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(WEST SWANZEY, N.H.) – Part II of the living estate of Dolores Wettach Williams – the former high-fashion model, actress and third wife of Hall of Fame baseball legend Ted Williams – will be sold at auction on Saturday, May 30, by Knotty Pine Auction Service, beginning at 11 a.m. The sale [Read More]

Foreseeing the most action the real estate auction market has seen in decades, a new auctions firm today announces its entry into the market: Global Real Estate Auctions, Inc. will hold its inaugural auction in June. The firm is being launched by John DeMato, a former vice president and principal Indiana broker [Read More]

Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced record-breaking results for the month of March and the first quarter of 2009. The Company experienced a 50% increase in the number of auctions hosted in March 2008, a 44% increase in the number of bidders participating over the number [Read More]

The Dallas Ad League (DAL) will host the greater Dallas area’s first two-day, online media auction on April 27-28, 2009, allowing access to more than $1.4 million in paid media for just pennies on the dollar. Proceeds from the DAL Spring Media Auction will benefit two charities: The DREAM Fund and the [Read More]

The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company recorded more than $20 million in total sales and delivered its trademark excitement during the 7th Annual Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Collector Car Auction April 9-11, 2009. The all No Reserve auction featured an eclectic docket, including the “Project American Heroes” 1969 Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS custom that fetched $500,000 [Read More]

Sotheby’s has announced that its annual sale of Scandinavian Art in London on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 will be led by five important works by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). The group of three intimate portrait works and two landscapes includes three paintings that featured in the well-received and critically acclaimed [Read More]

(TERRYVILLE, Conn.) – Quite possibly the most important collection of rare, early American Terry clocks ever to cross the block will be auctioned on Saturday, May 2, by Tim’s, Inc., of Bristol, Conn. The sale will be held on-site, at the home of Richard T. Baldwin, a direct descendant of Eli Terry, [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions announces The Paula Peyraud Collection, Samuel Johnson and Women Writers in Georgian Society with over 480 lots of books, manuscripts and paintings tells the fascinating story of English society in the middle and late Georgian periods. This extraordinary sale focuses on the artistic and literary women who came to the [Read More]

Bonhams and Goodman next Bay East Antiques & Interiors auction on 19 April 2009 at 11am sees a return to the regular monthly format featuring the broadest possible range of furniture and decorative arts, entirely from private collections. Highlights include a good selection of Baccarat and Lalique glass, Dutch and English silver, [Read More]

Two great icons of Modern Art will be featured in Sotheby’s May 5, 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York – Pablo Picasso’s La Fille de l’artiste à deux ans et demi avec un bateau from 1938 and Alberto Giacometti’s legendary sculpture, Le Chat from 1951. A rare [Read More]

Sale Features First Growth Bordeaux, DRC, Screaming Eagle Vega Sicilia Unico Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. will host an exceptional wine auction on Saturday, December 6th at 9:00 a.m at Tru restaurant. The sale will offer 938 lots of the world’s finest and rarest wines, including an exciting selection [Read More]

(BUFORD, Ga.) – A colored pencil on paper rendering, done in 1917 by Swiss self-taught artist Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), titled Blatt Aus Heft #15, sold for $40,480 at a folk art auction held March 28 by Slotin Auction. The framed piece, inscribed throughout, measured 11.25 inches by 16.25 inches and was in [Read More]

Paso Robles Wine Festival presents The Wine Country Auction—a new component to the popular Friday evening RESERVE event. The Wine Country Auction is quickly creating excitement for the 27th Annual Wine Festival slated for May 15–17, 2009. RESERVE takes place from 4–6 p.m. on Friday, May 15, in the beautiful Downtown City [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions, has announced its Spring Fine Art and Estates Auction. The auction features antiques, fine art and collectibles from estates in Massachusetts, California and beyond. The auction takes place Saturday and Sunday April 25-26 at Woodman’s Function Hall, 127 R. Main St., Essex, MA. Bidding commences at 10am each day and [Read More]

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A monumental, 10-foot-tall carved oak grandfather clock by R. J. Horner soared to $97,750 at a multi-estate sale held April 4 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. The clock was the top earner of the more than 400 lots that changed hands in a sale that grossed over $1.4 million. The [Read More]

Collectors, consignors and the curious alike can now get the inside scoop on hot lots coming down the pipe at Heritage Auction Galleries, along with insight, interviews and commentary from Heritage Auction Galleries staff at the company’s recently launched blog at www.HeritageAuctions.Blogspot.com. Posts are added each weekday. With three full months under [Read More]

Benefit Auction Specialists (www.benefitauctionhelp.com) announces a spring training for fundraising coordinators, according to Ron Leftwich, auctioneer. The spring training seminar is set for Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at the Manassas Baptist Church (Marstellar Annex) 8730 Sudley Road. “Our pre-event consultations with clients have helped them realize over half a million additional dollars [Read More]

A rare Frederic Church painting will highlight the May 20th American Paintings sale scheduled to take place at the New York galleries of international auctioneers, Bonhams. Titled Tropical Moonlight it is amongst the important paintings derived from Church’s travels around South America. Other paintings from this group include Heart of the Andes [Read More]