INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Items from the estate of the legendary British conductor and composer Raymond Leppard (1927-2019), a Grammy-winning recording artist and scholarly revivalist of 16th and 17th century baroque operas, will come up for bid in a live and online auction slated for Saturday, January 16th, by Ripley Auctions. The 315-lot [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. concluded 2020 with a total of $66.3 million in auction sales, spearheaded by an increase of live-bidding participation, first-time bidders, and HDH’s industry-leading bidding platform. Holding eleven wine auctions and one spirits auction over the course of the year, HDH maintained its status as the #1 wine [Read More]
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Andrew Jones Auctions will greet the New Year with two big online sales in January. Both will be DTLA Collections & Estates auctions. The first, on Tuesday, January 12th, will feature select American and English decorative arts. The Wednesday, January 27th event will be broad and varied, [Read More]
Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers will kick off 2021 with its Premier Gallery Auction January 9th and the most anticipated lot is certain to be an important oil on canvas of one of Mexico’s great volcanos, Popocatépetl, by visionary American Modernist, Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 – 1943). As noted by Selkirk Executive Director, [Read More]
WESTPORT, Conn. – A four-page manuscript consisting of nearly 2,300 words written entirely in the hand of English physicist Sir Isaac Newton, a World War II-dated letter written in English by Albert Einstein in which he reveals that Nazi leaders didn’t give much thought to his Theory of Relativity, and a 16-page letter [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in the U.S., finished the year with an outstanding two-day Auction of Finest & Rarest Wines showcasing The Personal Estate of Joseph Phelps. The auction was 100% sold and brought in a total of $10.4 million against a pre-sale estimate of $5.8-8.8 [Read More]
NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – A Paces Races 5-cent horse race slot machine, made in Chicago in 1934, sold for $29,212 and a made-in-Canada Black Cat Cigarettes porcelain sign from the 1940s realized $10,516 in an online-only Advertising, Toys & Historic Objects auction held December 12th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., [Read More]
PAOLI, Pa. – Converse Auctions invites collectors to ring in the New Year a few days early by participating in an online-only Important Chinese New Year Antique Auction on Saturday, the day after Christmas, December 26th, at 12 noon Eastern time. “We have been saving our finest items to feature in this [Read More]
RENO, Nev. – A five-day Holiday Auction packed with hundreds of lots of mining collectibles, philatelic material, Americana and more, and featuring a number of important collections in a wide range of categories – will be held December 17th thru 21st by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online and live in the [Read More]
This sale includes nearly 700 lots of jewelry, decorative arts, carpets, important furnishings, and paintings, all expertly curated for this highly anticipated, annual auction. Windsor, CT, December 14, 2020 – Nadeau’s Auction Gallery is excited to announce their New Year’s Day sales event starting at 10am. This event offers treasures from collections [Read More]
Sassoon Judaica Collection will auction by Sotheby’s in an upcoming auction sale featuring Nearly 70 lots from the Sassoon Judaica collection includes religious objects and textiles. Conversationally known as the “Rothschilds of the East,” the Sassoon family has a long history at closeout. An impending Sotheby’s deal hung on December seventeenth, 2020, [Read More]
LYNBROOK, N.Y. – An extremely rare Pokémon SM Black Star “Ishihara GX” promotional trading card, graded PSA 8 Near Mint/Mint, one of only about 60 copies in existence and just the fourth copy to ever reach the market, sold for $50,600 in a two-day, online-only auction held November 19th-20th by Weiss Auctions. [Read More]
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – A treasure trove of more than 750 pieces of memorabilia, props and costumes owned, worn and/or signed by stars like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra – plus a massive archive of material from the late Debbie Reynolds and her son Todd Fisher – will all come [Read More]
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – A letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to fellow Founding Father Gouverneur Morris in 1792, requesting that his private chef in France be sent to Monticello, plus a signed glamour photo of Marilyn Monroe, are expected top lots in One of a Kind Collectibles’ Internet-only auction online now. Bidding is [Read More]
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Neue Auctions will conclude the year with an online auction titled Pretty Little Smalls, featuring small, beautiful, sparkly and interesting items that are easy and quick to ship for the holidays. The 322-lot sale will go live on Saturday, December 5th, at 11 am Eastern. Online bidding will be [Read More]
NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – A made-in-Canada Black Cat Cigarettes porcelain sign from the 1940s, a Depression-era Pace’s Races 5-cent horse race slot machine, and an early 20th century C. Cretors & Co. floor model popcorn and nut machine are a few expected top lots in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.’s online-only [Read More]
CRANSTON, R.I. – Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will bid farewell to autumn with an online-only Fall Antiques & Fine Art auction on Thursday, December 10th, starting at 6 pm Eastern time. The auction will feature nearly 400 lots of paintings, decorative arts, furniture, jewelry, silver, Asian arts, collectibles and more, pulled from [Read More]