HWPH, one of the biggest German scripophily auctioneers, offers more than 2,000 antique stocks and bonds within its two upcoming auction sales. The first sale (21st auction, May 7) will be a public auction located in Wiesbaden, Germany, the second sale (22nd auction, May 9 and 10) will be a pure online [Read More]
A two bar musical quotation in C Major written and signed by Giuseppe Verdi, is to be auctioned at Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 7 June. It is estimated at between £2,000-3,000. It is dated June 1862 and bears a resemblance to the theme of the chorus’s line [Read More]
On the 24th May 2011, Bonhams and Montefiore Auction Houses launch their inaugural sale of Israeli art in London. Bonhams has teamed up with Montefiore Auction House, Tel Aviv, to offer a selection of works that covers nine decades. This auction is set to be the most comprehensive sale of Israeli art [Read More]
Tempe auction house, Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc., will host a Phoenix marathon auction featuring bank forced liquidations, fiduciary trusts, jewelry, school district equipment and supplies, surplus including commercial restaurant equipment and much more. Items of interest for this Phoenix marathon auction include: Louis Vuitton and Dooney & Bourke purses, autographed [Read More]
A masterpiece by Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema set another incredible price at Sotheby’s New York today in the sale of 19th Century European Art. Two determined phone bidders held a steady competition for The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC for over eight minutes, driving the final price to a [Read More]
On March 5th, 2011, auctioneer/owner Ronan Clarke of Clarke Auction had provided his company’s premises, and along with other local appraisers, volunteered his expertise for an antiques appraisal day to benefit the Larchmont Historical Society. While over a hundred people over four hours paid up to forty dollars apiece to have their [Read More]
The piece was the top lot in a sale of the collection of Bill and Sue Frick of Missouri, April 30. (ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – A beautiful bride’s basket boasting a strong cranberry glass bowl with dentil style edge, set atop a fabulous Simpson Hall & Miller figural stand with a Kate [Read More]
Sotheby’s will auction one of the most important oils by Austrian artist Egon Schiele ever to come to the market, on 22 June in London. The painting – Häuser mit bunter Wäsche,“Vorstadt” II of 1914 – ranks among just a small number of significant cityscapes by Schiele remaining in private hands. Having [Read More]
A new world auction record has been set for the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), at Christie’s New York The vividly-hued 1905 landscape, a fitting tribute to springtime in New York, sold for $22,482,500 (£13,489,500/€15,063,275). The magnificent Fauvist landscape – a highlight of the pre-sale exhibition – was fought over by [Read More]
A magnificent 1850 still life by German-born American painter Severin Roesen, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers in a Landscape, is expected bring more than $600,000 as the central highlight in Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Fine American, European Art & Western Art Auction on Tuesday, May 17 at the company’s Design District Annex, [Read More]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of both the Indianapolis 500 and of the car that was “born” at America’s most famous motor race. Stutz was an Indiana-based motorcar company founded in 1911 by Harry Stutz. Its first model, the brawny Bearcat, made its debut boldly entering and completing the first Indy [Read More]
Selections from the extraordinary collection of the late Malcolm S. Forbes, lovingly displayed in the Forbes Galleries in New York for more than a quarter century, will be offered in Heritage Auctions’ “The Gentleman Collector” auction, in Dallas, on June 1. “The Forbes ‘Mortality of Immortality’ assortment of more than 100 extraordinary [Read More]
Christie’s, will present its spring sale of magnificent jewels on 31 May at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. With a pre-sale estimate exceeding HK$550 million/US$70 million, this auction will offer collectors close to 300 pieces of rare diamonds, fine coloured gemstones and exceptional jadeite. Leading the sale is The Imperial [Read More]
Noel Barrett’s May 21 auction offers 714-lots, from fresh-to-market holiday items and antique games to coveted clockwork toys and salesmen’s samples. The Saturday event commencing at 10 a.m. at the Eagle Fire Hall in New Hope, Pa., will feature items from the collections of Philip and Ann Henderson, and Rex Horchem. The [Read More]
Bonhams presents an attractive selection of well-known artists in various media in the Modern and Contemporary Art auction on May 9. Taking place in New York and simulcast to Los Angeles, this bi-coastal auction boasts 165 lots across a variety of price points that will appeal to a wide array of bidders, [Read More]
On June 2, 2011, PBA Galleries of San Francisco will offer at auction one of the finest private collections in existence of the literary and artistic work of the poet Charles Bukowski. Featuring a large selection of original typed, signed poems, a rare group of original paintings, and scarce broadsides and ephemera [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces the first of its 2011 London Sales of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. The auction will feature 343 lots and will take place in London on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011. Every item in the sale has been meticulously selected as an iconic example of its genre and in [Read More]
The weekend event will be held in the firm’s showroom, at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, N.Y. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – A three-day weekend mega-sale featuring Disney items, toys, toy soldiers, Hollywood memorabilia, toy trains, vintage dolls, mechanical and still banks, folk art pieces, cast-iron door stops, advertising items, World’s Fair material and [Read More]