Third Highest Total For A Sotheby’s Wine Sale in London since the new millennium – World Auction Record Price for Le Pin 1982 at £80,500 for six magnums Sotheby’s London two?day wine sale, featuring An Impressive Private Collection, concluded yesterday with a total of £2,342,953 ($3,819,013), exceeding the pre?sale estimate of £1.7 [Read More]
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Around 1,400 lots changed hands over the course of the two days. The sale grossed $600,000. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Three original, signed Peanuts daily comic strips from the 1960s by the late renowned illustrator Charles Schulz sold for a combined $40,115 at a multi-estate sale held on non-consecutive weekend days (June 9 [Read More]
Specialized dealer in 20th Century furniture Lampedo will be organizing a first time online auction with Italian vintage design by important architects and designers such as Gio Ponti, Gino Sarfatti, Ettore Sottsass, Angelo Lelli and Ico Parisi. For sale will be furniture, lighting and objets d’art in glass and ceramic. Platform for [Read More]
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place on Tuesday 21 June 2011 and will offer 92 lots with a pre-sale estimate of £115 million to £164 million*. Representing artistic movements from throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, and including works by many of the most celebrated artists of [Read More]
1910 Joe Jackson Card Sells For Record $200,000; Lou Gehrig Jersey $329,000; T206 Wagner hammered down at $188,000; Countless Baseball Card Auction Records Shattered At REA!!! Watchung, New Jersey. The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market amazed collectors at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 7, 2011 auction. An astounding 179 [Read More]
Richard Winterton Auctioneers announce a special antiques valuation day in aid of Far Fillimore Rest Home, Hanbury near Burton On Trent. The valuation day is being held on Saturday 25th June from 2pm to 4pm in conjunction with the annual fete in the grounds. All are welcome to dig out their treasures [Read More]
The “Fighting Pair” dinosaurs, an allosaurus and stegosaurus so named because they were found literally on top of one another in Wyoming’s Dana Quarry – with the jaw of the allosaurus clamped around the leg of the stegosaurus, leading to the speculation that they were engaged in mortal combat at the moment [Read More]
RM Auctions is to offer a 1935 Bugatti Type 57 Roadster at its annual Monterey, California sale on August 19 – 20. Taking place the same weekend as the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance during the famed automotive week festivities, the Monterey auction is considered one of the highlights of the RM Auctions [Read More]
Taft Mackenzie Ventures is hosting a silent auction where 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit The Children’s Miracle Network, which treats 17 million children for every disease and injury imaginable. The festive and philanthropic evening, held alongside the downtown Ohio hotel’s weekly lobby lounge event – will offer guests a chance [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields‘ Entertainment Memorabilia auction on June 26, 2011 in Los Angeles will feature a wide variety of items related to Hollywood, Rock ‘n Roll and Animation Art. Highlights will include pieces connected to Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Nightmare Before Christmas and the grand dames of old Hollywood: Barbara [Read More]
On Saturday June 18, Trinity International Auctions and Appraisals will be conducting the sale of a unique selection of European and American paintings, prints, and sculpture as well as works by Russian and Asian artists at Trinity International’s headquarters on 2 Arts Center Lane. Highlights of the auction are to include a [Read More]
It was an Exceptional Cataloged Antique Auction, held at Fontaine’s gallery in Pittsfield, Mass. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A monumental circa-1890 R.J. Horner figural carved mahogany 12-piece dining room set – consisting of a dining table, sideboard, china cabinet, server and set of eight dining room chairs – soared to $100,300 at an [Read More]
A wine glass that is thought to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte is to be part of the auction of Fine British and European Glass and Paperweights on 15th June 2011 at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London. The glass is offered in a red-leather coated wooden case with gilded toolwork, and attached [Read More]
A silver rose water dish with links to the Royal family, the Royal Ballet and one of the National Trust’s best loved gardens is for sale at the Fine Silver Sale at Bonhams on 22 June. The Messel dish, estimated at between £10,000-15,000 was a 21st birthday present to Linley Messel whose [Read More]
Pickett Racing’s 427 Corvette historic racer started life as a brand new 1967 427-435HP Tri-power Coupe. Its owner at that time, Dr. Bill Green of California, immediately converted it to an SCCA A/Production racer; at which point Dr. Green partnered up with Greg Pickett of Pickett Racing to form the Pickett Racing [Read More]
An exceptionally well-known, competition-winning 1925 Bugatti Type 35B Grand Prix two-seater, which was owned by former director of the Bugatti Owners’ Club and past editor of Bugantics magazine, Jack Perkins, is to be sold by Bonhams, as part of its annual sale of Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia at Goodwood Festival of [Read More]
Bonhams forthcoming Australian Winter Auction Series offers a cornucopia of surprises and rare delights in every collecting arena which mirrors this company’s strong and diverse global presence. In the short space of a year, Bonhams’ has evolved its Australian team of sensitive, academically respected specialists with an impressive wealth of market expertise [Read More]
A 1975 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Long-Wheelbase Limousine that was owned by both Princess Margaret and later by Burt Reynolds is to be sold by Bonhams as part of the Rolls-Royce, Bentley Motor Cars & Automobilia sale at Rockingham Castle, Leicestershire on the 18th June. After WW2 Rolls-Royce became the preferred choice of [Read More]