An 1841 Sovereign made a new world record when it is sold for £34,800, over three times the presale estimate, in the Medals, Banknotes and Coins sale on Wednesday 14th December at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Estimated to sell for £8,000- 10,000, the coin depicted Queen Victoria, in relief, and had been virtually uncirculated. [Read More]
Bonhams looks forward to presenting its Disneyana and Fine Toy Auction, January 30, 2012 in San Francisco, featuring 130 lots of historic Disney toys and memorabilia from a single-owner collection. The collection includes toys from the 1930s through contemporary eras. Leading the auction will be a rare Mickey Mouse Circus Train Set, [Read More]
Discovery: Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14, 2012 Everything goes in this no reserve sale – over 1300 lots of what’s desirable, useful, interesting and most affordable. Friday: 600+ lots of original and vintage art, furnishings, tableware, Asian, collectibles, books and ephemera, ethnographic property, and a large selection of Early 20th [Read More]
Estimated at $2-3 million, the pearl reached a world auction record price for a pearl at $11,842,500 (£ 7,579,200 / € 9,118,725) after four and a half minutes of bidding. The pearl, an historic 16th century pear-shaped pearl suspended from a necklace custom-designed for Ms. Taylor by Cartier, has been widely heralded [Read More]
Bonhams present its third-ever Period Art & Design Auction on January 29, 2012 in San Francisco, featuring a strong selection of furniture and decorative arts. To tastefully outfit a living or dining room, one need look no further than the auction’s top offerings of uniquely crafted chairs and tables. Among these offerings [Read More]
The auction will be held at the Peoples Light & Theater Company in Malvern, Pa., at 10 a.m. (MALVERN, Pa.) – Over 400 quality lots of important antique clocks, Asian objects, fine art, porcelain and antiques in an array of categories will be sold at auction Wednesday, Dec. 28, by Gordon S. [Read More]
A simply magnificent 1892 South African Republic gold Proof Pond 1892, PR65 NGC – the best of just 10 like pieces known to have been minted – is expected to bring $300,000+ as one of the principal highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Jan. 2-3, 2012 World & Ancient Coins Signature® Auction, an official [Read More]
Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides achieved a sensational result of € 3.500.000* in Ketterer Kunst’s auction of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Thus the work did not only set a new world record* for a painting by the artist, it is also the most expensive work sold in an auction [Read More]
An 1841 Sovereign is set to make a new world record when it is sold in the Medals, Banknotes and Coins sale on Wednesday 14th December at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Estimated to sell for £8,000- 10,000, the coin depicts Queen Victoria, in relief, and has been virtually uncirculated. It is considered one of [Read More]
Bonhams announce that Mark Garside and Martin Heckscher have joined the Collectors’ Motorcycle Department as consultants. Mark will be a consultant for Lancashire and Cumbria (alongside Alan Whitehead) while Martin will cover Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Ben Walker, Head of Motorcycles, comments, “Martin and Mark will bring a huge amount of knowledge, [Read More]
‘Tin Miners’, a fine example of Harold Harvey’s works depicting the industrial side of Cornwall, is to be offered for auction in the 19th Century Paintings sale on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. It has a pre-sale estimate of £20,000-30,000. Harold Harvey (1874-1941) was born in Penzance [Read More]
Bonhams announced a sales total of $1.36 million at its December 6 Antique Arms, Armor & Modern Sporting Guns auction in San Francisco. Highlighting the auction was a historic, Paris-made Confederate artillery officer’s frock coat of Lt. Col. Richard Snowden Andrews that sold for $64,350 (est. $40,000-60,000), along with a number of [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture on 26 January 2012 will feature three paintings from the estate of Lady Forte, whose husband Charles Forte founded the global hotel and restaurant group Trusthouse Forte. The group comprises: Venice, A View of the Churches of the Redentore and San [Read More]
Sotheby’s Important Tiffany sale, on 15 December 2011, will be highlighted by A Highly Important Three-Panel “Magnolia” Window, circa 1910 (est. $400/600,000*). Tiffany Studios, A Highly Important Three-Panel “Magnolia” Window (detail). Circa 1910. Est. $400/600,000. Photo: Sotheby’s. As Julie L. Sloan writes in her catalogue essay, “this brilliantly colored, small jewel of [Read More]
Sotheby’s Important 20th Century Design on 15 December 2011 will offer a strong selection of works across a diverse range of styles, featuring important pieces from the Arts & Crafts movement, European and American Modernism, and Postwar and Contemporary Design. The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris Evening Auction of Contemporary Art soared above estimate to bring a total of €11, 282,250/$ 15,098,358 (est. € 6,600,000- 9,370,000/ $ 8,832,384 / 12,539,309). There was competitive bidding throughout; all of the lots found buyers and three-quarters of the lots sold above their high estimates. Commenting on his first evening [Read More]
Bonhams on December 8, achieved a sale total of $1.58 million, which include a world record that was surpassed and achieved by a stunning Patek Philippe chronograph wristwatch ref:5020P. Patek Philippe chronograph wristwatch Taking the top honors of the sale was the world record-breaking Patek Philippe chronograph ref:5020P. The top lot of [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art realised a total of €14,437,900/$19,332,204 (Estimate €11,184,000-15,705,000/$14,975,264-21,028,838). The sale established sell-through rates of 74% by lot and 85.7% by value. The sale was highlighted by strong prices achieved by surrealist works and an auction record was set for a watercolour by Man Ray. [Read More]