Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to present a selection of rare, intricate views of early America through illustrated volumes and art books during its Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February 13, 2011. The firm will present a book, prominently featuring California backdrops, of 100 hand-colored lithograph plates and accompanying text by [Read More]
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On Sunday, February 6th at 10:00 am, Clarke Auction’s Super Bowl Kick Off will feature 400+ lots drawn from estates in Pelham, the East and West Side, Park Avenue, Forest Hills, Scarsdale, Larchmont, Riverdale, and the personal storage unit of Hiram Hoelzer, noted New York and Greenwich art restorer. Fine Art includes [Read More]
The phone, mail, catalog and Internet auction is already online, at www.SeriousToyz.com. (CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nearly 1,200 lots of rare, vintage toys, many of them mint in the box and highly desirable pieces, will be sold in a phone, mail, Internet and catalog auction already online at SeriousToyz.com. The sale will conclude [Read More]
A beautiful picture by the prolific British maritime and figurative painter, Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), entitled Sleeping Sailor, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of The Marine Sale on 22 March 2011. Initially sold for £15 to Arthur Taylor, it has now attracted a pre-sale estimate of [Read More]
The all-day marathon sale will be held in Fontaine’s gallery facility, located in Pittsfield, Mass. One lot – a magnificent pair of Carl Faberge silver figural candelabra – could bring $100,000. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A massive, two-session cataloged antique auction featuring over 800 lots of period furniture, vintage clocks and lighting, firearms, [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart, America’s largest wine auction house, opened 2011 with a highly-charged auction of finest and rarest wines, selling 100% of lots and posting $4.6 million in sales against a pre-sale auction estimate of $2.9m-$4.3m, and achieving a 10% increase in prices over December. Attendees filled the auction room in downtown [Read More]
Hundreds of lots of firearms, ammunition, militaria, advertising, hunting and fishing were sold. (MATTHEWS, N.C.) – A colorfully rich and vibrant poster from 1909, advertising the Winchester .401 caliber self-loading rifle, one of the most highly sought after of the Winchester images, sold for $4,246 in an Internet and catalog auction that [Read More]
More than 100 pieces of historic, rare Orange County California paper money from the collection of the late William (“Willie”) Pannier, long-time owner of the Fullerton Coin & Stamps store, will be offered in an auction to be conducted by Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles (www.GoldbergCoins.com) in Beverly Hills, February [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields is offering an original drawing featuring five vignettes by famed children’s author and illustrator Beatrix Potter during the Fine Books & Manuscripts Auction on February 13, 2011. The piece by Potter, circa 1893, depicts a guinea pig grooming and dressing (est. $12,000-$18,000). At least three of the rare illustrations [Read More]
The multi-estate auction was conducted in the 4H Hall of the Sedgwick County Extension Ctr. (WICHITA, Kan.) – Two lots of R.S. Prussia – a 15-inch carnation mold centerpiece bowl and a 13-piece service, also in the carnation mold – realized identical selling prices of $4,300 at a multi-estate sale held Jan. [Read More]
Christie’s International, today announced worldwide sales for 2010 of £3.3 billion/$5.0 billion, up 53% by £ on last year’s figure of £2.1 billion (Figures include buyer’s premium). The highest sales total in the 245 year history of the firm, the figure is also the highest annual sales total ever recorded in the [Read More]
Famed illustrator Garth Williams original graphite 1953 cover art for Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder – familiar image to anyone that has read the classic books since the Fifties – will be part of Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 11 Signature® Illustration Art Auction in Beverly Hills. It is expected [Read More]
On Saturday, Jan. 29, and features a varied array of fresh to the market collections of toys and quality pop culture collectibles. The first collection slated to cross the auction block is a small but select assortment of 1950s/60s baseball cards. This all-star grouping is loaded with iconic players such as Mickey [Read More]
A remarkable pair of Rolls-Royces commissioned in the livery of the world famous department store, Harrods, are to be sold in Bonhams’ Paris sale of Motor Cars at the Grand Palais on 5 February 2011. One of the cars – a Rolls-Royce Phantom V Limousine 1963 – was the property of H.R.H. [Read More]
“The Savannah Collection,” a newly discovered grouping of more than 40,000 comic books, spanning from 1958 to the present, and acquired directly from the distributor, valued in total at more than $1 million – roughly $350,000 of which is in this auction – makes its debut in Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 24-26 Signature® [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York Americana Week concluded with a 3-day auction total of $14.4 million, comfortably above the cumulative low estimate of $11.5 million. The sales brought significant prices for American furniture, silver and folk art, led by An Important Searls Family Chippendale Highly Inlaid Cherrywood and Mahogany Chest of Drawers that achieved [Read More]
Bonhams is offering for sale at auction two Ducatis associated with four-time World Superbike Champion, Carl Fogarty, both of which are owned by the same private collector in Northern Ireland. The first is the Ducati 888 Corsa on which Carl won both the Superbike race and the headline event at the North [Read More]
An 18th century mahogany bureau table carved by Newport’s most celebrated cabinetmaker sold for a stunning $5.7 million at Christie’s New York on Wednesday morning, placing it among the highest auction prices ever realized for an item of American furniture. Offered at $700,000-900,000, the table was pursued by multiple bidders, who rapidly [Read More]