Stevens has saved the best auction for last; four prominent old Southern estates will be offered. (FLOMATON, Ala.) – Four prominent old Southern estates – including the contents of a Baton Rouge estate with impeccable provenance and an antebellum mansion called Cedar Grove in Miss. – will be offered on New Year’s [Read More]
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Bonhams announces the sale of two extremely rare gold coins in its Coins & Medals auction on December 16, 2011. The first rare coin offered is the finest and only second-known example of a Chang Tso-Lin 50 Yuan gold piece (L&M-1031). It has been consigned for sale by the direct descendants of [Read More]
The Honorable William H. Kelly Collection of Confederate Notes and Southern Obsoletes is already creating buzz with collectors in advance of Heritage Auctions 6,700+ lot 2012 Orlando, FL FUN Signature® Currency Auction, Jan. 5-10. Among the offerings are a large number of Confederate notes issued in Montgomery, AL, when it was the [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York announce the auction of schoolgirl embroidery from the collection of Betty Ring in a dedicated sale on 22 January 2012. Mrs. Ring is the foremost scholar and collector of American schoolgirl embroidery – superb needlework samplers, elegant pictorial embroideries and mourning pictures made in the earliest American cities and [Read More]
Christie’s will conclude it’s year of sales in New York with Photographs including Crossing America: Photographs from The Consolidated Freightways Collection, Part II, taking place on December 19th. The Various Owners sale incorporates a wide range of 145 enticing works, which include a robust selection of fashion photography, a rare set from [Read More]
An 1841 Sovereign made a new world record when it is sold for £34,800, over three times the presale estimate, in the Medals, Banknotes and Coins sale on Wednesday 14th December at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Estimated to sell for £8,000- 10,000, the coin depicted Queen Victoria, in relief, and had been virtually uncirculated. [Read More]
Bonhams looks forward to presenting its Disneyana and Fine Toy Auction, January 30, 2012 in San Francisco, featuring 130 lots of historic Disney toys and memorabilia from a single-owner collection. The collection includes toys from the 1930s through contemporary eras. Leading the auction will be a rare Mickey Mouse Circus Train Set, [Read More]
Discovery: Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14, 2012 Everything goes in this no reserve sale – over 1300 lots of what’s desirable, useful, interesting and most affordable. Friday: 600+ lots of original and vintage art, furnishings, tableware, Asian, collectibles, books and ephemera, ethnographic property, and a large selection of Early 20th [Read More]
Estimated at $2-3 million, the pearl reached a world auction record price for a pearl at $11,842,500 (£ 7,579,200 / € 9,118,725) after four and a half minutes of bidding. The pearl, an historic 16th century pear-shaped pearl suspended from a necklace custom-designed for Ms. Taylor by Cartier, has been widely heralded [Read More]
Bonhams present its third-ever Period Art & Design Auction on January 29, 2012 in San Francisco, featuring a strong selection of furniture and decorative arts. To tastefully outfit a living or dining room, one need look no further than the auction’s top offerings of uniquely crafted chairs and tables. Among these offerings [Read More]
The auction will be held at the Peoples Light & Theater Company in Malvern, Pa., at 10 a.m. (MALVERN, Pa.) – Over 400 quality lots of important antique clocks, Asian objects, fine art, porcelain and antiques in an array of categories will be sold at auction Wednesday, Dec. 28, by Gordon S. [Read More]
Bonhams announce that Mark Garside and Martin Heckscher have joined the Collectors’ Motorcycle Department as consultants. Mark will be a consultant for Lancashire and Cumbria (alongside Alan Whitehead) while Martin will cover Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Ben Walker, Head of Motorcycles, comments, “Martin and Mark will bring a huge amount of knowledge, [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture on 26 January 2012 will feature three paintings from the estate of Lady Forte, whose husband Charles Forte founded the global hotel and restaurant group Trusthouse Forte. The group comprises: Venice, A View of the Churches of the Redentore and San [Read More]
Bonhams on December 8, achieved a sale total of $1.58 million, which include a world record that was surpassed and achieved by a stunning Patek Philippe chronograph wristwatch ref:5020P. Patek Philippe chronograph wristwatch Taking the top honors of the sale was the world record-breaking Patek Philippe chronograph ref:5020P. The top lot of [Read More]
Christie’s Victorian & British Impressionist Art sale will offer 90 paintings and works on paper at auction on 15 December 2011, by a variety of artists ranging from the Pre-Raphaelites to the British Impressionists, including Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Cowper, Munnings, Clausen and de Glehn, for an overall estimate in excess of £4.5 [Read More]
Bonhams San Francisco Native American Art auction held on December 5 took more than $2.012 million. Leading the auction was a rare Cheyenne quilled shirt, circa 1830-1840 from The Bones Collection, that is one of the earliest examples known to exist today. It sold for $338,500 against its pre-sale estimate of $300,000-500,000. [Read More]
On December 2nd, Karen Walsh, the Chapter 7 Trustee appointed in the Bobby Rowe Energy, Inc. and Stephen Rowe Oil Properties, LLC bankruptcy cases, entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Sam Mayes, Jr. for the sale of four oil and gas leases in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. The sales price is $151,787.93. [Read More]
Christie’s presents Magnificent Tiffany: Including Property from the Estate of Jeanne Laverne Dailey for auction on December 17, 2011, at 10am. The sale will feature two private collections, including more than 100 lots from the Estate of Thomas F. Walker of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Property from the Estate of Jeanne Laverne [Read More]