Beatrice Welles, the daughter of the late great director Orson Welles — auteur of Citizen Kane, commonly considered the greatest film ever made — is making a trove of material related to her famous father, never before offered to the public, available for auction as part of Heritage Auctions’ Entertainment Signature Auction [Read More]
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Proving that period Bugari is one of the most sought after jewellers in the international market, a stunning 1960s sapphire and diamond ring by Bulgari highlighted Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Wednesday 26th March auction of Fine Jewellery, which saw a plethora of jaw-dropping gems go under the hammer at the firms Donnignton [Read More]
It was Part 1 of a planned five-part auction series. All will be conducted by Woody Auction. WICHITA, Kan. – A museum-quality Louis Comfort Tiffany art glass vase, pastel white and green with finely engraved calla lily décor and numerous beetle and spider highlights, soared to $60,000 at Part 1 of a [Read More]
A collection of unseen Henry Moore (1898-1986) working proof prints stole the show at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints yesterday, Thursday 27th March. From the collection of Moore’s master printer Michael Rand, the original work from the late 1970s and early 1980s included the watercolour & charcoal [Read More]
An antique silver tankard discovered in Lichfield has just sold for a mouth-watering £4,000 at auction. The tankard was identified by experts as a piece made during the reign of George I. 1716 to be precise. It is a very plain piece, free of any over-the top decoration which often appears on [Read More]
The first day of Baldwin’s three-day May auction calendar will contain the second part of one of the most impressive British colonial coin collections to have ever been offered for sale by public auction. Part One of The Arielle Collection sold through Baldwin’s Coinex auctions in September 2013, where every one of [Read More]
A wonderful selection of books on offer at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ monthly Bibliophile sale includes works by the great Romantic writers William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, as well as a small but perfectly formed section of books on flora. The sale will be held on Thursday 10th April in their Godalming [Read More]
Items from prominent estates in Texas, Indiana, Tennessee and Mississippi will come up for bid. ABERDEEN, Miss. – Around 350 hand-picked items from prominent estates representing a wide swath of the country – Texas, Indiana, Tennessee and Mississippi – will be offered in a gigantic multi-estate auction planned for Saturday, April 5th, [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – Two oil on board paintings by Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter, two Newcomb College matte glaze baluster vases, a pair of huge American Renaissance Revival gold leaf and gesso pier [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart Continues its Strong Lead in 2014, Smashing Records and Further Solidifying a Near Perfect All-Time Sell-Through Rate (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart, America’s #1 Wine Auction House in 2012 and 2013, followed up its record-breaking February auction of the H.B. Harris, Jr. Collection with a highly-charged, 100% sold [Read More]
A selection of 339 ecclesiastical books from the collection of clergyman and controversialist Joseph Mendham sold on Thursday 20th March through Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions. A ‘white glove’ auction for the London based saleroom saw every lot sell for a total of £357,392. Rupert Powell, Deputy Chairman of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ inaugural London sale of Fine Wine, Champagne, Port and Select Fine Spirits on Thursday 3rd April 2014 comprises a single owner collection of top Burgundy and red Bordeaux of the 1982 vintage. The sale is held in conjunction with Bid for Wine, as a forward looking joint venture [Read More]
The latest offering from one of the world’s most prolific coin collectors, Åke Lindén, maps the social and numismatic history of modern Europe with coins of the highest rarity including a George I Gold 100-Drachmai, the rarest issue of modern Greece, and one of the finest examples of the 1868 20-Lei Gold [Read More]
Also being offered in the sealed bid sale is one man’s entire collection of garden-related objects in one single lot – May 20 & May 23 A collection that has been amassed over 100 years by three generations of the Crowther Family, who are synonymous with the production of leadwork (and based [Read More]
As the third and final part of Peter Jackson’s epic film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit reaches the final stages of production, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions offer Tolkien fans the world over the opportunity to buy a first edition of the original book, The Hobbit, or, There and Back [Read More]
Two private collections of Meiji period works of art were the focus of nearly 300 bidders from more than two dozen countries, with representation from Asia, Europe, and the United States. Attendees filled the saleroom, with international bids coming through on the telephones and live online. The greatest attention was paid to [Read More]
The evening auction, starting at around 6 p.m. (EST), will be preceded by a day session at 1 p.m. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – 125 modern and contemporary works of art, inclusive of traditional, blue chip and cutting edge by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, [Read More]
A 5 inch gauge model of a British Railways ex LNER Class B1 ‘Roedeer’ 4-6-0 locomotive and tender 61040 was the highlight of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury auctions Transport Sale yesterday, Tuesday 18th March, in Donnington Priory. The prototype for the LNER Class B1 ‘Roedeer’ 4-6-0 locomotive was constructed in Darlington, in the [Read More]