An extensive collection of awards presented to the legendary Northern Irish football player, George Best (1946-2005), during his illustrious football career, is to be sold at Bonhams, Chester as part of the Sporting Memorabilia sale on 20 October 2010. The collection has been put up for auction by the Executors of Best’s [Read More]
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Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, will hold a massive two-day auction of Finest and Rarest wines on October 29th and 30th at award-winning restaurant Tru, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. Encompassing over 1800 lots, the auction is [Read More]
Auction brings $7.4 million, far surpassing pre-auction estimate of $4-6 million, as HDH Wine Auction Index hits all-time high Chicago, IL – Multiple world records were shattered in Chicago on September 24th and 25th as Hart Davis Hart sold the second installment of The Fox Cellar, one of the most important single-owner [Read More]
Cordier Antiques & Auctions of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania announced that Peter Swift Seibert has joined their auction company as a Senior Consultant and Catalog Specialist. Mr. Seibert has extensive expertise in Americana, Folk Art, documents and manuscripts, militaria, textiles and Native American artifacts. In his capacity at Cordier Auctions, Seibert will consult [Read More]
Sotheby’s London 40th Anniversary Wine Sale concluded with a total of £2,412,194, (US$3,787,145), far above a pre-sale estimate of £1,644,850-£2,061,620. All four sessions saw competitive bidding on the ‘phone, online and in the room and the sale was 99% sold-by-value and 98% sold-by-lot. Interest in the sale was international and buyers came [Read More]
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. – A massive three-day weekend sale slated for Oct. 22-24 by Philip Weiss Auctions will feature hundreds of fresh-to-the-market lots of toys and toy trains, railroad memorabilia, Hollywood memorabilia, vintage dolls, antique advertising, coin-ops and more. The auction will be held at the Philip Weiss Auctions showroom, located at #1 [Read More]
Over 1,300 items to be liquidated in this 1 Day Auction Event. Items to be auctioned include; Cars, Plane, Rare Antiques, Jewelry, Gemstones, Rolex Watches, Gold & Silver Coins, Art, , GIA Diamonds, Movie Memorabilia, Sports Memorabilia, Slot Machines, Antique Music Boxes, Victorian Era Items, Estate Antiques & Collectibles. Plus special feature [Read More]
New York – Sotheby’s 6 October 2010 auction of Photographs presents a fine selection of photographic images dating from the medium’s earliest years to those by some of best photographers of the 20th century and the present day. Overall the sale is expected to fetch between $4.3 and 6.5 million. The catalogue [Read More]
The auction will be held at the American Legion Hall in Blue Springs, Mo., near Kansas City. BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. – A nice single-owner collection of over 125 rare and vintage dolls – nearly all of them made in France and Germany between the late 19th and early 20th centuries – will [Read More]
The Nye & Company auction consists of some 680 lots that are live now through October 6th, 2010 on www.igavelauctions.com. The auction, which includes Fine and Decorative Arts, Silver, Photographs, Jewelry, Rugs and Carpets spanning the 18th-20th centuries, is made up primarily of estate property that is diverse and new to the [Read More]
ABERDEEN, Miss – A pair of important on-site estate auctions are on tap for October by Stevens Auction Company, based in Aberdeen, Miss. The first one, on Saturday, Oct. 9, beginning at 10 a.m., will feature the estate of the late Sarah B. Robbs (1921-2010). It will be held at the Robbs’ [Read More]
The 1933 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix Two-Seater owned by the late Fitzroy John Somerset, the 5th Baron Raglan (1927-2010), Patron and former Chairman of the Bugatti Owners’ Club and trustee of the Bugatti Trust, is to be sold at Bonhams’ Paris sale of Motor Cars on 5 February 2011. The auction [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Woody Auction, based in Douglass, Kan., starting at 9:30 a.m. (ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – An important estate auction featuring the Dorothy and Malcolm Reich collection, plus an outstanding Pickard collection from the Chicago area, will be offered without reserve (everything sells, regardless of price) Saturday, Oct. [Read More]
A percentage of the proceeds will go to benefit the church, which is in need of a pair of front doors. (NORTHFIELD, Conn.) – A first-of-its-kind Buying Seminar will be held Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Northfield Congregational Church by Tim’s, Inc., the Bristol, Conn.-based auction firm. The event will generate much-needed [Read More]
Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is pleased to announce a very special offering of wines direct from the library of Harlan Estate to be sold in a two day auction on October 29-30. The highlight of the offering is an Imperial of the debut 1990 vintage, the first ever [Read More]
Christie’s will auction guitars, from American Singer-Songwriter, Judy Collins, during it’s fall sale of Fine Musical Instruments on October 8 in New York. Comprising of the 8 guitars, 7 of them by C.F. Martin and Company, and an autoharp, this collection reflects Collins’s extensive recording and performing history from the early 1960’s [Read More]
A pair of ‘Rover’ chairs created by Ron Arad for his Covent Garden-based architectural design office/showroom One Off are also to be offered in the sale. Estimated at £5,000 – 7,000, the chairs were one of his first designs for One Off and comprise a scrap yard seat from a Rover 200 [Read More]
Westbelt Storage, a Columbus Self Storage facility near Hilliard Ohio, announced that it will conduct a public auction on Saturday, September 18, 2010. At this Self Storage Auction the content of 7 storage units will be sold to the highest bidder. The self storage auction will start at 11 am at Westbelt [Read More]