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Christie’s London will present a superb array of Victorian & British Impressionist Art Including Drawings & Watercolours to the international market on Wednesday 16 December 2009. The sale is led by Eve, a magnificent and monumental painting by Solomon J. Solomon, R.A., P.R.B.A. (1860-1927), which is estimated to realise between £700,000 and [Read More]

“There was competitive bidding for many lots, both on the telephones and in the salesroom for natural wonders of all sorts. Colored stones, curiosities, gold nuggets and unique jewelry were the true highlights of the holiday Natural History auction at Bonhams & Butterfields,” said Thomas Lindgren, Co-Consulting Director, Natural History. The top [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers conducted a CA$58 million (US$54 million) unreserved public auction at its Edmonton, Alberta auction site last week (December 10 & 11, 2009), bringing the total 2009 gross auction proceeds generated by that site to CA$392 million (US$344 million) – the most equipment ever sold at one Ritchie Bros. auction [Read More]

Allstate announced today that it will sell a recovered 1965 Volkswagen bus at auction and donate the proceeds to Lydia Place, a nonprofit organization in Washington state serving homeless women and children impacted by domestic violence. “Allstate has a long and proud history of supporting domestic violence survivors,” said Michelle Lee, field [Read More]

For months and months now EstateSalesHelp.com has yearned to have a sale where all of the monies are channeled towards KittyWits Adoptions, a local Sacramento charity run by our friend and neighbor Charlene, with all donations going towards the rescue, medical bills, spaying, neutering and re-homing of cats and little tiny kittens, [Read More]

Artfact, the world’s leading online live auction marketplace announced today its merger with Auctionzip, the world’s largest directory of live auction listings. Simultaneously, Artfact closed a $13 million growth capital financing provided by Boston-based Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Ascent Venture Partners. In addition to facilitating the merger, the funding will be used [Read More]

Bonhams sale of Japanese clocks on February 17 will feature 60 stunning examples of the Japanese master clockmakers work. Of the many strange features about these clocks are the numbers which allow one to calibrate them to the longer summer hour based on the greater amount of light requiring an expandable hour. [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Thursday, December 17, 2009 will bring together some 100 works by leading artists of the era and is expected to raise in excess of £4.2 million. Among the categories of works to be offered will be a strong contingent of classical, mythological, genre, landscape [Read More]

A diverse audience of bidders from around the world turned out for Dan Morphy Auctions’ Nov. 13-14 sale of the Marc Solondz collection of Japanese superhero, diecast and vinyl toys, which grossed $701,500 inclusive of 15% buyer’s premium. It was the first major collection of its type ever to come to auction, [Read More]

The Hollywood Entertainment Museum is offering a historic opportunity that no Movie Fan, Collector, or Film Aficionado will want to miss. 100 years of Hollywood History will be auctioned to the public for the first time in an effort to save the Hollywood Media Arts Academy from the current economic climate, a [Read More]

Stored in a boiler room for 40 years, a pair of American Aesthetic Movement chairs with missing panels and parts sold for $390,400 (hammer price of $320,000 + 22% buyer premium) on December 5 at Rago Auctions in Lambertville, NJ. The chairs, lot 133 in the sale, were part of a larger [Read More]

A 1934 Riley Imp two-seater sports car has sold in Sydney for a world record auction price of $169,500 IBP. Made in limited numbers, the Riley Imp is a rarity today and commensurately much sought after. This particular example raced in the 10th Australian Grand Prix in 1938, the first year the [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions announces the success of The De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration of The New World 1492-1625. Consigned by collector Bruce McKinney, this spectacular collection sold for a double low estimate $3,500,000 and was a complete sell through with 100% sold by lot and 133% by value. A world record for a [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields’ Entertainment Memorabilia auction on December 20, 2009 in Los Angeles will feature a wide variety of items related to Hollywood, Rock ‘n Roll and Animation Arts, including a selection of property from Michael Jackson’s private life. Also included are pieces related to Marilyn Monroe; the Brown Derby restaurant on [Read More]

An exceptional collection of film and music memorabilia goes under the hammer Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia sale Clothing and film scripts from a collection of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall memorabilia are amongst items relating to the icons of stage and screen in Bonhams’ Entertainment Memorabilia sale on 16th December. Humphrey Bogart’s jacket, [Read More]

Sotheby’s biannual Evening Sale of Contemporary Art in Paris realised the remarkable total of €8,051,100 (£7,302,584 /$11,947,027), far surpassing pre-sale expectations of €4,680,000-6,440,000* ($6,938,240-9,547,493/£4,192,797-5,769,575). The auction saw all but one lot sell, achieving the joint-highest sell-through rate of 96.3% for a Sotheby’s Paris Evening Sale of Contemporary Art, and established a sold-by-value [Read More]

Combining superb Florentine pietre dure plaques with opulent gilt bronze mounts, elaborate marquetry and beautifully modelled figurative carving, this cabinet is a superb example of the magnificent cabinets produced in Paris in the mid-17th century. Almost certainly given to Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Sweden, or indeed commissioned by her, it is one [Read More]

An ancient Roman marble relief panel with Dionysiac decoration that was recently discovered to once have been in the collection of French writer Émile Zola sold for $1,538,500 at Sotheby’s Antiquities auction in New York. Six bidders competed for the piece which eventually sold to an anonymous telephone bidder. It was the [Read More]