Auction News

The Dog Bone Boutique auctions will open 07/01/2009. The auctions will consist of only pet and livestock related products. Final bidding prices on items that retail for over $100.00 will never exceed 50% of the MSRP. This will give bidders the opportunity to get expensive items, such as riding saddles, dog kennels, [Read More]

A cache of letters penned by George Orwell sold for a record £84,000 at a Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts auction, a figure double its pre-sale estimate. The sale room was buzzing with interest from buyers eager to acquire lots from this largely undocumented period in the writer’s life. All the winning [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields’ Entertainment Memorabilia auction on June 14, 2009 in Los Angeles featured a wide variety of items related to Hollywood, Rock ‘n Roll and Animation Arts. Highlights included pieces connected to screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, Property from the Estate of beloved ‘Golden Girl’ Estelle Getty and costumes from the private [Read More]

While the auction of the Honorable Paul H. Buchanan Jr. Collection of American Art was taking place at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, TX, on Wednesday night, June 10, it was a strong core of top-notch Hudson River School paintings that was drawing the bidders in a Signature American Art Auction that [Read More]

On Sunday, October 18, 2009, in Paris Enchères Rive Gauche will put some one hundred Asian works from the Vérité Collection up for auction at Hôtel Drouot. Started in the 1920s by Pierre and Suzanne Vérité and then expanded by Claude and Janine Vérité, this collection was created by two couples impassioned [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman’s growing Collectors’ Motor Car team has appointed two further specialists, expanding the department into Victoria and Western Australia to assist with national and international consignments. Cath Davison has taken on the role of Assistant Specialist, Collectors’ Motor Cars and will be based in the Melbourne office. Cath brings more [Read More]

On Tuesday & Wednesday, June 23 – 24, 2009, Greg Martin Auctions (GMA) offers over 1,300 antique arms, armor and collectibles with a focus in four distinct and distinctive areas: 1) Fine Collectible Firearms, Sporting Guns & Militaria, offering Winchesters, Colts and more; 2) Colt Factory Archives Collection, Part 3, featuring 350 [Read More]

Two Baltimore businessmen have been indicted for conspiring to rig bids at tax lien auctions in Maryland for more than five years, the Department of Justice announced today. The one-count felony indictment filed today in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore alleges that Harvey M. Nusbaum and his business partner, Jack W. [Read More]

During the week of June 8, 2009, Markit and Creditex conducted Credit Event Auctions (CEAs) to facilitate settlement of credit derivative trades referencing five global companies, including General Motors. The auctions have been used to settle transactions in connection with the defaults of 38 companies so far this year in the U.S. [Read More]

It has been announced that Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. has been chosen to conduct a commercial real estate auction in Stedman, NC, Cumberland County. The auction will feature an ultra modern car wash, which includes 5 self serve bays, an automatic bay & 9 vacuums. Included in this development is a [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields’ auction of Fine Asian Works of Art, to be held in San Francisco on Monday, June 29, 2009, features Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Himalayan works of art — offered predominantly from estates and private collections throughout the United States. Highlights from this 360-lot auction include Chinese and Himalayan art [Read More]

Backstage Auctions, Inc., the online boutique auction house specializing in authentic classic rock memorabilia, is hopping on the vinyl bandwagon. With both baby boomers and teens attracted by the sound of vinyl records and record stores promoting monthly Vinyl Saturdays (June 20 is the next one), Backstage Auctions is putting up one [Read More]

The forthcoming sale on June 25th presents a diverse collection which should suit all tastes and pockets. Modern British Prints are well represented by Norman Ackroyd, Elizabeth Blackadder, Mary Fedden, Edward Bawden, Dame Elisabeth Frink and Stanley Hayter. Of particular note is the arresting Orchard Tambourine by Terry Frost that contains the [Read More]

Pretty, wearable pieces are the highlights of the June 23rd jewelry and watch sale scheduled to take place at Bonhams New York and simulcast to the auctioneers’ Los Angeles and San Francisco galleries. Keeping ahead of increasing demand for pieces that can be enjoyed and worn for many occasions, aficionados are certain [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is returning to Bakersfield, California to conduct its second multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment auction in the area this year. On March 27, 2009, Ritchie Bros. conducted an unreserved auction in Bakersfield that attracted almost 1,350 registered bidders from the U.S., Canada and [Read More]

(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – An ultra-rare Winchester three-panel triangle mobile-style die-cut poster – the mate to a similar example that sold in March for $13,080 – soared to $18,858 in an Internet and catalog auction that concluded May 30-31 by SoldUSA.com. The die-cut triangle poster was the top lot of the auction and [Read More]

New York / Berlin, – From June 15-25 artnet Auctions will feature Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits, a special sale of 200 original fine art photographs of legendary figures including The Beatles, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, President Barack Obama and Elvis Presley. Screen Sirens Leading the sale is an exceptional group of fifteen [Read More]

Further expanding the firm’s extensive depth of knowledge in the field of European Paintings, the New York galleries of international auctioneers Bonhams has named Taline Nicole Aynilian Senior Specialist with an emphasis in Orientalist Paintings and Sculpture. States Deborah Coy, Director of European Paintings for Bonhams New York “With Taline joining the [Read More]