With 2015 marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions and A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd present an auction centred on Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars. Prices range from £50 – £22,000 across approximately 300 lots, featuring a Napoleon death mask and private letters from the French [Read More]
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It is the estate home and contents of Rosemary Littlejohn, a renowned art restorer and collector. The auction will be conducted by Stevens Auction Company, at 1 East Parkway North, Memphis. MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Artworks by some of the most recognizable and sought-after names in the world of fine art, plus a [Read More]
Cranes proved their auspicious powers in an auction at Dreweatts, Donnington Priory, when a pair of cloisonné enamel double crane censers flew beyond their pre-sale estimate, selling for £124,000 to a bidder on the phone. A Warring States-Western Han style, bronze model of a tiger also made an impressive £64,480. As birds [Read More]
LONDON, Ely House – This summer, Bloomsbury Auctions present their first-ever auction dedicated to recent and emerging Contemporary Art at Mallett’s magnificent Ely House, with some of the best examples in this active and increasingly popular area of the market. The sale will take place on Tuesday 30th June, at 4pm, with [Read More]
Record Number of Bidders Vied for Gems from Virtually Every Wine and Spirit Region (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the internationally renowned wine auction house and retailer, continued its success in 2015 with a tremendous May auction that brought in a total $6.2 million against pre-sale estimates of $4.3-$6.4 [Read More]
The auction is being held online as well as at Mohawk Arms’ gallery, located in Bouckville, N.Y. BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. – A mid-19th century American Plains Indian pipe tomahawk in overall very good condition, with a nice aged patina, is an expected top lot at Mohawk Arms’ Auction #73, online soon (at MilitaryRelics.com [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s Pittsfield, Mass. gallery; 500+ lots will come up for bid. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A one-of-a-kind Howard & Davis astronomical regulator clock and a rare Seth Thomas No. 20 standing regulator clock with Grande Sonnerie strike and repeat could both reach or surpass $100,000 at [Read More]
London – The latest Photo Opportunities auction at Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday 4th June coincides with the re-launch of Photo London and features big names of fashion photography including Irving Penn and Norman Parkinson. Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), Wyoming, 1954 Prices range from £100, in the no reserve section, to £15,000 for [Read More]
The auction will be held in Edens Auctions’ gallery, at 3720 Flowood Drive in Flowood, Miss. FLOWOOD, Miss. – A multi-estate auction featuring 521 lots of fine French period furniture, original artwork, sterling silver, antique clocks, decorative accessories and more will be held on Monday, May 25th (Memorial Day), by Edens Auctions, [Read More]
The second specialist Asian Art sale was held at Chiswick Auctions on 5 May 2015. The quarterly sale brought in sales over £250,000 – more than double the total of the February Asian Art sale and another record for the auction house. There were strong results across all categories with many pieces [Read More]
The auction will be conducted at the St. Charles Convention Center in St. Charles, Missouri. ST. CHARLES, Mo. – The astounding single-owner lifetime collection of nearly 350 pieces of American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG), accumulated by William (“Bill”) and Barbara Meek of Naples, Fla., will be sold at a public auction scheduled [Read More]
On Friday, May 15th, Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers will host its spring Early American Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction featuring the 9th Annual Ohio Valley session highlighted by a collection of pottery from the late Jim Murphy (1941-2012). Richard “Jeff” Jeffers, Principal Auctioneer & CEO of Garth’s, noted, “It is our pleasure [Read More]
The auction will be held at the offices of Kelleher & Rogers, Fine Asian Auctions Ltd at 11:00 a.m. Hong Kong time. Headlining the sale: Part 1 of the Alexander I. Pogrebetsky family archive HONG KONG, China – Archives International Auctions (based in Fort Lee, N.J.) will offer over 500 lots of [Read More]
Included will be game-worn uniforms and jerseys from Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson and Michael Jackson; Brigham Young railroad passes; a signed photo of Walt Disney; much more. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – Over 500 lots of high-end collectibles – to include sports uniforms worn by Reggie Jackson, Michael Jordan and Thurman Munson, a collection [Read More]
The three major personal property appraisal organizations jointly announce an initiative to educate the public regarding meaningful qualification standards for Appraisers. The American Society of Appraisers, the Appraisers Association of America, and the International Society of Appraisers, support qualification standards required by the Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the [Read More]
One titled Sap Gathering was the top lot. This was Nadeau’s second million-dollar sale of 2015. WINDSOR, Conn. – Two original paintings by the iconic American folk artist Grandma Moses (1860-1961) sold for a combined $114,000 at Nadeau’s Auction Gallery’s spring antiques, fine art and Asian auction, held April 11th in the [Read More]
London – A surrealist print by the enduring artist René Magritte proved to be the highlight of Roseberys auction of Modern & Contemporary Prints, Multiples & Editions on Saturday 25 April. Roseberys Director and Head of Paintings Marcus Grey said: “Our second specialist auction of Modern & Contemporary Prints benefitted from the [Read More]
2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta, and a copy of the first engraved version, published by John Pine some 500 years later could sell for £15,000 when it goes under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions on Thursday 21st May in the auctioneer’s bi-annual Important Books, Manuscripts and [Read More]