Auction News

Not only are prices sailing past the high estimates, but attendance is up, in-house and online. (WINDSOR, Conn.) – The economy may have turned the corner and is headed in a positive direction, if recent sale results posted by Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, Inc., are an accurate barometer. Prices realized from December forward, [Read More]

The world’s largest auction of Château Lafite Rothschild (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., America’s largest wine auction house, is pleased to announce The Lafite Auction, a sale devoted exclusively to the wines of Château Lafite Rothschild. This special sale will be held on March 19th in Chicago, and will [Read More]

Bonhams are to sell a truly unique motorcycle which has spectacularly covered over 1million kilometres at the hands of one careful owner. It will be auctioned at the International Motorcycle Show in Staffordshire on April 24th 2011 and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £35,000 – £40,000. Fondly nicknamed Vinnylonglegs, this 1955 [Read More]

Stephenson’s Auction, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a full service auction company General Auction, Friday, February 11, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 11th 2PM-4PM General Auction, Friday, February 18, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 18th 2PM-4PM General Auction, Friday, February 25, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 25th 2PM-4PM Stephenson’s Auction 1005 Industrial Blvd Southampton, [Read More]

Jewellery and silver belonging to the daughter of the famous French society painter Paul Cesar Helleu, one of the models for a central character in Marcel Proust’s monumental novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (sometimes known as ‘Remembrance of Things Past’),’ is to be auctioned at Bonhams in Edinburgh on 2 March. [Read More]

After five days of high-energy crowds and eager bidding, Mecum Auctions announces total gross sales (excluding buyer’s premium) for its 2011 Kissimmee Auction reached an impressive $39.9 million. With sales continuing to take place after the weekend event via Mecum’s “The Bid Goes On” department, the company anticipates final totals will certainly [Read More]

Bonhams announces the upcoming sale of Dogs in Show and Field: The Fine Art Sale on Wednesday, February 16, 2011. This is Bonhams 29th Annual Sale and has long become a must for dog art collectors, standing alone as the market leader for the genre. Coinciding with the auction and the Westminster [Read More]

A complete set of the first 150 editions of Gay News which belonged to its editor, Denis Lemon, is coming up for auction at the Printed Books and Manuscripts sale at Bonhams in London on 22 March. Gay News first appeared in June 1972. Founded by ex-members of the Gay Liberation Front [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company have announced highlights from the forthcoming Under the Influence auction. The sale will present a selection of 288 works including contemporary art, photographs and design. Portrait 5, Stephen(s), 2009 – 2010, a noted work of portraiture attributed to Stephen Colbert, enhanced by the artistic contributions of Shepard [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to present a selection of rare, intricate views of early America through illustrated volumes and art books during its Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on February 13, 2011. The firm will present a book, prominently featuring California backdrops, of 100 hand-colored lithograph plates and accompanying text by [Read More]

On Sunday, February 6th at 10:00 am, Clarke Auction’s Super Bowl Kick Off will feature 400+ lots drawn from estates in Pelham, the East and West Side, Park Avenue, Forest Hills, Scarsdale, Larchmont, Riverdale, and the personal storage unit of Hiram Hoelzer, noted New York and Greenwich art restorer. Fine Art includes [Read More]

The phone, mail, catalog and Internet auction is already online, at www.SeriousToyz.com. (CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nearly 1,200 lots of rare, vintage toys, many of them mint in the box and highly desirable pieces, will be sold in a phone, mail, Internet and catalog auction already online at SeriousToyz.com. The sale will conclude [Read More]

The all-day marathon sale will be held in Fontaine’s gallery facility, located in Pittsfield, Mass. One lot – a magnificent pair of Carl Faberge silver figural candelabra – could bring $100,000. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A massive, two-session cataloged antique auction featuring over 800 lots of period furniture, vintage clocks and lighting, firearms, [Read More]

Hart Davis Hart, America’s largest wine auction house, opened 2011 with a highly-charged auction of finest and rarest wines, selling 100% of lots and posting $4.6 million in sales against a pre-sale auction estimate of $2.9m-$4.3m, and achieving a 10% increase in prices over December. Attendees filled the auction room in downtown [Read More]

More than 100 pieces of historic, rare Orange County California paper money from the collection of the late William (“Willie”) Pannier, long-time owner of the Fullerton Coin & Stamps store, will be offered in an auction to be conducted by Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles (www.GoldbergCoins.com) in Beverly Hills, February [Read More]

The multi-estate auction was conducted in the 4H Hall of the Sedgwick County Extension Ctr. (WICHITA, Kan.) – Two lots of R.S. Prussia – a 15-inch carnation mold centerpiece bowl and a 13-piece service, also in the carnation mold – realized identical selling prices of $4,300 at a multi-estate sale held Jan. [Read More]

Famed illustrator Garth Williams original graphite 1953 cover art for Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder – familiar image to anyone that has read the classic books since the Fifties – will be part of Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 11 Signature® Illustration Art Auction in Beverly Hills. It is expected [Read More]

A remarkable pair of Rolls-Royces commissioned in the livery of the world famous department store, Harrods, are to be sold in Bonhams’ Paris sale of Motor Cars at the Grand Palais on 5 February 2011. One of the cars – a Rolls-Royce Phantom V Limousine 1963 – was the property of H.R.H. [Read More]