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Sotheby’s spring sale of Swiss Art will take place in Zurich, at 83 Talstrasse, on Monday 8 June 2009, at 6 p.m. For this auction, Urs Lanter, specialist in charge of the sale, and his team have gathered together 117 works covering 250 years of Swiss art history. While the sale does [Read More]

SimplexDiam Inc. has announced that it would liquidate 7 figures in closeout diamonds for the Bankruptcy estate of Fortunoff Holdings, LLC. & Fortunoff Cards, LLC. This is the logical next step for a company that has won almost every major retail bankruptcy residual in the past 12 months. In a coup for [Read More]

Hart Davis Hart experienced their heaviest day of bidding of the year this weekend in Chicago, realizing $2,449,140 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $1,458,870 to $2,182,870. Two cases of 1982 Lafite, estimated at $14,000-20,000, brought $31,070 each. Two other cases brought $28,680 each and a fifth case brought $26,290. 1996 Lafite [Read More]

Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an online auction of hundreds of electronics and computer equipment from the former IndyMac Bank. Bidding began Friday, May 15th 2009, and ends Thursday, May 21st at 10:00 a.m. PDT On-site previews will begin at 8:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. on May 20th, 2009 located [Read More]

Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce that on Monday, June 8, 2009, as part of its Russian Art Evening auction, it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered oil on canvas painting, Nanny with Children by acclaimed Russian artist Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (1883-1939), signed in Cyrillic and dated 1912. The painting, which [Read More]

RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s have made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello when a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for euro 9,020,000 at the third-annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record for the most expensive motor car ever to be sold [Read More]

Seoul auction, Korea’s leading auction house, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong on 15 May, 2009 and achieved a total of HK$42.8 million (US$5.47 million). Tranquility from the renowned British artist Damien Hirst’s celebrated Butterfly Series achieved HK$13.37 million (US$1.71 million), becoming the most expensive work by Damien [Read More]

Heritage Auction Galleries, the World’s Leading Auctioneer of Rare Coins, has announced that noted numismatist Win Callender has joined the company as a Professional Numismatist and Consignment Director at its Uptown Dallas headquarters. “I’ve always been fascinated with coins,” said Win, “and I’m happy to be bringing my broad range of experience [Read More]

Following the success of last year’s Posters sales at Bloomsbury Auctions, a private French collector has consigned a glorious group of 25 posters from the 1920s and 30s designed by the legendary Roger Broder. Posters are the first part of Bloomsbury’s Maps and Fine Books sale on 28th-29th May. The posters on [Read More]

Movie fans and speed demons are in for a treat when Bonhams & Goodman conduct an auction of Collectables on Sunday 24 May at 2pm, in the Melbourne salerooms. One of the highlights of the auction is a costume worn by actor Christopher Reeve as Superman. Reeve played the super hero in [Read More]

Clarke’s Monday May 18 Auction features American and European antique furniture, bronze candelabra and chandeliers, Midcentury Modern Design, vintage electronic arcade games, Sterling Silver from Gorham, Tiffany and others; lighting including a massive 19th C iron and gilt eagle chandelier; Meissen, Limoges, Dresden, Royal Doulton, Murano and more; a wide selection of [Read More]

(NORTHPORT, Ala.) – A monumental Sheraton-style dining room suite – comprising a 10-foot Regency table, a set of ten Maitland Smith dining chairs and a massive breakfront – sold for $11,550 at a multi estate sale held May 3 by Hal Hunt Auctions. The suite was only made within the last 20 [Read More]

Online real estate auction leader RealtyBid.com will hold an online auction of up to 14 luxury condominiums at The Grander at Orange Beach development in Orange Beach, Ala., Sunday, May 17 through Thursday, May 21. Grander is situated on Terry Cove in the beach community of Orange Beach. According to RealtyBid.com CEO/President [Read More]

(ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The living estate of Katherine Creamer – a dedicated and discerning antiques collector from Mobile, Ala., whose stately mansion was built specially to contain her vast collections – will be sold on Saturday, June 13, starting at 10 a.m., by Stevens Auction Gallery. The Mobile mansion, as well as [Read More]

On Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009, John Moran Auctioneers will host the second of their tri-annual California and American paintings sales scheduled for 2009. Market leaders in pre-1940 works in oil and watercolor, Moran’s is once again delighted to offer a strong selection of over 160 paintings. In addition to California and American [Read More]

A splendid Ming dynasty jar, a rare survivor from a vanished era of Imperial Chinese prestige, sold today (14.5.09) for £1,117,600 in a packed sale at Bonhams New Bond Street. Created in the reign of the Emperor Jiajing (AD1522-66), and estimated to sell for up to £250,000, the elegant understated blue and [Read More]

The Charterhouse auction of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia at The Bristol Classic Car Show in The Royal Bath and West Showground on Sunday 3rd May was a near sell out with an impressive total of over £200,000. “It was a great sale with buyers not only from the South West, but [Read More]

Global Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announces today the upcoming auction of 11 brand new townhomes and one cottage at the Diamond Point development in New Buffalo, Mich., one of the Chicago area’s fastest-growing and most accessible lakeshore resort towns, with newly improved rail access that now beats many local suburbs for fast [Read More]