A single owner sale of Tribal Art from Africa from a private New York Collector is on offer at Gray’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, on November 18 at 1pm in Gray’s auction showrooms in Cleveland, Ohio, with simultaneous online bidding offered by Gray’s Live bidding, together with telephone, absentee and live in-person bidding. [Read More]
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The partnership of Wes Cowan, Garth Clark, and Mark Del Vecchio (Cowans+Clark+DelVecchio) will present their inaugural Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Auction alongside the 2010 SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) Fair in Chicago on Saturday, November 6, 2010, at Navy Pier. The first of its kind, the Auction brings to the international [Read More]
In its first major Prints auction since the record sale of Edvard Munch’s ‘Madonna’ for £1,252,000 in July, Bonhams is featuring a dramatic image by the renowned First World War artist, C. R.W. Nevinson, which was recreated in the classic anti-war film “Oh What a Lovely War.” ‘Nerves of An Army’, from [Read More]
On Sunday, November 7th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction’s new Post Road building will host its opening winter sale with a collection from the home of the iconic coloratura soprano Roberta Peters. Ms Peters, who made her Metropolitan Opera debut at nineteen, went on to perform with the Met for more than [Read More]
Active bidding online, global participation and strong prices achieved Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart held another immensely successful auction this weekend in Chicago, realizing $8,520,955 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $5,045,970-$7,568,530. This sale was the second largest auction in the history of the company, and was the second blockbuster auction [Read More]
The 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible that is offered at Russo and Steele’s 11th Annual Scottsdale auction event is one of the only 14 examples of a built 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertibles and one of only 9 of these to have left the factory with an automatic transmission. Finished in its correct and [Read More]
Bonhams announce that they are to sell a very creepy horror film prop at their next Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 15th December 2010 – Damien’s tricycle from the blockbuster film The Omen. The tricycle is owned by the film’s main character Damien Thorn who was played by British child actor Harvey Stephens. [Read More]
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. – A 1954 Superman vs. The Robot lunch box in mint condition – widely regarded as the Holy Grail of rare and vintage lunch boxes – soared to $11,865 at a three-day multi-estate sale conducted Oct. 22-24 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Around 1,200 lots changed hands at the event, held [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Stevens Auction Company, based in Aberdeen, Mississippi BROOKHAVEN, Miss. – The contents of two majestic and architecturally important homes in the modest town of Brookhaven, Miss. – located along I-55, south of Jackson and northeast of Baton Rouge, La. – will be sold in an on-site [Read More]
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – An exceptional cataloged antique auction featuring over 500 quality lots will be held Saturday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m. (EST), by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s gallery at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Internet bids may be placed via Live Auctioneers.com or the Fontaine’s Auction Gallery website [Read More]
A pair of Purdey shotguns once owned by Colonel William Stirling, who formed 2 Special Air Service in 1943, will be sold by Bonhams Sporting Gun Department on December 8th in Knightsbridge. The pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons are offered for sale with an estimate [Read More]
On October 21, 2010, PBA Galleries, Auctioneers, Rare Books & Manuscripts conducted a 450 lot auction of Americana, the Collection of Alex Schwed which included a large collection of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, California Pictorial Lettersheets, Gold Rush and California ephemera and Hawaiiana. Schwed, a California collector, has in recent years devoted [Read More]
Heritage Auctions has announced that Kathleen Guzman has been appointed as Managing Director of the company’s recently opened Manhattan office, located at 445 Park Avenue (at 57th Street) , where she will oversee day-to-day operations. “Kathleen is one of the best known auction professionals in the business,” said Greg Rohan, President of [Read More]
Impressive fine wine sale includes wide range of choices from prized Lafite Rothschild to varied dinner party lots and selection of champagne, just in time for the holidays BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host its fall auction of Fine Wines on November 2nd at 4 p.m. in its Boston gallery at [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields, will hold its annual holiday auction of Natural History on December 12, 2010. The sale will feature a diverse group of distinctive and high quality mineral specimens, exceptional fossils, gold nuggets and unusual jewelry including a selection of “phenomenal” gems as well as lapidary works of art. Leading the [Read More]
Cordier Antiques & Auctions will be offering a rare and important Herter Brothers cabinet as well as a monumental 19th century French enamel and brass automaton singing bird clock and important silver in their Two Day Fall Antique & Fine Art auction in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Other highlights include a Steinway baby [Read More]
FLAT ROCK, N.C. – A pair of remarkable estates, plus hundreds of other fresh-to-the-market consignments, will cross the block at a weekend antique auction slated for Nov. 19-20 by Richard D. Hatch & Associates. The sale will be conducted in the firm’s spacious gallery, located at 913 Upward Road in Flat Rock. [Read More]
A COLLECTION of stones from the world-famous Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland sold for £19,112-50 Today (Tuesday, October 19, 2010) in an auction of Garden Statuary and Fossil Decoration at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby’s) in Billingshurst, West Sussex. Following significant interest in both the room and on the telephone, [Read More]