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On Monday, February 8th at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell 400 lots of its usual mix of the unusual, the exceptional, and the unique. Estate Silver, a Clarke strength, features a heavily chased Ottoman-era lidded urn with a eagle finial poised over a possibly gold serpent. Other silver highlights include a [Read More]

The private papers of leading Marxist art historian, Francis Klingender, are to be sold at Bonhams Printed Books and Maps sale in Oxford on 23 February. An avowed Communist, Klingender was kept under security surveillance from the early 1930s onwards. During the Second World War he was excused military service because of [Read More]

Smart-phone auction bidding no longer confined to the iPhone and Blackberry. LiveAuctioneers.com, the Manhattan-based company that provides real-time Internet bidding capability to more than 900 auction houses worldwide, has released a custom-designed live-bidding app for use with Google’s revolutionary Android open-source mobile platform. The app, which is available free of charge, was [Read More]

Christie’s New York will hold its mid-season sale of 20th Century Decorative Art and Design on March 16, 2010. The 112 lot sale offers a wide range of high quality and affordable objects and furniture by well-known makers from the 20th century, featuring works by Tiffany Studios, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daum, George [Read More]

Cindy Soltis-Stroud, Vice President of Blue Fox Auctions & Consulting, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in auction services. An expert in fundraising, Cindy Soltis-Stroud now lends her talents to Blue Fox Auctions & Consulting, where she is currently thriving in her first year as [Read More]

SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that it raised $275,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (www.StJude.org) at the 39th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona on Friday, January 22. A special charity auction of the Ford Mustang FR500S Challenge Race car donated by SPX culminated in a winning bid [Read More]

Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the national real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, will conduct an auction of 27 luxury condominiums at Sabine on Fifth, a beautifully designed, in-demand 10-story community set on Waller Creek in the heart of downtown Austin’s entertainment district. This highly anticipated grand reopening [Read More]

On Saturday, January 30, 2010, Garth’s Auctions of Delaware, Ohio in its Fine & Contemporary Art and Asian, Continental & American Furniture & Decorative Arts auction. auctioned Lot 202, the monumental 42” x 46” oil on canvas landscape by Pennsylvania artist Arthur Meltzer titled “The Robe of Winter”, opened up at $20,000 [Read More]

Hart Davis Hart achieved exceptional results this weekend in Chicago, realizing $3,540,032 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,926,900- $2,880,830. Collections of DRC, Lafite, and Pétrus brought intense bidding with many prices skyrocketing over the high estimate. A case of 1982 Château Pétrus (mags) more than doubled the high estimate, bringing $71,700 [Read More]

With over 250 million registered users and a trading volume of more than USD 60 billion per annum, eBay is the largest marketplace in the world. However, eBay was previously only of limited suitability for the sale of holidays or hotel stays because the system lacked a booking facility. Now Cultuzz Digital [Read More]

Warwick Castle documents under hammer at Bonhams Manuscript sale 23 March 2010 Letters signed by Oliver Cromwell to the Governor of Warwick Castle, Colonel Joseph Hawkesworth MP, are among an archive of important Civil War and other historical documents to be auctioned at Bonhams’ Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale at New [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, has hired conversion-driven marketing agency 90octane for a strategic search engine marketing (SEM) program. Search engine optimization (SEO) tactics will include a website audit, linking strategy, social media audit and PR optimization. The pay-per-click (PPC) advertising program will complement SEO visibility, drive [Read More]

Bonhams is delighted to announce that it is embracing the 1960s on 7th March when viewing opens at its New Bond Street galleries for both a specialist auction of ‘Pop and Op Art’ and the selling exhibition of ‘Pure Sixties. Pure Bailey.’ – a collection of David Bailey’s iconic photographs from the [Read More]

IpAuctions, Inc. is selling the patents and patent applications developed by Predicant Biosciences, formerly called BioSpect, and certain intellectual property of Perlegen. Predicant Biosciences, a California-based biotechnology company, developed technology and intellectual property to identify complex protein patterns in blood to detect and diagnose disease, methods to relate genotypes to phenotypes, and [Read More]

A strand of Elvis Presley’s hair is being sold by Chorley’s at Prinknash Abbey Park, Gloucestershire GL4 8EX in the UK on Thursday 25th February 2010. The vendor, who comes from Gloucestershire, is a keen music buff and bought the strand of hair on a whim through a television auction. The strand [Read More]

Gavel to gavel, in only four hours, bidders at The Naples Winter Wine Festival charity auction raised more than $8 million for underprivileged and at-risk children. Five hundred patrons were seated under a giant tent set on the grand lawn of The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples for the live auction, with [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York 2010 Old Masters Week totaled $74,181,071 (£45,992,356, €53,148,582), nearly topping the presale series estimate of $52.5/75.5 million. Included in the offerings were Important Old Master Paintings Including Sculpture, Important European Terracotta and Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Old Master Drawings and Old Master & 19th Century [Read More]

Dan Morphy Auctions’ annual events calendar is about to become a lot busier with the introduction of several new auction series to augment the company’s traditional lineup of five to six cataloged sales per year. Beginning on March 16, 2010, Morphy’s will conduct a regular monthly Discovery sale featuring general antiques, art [Read More]