Auction News

The event will be held in the firm’s spacious gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – A huge two-day estate auction featuring over 1,650 lots in a rainbow of categories will be held the weekend of May 18-19 by Crescent City Auction Gallery, in the firm’s [Read More]

A rare 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard Sunburst Solid Body Electric Guitar, serial #0 1494, produced during the last year — and arguably the best year — of famed Gibson “Bursts,” brought $134,500 during Heritage Auction’s Musical Instruments Signature® Auction held April 20 in conjunction with the Dallas International Guitar Festival. The [Read More]

The auction (Part XIV) was held in the firm’s gallery at 1580 Lemoine Ave., in Fort Lee, N.J. (FORT LEE, N.J.) – An early 20th century Standard Bank of South Africa, Ltd. color trial specimen banknote for 20 Pounds sold for $10,620 at an auction (Part XIV) held Apr. 16 by Archives [Read More]

A single page of the LM Activation checklist referenced by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during Man’s first moon landing on July 20, 1969 realized $55,268 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $1.57+ million Space Exploration Signature® Auction in Dallas. Items related to the Apollo Program took top lot honors during the April 18 [Read More]

Bonhams present a selection of items from the Estate of actor Larry Hagman, best known for portraying J.R. Ewing on the classic soap opera Dallas, in its May 5 Entertainment Memorabilia auction and May 12 Period Art and Design auction, both to be held in Los Angeles. Hagman began his career in [Read More]

It’s May in Ohio, and signs of spring are everywhere: warm sunshine, soft earth and good antiques at Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers. May has marked an Americana auction for more years than most people on staff can remember, but for the past 7 years, the May Americana auctions have been highlighted by [Read More]

Ketterer Kunst are to auction 28 objects from a private collection from Luxembourg on 14 May, 2013. Most works originate from the 19th century and those who think these days were dull and dreary will be surprised and astonished by the sight of this collection. Their lucent colors can even compete with [Read More]

Vintage Affaire 2013 will take place on Saturday, June 22, 2013 in Woodside. It is one of the premiere wine auctions in California and benefits Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Palo Alto and Santa Cruz. Over the past 30 years, Vintage Affaire has raised nearly $8 million for [Read More]

One the world’s rarest colored diamonds, a 3.50 carat natural fancy blue VS1 diamond is expected to bring $1+ million at Heritage Auctions’ Jewelry Signature® Auction April 29. Highly sought after for its rare coloration, placing it in the same class that includes the famous Hope Diamond, the diamond is the largest [Read More]

The insignia, showing a gargoyle clutching a bomb, was applied to the fabric of Green’s plane. The auction will be held June 8th-9th at Mohawk Arms’ gallery in Bouckville, N.Y., plus online. (BOUCKVILLE, N.Y.) – A World War I squadron insignia and archive pertaining to American pilot Lt. Paul E. Green is [Read More]

It was one of the first sales held in the Lynbrook, N.Y., gallery as the firm rebuilds from Sandy. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – The Wild West came charging into Long Island when a group of five Buffalo Bill posters fetched a combined $59,398 at an auction held Apr. 20 by Philip Weiss Auctions, [Read More]

ROCK ISLAND, IL (April 24, 2013)- Rock Island Auction Company set the firearms market ablaze once again at their inaugural 2013 Premiere Firearms auction held April 19, 20 & 21. “In the auction business we know each sale is different. Every auction has different challenges and uncertainties and this sale was no [Read More]

Includes over two hundred full cases of First Growth Bordeaux from the great modern vintages, nearly all in original wood; Château Latour Dinner to take place on May 17th (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, will hold an exciting two-day auction of [Read More]

An extremely rare fancy deep-blue diamond weighing 5.30 carats sold at Bonhams Fine Jewelry sale in London’s New Bond Street today, April 24th for a record price of $1.8m per carat. The previous world record price per carat for a blue diamond was $1.68m. This rare gem was bought by Graff Diamonds, [Read More]

Skinner, Inc. today announced that its European Furniture and Decorative Arts auction grossed $1,572,219.00, exceeding the pre-sale estimate high. Held on Saturday, April 6th, the results demonstrate strong demand for quality pieces and were bolstered by record levels of participation on the new SkinnerLive! online bidding platform. “The chemistry in this sale [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will hold a live auction of Fine Wines on May 2nd in its Boston gallery. Following the event, a second offering of lots will be open for bidding beginning May 3rd through May 11th exclusively online with Skinner’s timed auction platform. In partnership with Lower Falls Wine [Read More]

The finest known example of a saber-tooth tiger skeleton is up for auction in I.M. Chait’s May 4 Important Natural History Auction in Beverly Hills. The 67-inch-long tiger skeleton (Lot 326) represents a fearsome predator that once menaced the animal kingdom of South Dakota’s White River Badlands. It heads the zoological portion [Read More]

Bonhams, the international fine art auction house announce the opening this week of its new office on the ground floor at 154 De Lairessestraat in Amsterdam. The office provides greater space for viewing art and for meeting to provide valuations. It will act as the company’s hub for northern Europe and an [Read More]