PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Two rare and highly desirable E. Howard & Company (Boston) astronomical floor regulator clocks (a No. 43 and a No. 68) could conceivably combine to sell for $300,000 or more at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery’s big two-session clock and antique auction slated for Saturday, November 14th, in the firm’s gallery [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2015
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Four prefab/modular houses are to be auctioned in connection with the insolvency of modular home building firm Schachnerbau of Styria, Austria. Three model homes are already assembled in the Blue Lagoon area in Southern Vienna and in Graz and Salzburg and are being live-auctioned via webcast, with all interior fixtures and installations [Read More]
A Shell gas station and convenience store on an intersection near Chicago has been listed and will be auctioned off by Green Bay-based firm Micoley.com on December 2. The 1,400 square foot building sits on 0.34 acres and sports a detached canopy and 4 pumps with 8 hoses. There are three 10,000 [Read More]
On 3 November Chiswick Auctions will be holding a special curated sale at 2pm, “THE ART OF TEA”, following on from the “ASIAN ART” sale. The sale explores tea drinking culture of the Far East as well as tea drinking in art, with examples from China, Japan, Tibet and Vietnam. The sale [Read More]
Hake’s Americana, will offer an unprecedented selection of memorabilia and collectibles in their online, phone and absentee Auction #216 that closes for bidding Nov. 10-12. More than 200 collector categories are represented in the 2,735-lot sale, with a timeline that starts with a Benjamin Franklin book published in 1745 and concludes with [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – Original artworks by George Rodrigue (Am., 1944-2013) and Herman Frederik Van Hengel (Dutch, 1705-1785), plus a very large American sterling center bowl, are just a few of the featured items [Read More]
It will be an absolute auction (no reserves), at Woody Auction’s new gallery in Douglass, Kan. DOUGLASS, Kan. – The lifetime pottery and antique collection of Jerrye and the late Lt. Col. Marvin Dillman of Texas – featuring a wide variety of Roseville and Hull art pottery, plus many other fine antiques [Read More]
Chiswick Auctions is proud to announce its upcoming sale of Canal and River Books which will be taking place on Wednesday 4th November. From the private collection of Mark Baldwin, one of the UK’s most prolific canal book collectors, the auction is set to be an industry game changer. Having bought his [Read More]
Continuing the tradition that was revitalized with their Inaugural Auction, Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers presents its first Eclectic Auction in the St. Louis market on Saturday, November 7th. The autumn auction begins at 11:00 a.m. Central and will focus on the delight of discovering varied items ranging from an impressive example of [Read More]
Christie’s announced the auction of a museum-quality work by Roy Lichtenstein on November 9th, 2015. Nurse will be included in the 20th century curated sale, The Artist’s Muse, which presents a constellation of works and subjects that have inspired artists in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. This spectacular work is the [Read More]
The October 22nd online auction is a first-class event brimming with museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities and ethnographic art from scores of ancient cultures. An overview of highlights reveals a Greek Attic amphora previously deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; a large and impressive Ancient Roman mosaic of a bacchante, [Read More]
The U.S. Marshals are auctioning approximately 44,341 bitcoins, the last remaining bitcoins in its custody in connection with the criminal conviction of and civil forfeiture action against Ross Ulbricht in federal court in the Southern District of New York. The auction will take place during a six-hour period Nov. 5 from 8 [Read More]
Platinum Luxury Auctions and Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty have announced their second consecutive sale together. On Saturday, October 10, 2015, the firms sold a large luxury home within the community of Fairbanks Ranch in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Saturday’s auction follows a record-breaking sale generated by Platinum and Pacific Sotheby’s in nearby [Read More]
CT Auction House, LLC a Vernon CT business devoted to appraising and consigning a wide array of antiques, collectibles and quality used furniture, announced the opening of its new facility at the site of the former Connecticut Golf Land & Games. This state-of-the-art auction house represents a joint venture between area business [Read More]
The two-day auction was held in Cottone’s gallery, at 120 Court Street in Geneseo, N.Y. GENESEO, N.Y. – A vibrant and colorful painting by the American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976), a gouache on Canson and Montgolfier wove paper, titled Bosbies & Uniforms, measuring 29 ¾ inches by 43 inches (sight), sold for [Read More]
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – On Monday, October 19, Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches (AGOPB) will present rare and fascinating items from a Palm Beach private collection in their Fall Art and Antiques Auction. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet. The featured collection includes 18th-century [Read More]
The auction will be held at the firm’s gallery located in Windsor, Conn., starting at 11 a.m. WINDSOR, Conn. – Part I of the sale of items from the massive, 3,500-piece Americana collection of banking giant Credit Suisse – featuring large framed portraits, period American furniture, quilts, maps and more – will [Read More]
The auction will be held in Levy’s gallery at 211 Worth Avenue in fashionable Palm Beach, Fla. PALM BEACH, Fla. – A pair of bronze statues by the world-renowned British sculptor Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003), two gorgeous Tiffany Studios leaded bronze and glass lamps (one floor, one table), two rare and highly collectible [Read More]