Auction News

A HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT collection of objects from one of the greatest Battles in British Military History, the Battle of Waterloo, are to be sold by the descendants of Lieutenant-Colonel Fiennes Sanderson Miller CB of the 6th (or Inniskilling) Dragoons in an auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria in London on Wednesday, [Read More]

Dan Morphy Auctions 1,300-lot July 16-17 Premier Auction is a collection of mostly mint/boxed toys that has flown under the radar for nearly three decades. Running the gamut from European, early American and Japanese toys to pressed steel, pedal cars and even two actual hot rods, the collection was amassed by retired [Read More]

An eclectic collection of furniture created by British designer Steven Thomas for the legendary 1960s and 1970s fashion store Biba is to be sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge as part of its Vision 21 sale on 30 June 2010 at 1pm. Many of the pieces were originally sold by Bonhams on 4 October [Read More]

Dedham, MA – On Sunday, June 6, Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers brought a large assortment of of Fine Art, 18th and 19th century Furniture and Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from a variety of estates and collections, to the auction block. The sale, one of the largest [Read More]

Sotheby’s two-day auction of The Collection of Patricia Kluge, held in Charlottesville Virginia, concluded bringing $15,158,227, exceeding pre-sale expectations (est. $9/14 million). Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard. Photo: TTR-Sotheby’s International Realty The historic sale was the first on-site house sale conducted by Sotheby’s in North America in over 20 years, and more [Read More]

Bonhams is proud to present the unique red Silverstone Calibre 11 Chronograph designed as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of TAG Heuer, and to be auctioned for charity on Wednesday 15th December. The watch is estimated to fetch £6,000-8,000 and will be sold alongside The Haslinger Collection of fine and rare [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, sold more than 2, 200 equipment items, including 70 cranes, during a two-day multi-million euro Grand Opening unreserved public auction held last week (June 3 – 4) in Ocana, Spain. The auction attracted thousands of people, including more than 1,100 [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Important Books and Manuscripts in London on 27th May was an outstanding success, with three world records for an inscribed Das Kapital by Karl Marx, a letter from the illustrator John Tenniel to Lewis Carroll and an inscribed first edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker. The sale totalled [Read More]

An historic Colt 1862 Revolver that belonged to Lieutenant A. Sinclair of the Confederate States Navy, who served aboard the Alabama, the famous Civil War raider, is estimated to sell for £10,000 to £15,000 at Bonhams sale of Antique Arms and Armour on July 28th. CSS Alabama (1862-1864), a 1050-ton screw steam [Read More]

Bonhams celebrated its second motorcycle auction at Quail Lodge in Carmel this past month demonstrating the market’s strong interest in early machines. With 77 lots selling for more than $600,000, the recent sale was by far the most successful motorcycle auction to date this year in America. Bonhams is no stranger to [Read More]

Jesse James of West Coast Choppers fame will sell his 1936 Ford Custom Five Window Coupe at No Reserve during the Inaugural 2010 Barrett-Jackson Orange County Auction. This is the first time that James has consigned a vehicle from his personal collection at Barrett-Jackson. The hot rod will be one of the [Read More]

Copies of the first four editions of Wisden, the world famous ‘Bible of Cricket’, are for sale at Bonhams Book Sale in Oxford on 29 June. They are being sold on behalf of Oxfam, as are many other items in the sale. Wisden was first published in 1864 by the cricketer John [Read More]

Christie’s New York announced that it has been entrusted with the sale of The Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection on September 16 as part of Christie’s Fall Asian Art Week. This collection of approximately 120 lots valued in excess of $15 million will be led by a [Read More]

Christie’s New York announced the appointment of Mr. Everett Fahy, former chairman of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former Director of the Frick Collection, as senior consultant to Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Art department. Mr. Fahy is widely recognized as one of most distinguished scholars of [Read More]

On June 23rd Bonhams’ Book Department closes their spring-summer 2010 season with a New York auction that features a number of fresh-to-the-market high spots. This diverse sale spans the centuries from the 1490s to the 1990s. Among the most coveted lots of the sale, and the undisputed highlight in the category of [Read More]

A collection of 19th century photographic portraits of Russian Royalty goes under the hammer at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale on 8 June in London (estimate £2,000 – 4,000). Many of the portraits are of the family of Tsar Nicholas I who reigned from 1825 to 1855 and of the [Read More]

A special event in Wil (St. Gallen), Switzerland, proved to be a highlight in the schedules of several hundred stamp collectors and investors from all over the world this week: On the evening of Friday, 4 June 2010, the world’s most significant stamp auction at the Rapp auction house, ended with an [Read More]

A rare set of ancient royal jewelry, consisting of a necklace and amulet named “The Pleiades Star Crescent Necklace”, is to be sold at a private auction being held by high-end luxury auction-house BillionaireXchange (www.BillionaireXchange.com). On May 13, 2010, Forbes, CNN, Fox and many other news sources reported that a very rare [Read More]