World Record Prices at Heritage Sports Memorabilia Auction

The Milwaukee Braves jersey worn by Hall of Fame outfielder Hank Aaron during his rookie season brought $167,300 on Friday, April 22, as part of Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Sports Collectibles auction, establishing the highest price ever paid at auction for Aaron game used memorabilia. The auction totaled just more than $3.7 million, [Read More]

Valentino Rossi Motorcycle to be Auctioned for Riders For Health Charity

Bonhams will be auctioning a truly one-of-a-kind motorcycle offered in collaboration with the most successful motorcycle racer of his era, Valentino Rossi. As written about in the April 2010 issues of both Cycle World and Motorcyclist, a highly upgraded and customized 2009 Yamaha YZF-R1 1000cc – the civilian version of the MotoGP [Read More]

Sir Winston Churchill Fountain Pen For Auction At Bonhams & Butterfields

Bonhams & Butterfields, announce the company’s eighth offering of exceptional writing instruments in the United States on May 23, 2011. The auction contains over 200 lots and offers a diverse selection of excellent fountain pens, chiefly Montblancs, including a Sir Winston Churchill fountain pen, the last of 53 produced. Churchill famously preferred [Read More]

Christie’s May Sales Offer Southeast Asian Modern & Contemporary Art

Christie’s Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Spring Auction on 30 May, at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, presents distinctive highlights from some of the most vibrant and invigorating voices within Southeast Asia’s art scene. Featuring 115 works spanning the history and geography of the Southeast Asian region, the sale [Read More]

Qianlong Revolving Vase to be Auctioned at Christie’s Hong Kong

Christie’s fine art auctioneers, will offer a revolving vase from the Qianlong period (1736-1795) (estimate on request) at its upcoming Hong Kong Spring Sale of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 1 June 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Preserved in perfect condition, the rotating vase has reticulated [Read More]

THE GARDEN COMES TO LIFE AT SUMMERS PLACE AUCTIONS

The May Sale includes items to suit all tastes and pockets AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION of 17th and 18th Century Italian marble sculpture will be offered in the hugely popular sale of Garden Statuary and Ornament – both antique and modern – at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby’s) on Tuesday, May [Read More]

Bonhams to Auction Part Two of the Edward Wrangham Collection

Following the success of Part 1 of the Edward Wrangham Collection in November 2010, which realised over £2 million and included a world record price for an inro** sold at auction, Bonhams is delighted to announce the second sale of the collection that will take place at Bonhams, New Bond Street on [Read More]

Sotheby’s to Auction Collection of German Art of the 60s and 70s

Sotheby’s London has announced that it will offer for sale The Duerckheim Collection, a collection of the most significant and defining German Art of the 1960s and 1970s ever to come to market, in the forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction Series in June. This collection represents a remarkably detailed and complete survey of [Read More]

Alfred Hitchcock Story Board for Auction at Bonhams

A rare, hand written pre-production storyboard for one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most problematic films, ‘Stage Fright’, of 1950 is for sale at the Bonhams Printed Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 7 June. It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. The production files for all Hitchcock’s films after 1940 are kept in the [Read More]