Auction News

A splendid Ming dynasty jar, a rare survivor from a vanished era of Imperial Chinese prestige, sold today (14.5.09) for £1,117,600 in a packed sale at Bonhams New Bond Street. Created in the reign of the Emperor Jiajing (AD1522-66), and estimated to sell for up to £250,000, the elegant understated blue and [Read More]

The Charterhouse auction of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia at The Bristol Classic Car Show in The Royal Bath and West Showground on Sunday 3rd May was a near sell out with an impressive total of over £200,000. “It was a great sale with buyers not only from the South West, but [Read More]

Global Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announces today the upcoming auction of 11 brand new townhomes and one cottage at the Diamond Point development in New Buffalo, Mich., one of the Chicago area’s fastest-growing and most accessible lakeshore resort towns, with newly improved rail access that now beats many local suburbs for fast [Read More]

Christie’s upcoming sale Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes offers collectors an incredible opportunity to purchase a unique treasure with exceptional provenance, on sale for the first time in nearly two centuries: a Meissen gold-mounted circular snuff-box and cover, circa 1738 (estimate: £25,000-40,000) illustrated above. This enchanting [Read More]

A 95% intact Saber-Toothed Tiger skull, or Smilodon, found in the late 1960s by a 14-year-old “weekend collector” at the famous La Brea Tar Pit Formation, will anchor an auction of rare and important Natural History on May 17 at Heritage Auctions Galleries’ Slocum Street showroom in the Dallas Design District. In [Read More]

Bonhams will hold its next Greek Sale on May 19th at New Bond Street. The market for Greek Art is on a dynamic growth trajectory. Over the past three years the sector has repeatedly smashed world record prices for artists, indicating the continuing popularity of the genre. With prices ranging from £2,000 [Read More]

A Bowie knife with a presentation inscription from Buffalo Bill, one of America’s most colourful characters from the Wild West, is coming up for auction by Charterhouse in Sherborne, in their sale of militaria and collectors items on Friday 26th June. “The knife was bought by the vendor from a small saleroom [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is expanding its European operations in Spain and Italy. The Company recently closed on the purchase of land in Ocana, close to Madrid, Spain. This new location is the Company’s second in Spain, added to an existing site located in Moncofa, near Valencia. [Read More]

Christie’s New York Post War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale totaled $93,734,500, led by strong results for the Betty Freeman Collection and five new world auction records for artists David Hockney, Claes Oldenburg, Douglas Wheeler, Tony Smith, and Kerry James Marshall. The sale was 91% sold by lot and 94% by value. [Read More]

Bonhams will hold its spring auction of Natural History on June 1, 2009. The 525 lot sale offers a diverse group of high quality and distinctive mineral specimens, gold nuggets, lapidary works of art, gemstones and jewelry in addition to exceptional fossils. Chosen to highlight the auction with a featured section of [Read More]

People around the world now have a rare opportunity to own a piece of America’s rich history. Iconic and cherished items from the original Yankee Stadium, a landmark that is regarded as one of the most significant monuments in sports history, are now available via a public sale and auction by visiting [Read More]

Acacia Automotive, Inc. (Ticker-ACCA) today released recent statistics on its Augusta Auto Auction unit. The auction reported substantial growth in unit sales and fee revenues through April 2009 compared to previous periods, reflecting extreme resilience to recessionary factors that have negatively impacted most other industries. The table below provides a snapshot of [Read More]

Shaw Communications (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) today announced it is launching its second nation-wide auction in support of Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CAN Fund) and Canadian athletes. The Making it Happen auction will be held on Sunday, June 7th from 12:00 – 8:00 pm (PST). The auction will be broadcast live on [Read More]

Two paintings by Edouard Cortes (French, 1882-1969) will headline Cordier Antiques & Auctions’ Spring Auction on May 21 – 22 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Entitled “The Sunny Bank” and “Byway In Normandy”, the paintings are estimated at $20,000 to $30,000 each. Other auction highlights include a fine pair of John Bennett pottery [Read More]

A PAIR of extremely impressive and historically important lead Finials by John van Nost the Elder, one of the greatest producers of lead sculptures in the early 18th century, will be offered for sale in the auction of Garden Statuary, Architectural Items and Decorative Fossils at Summers Place Auctions (In association with [Read More]

With an excellent selection of work by iconic photographers such as Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, and Herb Ritts, collectors are eagerly awaiting the upcoming sale of Fine Photography scheduled to take place at Bonhams New York on May 19th. Garnering much pre-sale attention is a quintessential Ansel Adams work. Instantaneously identifiable, Moon [Read More]

A wide variety of surplus property, along with unclaimed lost and found items, from Metro Detroit’s major airports are now for sale — via the Internet. Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA), operator of Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Willow Run Airport, has launched its new online auction site hosted by the Michigan Intergovernmental [Read More]

Sotheby’s Milan devotes two days to the Contemporary art sales, like in Paris, London and New York. The first session, the Evening Sale takes place on the 20th of May, while the Day Sale will be held on the 21st of May. One of the most important works on sale is an [Read More]