Auction News

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – An important and complete 132-piece modern hammered sterling flatware service for twelve, by the renowned California silversmith Allan Adler sold for $15,525 at an Historic Hillsborough Auction held June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It was the grand opening event for the firm in its [Read More]

Enthusiasts and collectors paid a record $2.4 million for 49 rare, numerical New South Wales numberplates in Sydney on Thursday night (June 18), comfortably exceeding expectations and blowing away any notions of a recession. Conducted by Shannons for the RTA, the auction resulted in an average sale price of $51,000 for the [Read More]

GM Designer – Harley Earls Personal Car Among 400 Corvettes to be Offered at Bloomington Gold Corvette Auction Mecum Auction announces the unique 1963 Harley Earl Chevrolet Corvette Convertible will cross the block during the Bloomington Gold Corvette Auction, June 26-27, 2009, in St. Charles, Ill. This amazing car joins 400 remarkable [Read More]

The formal auction of the Fortunoff intellectual property and intangible assets portfolio has been rescheduled to be held on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM eastern time, at the offices of Sidley Austin, LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019. The deadline for receipt of all qualifying bids has been [Read More]

The final Wine sale of the spring season at Aulden Cellars-Sotheby’s New York once again topped presale estimates to bring $2,032,376 (est. $1.1/1.5 million). The sale was a remarkable 98% sold by lot and over 99% sold by value. The sale was presented in a new square-format catalogue, which found many supporters [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its Fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts on September 28, 2009. The Los Angeles sale will feature a diverse group of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern, with a focus on Contemporary Studio artists and early California design. Highlights will include an [Read More]

Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a new record sale price tonight when a rare Emily Carr painting sold for $2,164,500 in the second session of Heffel’s Live Spring Auction. Wind in the Treetops, a 36-1/2 x 21-1/4 inch oil on canvas, circa 1936-1939, is from the most sought-after period in Carr’s [Read More]

A 1936 Lincoln Boat Tail Speedster once owned by Howard Hughes sold for $1 million at the Leake Car Show & Auction in Tulsa on June 13. Previously used as his personal limo, Hughes completely redesigned and restructured the limo into a Boat Tail Speedster. The $1 million dollar sale is the [Read More]

Bonhams next sale of Printed Books, in London on 23rd June contains material from Shakespeare to Shaw and Che Guevara to Crippen, all of which will be of significant interest to lovers of literature and history. Che Guevara is present in this auction with his FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY, of his [Read More]

Foreclosures are driving down home prices and enticing buyers back into the housing market with discounts too good to pass up. The average price of a home in the South was $148,000 in April, down nearly 13% from a year ago (National Association of Realtors). Hudson & Marshall will auction about 120 [Read More]

Sotheby’s London annual sale of Indian Art in London, which took place yesterday, realised a total of £2,067,400 / US$3,376,684, a sum in excess of pre-sale expectations (the pre-sale estimate for the sale was £1,193,500-1,754,000). The sale – which brought to the market a fine assortment of works by leading Modern and [Read More]

Following the highly successful sale of a collection of papers from Rocket Engineering icon, Dr. Werner Von Braun, Bonhams New York will be presenting a sale entirely devoted to the history of man’s exploration of space. Taking place on July 16th, the approximately 400 lot sale fittingly coincides with the week of [Read More]

On Tuesday, July 28th, John Moran Auctioneers will host an exceptional two-part antique and fine furnishings auction at the Pasadena Center in Pasadena, CA. Moran’s monthly auctions typically offer superlative antiques and decorative arts from important and private collections. Among the highlights at the July 28th event are property from the Donald [Read More]

(CEDAR POINT, Ill.) – The lifetime single-owner collection of Don Fiedler – comprising over 700 lots of vintage toy trucks, cast-iron and tin motorcycle toys, full-size antique motorcycles and bicycles, advertising signs and displays, petroliana items, coin-op machines and more brought strong prices at an auction held jointly May 2-3 by Matthews [Read More]

JJManning Auctioneers is proud to offer this newly constructed luxury home in Oyster Harbors, an exclusive resort community on Osterville Grand Island set within Cape Cod Bay in the Barnstable village of Osterville. The gated island is easily accessible by car and features the top-rated Oyster Harbors Club private golf course, surrounded [Read More]

Purple Wave Auction, a local online auction firm, announced that Doug Regehr will be the Director of the Equipment Auction Division, effective immediately. An expert in the agricultural equipment industry, Regehr will lead Purple Wave’s Equipment Team in locating and marketing vehicles, agricultural, construction and heavy equipment to its nationwide network of [Read More]

To provide supplemental funding to schools, Main Street Fair, the online classified ads and auction website that is branding itself as the easiest to use e-commerce site, is now open for business. “We believe Main Street Fair is the easiest classified ads and auction website to use online,” said Lisa Porter, Main [Read More]

With the automotive industry in peril and over 2400 dealerships closing in the following months, BidSpotter.com is offering a special program to assist in liquidating the assets of those being sent to the auction block. The program will allow auction firms to broadcast the sale of these dealerships at a discounted rate, [Read More]