Auction News

Spectrum Wine Auctions’ Autumn 2011 Rare Wine Auction will take place September 24 & 25 at 11:00 a.m. HKT at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel. The entire two-day event features a total of 1,606 lots of rare and collectible wines, and carries a pre-sale estimate of nearly US $6 million (HK [Read More]

On Saturday, October 1st and Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at noon, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its third auction of 20th C. Design for the year. Included among the more than 950 lots are rare vessels and art works descended from Susan Frackelton’s family; a fine and extensive collection [Read More]

On September 24th, Christie’s New York will offer wine collectors a rare opportunity to bid for some of these “crown jewels,” as the auction house presents a special selection of legendary bottles direct from the private cellar of Inglenook owner Francis Ford Coppola, including two bottles of the legendary 1941 vintage. This [Read More]

A selection of personal handwritten letters by James Dean, which have never been offered for sale before, are to be sold at Christie’s auction of Popular Culture: Film and Entertainment Memorabilia in South Kensington on 23 November 2011. The letters are each addressed to Dean’s on-off girlfriend of two years, Barbara Glenn. [Read More]

Auctioneer, television appraiser and expert, Phil Weiss, will auction to the highest bidder a collection of over 500 lots of Disneyana art and memorabilia, Comic books and Comic art on Sunday Sept. 25 beginning at 10:00 am ET at his gallery in Oceanside NY. Featuring “The Adirondack Collection” of Comic Art, with [Read More]

On Sept. 16, Stephenson’s Auctioneers located in the Philadelphia suburb of Southampton will conduct a sale of goods and inventory from William Glatz Jewelers, one of the last of Philadelphia’s traditional jewelry, watch and clock shops. The auction additionally includes superb antique American furniture and sterling silver from the living estate of [Read More]

Just about anyone who collects antique gambling or coin-op machines knew the late Bob Levy. He was such a presence in his field of expertise that he became known throughout the world as simply “the slot machine guy.” On Sept. 3rd, more than 200 coin-op enthusiasts gathered at Dan Morphy’s auction gallery [Read More]

Sotheby’s announced that it will hold the Anita Mui – Jewels and Watches From The Estate auction on 5 October during Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sale 2011, offering exclusively 43 lots of jewels and watches as well as memorabilia items from the estate of Anita Mui (1963 – 2003) – the legendary [Read More]

An unrestored works racing team 1953 Austin-Healey ‘100’ Special Test Car has been consigned to Bonhams’ December Sale at Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge.This remarkably charismatic Le Mans car was campaigned in period by works drivers Lance Macklin, Gordon Wilkins and Marcel Becquart and is expected to realise in excess of £500,000. One of [Read More]

The first free antique valuation day at Weston Hall, Stafford was a resounding success yesterday (8th September). Richard Winterton was on hand to give his expert advice on all aspects of the auction business. Highlights included a vast consignment of hallmarked silver wares, a rare doll automaton and a number of rare [Read More]

The event will be held in the firm’s gallery facility, located at 1015 Julia Street in New Orleans. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – Hundreds of lots of original artwork, fine period furniture, wonderful estate jewelry, sterling silver, decorative accessories and more will be sold at a multi-estate auction planned for Saturday, Sept. 24, [Read More]

Steeped in the glamorous era of 1960s film stars, La Dolce Vita, open-top sports cars and smoke- wreathed dinners, Bulgari became the byword that encapsulated the fashion and innovation in Italy at the time. With the realisation that film stars could provide the perfect setting for their stones, the jewellery house ensured [Read More]

The auction will be conducted at Lake Alice Park in Wewahitchka, Florida, near Panama City. (WEWAHITCHKA, Fla.) – Hundreds of items from the once-thriving (but now closed) Finders Keepers antiques shop, plus a massive mostly-Lionel toy train set (many pieces from the 1930s), will be sold Sat., Sept. 24, in an on-site [Read More]

The dresser box was the top lot of the 345 or so items that changed hands in Boynton Beach. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – An antique Meissen hand-painted oval-covered dresser box with incredible reticulated design throughout sold for $14,375 at a multi-estate sale held Aug. 27 by Elite Decorative Arts. The 19th century [Read More]

(Beverly Hills, CA) Artfact Live! will offer live online bidding for Julien’s Auctions’ sale of property from the estate of Tony Curtis, taking place September 17, 2011 and encompassing over 450 items from the life and career of the renowned actor. Items up for auction include an original work by Andy Warhol, [Read More]

Nine original portrait miniatures by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), known as “The Artist of the American Revolution,” along with five more attributed “in the manner of” Peale, are currently on display and available for private treaty purchase at Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills. They will remain on display until the end of September. [Read More]

Christie’s will host the sale of Important American Furniture, Folk Art & Decorative Arts, in New York on September 28. This sale features over 90 exceptionally rare and diverse examples of American art and craftsmanship from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries, including pieces from outstanding private collections and public institutions. This [Read More]

The two-session auction will be conducted on-site, at 30 Howard Hill Road in Jaffrey, N.H. (JAFFREY, N.H.) – A two-session auction featuring a lifetime single-owner collection of petroliana, automobilia, snowmobile collectibles, antique Volkswagen Beetles and other vehicles and trailers will be held Saturday, Sept. 24, by Matthews Auctions, LLC, based in Nokomis, [Read More]