The robot was the top lot in a sale dedicated mainly to toys, trains, toy soldiers and die-casts. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – A vintage, original, battery-operated “Machine Man” toy robot, made in Japan in the 1950s by Modern Toys and standing 14 ¾ inches tall, sailed past its pre-auction estimate of $15,000-$25,000 to [Read More]
The annex facility is located across the street from the main gallery, at 1401 St. Charles Avenue. NEW ORLEANS, La. – The global demand for antiquities at auction has increased and New Orleans is no exception. Crescent City Auction Gallery, one of the top three auction companies in New Orleans, has opened [Read More]
On Tuesday 25th November Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield will be offering for auction the David Prosser collection of vintage toys and model trains. David Prosser (b.1943) (or Pross as he was affectionately known in his youth) is a proud Brummie through and through. Born and brought up in the Stechford area [Read More]
Berkshire – In the run up to the festive season the wine Specialists at Dreweatts, with auction partner Bid for Wine, have picked out their top bottles from the upcoming sale of Wine, Champagne, Port & Spirits to warm you through the winter months. The sale will be held on Thursday 20th [Read More]
Online sale on December 9-10 in conjunction with The Auction Room Original cartoons and caricatures by legendary cartoonist William “Bill” Hewison which for 30 years kept readers of Punch, The Times, The Listener, The Oldie and Europe magazine smiling are to be sold by Ewbank’s, Surrey’s premier auctioneer of fine art and [Read More]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The team at Palm Beach Modern Auctions (PBMA) – south Florida’s leading specialists in modern and contemporary art and design – will welcome bidders and other interested guests to a Nov. 22 Modern Design auction of more than 400 carefully chosen lots. Auctioneer and co-owner Rico Baca, [Read More]
500+ clocks will be offered Saturday, Nov. 22. Watches, fobs and chains will be sold Sunday, Nov. 23. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Time will be of the essence the weekend of Nov. 22nd and 23rd when Fontaine’s Auction Gallery will offer over 500 antique and collector clocks (on Saturday, Nov. 22) and watches, [Read More]
HDH Continues to Dominate US Wine Auction Market, Exceeding Nearest Competitor by Over 70% (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in the US, saw record results at its groundbreaking Celebration of Bordeaux auction this weekend with a total of $5.02 million in sales against presale [Read More]
The painting was the top achiever of 315 artworks offered in a sale that grossed $2.1 million. MILFORD, Conn. – A sun-dappled winter landscape painting showing a snow covered brook by Walter Launt Palmer (Am., 1854-1932) titled Winter Shadows, rose to $132,000 at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers’ fall auction held Oct. 23rd [Read More]
London – During a day of luxury sales Dreweatts will offer a selection of 74 fine and unusual watches, clocks and timepieces. The sale will be held at Dreweatts’ saleroom in London’s Mayfair on Thursday 27th November 2014. Highlights Gerald Genta, Fantasy Retro Disney, a gentleman’s stainless steel wristwatch, circa 1990, ref. [Read More]
The auction, starting at 11 a.m., will be held at Matheson’s gallery, located in Melbourne, Fla. MELBOURNE, Fla. – Around 250 lots of quality items from prominent south Florida estates and collections will be sold on Saturday, Nov. 22nd, by Matheson’s Auctions, in the firm’s gallery located at 600 East New Haven [Read More]
Items from a deceased physician from Ventnor and a retired auctioneer will come up for bid. REPAUPO, N.J. – A rare and magnificent Black Forest hall rack featuring a life-size carved dog, an 1824 Robert Gainsford sterling figural-handled wine cooler, an Emile Galle crystal vase with blue and green veins and signed [Read More]
Bullet from the first wartime aviation casualty that was worn as a lucky charm by its target, Captain Carlo Montu, is to be auctioned in London alongside archive of Montu’s aviation heroics. London – The bullet that shot Italian aviation pioneer, solider and sports executive, Carlo Montu will be offered alongside a [Read More]
A collection of over 64 Limited Editions Montblanc Pens will be offered, fresh to the market, in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Fine Pen sale on Thursday 27th November 2014 in London. The pens are unused or ‘uninked’, with their original packaging. Prices range from £150 to over £2,000, making the selection a [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – A two-day estates auction featuring a 17th century oil painting attributed to the Belgian artist Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1614-1654), a collection of 18th and 19th century Russian icons, original artwork [Read More]
The auction will be held in Elite’s gallery, at 1034 Gateway Boulevard in Boynton Beach, Fla. BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – They say good things come in pairs, and that is especially true of Elite Decorative Arts’ next auction, slated for Saturday, Nov. 22. Included in the lineup of lots are a pair [Read More]
The Oct. 3rd auction was held in the firm’s gallery, located at 57 Lancaster Ave. in Malvern, Pa. MALVERN, Pa. – A rare antique Chinese carved Imperial seal box, fitted with 16 seals of green jade circling a large four-inch square central Shi-mounted seal, sold for $90,000 at an East Meets West [Read More]
London – A collection of rare Edward Gordon Craig works from the property of an American gentleman will be offered in Bloomsbury Auctions’ Important Books and Works on Paper sale on Thursday 13th November at their Mayfair saleroom. The 253 lot collection spanning inscribed books, letters, proofs and prints, some relating to [Read More]