A 1957-58 Italian league winner’s medal, awarded to Welsh international footballer John Charles, is to be sold at Bonhams, Chester as part of its sale of Sporting Memorabilia on 16 June. It is expected to fetch £8,000 – 10,000. Charles, who was one of the first British professional players to be signed [Read More]
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Midcentury Modern Design and Art Deco are highlighted by a Parzinger and Paul McCobb collection from a Rye estate including a pair of gorgeous Tommi Parzinger torchieres, a large Parzinger dining cart, and a George Nelson for Herman Miller Wall Unit. Manhattan estates provided pieces by Dunbar, Robsjohn Gibbings, Gerard Gallet, and [Read More]
An 85% original Dire Wolf skull being offered at public auction comes with a direct link to the world’s most famous tar pit, La Brea, and could bring more than $18,000 when it comes up as part of Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills’ Sunday, June 6 Signature® Natural History Auction at 9478 [Read More]
Sale will be conducted at Finney’s spacious gallery in Schodack, N.Y., 15 minutes from Albany. (SCHODACK, N.Y.) – Hundreds of quality lots from the estate of the late Dr. Kevin-John McIntyre of East Greenbush, N.Y., will be sold without reserve (everything sells, regardless of price) on Saturday, June 12, by Finney’s Auction [Read More]
The auction will be held at the Stevens Auction Company showroom in Aberdeen, at 9 a.m. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – The lifetime single-owner collection of Carl Gillespie – mostly vintage toys and guns, but to include petroliana items and antique farm equipment – will be sold Saturday, June 12, by Stevens Auction Company. [Read More]
The on-site auction will be held at the couple’s home, at 202 East Galena Road in Big Rock, Ill. (BIG ROCK, Ill.) – Brian and Kim Ward are celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary on Saturday, June 12, and everyone’s invited. They’re also selling their two homes and sizable collections that day, too, [Read More]
Bonhams Hong Kong today celebrated the first-ever “Golden Gavel Auction” in its history, when part of the world’s finest collection of important Chinese snuff bottles, the Mary and George Bloch Collection, sold 100% and achieved world record prices. Against presale estimates of HK$20,000,000 (£1.8m), the sale total was HK$66,146,800 (£5.8m), with every [Read More]
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) made a striking appearance at a local auction house, albeit in the form of a sixteenth century miniature portrait. The 6cm high oval portrait miniature of our iconic monarch had been brought into Richard Winterton’s routine valuation day by a local client. The Queen is depicted in her [Read More]
Arlington, Virginia – A polar bear dance, a doomed thresher shark, and a crowd of giant tortoises gathered at dawn in the Galapagos are just a few of the stunning images that have been selected as the Top 40 Nature Photographs of all time to celebrate the inaugural Green Auction on the [Read More]
Christie’s London announced that they will offer Syd Levethan – The Longridge Collection in London on 10 and 11 June 2010. One of the most prominent and distinguished collectors of British and Northern European decorative arts, the late Syd Levethan assembled the Longridge Collection over a period of 30 years and was [Read More]
Just in time for its upcoming Inaugural event in Orange County, California, The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company has announced the release of a new, free app which brings the auction experience to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The app provides up-to-date information about Barrett-Jackson, photos and details about automobiles available at the [Read More]
Fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields will host the firm’s largest and most extensive auction of Fine European and American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Monday, June 14, 2010 in San Francisco. The late spring sale features American, English, French, Italian and Continental decorative arts, with an evening session devoted to furniture [Read More]
Prior to Clars’ May 15th and 16th, 2010 antique and estate auction, company President Redge Martin knew that this would be one of their strongest sales to date based on the important estates to be represented and the quality of consignments in both important art and furnishings. When the final hammer dropped [Read More]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will celebrate the Grand Opening of its new Madrid (Ocana) permanent auction site, with a two-day public unreserved auction on June 3 – 4, 2010. On the morning of June 4, Company officials and Ocana Mayor Jose Carlos Martinez Osteso [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will auction one of the rarest books of modern times: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, which debuts the most celebrated literary character of all time – Sherlock Holmes. Published in 1887 and written in under three weeks, this work to be offered is one of only two [Read More]
From 1 to 4 June 2010, a stamp auction at the Peter Rapp AG auction house in Wil, St. Gallen, Switzerland, will certainly be causing a stir. In addition to the lost “Ticino” stamp collection that dates back more than 100 years and is one of the most valuable in history, stamps [Read More]
Three photographs of Alexandra Rhoda “Xie” Kitchin, one of Lewis Carroll’s favourite models, are being auctioned at Bonhams Book sale on 8 June. Alexandra was the daughter of the Dean of Durham who, for 15 years, also held a theological position at the University of Oxford where Carroll, a fellow of Christ [Read More]
Christie’s New York will present an exceptional sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, including Oriental Carpets and including Sculpture from the Collection of Michael Hall on June 11, which will comprise over 400 lots from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The sale will include exquisite treasures such as bronze sculptures [Read More]