The Fine Jewellery auction at Dreweatts, Donnington Priory on Thursday 9th July has been carefully curated from private collections across Europe. Spanning nearly 2000 years of jewellery design and history, the sale features sparkling, enviable stones, with a comprehensive collection of designer pieces from Bulgari, Van Cleef & Arpels and Cartier. The [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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200 years after the Battle of Waterloo and the death of James Gillray, Bloomsbury Auctions celebrate political and social cartoons with their auction of Napoleonic & Georgian Social and Political Satire. The sale on Thursday 25th June at Bloomsbury House, London, includes the studiously compiled collection of Lord Baker, which takes the [Read More]
Featuring an Astounding Range of Finest Bordeaux and Burgundy, Libraries of Romanée-Conti, Unico and Screaming Eagle, and an Estate Direct Offering of P3 from Dom Pérignon (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, announces an exceptional two-day auction that will take place on [Read More]
The auction will be held by Crescent City Auction Gallery in the firm’s New Orleans showroom. NEW ORLEANS, La. – New Orleans history and lore will be front and center at Crescent City Auction Gallery’s two-day estates auction slated for June 20-21, in the firm’s gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue. Offered [Read More]
BOULDER, Colo. – Artemis Gallery will unlock the mysteries of ancient times on Thursday, June 11 with an approximately 225-lot auction of important classical antiquities, plus ancient and ethnographic art. The carefully curated selection includes museum-quality pieces from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian and Native-American cultures. Additionally, there are [Read More]
This, the 39th annual event, will be held at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A huge and impressive collection of 200 uncut sheets of obsolete banknotes (with 2-4 uncut notes per sheet) will be among the many educational exhibits displayed at this year’s International Paper Money Show, [Read More]
The Porsche was the top item in a Spring Salon Auction that featured over 1,000 premier lots. ATLANTA, Ga. – A rare 1987 Porsche 911 Turbo Carrera Cabriolet sports car – white with black leather interior and just 61,000 original miles on the odometer – sped off for $79,500 at a Spring [Read More]
The auction will be held at the Collector’s Club in New York City, starting at 10:30 a.m. EST FORT LEE, N.J. – “The appearance on the market of the family archive of German-born master engraver and die sinker, Rudolph Philipp Laubenheimer (1833-1905), is an event with few precedents in American collecting history,” [Read More]
The auction will be held at Ms. Ankiewicz’s residence, near Deer Point Lake, starting at 8 a.m. The Specialists of the South, Inc., the Panama City-based auction firm, will conduct the auction. SOUTHPORT, Fla. – Hundreds of antiques, collectibles, furniture pieces and other items from the estate of Earldine Ankiewicz, 93, a [Read More]
With 2015 marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions and A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd present an auction centred on Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars. Prices range from £50 – £22,000 across approximately 300 lots, featuring a Napoleon death mask and private letters from the French [Read More]
It is the estate home and contents of Rosemary Littlejohn, a renowned art restorer and collector. The auction will be conducted by Stevens Auction Company, at 1 East Parkway North, Memphis. MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Artworks by some of the most recognizable and sought-after names in the world of fine art, plus a [Read More]
Cranes proved their auspicious powers in an auction at Dreweatts, Donnington Priory, when a pair of cloisonné enamel double crane censers flew beyond their pre-sale estimate, selling for £124,000 to a bidder on the phone. A Warring States-Western Han style, bronze model of a tiger also made an impressive £64,480. As birds [Read More]
LONDON, Ely House – This summer, Bloomsbury Auctions present their first-ever auction dedicated to recent and emerging Contemporary Art at Mallett’s magnificent Ely House, with some of the best examples in this active and increasingly popular area of the market. The sale will take place on Tuesday 30th June, at 4pm, with [Read More]
Record Number of Bidders Vied for Gems from Virtually Every Wine and Spirit Region (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, continued its success in 2015 with a tremendous May auction that brought in a total $6.2 million against pre-sale estimates of $4.3-$6.4 [Read More]
The auction is being held online as well as at Mohawk Arms’ gallery, located in Bouckville, N.Y. BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. – A mid-19th century American Plains Indian pipe tomahawk in overall very good condition, with a nice aged patina, is an expected top lot at Mohawk Arms’ Auction #73, online soon (at MilitaryRelics.com [Read More]
The painting was the top lot of 245 works offered in an auction that grossed $2.3 million. MILFORD, Conn. – An oil painting by the renowned 19th century American landscape artist Thomas Hill (1829-1908), titled Fishing on the Merced River, signed and dated 1891 lower right, sold for $180,000 at a fine [Read More]
BOULDER, CO – Attention time travelers and antiquities collectors: No boarding pass is required for Artemis Gallery’s May 21 journey to past civilizations. All that’s required is an Internet connection and you’ll soon be browsing a fascinating auction catalog filled with more than 400 choice Classical, Near Eastern and Far Eastern antiquities; [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s Pittsfield, Mass. gallery; 500+ lots will come up for bid. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A one-of-a-kind Howard & Davis astronomical regulator clock and a rare Seth Thomas No. 20 standing regulator clock with Grande Sonnerie strike and repeat could both reach or surpass $100,000 at [Read More]