Auction News

Heritage Auctions has announced that Derek Grady has joined the company as Vice President of Sports Auctions. Derek will assist with management of day-to-day operations of the Sports Collectibles department and utilize his extensive background in the trading card field to expand the breadth and quality of the sports offerings. “Derek is [Read More]

Dan Morphy, CEO of Morphy Auctions LLC, has announced the appointment of Brian Estepp to the position of director of promotions. In his new role, Estepp, who previously served as an expert consultant on selected Morphy sales, will be involved in business development through personal contact with collectors at shows, conventions and [Read More]

It will be an on-site auction, at the Commander residence, 443 North Star Ave. in Panama City. (PANAMA CITY, Fla.) – The living estate of James Commander, a collector of vintage primitives and period American Victorian furniture, will be sold on Saturday, June 11, at 9 a.m. (CDT), by The Specialists of [Read More]

Dedham, MA – Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers are gearing up for a fabulous two-day auction, May 21st and 22nd. Comprised of two sessions over two days, Session One will include the Jacob B. Noble Collection of Fine 20th century Art Glass and Modern Paintings and American and European [Read More]

The cricket bat used by the former England Test cricketer, Sir Ian Botham, to drive England to victory on the fourth day of The Ashes in July 1981 is to be sold by Bonhams as part of its sale of of Sporting Memorabilia in Chester on 1 June 2011. It has attracted [Read More]

A superlative Fancy Light Brownish-Pink Diamond, Diamond, Platinum Ring was the subject of intense bidding and great admiration on its way to a final price of $358,500 on Monday, May 2, to top the offerings in Heritage Auctions’ $4.957+ million New York Signature® Fine Jewelry Auction at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion. All prices [Read More]

On the 19th May, Bonhams will hold its third London sale of 2011 at New Bond Street, which will feature an eclectic selection of fine and rare wines, both ancient and modern. The top lot of the sale is eleven bottles of La Tache 1978, Domaine de la Romanee Conti (estimate £18,000-22,000), [Read More]

The auction was held April 23rd at the Sheraton Great Valley hotel facility in Malvern, Pa. (MALVERN, Pa.) – A gorgeous early 19th century Simon Willard tall case clock, regal at 93 ½ inches tall and signed “Warranted by S. Willard” on the dial, sold for $32,900 at a multi-estate auction held [Read More]

Pétrus, Mouton, Lafite and DRC Achieve Top Prices (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart held another highly successful wine auction this weekend in Chicago, realizing $6,382,853 in total sales against a pre-auction estimate of $4,402,640-$6,593,490. Wines from Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Pétrus, and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti generated spirited [Read More]

Julien’s Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills is to auction personal antiques, fine and decorative art, furniture, and memorabilia from the classic 1980’s primetime soap opera Dallas in California on Saturday, June 4, 2011. Larry Hagman, stage, film and television actor, producer, director, and charitable spokesman, is best known for his roles as [Read More]

Sotheby’s offers for sale Part II of the Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Arts of India, on May 31, 2011, This follows the outstanding total of £20.9 million achieved last month for Part I of the Stuart Cary Welch Collection Arts of the Islamic World which established an auction record for any Islamic [Read More]

Dedham, MA – Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers are pleased to announce the sale of the Jacob B. Noble Collection of Fine 20th century Art Glass and Modern Paintings, to be held on Saturday, May 21st at 2 p.m. The collection is comprised of over 150 pieces of mid [Read More]

An actual 7” by 4” section from the hull of the doomed ship R.M.S. Titanic, modern history’s most famous shipwreck – consigned by famous author, Hollywood consultant and deep sea archeologist Charles Pellegrino – is expected to bring $4,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ May 21 Americana & Political Memorabilia event. A [Read More]

Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Olga Malyshevaas the company’s representative in Russia, based in Moscow. Olga, 25, is originally from Moscow, where she has worked for the past three years as the Advertising Sales Manager for Tatler Russia. Describing her new job, Olga says: “The Russian people understand [Read More]

Bonhams auctioneers, has appointed Jane Beattie as the company’s representative in Ireland, based in Dublin. She started her new role on April 26th. Matthew Girling, Bonhams CEO for Europe and the Middle East, comments: “We are delighted to have secured the services of Jane Beattie. She will doubtless build on our presence [Read More]

Christie’s Rock and Pop sale in June features clothing, awards, original concert posters, signed photographs and other music memorabilia, from all the biggest names in rock and roll, punk, and pop including The Beatles, David Bowie, The Who, Status Quo and The Spice Girls, among others. Over 200 items will be on [Read More]

The original art from Page 10, issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (DC, 1986) became the single most valuable piece of American comic art to ever sell when it brought $448,125 as part of Heritage Auctions’ May 5 Vintage Comics and Comic Art Auction. Final [Read More]

Tempe auction house, Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc., will host a Phoenix marathon auction featuring bank forced liquidations, fiduciary trusts, jewelry, school district equipment and supplies, surplus including commercial restaurant equipment and much more. Items of interest for this Phoenix marathon auction include: Louis Vuitton and Dooney & Bourke purses, autographed [Read More]