The Franciscan Sisters of Mary will hold two (2) Public Auctions, Saturday, May 14, 2011, and Saturday, May 21, 2011, to sell unneeded convent furnishings of the congregation. The auctions, conducted by Father Time® Auctions, will take place in the convent, 1100 Bellevue Avenue in Richmond Heights, MO, 63117. There will be [Read More]
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]
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]
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]
Sotheby’s have announced the sale on 14 July 2011 in London of the earliest rules of club football, being sold as part of the historic archive of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC (established 1857), which is estimated at £800,000 ? £1,200,000*. This extraordinary and unique piece of sporting history, which [Read More]
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]
The next auctions offered on CivicSource Auctioneer are on September 14th, 15th and 16th. Jeanerette, LA Online Property Auction Details: > 74 available properties — commercial, mobile homes, and residential lots > Price ranges $23.02 to $389.90 > All are delinquent tax sales New Orleans, LA Online Property Auction Details: > 6,001 [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Tuesday, 10th May, 2011 features A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster by Dutch Golden Age Artist Jan Steen (1626-1979). This painting may be regarded as one of Jan Steen’s finest treatments of a schoolroom interior. Furthermore, it is thus far his only known representation of a schoolroom that [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer exceptional items from all over Europe in it’s Paris sale on May 17. The highlight promises to be an exceptional gold and enamel snuff-box, inset with an agate cameo of Napoleon’s brother-in-law (and King of Naples) Joachim Murat and his hair (est. €60,000-80,000*). There will also be a gold [Read More]
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]
Proxibid, the world’s largest real auction marketplace, will provide live online bidding for the Wayne and Shirley Woodrum lifetime collection, presented by Rich Penn Auctions. The three-day auction will take place Thursday, May 5 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern and Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, in conjunction [Read More]
A MAGNIFICENT George V Gold Freedom Casket enamelled with the arms of the County Borough of Newport (Wales) will highlight Matthew Barton Ltd’s auction of Silver, Works of Art and Objects of Vertu. The sale will take place on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 in West Kensington at 25 Blythe Road, W14. It [Read More]
The sign was the top lot in a sale held April 16 at Redlands Antique Auction in Redlands, Calif. (REDLANDS, Calif.) – A round Union “Minute Man Service” double-sided porcelain sign with graphics, 30 inches in diameter and boasting great gloss and color, sold for $12,938 – a new record price for [Read More]
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]
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]
The stellar cellar of a northeast gentleman is expected to bring in the range of $3,000,000 when it comes under the hammer on May 6 at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills (simulcast to SHORE Bar & Restaurant, 3rd Floor, The L Place, 139 Queens Road, Central, in Hong Kong, the morning of [Read More]
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]
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]