Auction News

Bonhams & Butterfields announce the March 21, 2011 auction of Salon Jewelry and Watches, featuring a five-strand coral bead necklace originally owned by Grace Sefton Mayer, a member of the infamous female pilot group the “Ninety Nines,” founded by Amelia Earhart. The stunning multi-strand necklace, passed through Mayer’s family to its current [Read More]

On Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 10:00 am, Skinner Inc. will conduct a sale of fine jewelry in its Boston gallery at 63 Park Plaza. The one day auction of over 700 lots will include antique, period and contemporary jewelry from famous makers such as Tiffany & Co, Cartier, Van Cleef & [Read More]

Bonhams this week announced the appointment of three new recruits to its growing team in Australia. Litsa Veldekis joins Bonhams in Sydney on March 14 as Head of Australian and International Art and hits the ground running with a first sale of Australian Art in August. James Hendy, Bonhams MD in Australia, [Read More]

Morphy’s March 11-12 auction features an exceptional collection of multi-piece Coca-Cola signs known as “festoons,” which were created by the soft drink giant specifically for display in soda fountains from around 1900 till the middle of the 20th century. Kevin Roche, a mergers and acquisitions adviser from Minnesota, spent the last 20 [Read More]

Sotheby’s will offer the Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule, which paved the way for Gagarin’s historic mission, in a dedicated auction in New York on 12 April 2011, the 50th anniversary of man’s first flight into outer space (est. $2/10 million*). The space capsule will be on public exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue [Read More]

On Sunday, February 27 at 12:00 noon, Clarke Auction will sell 360+ lots drawn from estates in Bronxville, Greenwich, Larchmont, Ossining, Park Avenue, Central Park West, and Brooklyn Heights. Fine art includes works by Samuel Colman, A.V. Willis, Alexander Brook, John Frederick Herring II, Carlos Vazquez, Andre Andreoli, Paul Jouve, Charles Culver, [Read More]

The High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction has named its Special Guest of Honor for 2011: Michael Browne of Kosta Browne Winery. Its Special Friend-in-Wine is Joy Sterling of Iron Horse Vineyards. The 19th annual Wine Auction, “The Ultimate Collection: A Sumptuous Blend of Wine, Art, Food and Friends,” is scheduled for March [Read More]

A painting entitled Sea Treasures, by the artist Winifred Nicholson will be offered by Bonhams in the 20th Century British Art sale on 9th March, New Bond Street. It is estimated to sell for £50,000 –70,000. Nicholson painted the scene in from the window sill of the house in Sandaig, belonging to [Read More]

Personal items of several astronauts will be sold in the Space History Sale taking place at Bonhams, New York on May 5th. The sale will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Alan Shepard’s historic mission on Freedom 7 as the first American in Space. Items from the Forbes collection and from the estate [Read More]

A superb collection of high-grade anti-communist comic books from the 1950s, from The Collection of Todd Warren, will make for an esoteric and interesting corner of Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 24-25 Signature® Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction. All are being sold without reserves. “The youth of America was seen as fair game [Read More]

Gateway Gallery Auction’s Winter Americana Estate Auction, held on February 19, 2011, featured a wonderful collection of period furniture, textiles, prints, pottery and ceramics, dolls and Native Americana from a local Doctor’s estate. After a bustling week of pre-auction activity; the sale got underway with a strong in house crowd, a large [Read More]

An impressive early 20th century Chinese carved ivory vase was the top lot of Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers’ auction of Asian, Continental, & American Furniture, Decorative Arts, & Fine Art on January 29, 2011. On display the week prior to the sale, the 14 ½” tall vase, adorned with intricate, continuous carving [Read More]

Day and some of the most beautiful women ever painted proved an irresistible triumvirate to Illustration Art collectors at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills on Friday, Feb. 11 for the company’s $4.132 million Signature® Illustration Art auction. All prices below reflect 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. “The market is as strong and the demand [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Hundreds of quality, fresh-to-the-market lots in a rainbow of categories will cross the block the weekend of Mar. 4-6 at Philip Weiss Auctions, in the firm’s gallery located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside. Offered will be vintage toys and trains, dolls, toy soldiers, comics, comic art, animation, Disney, [Read More]

While Washington, D.C., has long been a hive for international activity, the district’s suburb of Falls Church, Va., is where the fine art of many nations will be showcased on Saturday, March 5. That’s when Quinn’s Auction Galleries will host its 500-lot International Furnishings, Fine & Decorative Arts sale. “The selection of [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields presents its first Wine Auction of 2011 on Saturday, February 26th in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles. The sale, consisting of numerous fine and rare wines, will feature several collections of important burgundy that include strong offerings of vertical vintages. The auction also includes several highly sought after [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sale of Finest and Rarest Wines on 23 February, 2011, will include a plethora of delectable wines, including a superb private collection of top Bordeaux, the finest vintages of Domaine de la Romanée?Conti produced in the last 20 years, and a selection of Masseto and Ornellaia from the private cellar [Read More]

A top-tier private collection of gold, platinum and precious-gem jewelry amassed over several decades will be featured in a single-session, no-reserve specialty auction at Morphy’s gallery on Feb. 26, 2011. The collection – whose consignors previously owned fine jewelry stores in Florida – consists primarily of superior-quality estate jewelry selected “with a [Read More]