Bonhams in Knightsbridge is delighted to be selling selected contents from the venerable antiques firm, Smiths of Harrogate. The sale, which will be held on Tuesday 3 June 2008, features over 120 lots of fine antique furniture dating from 1760-1915. Both traditional English furniture and Continental pieces are represented in the sale, [Read More]
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The three day May auction has a good cross section of diecast, tinplate and plastic toys. Including several high quality private owner collections. A small but selective section of Dinky Gift sets feature on day one several of which are rare or export issues. Pre sale estimates range from £400 – £500 [Read More]
An auction of Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts together with important Australian Historical Objects, will be conducted on Tuesday 20 May at 6pm, in Sydney. The sale, which includes a very important Vietnam War Victoria Cross medal group awarded to Major Peter Badcoe, will be conducted in the Double Bay rooms in [Read More]
A one-of-a-kind 1957 Chrysler Diablo will debut at RM Auctions’ annual ‘Sports & Classics of Monterey’ auction event in California, August 15th and 16th. Conceived by Chrysler’s design head, Virgil Exner, the Diablo is arguably one of the largest and most impressive concept cars ever built. The ultra-rare Diablo will be joined [Read More]
NEW YORK – The evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie’s New York totaled $277,276,000/£140,749,239/€178,887,742, Christie’s third highest result ever for the category. The auction featured particularly strong results for both 19th and 20th century paintings and sculpture created by some of the leading masters of art history. The sale [Read More]
Set amidst the rolling Surrey Hills and yet within easy reach of Guildford, Loseley Park can trace its history back to the Domesday Book of 1086. A trusted advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, Sir William More built the present Manor House between 1562 and 1568 using masonry salvaged from nearby Waverley Abbey [Read More]
On July 7 the first-ever sale of Aboriginal Art at Artcurial | Briest – Poulain – F. Tajan. It will be the most important ensemble ever to come to auction outside Australia. Some sixty works from the personal collection of Peter Los will be offered, with an overall estimate of €600,000. The [Read More]
A pearl necklace once owned by the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum was sold on Tuesday for 5.1 million dirhams ($1.39 million) at a Dubai auction. An unidentified bidder paid 10 times more than the estimated range of 293,600-400,000 dirhams for the bejewelled piece, after a tense battle with a second conteder at [Read More]
On Saturday 24th May South Downs Auctioneers are holding an on site dispersal auction sale for RAK Ceramics in Petersfield. RAK Ceramics, bathroom ware and tile manufacturers are delighted to announce an auction sale, without reserve, of ex showroom display items. The auction will feature bathroom suites, acrylic baths, wall cabinets, washstands, [Read More]
One of the Olympic Torches used in 1948 to carry the Olympic Flame onto British soil for the first time will star in Bonhams’ next sporting memorabilia sale in Chester on 4 June 2008. The torch, which carried the flame for part of the last stretch of its journey from Greece to [Read More]
NEW YORK, Ny – On the evening of May 29 and day of May 30, 2008, Sotheby’s New York will offer for sale works by Latin American artists, including the most important selection of paintings by Rufino Tamayo to appear on the market in several years. The cover of the sale catalogue [Read More]
NEW YORK, NY – From May 24 through 29, the most important painting to be offered at auction by Puerto Rico’s preeminent 19th-century painter, Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833-1917), will be on view at Sotheby’s New York, alongside the exhibition for the New York sale of Latin American Art, which will take [Read More]
The auction features Dolls; Doll related items, Sales Sample and Toy Stoves, Teddy Bears, Prams, Automata and Toys from the mid 1800’s up to the 1960’s. Sale will consist of 1100+ lots; 400+ Dolls, 40+ Sample, Toy & Cast Iron Stoves, Teddy Bears, Doll House Miniatures, Miniature Furnishings, Doll Houses, Toy Stables, [Read More]
LARCHMONT, NY – On Monday May 5, Clarke will again offer 400+ lots of the unique, decorative, antique and midcentury design. This auction features the early Vladimir Kagan Cubist Extension Dining Table, a 54″ slate top Paul Evans coffee table, an 8′ wall unit from Paul Evans’s Library Suite, a Frank Gehry [Read More]
Following the success of the fine jewellery auction on 7 April 2008 in Sydney, entries are invited for the Monday 30 June auction. The April auction saw some extraordinary prices achieved. Highlights included an important certified un-heat treated large pink sapphire, which sold for $72,000 – almost double the high end estimate [Read More]
New York, NY – Sotheby’s spring sale of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture includes works by prominent American artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries, many of which come from distinguished Estates. The 215 works are estimated to sell for $52,615,000/77,205,000* and will be exhibited on the 10th floor galleries at [Read More]
DENVER, Pa. – Condition was king across the board in Morphy’s $2.6 million Spring Toy Auction, with a battle royal waged for premier examples of early American toys and folk art. The April 4-5 sale was topped by a spectacular circa-1885 William Demuth & Co. smoking Punch cigar advertising figure, which blazed [Read More]
It was the Insects that did particularly well in Bloomsbury’s recent Medicine, Science, Topography & Travel, and Natural History on 24th April. However other highlights included lot 23 which was a History of Mr Babbage’s Calculating Engines by Charles Babbage, Luigi Menabrea and Augusta Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s mathematician daughter! This made [Read More]