Phoenix auction firm, Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc., will host a police marathon auction featuring electronics, jewelry, tools, school district equipment and supplies, city surplus, appliances, computers, sporting goods, household items, furniture, commercial restaurant equipment and much more on Saturday, August 6, 2011. Items of interest for this Phoenix marathon auction [Read More]
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Greg Martin Auctions/Heritage Auctions are joining with the National Rifle Association (NRA) to offer the second “NRA Firearms For Freedom Auction,” beginning Aug. 21, 2011, in Dallas, TX. The special event, featuring donations from NRA members, benefits the NRA, its mission in defense of America’s Second Amendment freedoms, our nation’s shooting and [Read More]
Christie’s new York announced the single-owner sale of A Connoisseur’s Vision: Property from the Xu Hanqing Collection, which will be offered on September 15, 2011 during Christie’s Asian Art Week. This elite group of 150 objects includes rare and important examples of ancient Chinese paintings, rare calligraphy, lustrous jades, an assortment of [Read More]
Estate auctions fill Rago’s galleries with 18th, 19th and early 20th century furnishings, decorative arts and fine arts including lamps and metalwork, rugs, American folk art, Native American, bronzes, prints, Asian art and antiques, glass and porcelain. Select highlight: Edouard Jean Baptiste Detaille (French, 1848-1912), Oil on canvas, French Infantry soldier, $15,000-20,000. [Read More]
Other prominent collections will also cross the block that weekend, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – The lifetime country store, advertising and toy collection of Mike and Colleen Empey will headline a major auction slated for the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2 by Showtime Auctions. The event will be held [Read More]
A small leather-bound book that powerfully evokes ‘The Few’ of WWII Battle of Britain, listing 107 signatures of RAF flying officers, sold at Bonhams Militaria Sale in Oxford yesterday, August 2nd, for £33,600. The pre-sale estimate was just £6,000 to £8,000. It went to a private British buyer. Collected by Norman Phillips, [Read More]
The auction will take place in the firm’s gallery, at 544 E. Sixth Street in Panama City, Fla. (PANAMA CITY, Fla.) – A whopping nine local consignors, together boasting hundreds of lots in an eclectic mix of categories, will be packed into a one-day multi-estate sale on Saturday, Aug. 27, at The [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will offer 20th century furniture, ceramics, glass and carpets from the Chicago home of collector Colleen Sullivan in a dedicated auction on 21 September 2011. A Midcentury Eye: The Collection of Colleen Sullivan will showcase works by prominent European and American designers from the 1930s through the 1960s, featuring [Read More]
Following up on a spring season that reached great heights, including a May sale that realized $1.43 million, John Moran Auctioneers once again offered a large selection of items from estates and private collections. The July 19th Antiques auction featured more than 500 lots of American and European decorative and fine arts. [Read More]
Richard Harvey, European Head of Wine for Bonhams and a Master of Wine, has been promoted to head the company’s international wine business which includes wine sales in London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Matthew Girling, Bonhams CEO Europe, said: “This is a very significant appointment for Bonhams. [Read More]
Top shark experts are allowing themselves to be auctioned during Shark Week 2011 to raise funds for the Shark Research Institute’s conservation programs. Up for auction are dinners (or lunches) with the world’s foremost shark experts. Each winning bidder has the unique opportunity to “talk shark” face- to-face, one-on-one, with a real [Read More]
A 1932 Packard Twin Six Individual Custom Convertible Sedan has auctioned for $1,100,000 at RM Sale at the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s. 1932 Packard Twin Six Individual Custom Convertible Sedan. Photo: Shooterz.biz ©2011 Courtesy of RM Auctions One of just two built and virtually unseen for nearly half a [Read More]
Early U.S. coinage experiments and rare proof strikings are among the top highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Aug. 11-12 Chicago Signature® U.S. Coins & Platinum Night Auction, at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare. “The front cover of our Platinum Night catalog, our collection of the ‘best of the best’ in this auction, has three [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company has announced the ceramics highlights from its London Design auction. The sale will offer the most important group of Modernist ceramics ever to appear at auction. Approximately forty works have been selected from the renowned Berkeley Collection. Formed during a period of nearly thirty years of close [Read More]
From August through November, the firm will be busy at its gallery facility in Pittsfield, Mass. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The first half of 2011 was kind to Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, and now the firm plans to finish the year strong with a series of four big auctions slated for August through November. [Read More]
Grey Flannel Auctions have announced details of its Sixth Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Auction and other special events associated with the 2011 BHOF induction ceremony. The live auction will take place on Friday, Aug. 12 at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. This year’s enshrinement is [Read More]
An exceptionally rare set of photographic albums of the Dutch East Indies by the pioneering Victorian photographers, Walter Woodbury and James Page, is to be auctioned at the India and Beyond sale at Bonhams in London on 4 October. The six volumes, estimated between £40,000-50,000, are an invaluable historical, social, political and [Read More]
The August 1st auction will consist of over 350 lots consigned from estates in the greater New York area including 510 Park Avenue, East 72nd St. and Riverside Drive, Manhattan; plus homes in Larchmont, New Rochelle and Bayside, NY; Greenwich and Westport, CT and Englewood, New Jersey. FINE ART in this auction [Read More]