Two celebrity owned cars helped Classic Car Auctions (CCA) achieve a record sales rate of 75 per cent and record total sales of more than £770,000 in its sale last Saturday, 5th December, at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre in Leamington Spa, UK. A 1967 Ford Mustang Convertible owned by actor Charles Dance [Read More]
Auction News
7035 posts
NEW YORK – Holiday shopping is an easy, pleasant experience through Barnebys.com, a free one-stop website that features more than 400,000 items from 1,000-plus auction houses worldwide. Instead of bouncing from auction site to auction site, which can be a frustrating and time-consuming exercise, bidders and buyers simply visit Barnebys.com. There, they [Read More]
Back for a hotly demanded third year, Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers of Delaware, Ohio is offering a fun night to celebrate The Art of Style, an exclusive preview event leading up to two days of auction excitement: a session of Fine & Vintage Jewelry, Timepieces, Coins and Couture on December 9th, together [Read More]
It’s a bit of a departure for Fontaine’s, best known for antique clocks, lamps, and fine estates. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Fontaine’s Auction Gallery will break the mold on its customary sales featuring antique clocks, rare vintage lamps and fine estate items when it conducts a 400-plus-lot auction dedicated to antique medical devices, [Read More]
WRJ Design, a Jackson Hole-based firm known for creating stunning interiors as well as for remarkable exhibitions of legendary personal collections, has designed an auction preview for Sotheby’s New York focused on the rarified English book and art-filled estate of late financier Robert S Pirie. Described by Sotheby’s as “the finest collection [Read More]
The three-session sale, over two days, will be held by Archives International Auctions, in Fort Lee, N.J.. Featured will be Part 2 of the Alexander I. Pogrebetsky family archives of rare Chinese and Asian banknotes; plus U.S. & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily and Coins. FORT LEE, N.J., U.S.A. – More than 1,900 lots [Read More]
The two-day, 1,000-lot auction event will be held at Crescent City Auction Gallery’s showroom. NEW ORLEANS, La. – The complete liquidation of Peacock’s Estate Jewelers – the iconic fine jewelry store on Royal Street in the New Orleans French Quarter – plus Part 2 of items from Twin Oaks – the onetime [Read More]
WESTHAMPTON, N.Y. – Bidding for Grey Flannel’s Holiday Auction featuring important game-used memorabilia from all major sports is now officially under way. Clearly illustrated, expertly written descriptions for nearly 1,400 lots are now available to view online at www.greyflannelauctions.com. Action from the batter’s box is led by Lot #183, an incredible Ty [Read More]
The clock was the top lot in an auction that grossed $1.5 million; it was held in Pittsfield, Mass. PITTSFIELD, Mass. –An E. Howard & Company (Boston) No. 43 astronomical floor regulator clock, 105 inches tall and in fine operating condition, soared to $254,100 at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery’s two-session clock and antique [Read More]
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Barnebys, the online search and valuation tool for artworks, antiques and collectibles that has taken Europe by storm, will officially launch in the United States with an office in New York City, soon after the turn of the year. Already, representatives from the company are in Manhattan, gearing [Read More]
Featuring Incredible Roumier, Rousseau, Screaming Eagle and More (2015—Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the number one wine auction house in the U.S., will hold their first three day auction on December 10, 11, and 12. This exceptional sale of incredible diversity and provenance is expected to be the world’s [Read More]
Bonhams is to auction 40 motor cars, on 13 May 2016, timed to coincide with the Monaco Grand Prix Historique. Jaguar C-Type ‘XKC 011’ was built new for the Jaguar Works racing team early in 1952. After making its racing debut at Silverstone in May of that year, driven by one-time pre-war [Read More]
FOREST HILLS, N.Y. – Kyo Wu, the trusted art historian who founded Lester Ramsey Auctions in 2010, said his team left no stone unturned in preparing for the company’s Dec. 6 Fine Chinese Works of Art Auction. “We went off the beaten path to track down exciting discoveries that would be fresh [Read More]
They were the two top lots at American Bottle Auctions’ Auction #62, held November 6-15. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A California Clubhouse western whiskey fifth and a Dr. R. Parker western medicine posted identical selling prices of $23,100 each at Auction #62, an internet and catalog auction held Nov. 6-15 by American Bottle [Read More]
Guns made for Royalty and Nobility will be offered in Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s sale of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns & Rifles which takes place on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA. Just in time for the Boxing Day shoot, the auction of more than 300 [Read More]
WEST PALM BEACH, FL. – The eye-catching cover of Palm Beach Modern Auctions’ catalog speaks a thousand words about what to expect at the company’s Nov. 21-22 auction. Andy Warhol’s vibrant pop-art depiction of a Campbell’s Chicken ’N Dumplings Soup can serves as the visual appetizer for an 817-lot selection of sleek [Read More]
It’s just one of many exciting lots at Philip Weiss Auctions’ next sale in Lynbrook, New York. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – The very trumpet that Sam “The Bugler” Grossman used to call American Pharoah to the post at this year’s Preakness and Belmont Stakes races during the thoroughbred’s amazing Triple Crown run is [Read More]
The sale will be held in the firm’s showroom gallery at 715 Miami Circle, in upscale Buckhead. ATLANTA, Ga. – A special one-day Designer Couture, Jewelry & Luxury Gifts auction is slated for Sunday, November 22nd, by Ahlers & Ogletree, in the firm’s gallery showroom at 715 Miami Circle (Suite 210), in [Read More]