Used car values continue to rise in the used car market according to the latest Pulse report from British Car Auctions (BCA) as average values reached a new high in December 2013. With new car sales for December reported by the SMMT today also showing continued growth, BCA’s data reveals that used [Read More]
The only known existing example of a rare Waterman “Three Snakes” Sterling Silver Fountain Pen achieved $37,500 on December 18, leading the Fine Writing Instruments auction at Bonhams New York. The pen, circa 1888-98, features six genuine emerald eyes and is one of the earliest Waterman pens. It sold ahead of its [Read More]
Frank Maraschiello, Vice President and Director of 20th Century Decorative Arts, North America, announced the appointment of Dan Tolson as Director of 20th Century Decorative Art and Design in Los Angeles. Frank comments, “We welcome Dan Tolson to our Los Angeles office and 20th Century Decorative Art and Design Department. His strong [Read More]
A standing room only crowd of committed Chinese buyers bid on lot after lot to multiples of their estimates at the Bonhams Fine Chinese Works of Art auction in San Francisco on December 17. This session, part of a two-day auction of Chinese and Asian Decorative Art, featured fine jades and scholar’s [Read More]
To coincide with the launch of Peter Harris and Shirley Reiff Howarth’s new book, A CELEBRATION OF CORPORATE ART Programs WORLDWIDE, Bonhams is holding an exhibition in their impressive new galleries at 101 New Bond Street of works of art and paintings on loan from leading corporate collections from across Europe. The [Read More]
Garth’s Auctions (based in Delaware, Ohio) is keeping buyers busy with multiple sessions during the last weekend of January. The sales will include over 900 lots offered in four sessions: January 23 Asian Art, January 24 European and American Fine & Decorative Arts, January 25 American and European Paintings & Fine Art, [Read More]
The only Fr. 1215d $500 1882 Federal Reserve Gold Certificate known to exist other than a specimen in the public collection at the Smithsonian Institution is expected to bring $2+ million in Heritage Auctions’ Florida United Numismatists Currency Signature Auction Jan. 8-10 and Jan. 13 in Orlando, Fla. It comes from the [Read More]
(Lincoln, UK) Nearly 1,000 items of Antiques, Fine Art and Highly Collectible Items will be sold as part of Unique Auctions (UK) Annual New Years Day Auction on 1st January 2014 at 9am (GMT). The sale will be available worldwide online through several auction platforms and Head of Marketing Darryl Kirk says [Read More]
Motorcycles formerly owned by legendary actor Steve McQueen and restored and customized by famed artist Von Dutch (née Kenny Howard) will be offered at the highly anticipated and fast approaching Bonhams Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction on January 9th. Steve McQueen, legendary not just for being the most famous and highest paid actor [Read More]
Garth’s Auctions will kick off the New Year with an Early Americana Furniture and Decorative Arts auction the weekend of January 3rd & 4th. The Friday session comprises 410 lots from the collection of Ray and Mary Ann Meisberger, Stephentown, New York, while the Saturday session showcases another 470 lots from various [Read More]
Heritage Auctions has announced Barbara Conn has joined its growing Luxury Accessories category as a Consignment Director based in Chicago. Conn is a native Chicagoan and Lincoln Park resident. Her expertise in the luxury handbag market is extensive, with more than a decade in the high-end accessories segment as both a business [Read More]
WESTHAMPTON, N.Y. – Grey Flannel Auctions announced today that it has been commissioned to sell the “Little” Johnny Sylvester collection, a unique family-owned archive related to one of the most famous stories in baseball history. Sylvester was a gravely ill 11-year-old boy who rallied after receiving a baseball signed by Babe Ruth [Read More]
Bonhams is to offer the maritime paintings collection of noted connoisseur Alfred “Fritz” Gold, in the Important Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts sale to be held on January 24, 2014. A veteran of WWII who received a Purple Heart for his bravery, Gold went on to find success in commercial real estate, [Read More]
From jewellery, watches and silver to corkscrews, ceramics and antique furniture there was something for all tastes in Richard Winterton’s two-day Auction held in Lichfield this week, (18th/19th December). With local, national and international coverage and live internet bidding on all Lots guaranteed a high selling rate with most Lots finding a [Read More]
An astounding trinity of legendary American numismatic rarities — a 1787 Brasher doubloon with hallmark EB on the eagle’s wing, MS63 NGC, CAC, a 1913 Liberty nickel, PR64 NGC, CAC, the Olsen Specimen and a 1927-D double eagle, MS66 NGC — expected to bring millions of dollars when they cross the auction [Read More]
The action begins Jan. 18, with a sale packed with comics, comic art, sports, animation & more. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – Philip Weiss Auctions – which took such a fierce pounding from Hurricane Sandy last year it was forced to move from its decimated facility in Oceanside – is still rebuilding from the [Read More]
A book charting the expedition which led to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, sold as part of a set for £14,880 at Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Antiquarian Books, held yesterday, Wednesday 18th December. Darwin was invited to join the second surveying voyage of HMS Beagle, by Captain Robert Fitzroy, to [Read More]
The cataloged auction will be held at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery in Pittsfield, Mass., at 11 a.m. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Exactly 300 lots of quality fresh-to-the-market items will be sold in a catalogued auction on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Headlining the auction [Read More]