Auction News

Rock Island Auction presents rare, famous and historical firearms in their September 11-13 firearms and antiques auction. There will be a Walter Earp (great grand nephew of Wyatt Earp) presentation Colt single action “Buntline Special”, a William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) presentation inscribed Colt Model 1903 Hammerless 32 Pocket Semi-Automatic Pistol, a [Read More]

Daniel Cooney Fine Art Late Summer Emerging Artists Auction, from August 12 to September 2, 2009. Highlighted in this sale are emerging artists never before offered for auction. The proceeds of this sale will directly benefit the artists in the pursuit of their careers, and empower them to continue their art. Included [Read More]

A GUN belonging to Legendary World Speed Record Holder, Sir Malcolm Campbell will be included in Gavin Gardiner’s auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns at the world-famous Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland on Monday, August 24, 2009. The sale, held in association with Sotheby’s, will start at 6pm. The 12-bore [Read More]

Grey Flannel Auctions of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., has announced details of its Sept. 12, 2009 Fourth Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Auction and other special events associated with the 2009 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony. More than 70 returning Hall of Famers are expected to attend the three-day [Read More]

Bidders unable to attend will be able to stream the auction live (audio and video) on iCollector.com. Visitors to the site will be able to bid on each and every lot, as if they were there, live and in person. (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) – Over 100 rare and vintage cars and hot-rods [Read More]

Alliance Land Auction (www.AllianceLandAuction.com) announces the absolute auction of 7,370 acres in Southwest Colorado, according to Brent Graves, auctioneer. “This is a truly unique offering on the Western slope of the Rocky Mountains, and high desert property with many Indian artifacts,” said Graves. Graves explained that the land will be offered in [Read More]

Christie’s, in collaboration with Pierre Bergé and Associates, announced the second sale of the Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection that will take place in Paris on 17th, 18th and 19th November 2009. Proceeds of the sale will benefit H.I.V research and the fight against Aids. Almost 1200 works of Art from [Read More]

(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – A Parker Brothers AA Pigeon Gun wood and metal advertising sign, one of only two known, sold for a record $7,543 in an Internet and catalog auction that concluded Aug. 1-2 by SoldUSA.com. The only other known example sold a few years ago at auction to a Parker Gun [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts’ premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces its August Estates Auction. The two-day auction features antiques, fine art, collectibles and maritime memorabilia from estates spanning Massachusetts to Kaminski’s second location in California. The auction takes place Saturday and Sunday August 22-23 next to the Windward Grille [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York 4 November 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature seven paintings from the Durand-Ruel Collection, encompassing works by a number of the Impressionist masters that legendary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel represented — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. All but one work [Read More]

A 1930s-era Emily Carr painting dubbed “one of the rarest treasures” among Canadian art has sold for more than $2.16 million, becoming one of the highest-priced Canadian paintings ever sold at auction. Carr’s oil-on-canvas titled Wind in the Tree Tops fetched a whopping $2,164,500 at the second sessions of Vancouver-based Heffel Fine [Read More]

(OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – An historic archive comprising nine ambrotype and daguerreotype images of James A. Garfield – taken in the 1850s and the first known images of the slain president – sold for $21,470 at a massive weekend sale held July 31-Aug. 2 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Around 1,200 lots in a [Read More]

Window World Cares, the charitable foundation of Window World, Inc., continues its commitment to St. Jude Children’s Hospital with an auction that raised more than $290,000. The money was raised through a motorsports art and memorabilia auction organized by Window World, the nation’s largest supplier of replacement windows. The event was held [Read More]

While there has been much discussion regarding the recent softening of the sports collecting market, no one seemed to be addressing it at the recent Legendary Auctions Live Sports Sale. In fact, more than 200 attendees at the high-end, sports memorabilia event, held July 31, 2009 at the House of Blues in [Read More]

(MACON, Miss.) – A beautiful four-piece parlor suite by the 19th-century New York furniture maker John Henry Belter, in the Rosalie with Grapes pattern, sold for $11,550 at an on-site auction held Aug. 1 at Belle Oaks, one of the most prominent old antebellum homes in Mississippi. Macon is located 30 miles [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE and TSX: RBA) announces net earnings for the six months ended June 30, 2009 of $58.7 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, and adjusted net earnings of $58.1 million, or $0.55 per diluted share. This compares to adjusted net earnings of $53.2 million, or $0.50 per diluted [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will offer Fine Prints on November 3, 2009. The auction, simulcast between the San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, will feature a diverse selection of old master, modern, contemporary prints and multiples ranging from the Renaissance to the Present. Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937), Standard Station (E. 5), 1966. [Read More]

In an unprecedented event, Bonhams & Goodman – Australia’s largest auctioneer of fine jewellery, is to offer at auction for the first time not one, but two exceptional pink diamonds from the Rio Tinto Argyle Diamond Tenders. Bonhams & Goodman has earned a reputation for jewellery auctions of distinction and the forthcoming [Read More]