Led by auctioneers Pro Auction, original and reproduction period furnishings, authentic artwork reflecting the grand era of the Regency period will go under the hammer at the hotel’s premises and webcast live over the internet. Viewing is available to the public by appointment on Saturday, 7th, and Sunday, 8th December, and prior [Read More]
A portrait of Flora MacDonald, a heroine of the Jacobite risings, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after the Battle of Culloden is to be sold at Bonhams Scottish pictures sale in Edinburgh on Thursday 5 December. It is estimated at £7,000-10,000. Following his defeat at Culloden on 16 April 1746, Charles [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Modern and Contemporary Art on Thursday 5th December is the London auctioneer’s first foray into the worlds of Impressionist & Modern Art, and Post-War and Contemporary Art. A previously unseen and unique variant from Banksy’s Barcode Leopard series of works, signed by the artist, is the [Read More]
Cordier Auctions will hold their Fall Firearms and Militaria Auction in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on November 24th. Highlights of the sale include a duck decoy carved by Lee Dudley, a Colt 1860 revolver inscribed to Brigadier General James Barnes, a Colt single action Army revolver named to Sheriff John Dillingham and an 1868 [Read More]
Irish side table sells for £225,200 at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions A record breaking sale of ‘Fine Furniture and Works of Art’ saw an Irish George II side table achieve £225,200 today ( Wednesday 13th November) at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Donnington Priory Saleroom in Berkshire, the highest price for a piece [Read More]
Leading remarketing company, British Car Auctions (BCA), has been awarded a Highly Approved Trader (HAT) accolade by honestjohn.co.uk, the highly respected website, championing consumer rights for motorists. Voted by motorists, the HAT Awards recognise best practice within the UK motor trade. This award confirms BCA’s commitment to helping consumers access the widest [Read More]
Revealing photographs of 19 year-old Kate Moss on the verge of becoming one of the world’s most famous models will be sold in a sale of Photographs & Photobooks by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions in London, on Friday 22nd November 2013. Taken by Patrick Demarchelier, the two photographs capture the innocence that [Read More]
Bonhams announce it will offer a 12-bottle case of 1975 Château Pétrus (est. $20,000-$30,000) and additional fine selections from the estate of American composer Henry Mancini in its Fine and Rare Wines auction, November 23 in San Francisco, also simulcast in New York and Los Angeles. Mr. Mancini (1924-1994) has been lauded [Read More]
The fall antique extravaganza auction will be held at the firm’s gallery in Aberdeen, Miss. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – Choice items from the estate of Dr. Ray Gregory, a general surgeon from Corinth, Miss. – to include around 200 pieces of Roseville pottery collected over the course of 40 years, about 50 pieces [Read More]
Two magnums of vintage Krug champagne made from grapes picked during Queen Elizabeth II’s first years as monarch, and produced to commemorate her Silver Jubilee will be making their first appearance since being won as a raffle prize in 1977. They will be offered alongside wines from the top estates of Burgundy [Read More]
One of the most important albums of drawings by the celebrated 18th century caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, Comparative Anatomy Resemblances between the Countenances of Men and Beasts (1822), sold for an outstanding £57,600 in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury’s auction, The Library of a Gentleman, Thursday 7th November. It had been estimated at £10,000 – [Read More]
A number of fine antique dressing boxes, (the property of a private collector) have been sold at Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield in recent months. Two boxes by Asprey of London have already totalled over £10,000, (beating auction records for comparable boxes sold in London and elsewhere in the UK). Two further [Read More]
The auction of fine decorative arts, fine art and Chinese works was held Nov. 2nd in Florida. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – A Chinese hand-carved red coral sculpture of four Guan Yin (Buddhist deities of mercy and compassion) from the Qing Dynasty, and a Chinese hand-carved red coral group figure depicting two Guan [Read More]
The dispenser was the top lot of the auction, which was held Oct. 4-6 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – A rare antique Pepsin Gum (“And Your Fortune – One Cent”) embossed tin dispenser, coin-operated to accept one cent for both gum and fortune, sold for $57,000 at an auction [Read More]
Norman Rockwell’s full-length portrait The Song of Bernadette realized $605,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $3.7+ million Illustration Art Auction event. Records were set for scores of artists across Classic and Golden Age Art, Science Fiction, and Pulp genres, as sell through rates reached 98 percent by value and 92 percent by lot. [Read More]
An 1893-S Morgan Dollar MS64 NGC, from the famously low mintage of any regular issue Morgan, brought $235,000 to take top lot honors at Heritage Auctions’ U.S. Coin Signature® Auction Nov. 1-3 in New York. High-grade silver coinage, gold rarities, and a 1943-S Bronze cent achieved the top prices at the event, [Read More]
Stunning jewellery made by Italian society jeweller Stefano Scortecci for a prominent family of European diplomats during the 1960s will be sold by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions London saleroom on Wednesday 27th November. Stefano Scortecci opened his workshop in Rome in 1920. He became one of Rome’s leading society jewellers during the [Read More]
Bonhams newly designed headquarters and salerooms provided the setting for the two days of Japanese auctions (6th-7th November) which achieved an impressive total of over £2.3million. Suzannah Yip, director of the Japanese art department said: “It was a great pleasure to welcome our clients from all the over world to our elegant [Read More]