Auction News

The one-off, 1954 Cramer Comet – powered by a WWII Allison fighter engine – will lead an exciting line-up of customs and hot rods at RM Auctions’ much-anticipated ‘Sports & Classics of Monterey’ event in California, August 15th and 16th, 2008. The two-day event will present over 180 investment quality automobiles for [Read More]

James D. Julia recently held their spring antiques and fine art auction, receiving high marks on many of the first-rate objects. In recent months there has been concern about the impact of the economy and rising fuel prices on the collectibles market. This auction clearly reaffirms that the market continues to be [Read More]

LUXEMBOURG – More than 80 000 000 US$ were necessary to afford Le bassin aux Nymph as by Claude Monet. A new record for the master, whose previous record, dated May 6, was Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, awarded 41 481 000 US$ by the same auction house but [Read More]

DALLAS, TEXAS: On July 11 & 12, 2008, Heritage Auction Galleries will present their current auction of Vintage Movie Posters, featuring nearly 1600 lots of cinema classics. The auction will be held in their Dallas, Texas headquarters. “This is almost certainly our biggest offering yet,” said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Movie [Read More]

Bonhams has been conducting Modern British auctions for more than 20 years where Mary Fedden’s work has consistently featured. In March 2007, an auction world record was achieved at Bonhams for Still Life with Amaryllis and a Chair by Mary Fedden which sold for five times its estimate to realise £54,000. Bonhams [Read More]

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The week of July 7-12, auctioneers from the across the world will travel to Tennessee for the 59th International Auctioneers Conference & Show. This year’s conference will take place at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel and Nashville Convention Center. The “home of country music” will play host to over [Read More]

(McRae, Ga.) – An 80,000-square-foot building in south-central Georgia, currently home to an active flea market and antique mall, will be sold at auction on Thursday, July 24, at 10:30 a.m. The one-story building, situated on 4.4 acres and boasting direct access to a divided four-lane highway and over two acres of [Read More]

A James Bond style watch featuring a homing device gadget that ‘Q’ would be proud of will be auctioned by Fellows & Sons in Birmingham. The gentleman’s 18 carat gold Breitling Emergency SuperQuartz wrist watch has been valued at £4,000 to £6,000 for the auction on Monday 7 July, but retails for [Read More]

Complete Set Of Harry Potter Signed 1st Editions to go under hammer on July 1st 2008. Serious book lovers need to get over to Cameo Auctioneers and checkout lot 100 – 7 Original Deluxe 1st Edition Harry Potter Books signed by the Author, J K Rowling and estimated to go under the [Read More]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Halls Memory Garden is finally on the verge of a fresh start with a new owner. The cemetery on Salem Church Road in Knoxville will be sold in a two-part auction beginning August 19 with sealed bids and concluding a week later with a live auction. “Only qualified cemetery [Read More]

CARMEL, Ind. – ADESA, Inc. today announced that it plans to acquire Live Global Bid, Inc. (“LGB”), a leading provider of Internet-based auction software and services, on June 30, 2008. The LGB technology allows auction houses to broadcast their auctions through simultaneous audio and video feeds to all participating Internet users from [Read More]

Geppi’s Entertainment Publishing & Auctions has announced that its Hake’s Americana & Collectibles unit has sold the first Donald Duck model sheet, created for the Disney cartoon The Wise Little Hen in 1934, for a recording-breaking $75,000. The 9.5” x12″ sheet of animation paper with four peg holes along bottom margin and [Read More]

(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A rare, second-class passenger list from the doomed ocean liner the Titanic, produced by White Star Line and with the words “Titanic, First Sailing, April 12, 1912” handwritten on the cover, sold for $33,900 at a three-day multi-estate sale conducted June 20-22 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The list was [Read More]

BOSTON, Mass. – June 26, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, today announced its upcoming European Furniture and Decorative Arts auction will take place on Saturday, July 12th in its Boston gallery. More than 900 lots will be sold, featuring an extensive offering of ceramics. CERAMICS [Read More]

TULSA, OK – Helen “Sassy” Johnston built her extensive collection the old-fashioned way during decades of visiting antique stores worldwide, but thanks to modern technologies her impressive collection will be available for purchase to avid collectors and hobbyists around the world. The three-day auction presented by Kruse International will be broadcast live [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman have conducted another successful auction of Collectors’ Cars at their Bay East premises in Sydney’s Waterloo, with a 90% clearance rate. The NSW single digit number plate “6” has sold for an undisclosed amount post auction believed to be approaching a million dollars to a private Sydney collector/investor wishing [Read More]

An important painting by Sir Stanley Spencer “Crossing the Road” will go under the hammer at Bonhams’ 20th Century British Art Sale on the 2 July. The piece is estimated to sell for £100,000 – 150,000. Spencer’s love of his home village, Cookham, was immortalised in his series of paintings for the [Read More]

TORONTO AUCTION SEES BUYERS SCOOP UP WORKS BY RINDISBACHER, RIOPELLE AND LEMIEUX International fine art auctioneers Bonhams, which conducts 700 sales a year across four continents, held its first ever sale on Canadian soil last night, Thursday 19 June 2008, in Toronto. Collectors eager to snap up paintings by some of the [Read More]