A 16-inch papier-mache Halloween figure beat expectations to sell for $16,520 (all prices inclusive of 18% buyer’s premium); but a modestly estimated Lionel train set that took the express journey to the top of prices realized. The Lionel 408E standard gauge set with electric engine and twin Bild-A-Loco motors pulled four compartmented [Read More]
A 1952 Ferrari 340 Mexico Berlinetta, chassis number 0226AT, leads an exceptional series of Ferraris at RM Auctions’ highly anticipated Monterey sale, August 19 – 20 in California. 1952 Ferrari 340 Mexico Berlinetta Photo, RM Auctions One of just three examples purpose-built to contest the 1952 Carrera Panamericana, 0226AT was raced new [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of Old Master and British Drawings on July 7th and 8th 2011 in London will present for sale a range of important drawings from the 16th to the 19th centuries. In addition to works by artists Hans Bol, Jacopo Ligozzi, Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Constable, a remarkable highlight [Read More]
On July 15, Stephenson’s will present its 2011 Mid-Summer Dolls, Toys & Trains Auction, featuring approximately 300 lots of carefully chosen antique and vintage playthings. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers.com. The auction will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern time with a selection of [Read More]
‘Hollywood’, a rare screen print by the celebrated American artist, Ed Ruscha, whose 50 year career was the subject of an acclaimed 2009 retrospective exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, is one of the leading items at the Bonhams Print sale in London on 12 July. The print, a representation of one of [Read More]
John Moran Auctioneers’ July 19th Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction will feature an impressive selection of silver, bronzes, porcelain, art glass, Arts and Crafts and mid-century modern design, as well as European and American fine art. While encompassing a broad range of styles and eras, the 200-lot sale is characterized by a [Read More]
FASCINATING PROTOTYPE GUN AMONG HIGHLIGHTS OF ANNUAL GLENEAGLES AUCTION A HISTORICALLY important prototype 12-bore over and under single trigger ejector gun by London gunmaker Boss & Co.. is among the highlights of Gavin Gardiner’s annual auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns, which will be held in association with Sotheby’s at [Read More]
Christie’s has arranged for an international, three-month tour of highlights from her expansive collection that starts in September 2011 and includes stops in Moscow, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, and Hong Kong. The tour will culminate in New York in early December with a special ten-day, museum-quality exhibition of Elizabeth Taylor’s [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields announce its September 19, 2011 auction of Salon Jewelry and Watches in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles. The sale, timed to coincide with the firm’s SoMa Estate Auction with Jewelry the day prior, will dazzle with diamonds. Leading the auction will be a diamond and platinum bracelet (est. [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale brought £108,803,550 / $174,129,201 /€120,923,897 – in excess of pre-sale expectations (estimate: £74-105 million) and establishing the highest total ever achieved for any sale of Contemporary Art in London. Buyers from 14 countries participated in the auction, which achieved remarkable sell-through rates of 89.8% by lot [Read More]
Barry Fantoni is selling his archive of 3,500 original Times cartoons at Bonhams Modern Picture sale in Knightsbridge on 19 July. Fantoni produced cartoons for the paper every weekday from 1983 – 1990, summing up the burning issues of the time with a few strokes of his pen. Some of the drawings [Read More]
Bonhams is to take part of the ground floor of Royal Victoria House in the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, as its new operational base in Kent and Sussex from Monday July 4th. The building is so named as Queen Victoria stayed there presumably when taking the waters. Royal Victoria House is situated within [Read More]
The IRS is to hold an auction in O’Fallon on 6/30/2011 at 10:00 AM. The auction will be held at 10 a.m. at Dodge Moving & Storage at 1430 N. Frontage Road in O’Fallon. Property and can be previewed from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday and 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Sale items include [Read More]
A recently discovered, English ebony bracket clock attributed to Ahasuerus Fromanteel sold for a remarkable £692,000 on 28 June at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Fine Clocks and Watches. The clock, which was found in a private European collection in mid-May this year, and had been in [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart closed the first half of the year with a successful two-day auction this weekend, realizing $6,275,781.50 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $4,597,360-$6,882,000. Bidders participated from 38 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris, sale devoted to Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings, yielded €7.6m – the highest total for a sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings by Sotheby’s France to date, including three world records. The sale’s highest price of €1,241,252/$1,773,492 was paid by a French buyer [Read More]
Christie’s have auctioned Margaret Thatcher’s Asprey handbag for $39,953. The handbag was used by Thatcher during Cold War negotiations with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. “The handbag makes you automatically think of Margaret Thatcher,” said former politician and author Jeffrey Archer, who hosted the auction. “Someone has [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale, on 6th July 2011, will offer a selection of newly discovered and important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades. Estimated to reach a total in excess of £31 million, the auction of 73 [Read More]