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Omaha, NE – Proxibid, a premier provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Antiques & Estate Auctioneers has selected Proxibid as its provider of live Internet bidding for an upcoming auction featuring high-quality firearms, pocket watches and collector vehicles. The auction will take place June 22 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. [Read More]

LONDON – For five out of the last six seasons, Sotheby’s London Impressionist and Modern Art department has led the field in sales of works from one of art history’s most important, and keenly collected, eras. This season, Sotheby’s will again bring to the market a host of rare and important works [Read More]

A glittering array of diamonds that are rarely seen outside London’s Bond Street are to be auctioned at Fellows & Sons in the heart of Birmingham’s jewellery quarter next month. The five diamonds – including two rare coloured diamonds – are expected to fetch over £1/4 million at the Antique & Modern [Read More]

Geneva – Following the big success of its last auction in Geneva, today’s Hong Kong auction realized a total of HK$ 36,051,200 (US$ 4,616,716/CHF 4,840,234/EUR 2,997,657). Of the 417 first-class timepieces offered, 112% was sold by value and 72% was sold by lot. Fierce bidding came from the packed auction room at [Read More]

(Matthews, N.C.) – An extremely rare California Powder Works “Diana Cartridges” 10-gage empty ammunition box sold for $9,730 in an Internet and catalog auction that went online mid-May and concluded June 7-8. The auction was conducted by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting collectibles auction site. The shotgun shell box was one of 989 [Read More]

One of the largest online dealers in stamps ( www.thetenoclockshow.co.uk ) and collectables in the UK has launched a monthly live auction, to be held in the village of Stoke Poges, near Slough, in Southern England. The Ten O’Clock Show Ltd, based in South Leicestershire, has sold more postage stamps( www.thetenoclockshow.co.uk/content/view/124/45/ ) [Read More]

A pair of National Benzole petrol pump globes, which languished in an attic for decades, are included in the Charterhouse auction of automobilia, classic cars and motorbikes in Sherborne on Saturday 12th July. “We often come across old petrol pump globes, but invariably they are chipped or faded. However, these have survived [Read More]

NEW YORK – Bloomsbury Auctions will hold an auction of Literature and Modern Firsts this Thursday, June 19th at 2 pm. The sale presents masterworks of modern literary icons, including April Twilights by Willa Cather, Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote, Mosquitoes by William Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest [Read More]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Premier Collectible Auctions of Fountain City, Wis., has announced plans to produce and conduct live auctions of modern-era toys in association with Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pa. Premier’s debut live auction will be held July 25-26 at the Bristol Hotel in San Diego, and is timed to accommodate [Read More]

White’s City, NM – Higgenbotham Auctioneers International announced today that their firm would sell at auction White’s City, New Mexico. The entire municipality as well as its surrounding acreage will be offered on July 14th at 11am. The city, which was founded in the early 1920’s by Charlie L. White, is a [Read More]

CAMBRIDGE, MA – cMarket, the leader in online auction fundraising, announced the results of an economic impact survey completed by 255 charity auction managers across the United States who ran auctions between January and April of 2008. Results of the survey indicated that while still in the early stages of the economic [Read More]

Averaging over two million dollars per sale over their last three auctions, Huggins and Scott has completed preparations for their upcoming worldwide sports memorabilia catalog auction that will begin June 22. The Maryland-based company, which last year sold a single-signed Christy Mathewson baseball for $161,000 and a rare Joe Jackson-Buck Weaver autographed [Read More]

SPOKANE, Wash. – Top auctioneers and ring people from the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom came together earlier this month to compete in the 20th Annual World Auction Auctioneers Championship at DAA Northwest. Paul Behr, of the National Auto Auctioneers Association, announced the winners as: —Champion: Danny Schorno, of Yelm, Wash. [Read More]

Lakeland, FL – Higgenbotham Auctioneers International Ltd., Inc. (“HAI”), announced today that Shopko Stores Operating Co., LLC (Shopko) has retained HAI to offer at auction 28 surplus properties situated adjacent to operating Shopko stores. These out parcels range in size from .43± to 9.36± acres and will be sold on location in [Read More]

Savannah, Ga -based Gretsch Guitars has a foundation that donates guitars that are decorated by artists or signed by musicians and then sold to raise funds for music and arts education programs. Because Gretsch CEO Fred Gretsch believes in “Enriching lives through participation in music,” the Gretsch Foundation has generously donated a [Read More]

A recently discovered portrait by one of Britain’s most loved and respected 18th Century artists, Thomas Gainsborough, (British 1727-1788), is to be sold in Bonhams Sale of Old Master Paintings on 9 July at 101 New Bond Street, London. The oil painting, which has never been seen at auction before, is expected [Read More]

Bertoia Auctions welcomed spring with a 2,462-lot auction of toys, dollhouses, miniatures, and Christmas antiques that attracted global participation and intensely competitive bidding on top-tier selections. The company’s $1.8 million Open House Sale held April 17 to 19 achieved the predicted overall high estimate, with a superb, early Erzebirge-style ark stealing the [Read More]

LONDON – MacDougall Auctions announced the private sale of an exceptional collection of seven oil paintings and works on paper by Martiros Saryan, previously scheduled for MacDougall’s 12-13 June Russian Art Auctions. The works were purchased by an anonymous private collector at their high estimates, totalling US$ 1.2 million. Catherine MacDougall, Director [Read More]