A very rare 1937 first issue of the first edition of J R R Tolkien’s much-loved classic The Hobbit was sold today (18 March) by international fine art auctioneers Bonhams in London for a staggering £60,000 – twice its pre-sale estimate and a new world record price at auction for an inscribed [Read More]
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NEW YORK, NY – Sotheby’s fifth sale of Contemporary Art Asia: China Korea Japan in New York brought a solid $23,210,525 (est. $23.1/33.4 million) and was highlighted by Zeng Fanzhi’s Mask Series No. 11, 1996, a triptych showing the strivings of individualism amidst the communist collective that was latent but still present [Read More]
Hamburg – Carrying an estimate of € 20,000-25,000, an oil painting on wood by François Morellet heads the roll in the Contemporary Art division at the Ketterer Kunst auctions of Modern Art & Post War to be held in Hamburg on 4 and 5 April 2008. That François Morellet is more interested [Read More]
Westboro, MA – IndustrialLeaders.com, a social media site and B2B portal for manufacturing professionals, announced this morning the release of its woodworking supply auction and marketplace at, http://www.industrialsaver.com/stores/mmw/Manufacturing-and-Metalworking/Woodworking/. According to Sean McManus, spokesperson for the company’s US offices, the marketplace is intended to promote a wide variety of woodworking machines, equipment and [Read More]
CALABASAS, CA – A King Kong Six-Sheet movie poster, one of only three known to exist, measuring a colossal 81 x 81 inches! ($200,000-$250,000); a huge collection of Special Effects Creatures and Puppets including a Hydraulic screen-used Velociraptor from The Lost World: Jurassic Park II ($80,000-$100,000), The T-Rex Killer!—Hero screen-used Spinosaur head [Read More]
April is a busy month for Sherborne based Charterhouse with an auction of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia on Saturday 12th April followed by an auction of decorative arts, pictures, antiques with a special sections of hunting, shooting and fishing items on Friday 18th April. “Entries for the car auction are well [Read More]
Charterhouse Auctioneers in Sherborne have been instructed to sell one of the last MG B’s ever produced and has never been registered for road use. “We often come across rare and unusual cars and motorbikes in our specialist vehicle auctions, and it is fair to say that sometimes vehicles have had many [Read More]
MELBOURNE, Fla – EPIC Weapons, a subsidiary of Organa Technologies Group, Inc. (OGNT), announced today that it has launched its new auction website at http://www.weaponmasters.com/auction. Its first featured product is a replica of Frostmourne(tm) as wielded by Prince Arthas Menethil in Blizzard Entertainment(r)’s epic game, Warcraft(r) III. EPIC Weapons has selected Weaponmasters [Read More]
WORCESTER, MA – World Energy Solutions, Inc. , a leading operator of online exchanges for energy and environmental commodities, today announced that the company has been selected by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), Inc. to provide services related to the design and implementation of a regional allowance auction. RGGI is a [Read More]
SAN FRANCISCO – Ocean Tomo Auctions today announced it will offer for sale U.S. Patent No. 6,665,659, relevant to internet citation processing technology, as Lot 12B in the Information Management & Data Systems category at the Ocean Tomo Spring 2008 Live IP Auction. The patent will be put on the auction block [Read More]
A Damien Hirst fish in formaldehyde, which the artist gifted to a friendly fish and chip shop owner in Leeds, is to be sold by auctioneers Bonhams in London this October at the company’s Vision 21 Sale. Rather more modest in size than Hirst’s famous shark, the blunt nosed fish, believed to [Read More]
VANCOUVER – Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, delivered strong prices for consignors by attracting worldwide bidding audiences to its record-breaking unreserved public auctions in Denver, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada last week. The March 11 & 12, 2008 auction at the Company’s permanent auction site in [Read More]
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif – Art work from Pablo Picasso and emerging superstar artist Philippe Bertho will be among items for sale on May 15 when Wi-Fi TV Inc. (Pink Sheets:WTVN) brings live Internet TV to the multi-billion dollar online auction sales industry (www.Wi-FiTV.com). An engraving from 1962 by Pablo Picasso and a [Read More]
RSPCA Llys Nini, the independantly funded animal centre in Swansea, has been lucky enough to be given 2 vintage royal menus to help them in their fund raising drive. The menus, one from the Queen’s table and one from Prince Charles are both from private or family meals and not state ocassions. [Read More]
NOKOMIS, FL – The nine inch tall, exquisitely carved vase was acquired in 1926 from S. & G. Gump Co. of San Francisco by self made American millionaire and collector William Boyce Thompson. The vase, featured in the two week online sale ending March 3 hosted by iGavel, came with the original [Read More]
Boston, MA – In the 1st Quarter of 2008, property values continue to drop as part of a downward transition in the nationwide real estate market begun in 2005. Although some fortunate investors who bought in the early ’90s made great profits selling early, most have watched their equity plummet. By setting [Read More]
CHOWCHILLA – On April 6, Beverly Hills-based real estate auction specialist Kennedy Wilson will be conducting an inventory closeout auction for nine luxury homes at The Cascades and 34 single family homes at The Villas in Chowchilla. All 43 homes are in Greenhills Estates, a gated community with abundant lakes situated around [Read More]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif – Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of the national real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson, conducted an auction on March 9, 2008 of single family homes, condominiums and town homes located in various communities of Southern Florida. About 97 bank-owned homes located in Palm Beach, Broward [Read More]