penrose. The sale was held at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Donnington Priory Saleroom on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th [Read More]
The internet and catalog sale begins at noon; online bidding provided by LiveAuctioneers.com. (ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) – More than 125 lots of rare and highly collectible Orientalia, fine art, design pieces, tribal art, antiquities, clocks and more will be sold in an internet and catalog auction slated for Saturday, Feb. 22, by [Read More]
The library of acclaimed British stage and film director, writer and actor Patrick Garland will be sold as part of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Bibliophile sale including works on natural history, children’s and illustrated, English and Continental literature and modern first editions, on Thursday 13th February. A prominent figure in the British [Read More]