Auction News

Sotheby’s London is to offer The Philatelic Collection of Lord Steinberg, in a series of two sales on 6-8 September and 21 September 2011. The first three-day sale comprises British Empire Mint Multiples, and the second sale on the 21st will feature Great Britain Mint Multiples exclusively. The unique characteristic of the [Read More]

The market in rare and vintage movie posters showed steady strength in Heritage Auctions’ $1.3+ million Signature® Movie Poster Auction on July 16 in Dallas, with an insert poster to Universal’s 1935 horror classic Werewolf of Londonleading the pack with a $47,800 final price realized. All prices quoted include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. [Read More]

Christie’s International, announced worldwide sales for the first half of 2011 of £2.0 billion ($3.2 billion), up 15% by £ on last year’s figure of £1.7 billion (Figures include buyer’s premium). In Continental Europe and the UK, auction sales totalled £803.4 million ($1.3 billion), up 24% in £ on the first half [Read More]

A 1952 New York Yankees team-signed baseball, signed by both Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, and still bearing Marilyn’s lipstick, kept in a box in a closet for years, is expected to bring in excess of $20,000 when it is offered as part of Heritage Auctions Aug. 4 Signature® Vintage Sports Collectibles [Read More]

A truly unique, handmade automobile will be auctioned by Bonhams at its forthcoming Quail Lodge sale, held each August in Carmel, California during the world-famous Pebble Beach Car Week. The custom-made 1925 Rolls-Royce New Phantom was originally commissioned by Sahib Bahadur of India, officially known as Umed Singh II, Maharaja of Kotah, [Read More]

Cowan’s July 23, 2011 Summer Fine and Decorative Art Auction brought in some surprising sales over-estimate as bidders battled competitively for 362 lots. With 995 bidders from sixteen countries, the auction sales total reached just over $430,500.00. The sale, held at Cowan’s sales room, offered fine and decorative art items from the [Read More]

A design masterpiece by Virgil Exner and bodied by Ghia, this stunning 1952 Chrysler D’Elegance leads a host of sensational concept cars poised to cross RM’s Monterey auction podium next month, August 19 – 20 in California. Hemi-powered on a shortened New Yorker chassis, this stunning concept debuted at the 1952 Paris [Read More]

Signature Chef Auction Chairs Jason & Jaclyn Brodie and Joshua & Marcy Friedman of Brodie & Friedman PA are pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Signature Chefs Auction will be held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club September 9, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event begins with [Read More]

Morphy Auctions’ CEO Dan Morphy has announced the addition of a full-service sports memorabilia department to his company’s growing roster of specialty divisions. The new department is supervised by Morphy’s chief operation officer Tom Sage Jr. “We decided to open a sports department because of the increasing number of requests from collectors [Read More]

Sothebys London Finest and Rarest Wines auction totaled $1,387,218 £861,626 ($1,387,218). Stephen Mould, Head of Sotheby’s European Wine Department, said: “A solid end to one of our most successful first half years ever. We are already 70% up on last year’s total for the same period with sales in London exceeding £11,000,000. [Read More]

A case of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982, Pauillac, brought $50,788 to lead the day in the joint Heritage Auctions and Greg Martin Auctions $2.7+ million June 16 Signature® Wine Auction, held at the company’s Beverly Hills offices and simulcast live to Hong Kong. “Good results across the board,” said Frank Martell, Heritage’s [Read More]

The World Land Trust and ethical coloured gemstones mining company, Gemfields, together with Jaguar Land Rover and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA India), have collaborated with ten of India’s top jewellery designers to create a unique ‘pop up’ collection of bespoke Zambian emerald jewellery. Following the success of ‘Emeralds for Elephants’ [Read More]

Proxibid, will be the exclusive online bidding provider for Terry’s Furniture & Auction’s sale of a huge collection of fine arts, collectible toys, military items and vastly historic photo albums. The live auction will commence Saturday, July 30 at 2.00 p.m. Eastern, with online webcasting beginning simultaneously. To pre-bid or to view [Read More]

Seven images of a young Marilyn Monroe, then known as Norma Jeane – including one of Norma Jeane smiling in the California surf that, until recently, had remained unseen – are being offered by the family of acclaimed Hollywood photographer Richard C. Miller, as the Richard C. Miller Archive, as part of [Read More]

Churchill Told Doublas Bader Not to Lose this Book A small leather-bound book that powerfully evokes ‘The Few’ of WWII Battle of Britain, listing 107 signatures of RAF flying officers, goes on sale at Bonhams Militaria Sale in Oxford on August 2nd. Collected by Norman Phillips, a mess steward at RAF Marklesham [Read More]

Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, will showcase a significant selection of works on paper by 22 Modern Masters at its next 24-Hour Auction. The selection includes works by leading Indian artists Tyeb Mehta, V.S. Gaitonde, F.N. Souza, Nasreen Mohamedi, Arpita Singh, Jogen Chowdhury and more. The auction, which begins [Read More]

Bonhams announce the consignment of two very special cars for its Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia Sale at the Goodwood Revival Meeting on 16 September. In the 50th anniversary year of the E-Type Jaguar, these two tremendously exciting early consignments are none other than the ex-Sir Robert Ropner ‘Semi-Lightweight’ E-Type plus the [Read More]

Nursery equipment, supplies and other Division of Forestry inventory will be sold An absolute public auction will be held at the former Marietta State Nursery headquarters in Reno on Saturday, July 23, at 10 a.m., according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Forestry. The auction will be held [Read More]