Stiles Auction, LLC of Lena, Wisconsin and Zurko Promotions of Shawano Wisconsin have teamed up for a fantastic Duck Decoy, Fishing Lure, Gun and Outdoor Sporting Auction scheduled for October 24th 2009. The auction which is featuring rare, and some signed vintage decoys from the midwest decoy makers as well as a [Read More]
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Lost Cove Marina and RV Park on Alabama’s Smith Lake will sell at auction Friday, July 31, with Advantage Auction & Realty Inc. managing the sale. Also selling separately in the same auction will be a nearby waterfront home site. The marina, located on approximately 1.04 acres with approximately 300 feet of [Read More]
Market trends notwithstanding, the trade still does play an important role in the auction world. With that fact in mind, and once again proving that marketing on each side of the Atlantic can pay off in droves, it is interesting to note the sale’s most expensive painting, a fabulous Roy Nuse painting [Read More]
A painting by Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), estimated to sell for £150,000-250,00 in Bonhams sale of Old Master Paintings on 8th July, made a world record price for the artist at £1.3m. Titled `View of the Tiber looking towards the Castel Sant’Angelo, with Saint Peter’s in the distance’, the painting was previously thought [Read More]
With a laudable 82 percent sell-through rate by lot, or nearly ninety percent sold by value, Freeman’s June 21st sale of ‘Fine American & European Paintings and Sculpture’ proved to be a great success, with 102 of the 127 lots on offer finding buyers and the sale totaling $1,182,000 hammer with premium. [Read More]
The remaining classic trucks and equipment of the long standing Archie Crippen Excavating Company in Fresno, CA will be auctioned off to the public next Tuesday, July 14th.. It is widely known that Archie had a lifelong love affair with restoring old trucks and cars, as is evidenced by the large quantity [Read More]
Art Source for Design is proud to announce the date of a fundraising art auction to benefit LifeUnfolded, a local non profit organization dedicated to to providing an artistic outlet for foster children to enable them to discover their talents and use those talents to succeed in life. The event will be [Read More]
A piece of history – a community’s and a family’s history – will be sold to the highest bidders on July 11. Located in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Hills, The Gables Condominiums offer a rare combination of modern luxury living and old world architecture, conveniently located halfway between Boston and New York City. The [Read More]
Clarke Auction, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, will sell 400 lots fresh from Manhattan, Larchmont, New Rochelle, and Scarsdale estates. Signed Antique and Margolis Furniture Highlights include a signed Lamb of Manchester Aesthetic Movement etagere; a dining suite of highly carved, possibly Horner pieces; American Empire furniture, a selection of Victorian oak tables [Read More]
The sale of Important European Furniture, Sculpture & Clocks realised £7,012,750 and was 79% sold by value and 65% sold by lot. The top lot was a pair of Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry coffres en tombeau (coffers-on-stands), by André-Charles Boulle, circa 1688, which was bought by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and realised [Read More]
A stunning William Dyce painting that has been lost for over a century is to be offered for sale at Sotheby’s in London next week. The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel is expected to fetch between £100,000 – 150,000 when it is offered for sale in Sotheby’s Victorian and Edwardian Art sale [Read More]
It was a full house with many new faces that filled the Pasadena Convention Center on Tuesday, June 23rd, in anticipation of John Moran’s second California and American Paintings Sale for 2009. The number of new bidders and attendees perhaps reflects the change in investment strategies from Wall Street to tangible property. [Read More]
On Aug. 13-15, Dan Morphy Auctions will conduct the biggest cataloged sale in its history – a 3,000-lot no-reserve absolute auction featuring long-held private collections of Kentucky rifles, fine dolls and toys, mechanical music boxes, decorative art, jewelry and gold coins. All goods will be offered in logically organized categories, selling to [Read More]
Tranzon Integrated Property Group (“Tranzon”) has announced that it has been engaged to conduct an auction of the property known as the Adel R. Coccomo Residential Center in Middlesex County, Connecticut. The property is currently operating and was completed in early 2008 at a cost of $14,500,000. Tranzon has been authorized to [Read More]
Concierge Auctions will conduct a luxury real estate auction of four properties near Jacksonville, Florida on July 25, including a waterfront estate in Ponte Vedra Beach previously offered to $5.9 million, two beachfront development opportunities in Saint Augustine Beach, and an Atlantic Beach townhouse previously offered to $1.435 million, the company announced. [Read More]
Gray’s Auctioneers is pleased to announce its 22nd Fine Art and Antiques auction to be held Saturday July 25th at 1pm. Gray’s Auctioneers Llc has quickly established itself as the region’s premier auction house and appraisal facility, capitalizing on both its extensive industry experience as well as its strategic positioning in the [Read More]
International autograph auctioneers Alexander Autographs Inc. of Stamford, Ct. will offer in their August rock and entertainment auction a telling set of lyrics handwritten by Michael Jackson indicating that the late singer may have been in a suicidal frame of mind at the time of their composition. The hastily-scribbled lines were written [Read More]
Christie’s inaugural Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale realised £20,284,400 / $32,840,444 / €23,550,188, and was 76% sold by lot and 91% sold by value. Offering important paintings, drawings and watercolours representing nearly 700 years of European history, the sale took place in a packed saleroom and saw 4 works [Read More]