The 1939 Lagonda V12 Team Car will be on display at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale on Friday 29 June and will go under the hammer at the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale on Saturday 15 September, where it is expected to realize in excess of £1 million. Funded by 26-year-old [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours which will take place on 3 July 2012, during London’s Master Drawings week. Featuring a selection of works by Old Masters that have been recently discovered, this auction offers the opportunity to acquire drawings and watercolours which have not [Read More]
Bonhams Fine & Rare wine sale on 5th July at New Bond Street will include several wines from important years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. Two bottles of Pol Roger Champagne 1952, the year of her coronation, will go under the hammer, along with a bottle of Pol Roger 1973, altogether estimated [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. today announced strong results for its recent Fine Jewelry sale held Tuesday, June 12th. The highly successful sale grossed $2.8 million including buyer’s premium, surpassing the pre-auction estimate high. Colored stones, Art Deco pieces, diamonds, and natural pearls were especially strong performers. An Art Deco diamond pendant necklace by Cartier [Read More]
Michael Jackson’s trademark military-style jacket will be one of the highlights, of almost 40 lots related to Jackson included in Bonhams, Knightsbridge forthcoming Entertainment Memorabilia sale on 3rd July 2012. The custom-made jacket, tailored by Dege & Skinner, Saville Row, features the original costume label inside the pocket, typewritten “Michael Jackson” and [Read More]
T206 Wagner Sells For $651,750; Babe Ruth Rookie Card $142,200; Famous T206 Doyle hammered down at $414,750; Countless Baseball Card Auction Records Shattered At REA!!! Watchung, New Jersey. The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market was impossible to miss at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 12, 2012 auction. An astounding [Read More]
Christie’s International announce Per Holmberg has been appointed to lead its New York Wine Department as Vice President, Head of Department. In this capacity, Mr. Holmberg will work closely with the auction house’s team of wine specialists to lead the continued growth and development of Christie’s wine sales throughout North and South [Read More]
Christie’s announce early highlights from the one-off themed exhibition and auction The London Sale, on Monday, 3 September 2012 at 1pm. The special extended exhibition, which will run for six-weeks throughout the Olympic Summer from 27 July through to the auction on 3 September 2012, is sure to prove popular with visitors [Read More]
The two-day Stamps and Postal History of the World sale at Stanley Gibbons’ Strand salerooms comprises over 1500 lots, with a number of significant single items, multiples and items of postal history appearing in the Great Britain section which will be auctioned from 10am on Friday 22nd June. The Great Britain section [Read More]
Walter Frederick Osborne R.H.A, R.O.I (1859-1903) was the most important Irish artist of his generation, and a wonderful example of his work, Feeding the chickens (1884-85), is to be offered for auction as part of the 19th Century Paintings sale on Wednesday 11th July 2012, at Bonhams 101 New Bond Street, London. [Read More]
Bonhams announce that another distinguished selection of prints by these leading British artists will feature in its Prints sale at New Bond Street, London on 11 July. Among the pieces will be Runners by Cyril Power (£20,000-30,000); Market Day by Sybil Andrews, (£15,000-20,000); Swing Boats by Claude Flight (£15,000-20,000) and Paris Omnibus, [Read More]
The Jerry Weist Collection of Science-Fiction and Fantasy art anchors Heritage Auctions June 27-28 Illustration Art Signature® Auction with iconic art from greats of the genre such as Frank R. Paul, J. Allen St. John, Michael Whelan, Alex Schomburg, Wally Wood, and many others. Frank R. Paul (American, 1884-1963), Wonder Stories pulp [Read More]
Christie’s announce the forthcoming sale of Mary Ann Friend’s autograph manuscript journal of a voyage to Hobart, 14 August 1829 – 12 June 1831 (estimate: £100,000-150,000). Of exceptional historical interest to Western Australia, the journal has been consigned for sale by Mary Ann Friend’s heirs. Friend’s journal, illustrated with her own sketches, [Read More]
On June 11, Bonhams hosted the Fine Writing Instruments: The Mel Wilmore Collection of Extraordinary Montblancs auction which featured the greatest single collection of fine Montblanc pens ever offered at auction. These spectacular examples belonged to Mel Wilmore who is described as one of the top Montblanc collectors worldwide, so much so [Read More]
A number of Rolex wristwatches have achieved top prices in the Fine Watches and Wristwatches sale that took place on the 13th June at Bonhams, New Bond Street. The top lot of the sale, a rare manual wind chronograph Rolex wristwatch circa 1971 received much international interest and after enthusiastic bidding sold [Read More]
What could be one of the largest single owner collections of model trains is to be auctioned in Lichfield on the 28th June. The private collection of a deceased gentleman had been sourced from a Warwickshire home is a train lovers’ dream come true. The collection amounting to thousands of model 00 [Read More]
Annie Oakley’s historic Parker Brothers 12-gauge shotgun, consigned for sale by her great-grandnieces and offered to the public for the first time by Heritage Auctions in Dallas, brought $143,400 on Sunday, June 10, during the company’s $2.47+ million “Legends of the Wild West” auction. Oakley’s iconic Stetson hat, also consigned by the [Read More]
Christie’s Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale on 3 July 2012 features 64 works which present international collectors and institutions with landmark rediscoveries and works of exceptional quality, spanning 500 years of European art history. Leading the sale is John Constable’s (1776-1837) celebrated British landscape The Lock (estimate: £20 million to [Read More]