Auction News

The first Rolls-Royce Phantom III to be sold to America, which featured in the award-winning 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth, is to be sold at Bonhams traditional end of year sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December, which this year takes place at Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands in Surrey. [Read More]

Bonhams are to sell a guitar once owned by Jimi Hendrix which his girlfriend of the time said he “used for almost everything he composed in this country”. It will be offered in the Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 15th December 2010 and is estimated to fetch £80,000-120,000. Hendrix, widely considered to be [Read More]

The contents of two architecturally important homes were offered by Stevens Auction Company. BROOKHAVEN, Miss. – A magnificent Lenzkirch grandfather clock crafted circa 1860, 8 feet 2 inches tall and featuring a music box that plays 15 ½ inch discs, soared to $39,200 at an on-site auction held Nov. 6 by Stevens [Read More]

The Bonhams Hong Kong 2010 Autumn Modern Wristwatches Auction offers a unique and rare collection of fine timepieces made by the top watchmakers of the world that will appeal to both beginner collectors and connoisseurs. A few highlights include Lot 1055 Vacheron Constantin Malte, PT950 platinum perpetual calendar wristwatch, manual wind with [Read More]

Sale features Qianlong period jades and several important collections Skinner, Inc. one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it will host an auction of Asian Works of Art on Friday, December 3rd and Saturday, December 4th in the Boston gallery. More than 1,700 lots of [Read More]

The auction – already online, at LiveAuctioneers.com – is slated to end Friday, December 10th STRAFFORD, Pa. – Around 250 lots of fine clocks, estate jewelry and other small items that would make excellent holiday presents will be sold in an online-only auction slated to end Friday, Dec. 10, by Gordon S. [Read More]

Bonhams announce the December 9th auction of property from the estate of Cecil W. Stoughton, the Chief Photographer for the Kennedy White House. The auction will begin at 1 p.m. at the Bonhams gallery located at 580 Madison Avenue at 56th Street. Matthew Haley, Books, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs Specialist, said, “We’re [Read More]

Greg Martin Auctions is proud to join with the NRA (National Rifle Association) to participate in and contribute to the ‘NRA Firearms for Freedom Auction,’ to be held in Las Vegas on January 16, 2011. The special event, featuring charitable donations from NRA members, will be for the exclusive benefit of NRA [Read More]

Around 650 total lots will be offered at the two-session sale; Fine Wine will kick things off. HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – Nearly 650 mostly fresh-to-the-market lots in a dizzying array of categories will be offered at a two-session weekend sale slated for Dec. 3-4 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The [Read More]

A stunning piece of China’s Imperial history – a seal personally commissioned and used by the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) – sold for £2,708,000 at Bonhams Sale of Fine Chinese Art on November 11th in London. The perfect four centimetre square jade seal bearing the inscription ‘Zi Qiang Bu Xi’, (‘Self-Strengthening Never Ceases’) [Read More]

The auction will be held in Adairsville, Ga., north of Atlanta, by Ken’s Antiques & Auction ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. – A huge two-part auction featuring over 200 pieces of rare and important pottery (to include Edgefield pieces by Chandler, works attributed to Dave the Slave, and many pieces by the renowned Meaders family), [Read More]

Dan Morphy Auctions has brought together a superb selection of artworks from private collections and individual consignors for its Dec. 10-11, 2010 sale. A breathtaking Tiffany Studios stained-glass window featuring a lush garden scene with trees, ivy, vines and roses adds the ultimate “wow” factor to the sale. The framed 43- by [Read More]

Skinner, Inc. will host its annual auction of Science, Technology & Clocks on November 20th in its Marlborough gallery, located at 274 Cedar Hill Street. The sale, which starts at 10 a.m., includes an impressive collection of rare clocks and timepieces, a strong offering of militaria including Revolutionary and Civil War material, [Read More]

The auction will be held in Flowery Branch, Ga., by Flowery Branch Auction & Antiques FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. – Hundreds of lots of quality, fresh-to-the-market pieces of high-end furniture, fine art, china, pottery, decorative accessories, collectibles and more will be sold at auction Saturday, Nov. 27, by Flowery Branch Auction & Antiques, [Read More]

The Estate Archive of Edgar G. Ulmer, one of the greatest Film Noir and Horror filmmakers of all time, consigned directly from his daughter Arianne Ulmer Cipes, provides the anchor to Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills’ Signature® Music & Entertainment Auction, Nov. 13-14. The treasures in this remarkable archive include Ulmer’s storyboard for [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions offer Americana & Fine Books including Original Designs in New York, 8 December 2010, 10am & 2pm. Sale to include Americana featuring Selections from the Papers of William D. Hassett, Correspondence Secretary to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Rare original designs for landmark New York hotels including the facade of the [Read More]

Headlining the event will be a pair of beautifully restored 1962 Chevy II Nova classic cars BRISTOL, Conn. – The estate of the late J. Alphonse “Al” Roy, a lifelong resident of Bristol who passed away in August at age 77, will be sold in an on-site auction scheduled to take place [Read More]

Two Jowett motor cars, a 1924 Jowett 7hp Type C and a 1952 Jowett Javelin Saloon, which were both produced at the Bradford-based company’s headquarters in Idle, West Yorkshire, are to be sold by Bonhams in Harrogate on 17 November 2010. Part of the Collectors’ Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia sale, they [Read More]