Sterling Associates has announced its inaugural Fall Estates Sale on Dec. 3. Sterling Associates auction debut represents a new way in which estate antiques and art may be brought to auction. It combines a live preview in an auction-house setting with absentee and remote forms of bidding that make the auction accessible [Read More]
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Spectrum Wine Auctions’ Second Anniversary Auction will take place December 3 & 4 at 11:00 a.m. HKT at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel. All registered bidders are invited to celebrate the auction with a Champagne brunch featuring pours of Krug and Cristal, starting promptly at 11:00 a.m. HKT both days. The [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces the sale of an Unknown Manuscript Notebook by celebrated Bengali poet and artist, Rabindranath Tagore on 13 December 2011 in New York. Dating to the fall of 1928, the notebook contains twelve poems and lyrics for twelve songs in Bengali, some being heavily amended drafts of subsequently published works. Tagore [Read More]
An intimate portrait of Julia Jackson by British photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), one of the highlights of Bonhams Photographs Sale, realised an impressive £57,250 today (17 November) at the auction house’s New Bond Street saleroom. One of around fifty known portraits by Cameron of her niece, the earliest dating from [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in America, will hold an exciting auction of Finest and Rarest wines on December 10th at award-winning restaurant TRU, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The impressive sale will feature U.S. private cellars and includes The [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s showroom, located at 1015 Julia Street in New Orleans. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – Over 1,100 lots of mostly fresh-to-the-market items – culled from prominent local estates and collections and spanning a wide variety of categories – will be sold on Saturday, Dec. 3, by [Read More]
Boston, Mass – Skinner, Inc, New England’s only full service auction house, will host a sale of fine jewelry at their Boston gallery on December 6th, 2011. Sale highlights feature a number of beautiful art deco pieces including the cover lot: a Chaumet emerald, ruby and diamond pendant brooch estimated to sell [Read More]
Bonhams, announce the company’s ninth offering of exceptional writing instruments in the US on December 6, 2011. The auction contains more than 200 lots and offers a diverse selection of excellent fountain pens from all of the top makers, including a Dupont James Bond limited edition set inspired by 007’s firearm of [Read More]
The Dec. 3 sale will include personal jewelry, stage apparel and mementos. NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. – Before Elton John, Madonna or Lady Gaga dominated the world stage with their outrageous costumes and over-the-top performances, there was Liberace – a charismatic showman whose onstage presence combined the glitz of Las Vegas with a [Read More]
The Detroit Tigers uniform worn by Hall of Fame outfielder Ty Cobb during the 1922 season sold for $358,500 on Nov. 11 in Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Sports Collectibles Signature® Auction, notching the fourth six-figure price commanded by the category for a game worn jersey in 2011. A rare “Shoeless Joe” Jackson signed [Read More]
Christie’s announces that important pieces from The BillyBoy* Collection of Dior and Yves Saint Laurent are to be offered as part of the upcoming Fashion sale on 1 December 2011 at Christie’s South Kensington. Selected from the collection of BillyBoy* – one of the largest private collections of vintage haute couture in [Read More]
RR Auction, an Amherst, NH-based company, presents some of the finest examples of the true history, lore & culture of the great American frontier from its early beginnings , in a Texas & Western Artifacts auction that closes November 17. 2011. This special offering will feature nearly 250 items that are a [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris next sale of African & Oceanic Art in Paris on December 14 will include a highly selective ensemble of 100 lots. Some have remarkable provenance, whilst others are appearing on the market for the first time. Yoruba, Nago Horse-Rider, Benin. Haut. 47,5 cm., 18 1/2 in. Estimate: 400 000-600 000 [Read More]
Bonhams is pleased to announce its Fine Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks auction taking place December 8 in New York, simulcast to San Francisco. Jonathan Snellenburg, Bonhams US Director of Watches and Clocks, states about the sale, “The watches and clocks in this sale span three centuries—from the earliest pendulum clock of the [Read More]
Sotheby’s Geneva set a world auction record for yellow diamond when it sold the Sun?Drop Diamond for CHF 11,282,500 ($12,361,558). Weighing 110.03 carats, this exceptional stone ranks as the largest known pear?shaped fancy vivid yellow diamond in the world. Tonight’s sale concluded with a total of CHF 64,048,000 ($70,173,551), against the pre?sale [Read More]
Five architectural drawing tools once belonging to President Thomas Jefferson – framer of America’s Constitution and its third President – are expected to bring $45,000+ altogether on Dec. 1, as the top lots in Heritage Auctions’ 800+ lot Americana & Political Memorabilia Signature(r) Auction. The Jefferson items are just the tip of [Read More]
The event will be held in the firm’s showroom, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, N.Y. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A monstrous three-day estate auction, featuring important Disney items (to include the complete and original 1953 Disneyland prospectus, drafted by Walt Disney himself and outlining his ideas for the iconic theme park [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announce its sale of Continental Books and Musical Manuscripts will include rare and important manuscripts by Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Benjamin Britten. Comprised of 181 lots, the sale on Wednesday 30th November 2011 is estimated to fetch in excess of £2 million. The auction will be headlined by [Read More]