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Christie’s Fall sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will be held on November 30 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 90 exceptional works with an estimate of HK$18 million, this sale will showcase a tightly-edited selection of outstanding paintings by key Southeast Asian modern masters including [Read More]

The American Red Cross, the nation’s most respected humanitarian and charitable organization, has chosen Heritage Auctions to auction off more than 150 pieces of original materials, gifts of heads of State and artwork from its legendary archives. The American Red Cross Collection will be auctioned as part of several auction events – [Read More]

HWPH, one of the biggest German scripophily auctioneers, offers more than 3,000 antique stocks and bonds within its two upcoming auction sales. The first sale (14th auction, November 8 – will be a pure online auction, the second sale – 15th auction, November 14) will be a public auction located in Wiesbaden, [Read More]

Dedham, MA – Grogan & Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers is pleased to announce their October Auction including Paintings, Prints and Sculpture, 18th and 19th century Furniture and Decorative Works of Art, Silver and Oriental Rugs and Tapestries from various Estates and Collections will be held on Sunday, October 18th at [Read More]

Dedham, MA –The residents of Dedham, Massachusetts hardly knew what hit them, when an overwhelming number of International bidders descended on the historic town to compete for the more than 500 lots of Asian Decorative Works of Art from the Estate of Frederick Innes. On Sunday, October 4th, a standing room only [Read More]

Barrett-Jackson Auction Company LLC, host of “The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions(TM)” in Scottsdale, Ariz., Palm Beach, Fla., and Las Vegas, announced today they have signed a letter of intent with the OC Fair & Event Center to add a fourth event to the company’s annual auction lineup. The event will take [Read More]

Bonhams raised a total of £1,150,000 at their Islamic and Indian Art New Bond Street sale, which featured an array of important historical pieces. The highlight of the sale was an important 19th Century emerald and seed-pearl Necklace from the Lahore Treasury, reputedly worn by Maharani Jindan Kaur wife of Ranjit Singh, [Read More]

On October 22, 2009, Sotheby’s New York will offer a group of Polish paintings from the Slotkowski Collection in Chicago as a highlight of its sale of 19th Century European Art Including Important British Paintings. The Collection comprises six pictures estimated to bring $585,000-880,000 and will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York [Read More]

After the mid-summer results of an auction that re-defined the field of Illustration Art, Heritage Auctions is readying the second round of selections from The Charles Martignette Estate in its Signature Illustration Art Auction, Oct. 27, at Heritage’s Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. The emphasis of the October auction on [Read More]

Christie’s October 7 & 8 Photographs sales totaled $7,484,100. Four sales: The American Landscape: Color Photographs from the Bruce and Nancy Berman Collection, Photographs by Sally Mann from a Private Collection, Washington, D.C., The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs showcased the very finest in the medium, from historical 19th century works through to [Read More]

Christie’s announces the second Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes sale on November 17, 2009, presenting collectors and connoisseurs with an incredible opportunity to add to their collections with a wide-range of important, rare, and unique treasures with exceptional provenance. This follows the inaugural sale in June, [Read More]

OC Fair & Event Center, home to the annual OC Fair, along with Barrett-Jackson Auction Company LLC, host of “The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions(TM)” in Scottsdale, Ariz., Palm Beach, Fla., and Las Vegas, announced today they have signed a letter of intent to add a fourth event to the company’s annual [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A 3-volume set of the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers and The Return of the King), with one of the books signed by the author himself, sold for $14,600 at a two-day weekend multi-estate sale held Oct. [Read More]

Heritage Auctions conducted a $932,000 Space Exploration Auction, led by Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ron Evans’ Rolex watch, which realized $131,450, including 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. The handsome, all-original, 1968-era Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master was the personal watch of Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ron Evans. He placed it into his Personal [Read More]

The wise words – ‘Love your people as you would your own children’ – on the seal of a Chinese Emperor who ruled a century ago were not enough to save his reign during the Boxer Rebellion around 1900. The Imperial white jade double-dragon seal is estimated to sell for £100,000 to [Read More]

Imagine having a tax on clocks! This bizarre statement was in fact true back in the late eighteenth century in this country. A British clock tax was introduced in 1797 and it covered all timepieces, including watches and clocks. The annual tax was two shillings and sixpence for a basic watch and [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields held its Fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on September 29, 2009. The 400 lot sale offered a diverse group of high quality pieces spanning a century of design by well-known figures of the period. Featured works included strong examples of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, [Read More]

At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Autumn Sale 2009, an outstanding Imperial carved zitan ‘dragon’ throne of Qianlong period was sold for HK$85,780,000/US$11,068,193 to a bidder in the room, breaking the world auction record for any Chinese furniture. Bidding opened at HK$13 million, quickly reaching HK$20 million, [Read More]