Auction News

Preeminent international auction house, RM Auctions, is delighted to announce consignments from two important US collections to its annual Vintage Motor Cars of Hershey event – a magnificent series of motor cars from Cleveland, Ohio’s esteemed Crawford Auto Aviation Museum, a collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and over 400 lots [Read More]

Bonhams autumn wine sales kick off on 15th September with one of the most interesting and eclectic auctions to have been seen in London in recent times. Amongst the 750 lots will be found such rarities as 1815 Grande Champagne Cognac, 1834 and 1900 Malvasia Madeira, 1870 Sandeman White Port and 1892 [Read More]

Nicholls Auction Marketing Group (www.NichollsAuction.com) announces the auction of over 1,400 acres of prime Virginia real estate, according to John Nicholls, president of the company. “We are honored to have been chosen to sell via the auction method of marketing over 1,400 acres of prime Virginia real estate in September,” said Nicholls. [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman auction of Australian and International Fine Art in Melbourne, achieved outstanding results with 106% of the lots sold by value and 87% by volume. These statistics were reminiscent of the bull market of recent years. More than 100 art enthusiasts, dealers and institutional agents crowded the Prahran salerooms. Nine [Read More]

THE extraordinary furniture and fittings of the home of `Time Lord’, Severin Wunderman, who built up the Gucci watch franchise and owned the Swiss watch brand Corum, will go on sale at Bonhams on September 30th. The magnificent eight-bedroom Chelsea home was his UK base until his untimely death last year at [Read More]

A COLLECTION OF ITEMS relating to important Irish artist Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), discovered in a house in Brighton, will be offered for sale at Bellmans, Wisborough Green, West Sussex as part of their monthly three-day sale that takes place between Wednesday, September 9 and Friday, September 11, 2009. A descendant of [Read More]

Bonhams saw 80% of lots sold at the 10th anniversary of their Scottish Sale from 18th – 21st August, with prize lots ranging from historical items of royal interest and usual collections of armoury to fine Wemyss porcelain and highly desirable Robert Burns mementos. In the year of “The Home Coming” and [Read More]

With the launch of Heritage Auction Galleries has now placed its bidder-members and followers right in the middle of the American Social Media boom. The recent additions of a Heritage Auction Galleries page on Facebook, where all the latest press releases and pertinent announcements from the company are posted, complimented with frequent [Read More]

For the fifth year, Scion auctions off an unprecedented collection of contemporary works to benefit charities and non-profits that support independent artistic expression. The Installation 5 Tour collection features literal and non-literal self-portraits of varying cost by international art luminaries, with 100 percent of the proceeds aiding Creative Capital, the premier national [Read More]

Concierge Auctions announces a luxury real estate auction of the Froh Heim mansion, a historic landmark property situated on more than 11 acres in Far Hills, New Jersey. Conducted in cooperation with Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International Realty, the auction has no reserve, and no minimum bid is required. The newly restored Froh [Read More]

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – Over 700 lots of fine art, period furniture, decorative accessories and more – most of it fresh-to-the-market merchandise from prominent local estates and collections – will be sold Saturday, Sept. 19, at 9 a.m. by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It is just the second major auction [Read More]

Dr Edward Wilson’s first-hand account of one of the greatest and toughest voyages in history will be going under the hammer at Bonhams Exploration and Travel Sale on 16th September at New Bond Street. Made famous by Apsley Cherry-Garrard as The Worst Journey in the World, Wilson’s report tells the story of [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on September 29, 2009. The 400 lot sale will offer a diverse group of high quality works spanning a century of design by well-known figures of the period. The sale will feature strong examples of Arts & Crafts, Art [Read More]

The acclaimed Glendorn Resort, located in Bradford, Pennsylvania, will sell at auction at www.williamsauction.com/glendorn (both on site and live via the internet) on Sunday, October 4, at 2:00 p.m. EDT/1:00 p.m. CDT/11:00 a.m. PDT. Williams & Williams, the premier brand in real estate auction, will manage the sale. Auction Network will telecast [Read More]

Maas Companies of Rochester, MN will auction the MH Technologies LLC facility on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 beginning at 10 a.m. in Mount Holly Springs, PA. The auction will be held on-site at One Mountain Road, Mount Holly Springs, PA. MH Technologies manufactured dielectric and electrolytic paper used in medical equipment for [Read More]

Jo Valentine, co-founder of central Ohio’s multi-dealer Valentine Antique Gallery, has established a new offshoot company in partnership with Ohio auctioneer Cynthia Schillig. Known as The Antiques Auction Gallery, the new business will base its operation and conduct its sales at the 12,000-square-foot Valentine Antique Gallery in Sunbury. A debut auction is [Read More]

Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first demonstration of the telescope, PBA Galleries of San Francisco will auction the first edition, second issue, of the book in which the first English translation of Galileo’s “famous dialogues” were published, arguing the correctness of the heliocentric theory of planetary motion, as demonstrated by [Read More]

Bonhams has unveiled an exceptional line-up for its annual sale at the Goodwood Revival (18th September). Leading the charge is the ex-Fred Stiles 1930 model/1938-assembled Alfa Romeo 6C-1750 Testa Fissa, the so-called “Stiles Threesome” Spider with bodywork by the leading British coachbuilder, James Young Ltd. Originally only twelve of these ‘Testa Fissa’ [Read More]