A hand written diary kept by Allan Ocatavian Hume, the founder and first general secretary of the Indian National Congress, during the Indian Mutiny in 1858 is to be auctioned at Bonhams’ India and Beyond, Travel and Photographs sale on 13 April 2010. As Magistrate and Collector of the Etawah District in [Read More]
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Sale will go online starting April 7th; it is being conducted by The Specialists of the South, Inc (PANAMA CITY, Fla.) – A major multi-estate sale featuring over 300 quality consignments from four prominent local estates will be held on Saturday, Apr. 24, by The Specialists of the South, Inc., in the [Read More]
A superb circa-1900 gold necklace laden with 45 carats of fine Australian fire opals, diamonds and freshwater pearls – said to have been the property of legendary interior designer Elsie de Wolfe – leads an exceptional lineup of fine and decorative art and furniture to be sold April 18 at Austin Auction [Read More]
Bonhams announces the appointment of Susan Abeles as Vice President, Head of Jewelry United States. Ms Abeles has over 29 years experience in the auction house and private dealer fields. She will be based in New York at the Bonhams saleroom on Madison Avenue and will join the company on April 1. [Read More]
A Painting of George Washington that hung for years in a New York home has been sold at Cottone Auctions, for nearly $1 million. The buyer, a dealer from York County, Pennsylvania paid $925,000 for the Gilbert Stuart painting during Saturday’s bidding in Geneseo. Buyer’s fees of 15 percent pushed the final [Read More]
An impressive 40 ft x 25 ft Axminster carpet that belonged to the fourth son of the first Marquess of Bristol, Lord Arthur Hervey, who served as the Bishop of Bath and Wells between 1869 and 1894, is to be offered at Bonhams, Knightsbridge as part of its sale of Oriental & [Read More]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers sold more than US$42 million of heavy equipment during a two-day unreserved public auction (March 24 & 25, 2010) at the Company’s permanent auction site in Houston, Texas. Bidders from 53 countries, including 48 US states, 10 Canadian provinces and one territory registered to participate on-site and online at [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong will offer 30 magnificent rhinoceros horn carvings from Part II from the Songzhutang collection, (Part I sold in May 2008,) ‘The Pine and Bamboo Studio’, on Monday, 31 May 2010. One of the finest known private collections, passionately assembled by a connoisseur over 30 years, this auction provides institutions [Read More]
Dan Morphy Auctions will offer 3,000 lots of antiques from fresh-to-market collections in a May 13-15, 2010 Spring sale. Morphy’s will enter exciting new territory with its offering of more than 300 lots of authentic African tribal art from a 40-year collection amassed by an Ohio private collector. Among many other featured [Read More]
Moontoast.com announced the launch of an auction that will partner the website with Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill to benefit the charity Challenge America. Moontoast, a site which connects Guides (“those who know”) and Explorers (“those who want to know”), will invite people to bid online for a chance [Read More]
(NORTHPORT, Ala.) – A monumental set of four matching American Gothic bookcases, beautifully crafted in Philadelphia in 1854 and attributed to the workshop of Crawford Riddell, a noted cabinetmaker of the time, sold for $115,000 at a multi-estate sale held Mar. 13 by Hal Hunt Auctions. The sale was conducted in the [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts, featuring Fine Silver on Saturday, April 10th at 10 a.m. in Skinner’s Boston gallery. Nearly 1,000 items will be up for bid, with about half the offerings representing lots of fine silver. The auction’s cover lot is [Read More]
A pair of 40-Bore pistols owned by accomplished big game hunter Major Dick Cooper, best friend of Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke and friend of Ernest Hemingway, are to be offered at Bonhams, Knightsbridge as part of the Fine Antique Arms and Armour sale on 29th April 2010. The pistols, by John Manton [Read More]
Bonhams seventh sale of South African Art in London on 24.March.12010. Out of a total of 135 works by 42 artists 82% sold making a total of £2.6m (R28.5m) achieved by this sale, the seventh South African Art Sale in five years at Bonhams. Works by Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, Gerard Sekoto and [Read More]
Engines, cabooses, boxcars, barrel loaders, semaphores, and stations, all of which boys and girls of any age dream, will be sold April 10 at Gateway Gallery Auction. “This particular collection of model trains is in excellent condition and has been lovingly cared for, with many of the box sets unopened” said Micah [Read More]
Grey Flannel Auctions Summer Games Auction, with bidding on now through April 14, is packed with desirable game-worn apparel, jewelry, trophies, and game-used equipment autographed by superstars of baseball, football, basketball and hockey. The centerpiece of the nearly 1,100 lots to be sold is the New York Yankees pinstriped uniform Yogi Berra [Read More]
Auction will also include several pieces from Scott of the Antarctic’s Terra Nova A MONUMENTAL model of H.M.S. Leviathan will be offered by Charles Miller Ltd on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in his sale of Maritime Models, Instruments & Art in London (25, Blythe Road, W14). A dockyard model, this 1st class [Read More]
Sale Features Apollo 13 Emergency Check List Used and Annotated 40 Years Ago Additional Highlights Include an Apollo 11 Patch Consigned Directly by Astronaut Michael Collins and a Diamond Pin from Apollo 1 Widows New York – An annual auction that celebrates space flight, from the earliest experiments to the present day, [Read More]