Auction News

Bonhams Fine & Rare wine sale on 29th March at New Bond Street, London turns the focus on Burgundy. Producers on offer include Robert Arnoux, Sylvain Cathiard, Chandon de Briailles, Coche-Dury, Domaine Dujac, Fontaine-Gagnard, Vincent Girardin, Jean Grivot, Lucien Jacob, Domaine Leflaive, Perrot-Minot, Domaine de Montille as well as Domaine de la [Read More]

A letter written in 1915 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, will be offered by Bonhams in the Printed Books and Maps sale taking place in Oxford on the 17th April and is estimated to sell for £200 – 400. The letter from Reginald [Read More]

Cowan’s Auctions, Inc. inaugural Fine Jewelry and Timepieces Auction will take place on March 29, 2012. The 300-lot sale will be held at Cowan’s Auctions salesroom and will feature a collection of signed and unsigned jewelry, timepieces, handbags and other couture. In addition to the sale, two complementary preview events will be [Read More]

A wealth of rare antique signs, figures and other promotional items from the golden era of advertising is currently on display at Morphy’s central Pennsylvania gallery, all to be auctioned on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21. Leaded-glass Coca-Cola hanging globe with 200 glass panels, late teens to early 1920s, est. $12,000-$18,000. Morphy [Read More]

Known as the time of year to reinvent one’s surroundings, the Spring season encourages us to clean, to move out the unwanted and bring in the new! What better place to search out the “new” than in an auction venue where one can just as easily find a prehistoric Mississippian pottery bowl, [Read More]

WATCHUNG, NEW JERSEY. The catalog for Robert Edward Auctions’ 2012 blockbuster sale will ship on April 16, 2012. While most of the auction is baseball-related, also included is the original Warren cover painting for Vampirella #17 (June 1972), the very first Vampirella cover painting by Enrich that launched his career as Vampirella’s [Read More]

Swann Galleries will offer a two-part sale of Property from the Estate of Filmmaker Gary Winick and 19th & 20th Century Photographs & Photobooks, April 4. When accomplished film producer and director Gary Winick died last year at the age of 49, he left behind collections of photographs, fine art prints and [Read More]

The Lotus collection of Olav Glasius, a world renowned collector and lifetime Lotus fan will be sold on Friday the 29th June 2012 at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale and is expected to realise in excess of £1.5million. As a young motor racing enthusiast watching the legendary Jim Clark dominate [Read More]

Dedham , MA Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers are pleased to announce their upcoming March Two Day Auction will be held on Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th. The auction will include over 1000 lots of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from many [Read More]

Henry John Yeend King (British 1855-1924) was an important and influential artist. He was a Victorian genre and landscape artist who specialised in idyllic country scenes, often with pretty farm girls at work or resting. Henry John Yeend King Yeend King was born in London and started out as a choirboy at [Read More]

A wealth of rare antique signs, figures and other promotional items from the golden era of advertising is currently on display at Morphy’s central Pennsylvania gallery, all to be auctioned on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21. The 1,260-lot sale incorporates a fantastic array of signage, with the centerpiece being the revered Coca-Cola [Read More]

Charles Miller Ltd’s auction and sale is open to all and is a unique opportunity to see and buy some of the rare, curious and historic items that will be coming under the hammer next month in London. The forthcoming sale includes fascinating items relating to Titanic, Nelson, and Shackleton. • Emotive [Read More]

Christie’s announce the sale of an exceptional collection of jewelry from the Estate of Huguette M. Clark, one of the last great heiresses of America’s Gilded Age. Ms. Clark’s jewelry collection, which is believed to have been stored in a bank vault since the 1940s, includes signed Art Deco jewels by Cartier, [Read More]

Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Margaret K. Tierney as the company’s representative for Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey. Ms. Tierney offers seventeen years of experience in the international fine art auction industry and an in-depth knowledge of the regional, national and international art market. Malcolm Barber, Bonhams [Read More]

Boston, MA – March 15, 2012 – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts on Saturday, March 31st in its Boston gallery. The sale begins with nearly 450 lots of fine silver from England, the Continent, Asia, and the Americas. It continues with 400 more lots covering [Read More]

The gold cape that Elizabeth Taylor wore as Cleopatra in two pivotal scenes in the 1963 film of the same name is expected to bring $20,000 as the top entertainment lot in Heritage Auctions’ March 30 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature® auction. The top lot on the music side is expected to [Read More]

This one promises to be the best ever, with 500-600 lots of quality, fresh-to-the-market items. (BRISTOL, Conn.) – Get ready, all you hibernating snowbirds in Connecticut and lower New England. It’s time to shake off the winter snow (not that there was much of the white stuff) and make plans for the [Read More]

Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield, (UK) are delighted to have been appointed as agents to offer a watch believed to have once belonged to Lord Lucan, (Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, b.1934, legally declared dead by The High Court in 1999). The unnamed silver watch bears the following inscription on [Read More]