The piece was the top lot in a sale of the collection of Bill and Sue Frick of Missouri, April 30. (ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – A beautiful bride’s basket boasting a strong cranberry glass bowl with dentil style edge, set atop a fabulous Simpson Hall & Miller figural stand with a Kate [Read More]
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of both the Indianapolis 500 and of the car that was “born” at America’s most famous motor race. Stutz was an Indiana-based motorcar company founded in 1911 by Harry Stutz. Its first model, the brawny Bearcat, made its debut boldly entering and completing the first Indy [Read More]
Christie’s, will present its spring sale of magnificent jewels on 31 May at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. With a pre-sale estimate exceeding HK$550 million/US$70 million, this auction will offer collectors close to 300 pieces of rare diamonds, fine coloured gemstones and exceptional jadeite. Leading the sale is The Imperial [Read More]
On June 2, 2011, PBA Galleries of San Francisco will offer at auction one of the finest private collections in existence of the literary and artistic work of the poet Charles Bukowski. Featuring a large selection of original typed, signed poems, a rare group of original paintings, and scarce broadsides and ephemera [Read More]
The weekend event will be held in the firm’s showroom, at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, N.Y. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A three-day weekend mega-sale featuring Disney items, toys, toy soldiers, Hollywood memorabilia, toy trains, vintage dolls, mechanical and still banks, folk art pieces, cast-iron door stops, advertising items, World’s Fair material and [Read More]
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary will hold two (2) Public Auctions, Saturday, May 14, 2011, and Saturday, May 21, 2011, to sell unneeded convent furnishings of the congregation. The auctions, conducted by Father Time® Auctions, will take place in the convent, 1100 Bellevue Avenue in Richmond Heights, MO, 63117. There will be [Read More]
The Milwaukee Braves jersey worn by Hall of Fame outfielder Hank Aaron during his rookie season brought $167,300 on Friday, April 22, as part of Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Sports Collectibles auction, establishing the highest price ever paid at auction for Aaron game used memorabilia. The auction totaled just more than $3.7 million, [Read More]
Bonhams will be auctioning a truly one-of-a-kind motorcycle offered in collaboration with the most successful motorcycle racer of his era, Valentino Rossi. As written about in the April 2010 issues of both Cycle World and Motorcyclist, a highly upgraded and customized 2009 Yamaha YZF-R1 1000cc – the civilian version of the MotoGP [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields, announce the company’s eighth offering of exceptional writing instruments in the United States on May 23, 2011. The auction contains over 200 lots and offers a diverse selection of excellent fountain pens, chiefly Montblancs, including a Sir Winston Churchill fountain pen, the last of 53 produced. Churchill famously preferred [Read More]
Sotheby’s have announced the sale on 14 July 2011 in London of the earliest rules of club football, being sold as part of the historic archive of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC (established 1857), which is estimated at £800,000 ? £1,200,000*. This extraordinary and unique piece of sporting history, which [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer exceptional items from all over Europe in it’s Paris sale on May 17. The highlight promises to be an exceptional gold and enamel snuff-box, inset with an agate cameo of Napoleon’s brother-in-law (and King of Naples) Joachim Murat and his hair (est. €60,000-80,000*). There will also be a gold [Read More]
The sign was the top lot in a sale held April 16 at Redlands Antique Auction in Redlands, Calif. (REDLANDS, Calif.) – A round Union “Minute Man Service” double-sided porcelain sign with graphics, 30 inches in diameter and boasting great gloss and color, sold for $12,938 – a new record price for [Read More]
The May Sale includes items to suit all tastes and pockets AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION of 17th and 18th Century Italian marble sculpture will be offered in the hugely popular sale of Garden Statuary and Ornament – both antique and modern – at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby’s) on Tuesday, May [Read More]
The stellar cellar of a northeast gentleman is expected to bring in the range of $3,000,000 when it comes under the hammer on May 6 at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills (simulcast to SHORE Bar & Restaurant, 3rd Floor, The L Place, 139 Queens Road, Central, in Hong Kong, the morning of [Read More]
A rare, hand written pre-production storyboard for one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most problematic films, ‘Stage Fright’, of 1950 is for sale at the Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 7 June. It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. The production files for all Hitchcock’s films after 1940 are kept in the [Read More]
Swann Galleries will conduct a two-session auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books, and 19th & 20th Century Literature, on May 12. The sale begins at 10:30 a.m. with a selection of architecture and art journals, livres d’artiste, fine private press books, original illustrations and works on fashion and design. The afternoon [Read More]
American Race Into Space Celebrated At Bonhams New York Auction On The 50th Anniversary Of Alan Shepard’s First Space-Flight Bonhams New York annual Space History sale takes place on Thursday May 5 at its saleroom on Madison Avenue, and features 250 lots that chronicle the Space Race, space exploration and the American [Read More]
The on-site absolute auction will be held in Ethelsville, Ala., a few miles from Columbus, Miss. (ETHELSVILLE, Ala.) – “There’s too much great stuff!” lamented Dwight Stevens of Stevens Auction Company. He was referring to the upcoming on-site liquidation of the contents of Nostalgia Furniture, nationally known furniture makers. The auction was [Read More]