The three-day event was held Feb. 15-17, in Raymond, at the gallery of Pope Auction Center. (RAYMOND, Ill.) – A standard glaze portrait vase showing a beautifully rendered cocker spaniel sold for $2,640 on the last day of a three-day auction held Feb. 15-17 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, based in Nokomis, Ill. [Read More]
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A motorcycle designed by Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney was the top-selling lot at the Bonhams auction of Sporting and Golf Memorabilia in Chester, UK, on Wednesday 20th February, realizing £43,250. Wayne Rooney motorcycle The 2012 Lauge Jensen cruiser-style machine, designed by the world-famous striker and custom-made by the Danish [Read More]
London auctioneers Morton & Eden will sell important Spanish Colonial coins from the Archer M. Huntington Collection of Hispanic Coins, on March 6. Numbering almost 1,500 items, the sale is expected to raise a total in the region of £500,000. The Huntington Collection, a vast group of 37,895 coins relating to the [Read More]
The winter Fine Books & Manuscripts auction, February 17 at Bonhams in San Francisco brought a successful $716,038. It was led by the French edition of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius’ Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura, 1619, which brought $27,500, ahead of a $12,000-18,000 estimate. A rare [Read More]
BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. – For their March 1 auction titled “Antiquities, Ancient and Ethnographic Art,” Antiquities-Saleroom.com decided to think big – as in dinosaur big. Coming on the heels of their highly successful Feb. 1 auction, Antiquities Saleroom’s latest auction offers the biggest piece ever offered by this Colorado antiquities company. Lot [Read More]
Heritage Auctions’ Greg Holman joins a cast of pop culture experts for the new reality TV series, “For What It’s Worth.” Premiering Thursday, Feb. 21, at 10/9c on VH1 Classic, “For What It’s Worth” explores the intricate world of music and pop culture memorabilia and the mind of “The Collector.” Throughout six, [Read More]
The much anticipated sale of a single-owner collection of ancient Greek and Roman coins discovered in Lichfield has totalled over £40,000 at in a two-day auction held last week, (13th/14th February). Day one – Fittingly, the 400 Lots of classical coins were offered by established Lichfield Auctioneers Richard Winterton Ltd in their [Read More]
Bonhams announce the Year of the Snake’s first Asian Decorative Arts auction in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 12. The sale will include 460 lots of Chinese ceramics and decorative arts, and more than 100 lots of artworks from Japan, Korea and other Asian countries and regions, from private collections and estates, [Read More]
The sale is timed so it will be held during Asia Week, a huge event scheduled for Mar. 15-23. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Approximately 1,200 high-quality lots of Asian antiques, most of them Chinese and all of them highly collectible, will be sold at a mammoth four-day auction planned for Mar. 16-19 [Read More]
The firm, displaced after the storm, is back with a full slate of auctions for February thru April. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – Philip Weiss Auctions – down but definitely not out following Hurricane Sandy – has a full slate of auctions planned for the rest of winter and early spring, in its new [Read More]
Bonhams anticipated automobile auction will take place at Florida’s elegant Boca Raton Resort & Club. Held in conjunction with the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance, the auction will host an impressive line-up of collectors’ automobiles from around the world. In addition to the many headlining European cars, Bonhams has consigned many American cars [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, March 3rd in its Boston gallery. The auction features the Andy Williams Folk Art Collection and will also present the monumental silver punch bowl that F.W. Woolworth commissioned from Tiffany & Co. for architect Cass [Read More]
Bonhams is to present its Fine European Furniture, Decorative Arts and Garden Ornaments auction, March 18 at Bonhams in San Francisco, with many strong highlights of local provenance among its nearly 450 lots of offerings. The leading highlight of the auction, a Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted grand piano from a [Read More]
Asian objects, oil paintings, bronzes, furniture, Native American items and more will all be sold. (GENESEO, N.Y.) – Approximately 900 quality lots of fine arts and antiques in an array of categories will be sold on Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23, at Cottone Auctions, in the firm’s spacious gallery located [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions are delighted to announce the Auction of the Beatrix Potter collection of Mark Ottignon, on Wednesday 27th February at 2.00pm precisely. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Est. £20,000-30,000 The collection comprises an extensive selection of first edition books, rare periodical contributions, autograph material, greeting cards, original artwork, photographs, figurines, giftware, [Read More]
Montblanc’s Sir Winston Churchill Limited Edition 53 fountain pen — featuring 18 karat pink gold, tortoiseshell bands and 53 diamonds — is expected to bring $25,000+ as part of a special offering of fine writing instruments in Heritage’s Gentleman Collector Auction event, Feb. 23-24 at the company’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum [Read More]
Bonhams announce the appointment of Jennifer Gibson as Head of Fine Furniture, Decorative Arts and Asian Art for Bonhams, Australia. She will be based in the new Melbourne office at Ormond Hall. James Hendy, Bonhams Australia CEO says: “We are delighted to welcome Jennifer to Bonhams. She brings with her an outstanding [Read More]
A Victorian Britannia standard silver-gilt two handled basket, commemorating Field Marshall Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts’ Golden Wedding anniversary to his wife Nora Henrietta Bews, goes under the hammer at Bonhams, Knightsbridge on 20th February (estimate £1,500-£2,500). Sir Frederick was an outstanding military figure. He received the Victoria Cross medal during the Indian [Read More]