The world’s oldest running motor car, a historic 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout, sold for $4.62 million before a packed house at RM Auctions sale in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The sale price was more than doubled its original pre-sale estimate and represents a new world record for an early [Read More]
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Session I, to be held on Wednesday, October 12th, features ephemera, toys & dolls and collectibles. Over 800 lots will be offered ranging from the historical to the whimsical. Included are a variety of bisque, papier-mâché, fashion and collectible dolls. Also available are Golden and Silver Age comic books, postcards, as well [Read More]
Christie‘s New York announce the auction on November 9, 2011, of selected works from the celebrated Anton and Annick Herbert Collection of Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera. Formed in Ghent, Belgium, by the Herberts, beginning in the 1960s, the collection is considered to be one of the most important in [Read More]
Important works by noted, listed artists, plus two notable Modernism collections, just came in. (MILFORD, Conn.) – Late additions to what was already a packed sale are promising to make the Shannon’s Fine Art Auction slated for Thursday, Oct. 27, an event to remember. New consignments by prominent artists – including a [Read More]
The extensive, never-before seen collection is being offered by a prominent Alabama physician. (ATLANTA, Ga.) – An extraordinary, never-before seen private collection of fine clocks, music boxes and musical instruments will be sold Saturday, Oct. 22, by Great Gatsby’s, at 11 a.m. (EST), in the Great Gatsbys’s showroom at 5180 Peachtree Industrial [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the number one wine auction house in America and internationally renowned retailer, will hold an exciting auction of finest and rarest wines on October 29th at award-winning restaurant Tru, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The auction will begin promptly at [Read More]
The Comic Art of Playboy: Over Five Decades of Illustration and Cartoons, more than 85 paintings, illustrations and cartoons that graced the legendary men’s magazine – led by pieces like Alberto Vargas’ Darling, It’s My Hat I Want Your Opinion On, Vargas Girl Playboy Pin-Up from April 1963 (estimate: $30,000+) – will [Read More]
The sale on 20th October contains 720 lots and includes many wines from the world famous wine critic, Robert Parker’s ‘Magical 20’ list. Among his 100 point wines offered are three dozen Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1982 (£10,000-12,000) and two cases of 1986 vintage (£6,500-7,500), a dozen Lafite Rothschild 1986 (£10,000-15,000) and five [Read More]
The 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 Scrambler Custom ridden by The Fonz in the television hit series Happy Days will be one of the highlights at Bonhams’ upcoming Classic California Sale in Los Angeles. 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 Scrambler Custom Happy Days, the beloved American sitcom that aired for ten years from 1974 [Read More]
A John Lennon handwritten letter to a fan supporting Maharishi’s transcendental mediation movement will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday October 11, 2011 auction. Lennon wrote to Jean, “You are searching for ‘something’ (truth) the same as everyone else – whether they know it or not.” He added that they were [Read More]
The auction was held Sept. 24 at the former home of the late Bradley Jackson in Jaffrey, N.H. (JAFFREY, N.H.) – An AC Spark Plugs tin die-cut flange sign, dated 1936 and featuring the iconic “Sparky” logo, sold for $2,310 at an on-site estate sale held Sept. 24 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, [Read More]
A GLEAMING brass bell from RMS Mauretania (sister of Lusistania, c.1906), which latterly hung in Cunard’s offices in the Liver Building in Liverpool will be offered by Charles Miller Ltd on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in his sale of Maritime & Scientific Models, Instruments & Art in London (25, Blythe Road, W14). [Read More]
Sotheby’s report spirited bidding for top-quality works at the second installment of the Ullens Collection auctions in Hong Kong. Sotheby’s auction featuring Zeng Fanzhi’s The Mask Series, 1998 No.26. Photo: Sotheby’s. Holding the sale in a packed house populated by dozens of mainland Chinese, alongside local buyers and dealers, Sotheby’s saw opening [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of Fine Musical Instruments on October 14. The sale will offer over 150 instruments ranging from an 18th century violin and cello by Giovanni Grancino, to an extraordinary Gibson mandolin, and to more contemporary guitars, including a C.F. Martin model designed in collaboration with Eric Clapton. Guitars Commencing [Read More]
Christie’s South Kensington bi-annual auction of Travel, Science and Natural History held on 29 September 2011 realized a total of £2,018,650 / $3,153,131 / €2,313,373, selling 78% by lot and 93% by value. This result is the highest total ever achieved for this category at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom; the sale was [Read More]
Proxibid (www.proxibid.com), the world’s largest real auction marketplace, will provide live online bidding when a collection of high-end photographic prints and books crosses the auction block to benefit the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. The live auction, featuring auctioneer Denise Bethel, senior vice president and director of the [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York announces that it will offer six works generously donated by leading contemporary artists to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF). Works by Cecily Brown, Tracey Emin, Jim Hodges, Howard Hodgkin, Jeff Koons and Keith Haring will be include in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Sale on 10 November 2011, [Read More]
Doyle New York will auction Prints and Books from The Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation Collection on Tuesday, November 8, 2011. This important single-owner sale brings together Mr. Fath’s two most enduring passions — politics and art. CREEKMORE AND ADELE FATH Creekmore Fath (1916-2009) was an influential figure in Texas politics. [Read More]