Auction News

Boerne Auctioneers, Rick Stroud and Cindy Soltis-Stroud of Blue Fox Auction & Consulting recently completed their first year of courses for the highly honored National Auctioneers Association (NAA) Education Institute’s Certified Auctioneers Institute (CAI) designation. The CAI designation is one of the most respected education programs in the country for auctioneers. The [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts on September 14, 2009 in Los Angeles. The eclectic auction will offer a global array of works, showcasing pieces from the 16th through 20th centuries with a focus on English, French, Italian, Spanish and German property. Highlights from the [Read More]

A consignment of 14 vehicles with impeccable Hollywood credentials, from the collection of the late Sidney Craig and his wife, Jenny Craig, will be sold by Bonhams at Quail Lodge in Carmel, California, on August 14th. The collection’s headline car is the 1933 Duesenberg Model J Torpedo Victoria Convertible (chassis 2535, engine [Read More]

A splendid mint state “Inverted Jenny” stamp, the finest never hinged example of one of the world’s most famous collectibles, will be the centerpiece of Heritage Auction Galleries’ Signature Rare Stamps auction, Aug. 7, at the American Philatelic Society Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, PA. “This is the first time this stamp has [Read More]

With agriculture prices for equipment and goods rocketing, Bidagri could be the answer to find farming bargains, the online agriculture auction will be active 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Bidagri will auction a wide range of new and second hand agriculture equipment, machinery, livestock and property across the UK. [Read More]

On Monday, August 10th at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will again sell 400 estate fresh lots from pre-war Park Avenue and a 19th Century Purchase New York Manor. Furniture highlights include a suite of antique Italian pieces, one stamped Mercier Paris; Kittinger dining set; Midcentury Modern including a [Read More]

As anyone would expect of a true cowboy collection, there are several exceptional Colt single action army revolvers. An engraved and gold-plated Colt single action army revolver from the Roy Rogers Museum is estimated to bring $7,500 – $9,500. This is a highly decorated, Colt SAA revolver that is fully documented as [Read More]

Bonhams is delighted to be including a specially commissioned Wemyss Pig – named Hamish – as part of their annual Scottish Sale which, this year, will be held in Edinburgh between 18-21 August. The so-called “Homecoming Pig” has been named in recognition of the Homecoming Scotland campaign, and all proceeds from the [Read More]

A lost work by celebrated painter Sir Edwin Landseer has been rediscovered in a private English collection, and will be offered in Bonhams’ Scottish Sale in Edinburgh on August 21st. ‘Dunrobin Castle’, the most northerly major house in the British Isles, is the seat of the Dukes of Sutherland and one of [Read More]

Mayo Auction & Realty and Dirk Soulis Auctions will each take a day in the on-site event (ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) – Judy’s D&G Restaurant – a landmark St. Joseph dining facility that operated continuously from its opening during World War II until its recent closing – will be the object of a [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is conducting a large, public, multi-million dollar unreserved equipment auction on Friday, July 31, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. at the former Vancouver, Washington airport located at 13910 SE Mill Plain. Over the past week the number of equipment items being sold in [Read More]

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – What started out as a 500-lot, one-day auction of Civil War, Firearms & Militaria at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery – a sale that would have been impressive at that – has swollen to an 800+-lot colossus that will span the weekend of Aug. 15-16, starting at 11 a.m. both days. [Read More]

A one sheet movie poster for the 1923 Paramount Pictures release, Hollywood, realized $89,625 in an auction of Vintage Movie Posters at Heritage Auction Galleries, July 23-25. The graphically stunning and downright bizarre poster depicts the head of a large male, with the word “Hollywood” in relief across his forehead, as a [Read More]

Clarity Sells Auction Gallery will liquidate the huge collection, amassed over a period of four decades. (CLEVELAND, Tenn.) – A large single-owner collection comprising around 400 lots in an array of categories – to include Chein toys, Coca-Cola collectibles, framed art and lithograph prints, Indian art and artifacts, vintage dolls, toy trains [Read More]

New York / Berlin – artnet Auctions recent Urban Art Sale demonstrated the continued demand for urban and street art. Eighty-five artworks by 40 artists were sold in the online auction July 7-23. The sale traced the evolution of urban art from the 1970s to today featuring artworks from virtually every major [Read More]

Three Pierneef paintings which once belonged to Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, will be sold at Bonhams sale of South African Art on October 14th in New Bond Street, London. Princess Alice accompanied her husband when he served as Governor-General of South Africa from 1924–1931. During their time in [Read More]

In a rare departure for Bloomsbury, we are holding a sale of Printed Books, Paintings and Prints all at no reserve. Many of the lots on offer will be the ex-stock consigned to us from Heritage Bookshop in Los Angeles but in addition it will include many previously unseen items which must [Read More]

PRWAuctions.com will sell hundreds of Celebrity Autographs in person, online and on the phone including Elvis Presley with Richard Nixon, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Harry Blackstone and others August 2 in Oceanside, NY. In conjunction with Gary Sohmers of Saxonville Auction Services and Allcollectors.com, Prwauctions.com will be auctioning a collection of authentic [Read More]