NEW HOPE, Pa – One of the great, early collections of Americana claims top billing in Noel Barrett’s 1,400-lot auction to be held April 11-13 in New Hope, Pa. The Jerry Smith collection, which was acquired in its entirety by the Hallmark Corporation years ago, was amassed at a time when few [Read More]
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ATLANTA – In less than a decade, GunBroker.com(R) has reached a milestone unmatched by any other online firearms auction — 1,000,000 registered users. At approximately 11:28 p.m. March 4, Denise Krainock of Paso Robles, Calif., registered as the record setting user. The landmark registration will be incorporated into GunBroker.com’s ninth birthday celebration [Read More]
PARIS – During the two day marathon auction in Paris, François Curiel, president of Christie’s Europe and Emmanuelle Vidal-Delagneau, auctioneer in charge of the sale, conducted an iconic auction during which landmark results were achieved and totalled € 17.9 million. 104 years after an auction devoted to Asian art took place at [Read More]
Total Resource Auctions Cincinnati To Host Grand Opening Sale on March 20 ATLANTA – The Total Resource Auctions network of salvage wholesale auctions has expanded to 43 locations nationwide with the addition of Total Resource Auctions Cincinnati in Hamilton, Ohio. A grand opening sale will be held on Thursday, March 20, at [Read More]
ANKARA – Thirty-five Turkish and foreign firms have applied to join the auction on natural gas distribution in Turkish capital of Ankara, for a period of 30 years. “The U.S., Russian and European companies will compete in the auction to take place at Altinpark ANFA hall at 2 p.m. on March 14th,” [Read More]
Tennants Auctioneers are delighted to be offering for sale two important oil paintings by the artist Thomas Sidney Cooper R.A. (1803-1902) in their Spring Catalogue Sale on 10-11 April 2008. The first is entitled “A Goat Herd on Moel Shiabod, North Wales”, and depicts a young boy and his dog seated upon [Read More]
London, England – Spink, the world’s leading auctioneers of Coins, Stamps, Medals and Banknotes, Bonds and Share Certificates, based in London and established 1666, has acquired R.M. Smythe & Company, specialists in Antique Stocks and Bonds, Banknotes, Coins, and Autographs, based in New York City and established in 1880. Both Spink and [Read More]
LONDON, March 7, 2008 — Phillips de Pury & Co.’s sale of more-affordable contemporary art, design and photography, known as “Saturday@Phillips,” will be introduced to Londoners on March 15, with the sale accessible to the rest of the world, through auction catalog preview and real-time Internet bidding, at www.LiveAuctioneers.com. Items pictured Left. [Read More]
YORK, Pa. – Morphy Auctions, a Geppi’s Entertainment Auctions company, and Legend Numismatics have announced the creation of Morphy/Legend Coin Auctions, a new division of Geppi’s Entertainment Auctions. The Denver, Pa.-based Morphy Auctions and the Lincroft, N.J.-based Legend Numismatics will each own 50 percent of the new company, which has already begun [Read More]
March 1 event was held jointly by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales and Iron Horse Auction Co. (Concord, N.C.) – A dramatic and sweeping oil-on-canvas rendering of the Grand Canal in Venice under a watchful full moon by Elliott Daingerfield (American, 1859-1932) soared to $83,950 at a March 1 sale of [Read More]
A collection of works by the Australian-born artist Barbara Tribe (1913-2000) will go under the hammer at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, on 20 May 2008. Over 200 lots of sculpture, watercolours and ceramics from the artist’s studio in Cornwall are to be sold by the Barbara Tribe Foundation. The collection charts Tribe’s extraordinary [Read More]
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Nine residential home sites, six of which are lakeside on private lakes, located minutes away from Traverse City will be sold at an unreserved public real estate auction in Grand Rapids on March 20, 2008. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers will conduct the auction on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at [Read More]
LAS VEGAS – Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment will mark its 50-year milestone in Las Vegas next week while conducting its first unreserved auction at its new Las Vegas, NV auction site March 13-14, combined with an auction in nearby Henderson, NV on March 15, 2008. [Read More]
MELVILLE, N.Y. – Charles A. Stanziale, Jr., as Chapter 11 Trustee of Solomon Dwek, Debtor, et al, has announced an auction of 56 single family homes, condos and land located in Lakewood, NJ. Keen Consultants – The Real Estate Division of KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, has been retained as the Trustee’s Special [Read More]
NEWPORT BEACH, CA – Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVN) announced in a webcast last night that it will be bringing live Internet TV to the multi-billion dollar online auction sales industry pioneered by eBay. What is unique about a Wi-Fi TV Auction is that in addition to a shopping cart which allows [Read More]
LARCHMONT, NY – Clarke Auctions announces its end-of-winter sale with over 400 lots of fresh-to-market estate items from Stamford, Connecticut; Park and Fifth Avenues, New York; Teaneck, New Jersey; as well as the Greater New York region. Known for Mid-century Modern, this Clarke sale will include Robesjohn Gibbings extension table; Paul Evans [Read More]
Charlotte, NC – SPEED has once again expanded its broadcast time at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event and ‘No Reserve’ auction from Palm Beach, Fla. Up two hours from last season to 19; the network will begin live coverage from the South Florida Expo Center on March 27 at Noon ET. Bob [Read More]
Katrina Hess CFO of Hess Fine Art in St. Petersburg Florida announced today the results of their February online auction of fine art and antiques and Jewelry. The highlight of the auction was 9 paintings from the Cuzco school of fine Peruvian paintings several of which previously hung in the Dusseldorf museum. [Read More]