Auction News

Bloomsbury Auctions Offers the World’s Rarest Star Atlas to the Smallest Atlas Known Which was Made for Queen Mary’s Doll’s House The 418 lot sale boasts several highly important items. The very rare Atlas Celeste or Celestial Atlas (lot 7) by the astronomer and physician John Bevis, is one of only 16 [Read More]

Manhattan, New York – The R. M. Smythe & Company spring paper money auction on March 20th 2008 will offer 890 lots of paper money at their Manhattan office. One of the more interesting lots of world banknotes will be the specimens of Siam banknotes, in particular the 20, 80, and 100 [Read More]

DENVER, Pa. – Morphy Auctions’ recently launched Doll department, headed by specialists and co-directors Becky and Andy Ourant, will present its premiere 1,200-lot auction on Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18 at the Morphy Auctions Gallery in Denver (Adamstown), Pa. The high-end, three-session event features exquisite antique dolls and dollhouses, as well as [Read More]

Geneva – American Citizens Abroad is pleased to announce the date of its 16th annual fundraising auction, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday, April 11th, 2008, at the Ramada Park Hotel. Each year the ACA auction attracts a loyal audience of several hundred well-traveled people living in and around Geneva, [Read More]

At the forefront of the auction was a quality selection of Game Used Bats from some of baseballs most prolific sluggers. Not surprisingly, this category yielded some of the priciest lots in the sale. Top lot was a Ty Cobb 1917-21 H&B Game Used Bat. Other big ticket bats included a Superb [Read More]

Dallas, TX – It was Wednesday night, September 26, 1962: CBS gave TV audiences their first look at a new sitcom titled The Beverly Hillbillies. Irene Ryan’s shotgun-aiming Granny, Donna Douglas’ bounteously blonde Elly May, and Max Baer Jr.’s Jethro provided most of the high-spirited slapstick. However, the show’s true star and [Read More]

Bonhams has appointed Pascal Nyborg as its representative in Norway. Pascal is based in Oslo and is best known for his work as a fine art broker and valuations expert. His art gallery in Oslo, Nyborg Kunst! was established in 1998. The Gallery is located in Drammensveien close to the Russian Embassy [Read More]

COPPEROPOLIS, Calif – Accelerated Marketing Partners will conduct a phase close-out real estate auction for Copper Hills, a new home community in Copperopolis, Calif., on Sun., April 6, 2008. Minimum selling prices for the 15 two-, three-, and four-bedroom single-family homes available at auction will start at $195,000, which is approximately 40 [Read More]

Ofcom today confirmed details of plans to auction radio spectrum suitable for a range of services, including mobile television and satellite radio. Ofcom also announced that the provisional deadline for applications is 10 April 2008, with the online auction likely to start at the end of April. A number of possible uses [Read More]

Bonhams Fine British Pottery and Porcelain Sale on April 23, includes a delightful collection of those strange and unusual objects , fan-shaped asparagus servers. The sale coincides with Britain’s Asparagus Day. Asparagus servers are designed in a fan-like form with lips on either side to contain the spears. The fan-like shape results [Read More]

KANSAS CITY, MO – The City of Odessa, Missouri proclaimed March 12, 2008 “Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Day” at the Grand Opening of the Company’s new permanent Kansas City auction site in Odessa. Mayor Anthony Bamvakais made the proclamation before cutting the Grand Opening ribbon to officially open the new site – one [Read More]

LONDON – Sotheby’s second-ever London sale dedicated to Russian Contemporary Art, today realised £4,101,275 ($8,257,917), a sum which was more than £200,000 over the high estimate (estimate: £2.6-3.8 million) and represents the highest ever total for a various owners sale of Russian Contemporary Art. Today’s successful sale, which saw new records set [Read More]

Skoda has partnered with vrs, part of the Manheim Group, which now provides the complete remarketing service for its used car operations through the Manheim Group’s integrated, multi-channel remarketing proposition. A team of dedicated personnel at vrs and across the Manheim Group work in conjunction with Skoda’s Used Car Supply Manager Stephanie [Read More]

Art collectors to history buffs are eagerly awaiting international auctioneers Bonhams’ upcoming April 23rd, 2008 sale of European Paintings as it was made known that a rare work by none other than Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) would be coming to the auction block in New York City, the sale to be simulcast [Read More]

The Channels Network Portfolio of e-commerce websites and premier generic business domain names will be auctioned on March 12, 2008, offering one of the largest niche e-business portfolios available anywhere. The divestment of the Channels Network e-commerce portfolio is precipitated by the semi retirement of it’s co-founders Bert L. Bill, and Ray [Read More]

Australian Web hosting provider Hostworks (hostworks.com.au) announced on Tuesday it has signed a three-year contract with online auction provider GraysOnline (graysonline.com.au). GraysOnline has grown five-fold since transitiong from traditional to online auction sales, shipping more than 120,000 orders each month to its customers. The online auction service enables customers to buy products [Read More]

New York/Los Angeles – Christie’s International Wine Department is delighted to announce full details of three notable single-owner sales to be held in the New York and Los Angeles this Spring. These exceptional sales will compliment a full series of six wine sales during the season in the Americas. Richard Brierley, Head [Read More]

WILMINGTON, Del – http://www.girlsense.com/, an ingenious fashion community for tween and teen girls, has just launched GirlSense Marketplace and GirlSense Groups; two new features that take advantage of the excitement of safe real time interaction. The innovative Marketplace is the newest addition to GirlSense.com, a wildly popular online fashion community that blends [Read More]