FatherTime® Auctions, regionally services St. Louis, Missouri and Southwestern Illinois, is a full service auction company specializing in real estate auctions, estate auctions, business liquidations and salvage is proud to announce that Rick Bauer, AARE, CES recently attended Indiana University for his second year of the three year Certified Auctioneer Institute (CAI) [Read More]
Several pieces of furniture designed by the Swiss sculptor and designer, Diego Giacometti (1902-1985), the younger brother of Alberto (1901-1966), are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Post War and Contemporary Art and Design on 13 April. A stool, featuring a bronze frame and [Read More]
Wine lovers from Manila, Subic, Cebu, Angeles City Pampanga and Clark Philippines are treated to an exciting day of buying fine vintage at attractive prices in the biggest wine auction held in Pampanga. Philippines wine lovers frequently travel out of the country to attend wine auctions in America, Europe and more recently [Read More]
Sotheby’s has announced that it will offer Property from the Collection of Dodie Rosekrans in a series of auctions in New York through January 2012. Mrs. Rosekrans was an influential figure in San Francisco, Paris and Venice, known for her considerable charitable work, trendsetting style and patronage of both the fine and [Read More]
The 3rd Annual Desert Cities Charity Bachelor Auction which benefitted Shelter from the Storm was a huge success generating $65,000 for the cause. On March 28, under the big white tent on El Paseo, over 350 men and women showed up to bid on 12 of the desert’s most eligible bachelors. The [Read More]
Sotheby’s in new York will offer property from the collection of renowned New York dealer Allan Stone. Works will be presented in two volumes on the evening of Monday, 9 May 2011, the night before Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening sale on 10 May. Volume I will comprise outstanding examples by the key [Read More]
Tim Squire-Sanders of the Bonhams office in Hove is holding a Valuation Day on April 12th with the well known Bonhams consultant and BBC Antiques Roadshow regular, Dendy Easton. Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, is the only auction house that holds specialist sales of Marine Pictures, Dogs in Art, South [Read More]
(ABERDEEN, Miss.) – There will be no rest for the weary at Stevens Auction Company in April. The firm has two major events lined up: the multi-estate auction of three prominent estates on Saturday, April 16, at 10 a.m (CDT); and the on-site liquidation of the contents of Nostalgia Furniture, nationally known [Read More]
An exceptional selection of military medals have been discovered recently on a valuation day and are to be sold on 2nd June at Richard Winterton Auctioneers, Fradley Park, Lichfield. The group includes a WW11 Distinguished Flying Medal to 1237627 F/Sgt. G.W. HOOPER R.A.F; Queen’s Sudan Medal and Khedive’s Sudan Medal with the [Read More]
The last letter in private hands from Keats to his lover Fanny Brawne has set a world record for a document by the poet when it sold for £96,000 at the Roy Davids Collection of Papers and Portraits at Bonhams today (29 March). It has been sold to an America buyer. The [Read More]
A new auction record for a print by Paul Gauguin was achieved when Crouching Tahitian Woman Seen From The Back sold for £577,250 ($924,466), over three times the estimate (£180,000-220,000), at a Sotheby’s in London. The traced monotype, or ‘printed drawing’, was fiercely contested by a number of determined bidders, finally selling [Read More]
The Milwaukee Braves baseball jersey that Hank Aaron – arguably the greatest living hero of the golden age of America’s pastime – wore in 1954, the year that began his fabled career, will be the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ April 21-22 Signature® Sports Memorabilia Auction. It is expected to bring $200,000+. “Short [Read More]
Dr. Tarsey, a philanthropist, collected fine art, Asian objects, porcelains, silver, jewelry, more. (PANAMA CITY, Fla.) – The estate of the late Dr. Tanja B. Tarsey – a chemist and philanthropist who died in 2009 and collected fine art, Asian objects, porcelain pieces, better furniture, estate silver, fancy jewelry and more – [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York have auctioned the Property of a Palm Beach Private Collector achieving $8,397,649, almost double the pre-sale high estimate*. The auction was led by a strong group of over 80 pieces of Chinese porcelain and works of art, most notably A Rare Large Chinese ‘Famille-Rose’ ‘Millefleurs’ Altar Garniture bearing six [Read More]
Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC has announced their Spring Auction of Russian Art will take place on April 16, 2011 during “Russian Art Week” in New York City. Both the auction and a full week of preview exhibition starting on April 9th will take place at the company’s location at 506 East 74th [Read More]
Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has appointed Filipa Rebelo de Andrade as the company’s representative in Portugal. She is based in Lisbon. Filipa’s professional experience includes an art curatorship at the Fundacao Oriente in Lisbon, where she collaborated with the building up of the collection, was responsible for all issues [Read More]
Antique furniture, lighting, clocks, decorative accessories, fine art, jewelry will change hands. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – What is being appropriately billed as an Exceptional Antique Auction has been planned for Saturday, May 21, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s spacious showroom at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Offered will be over [Read More]
Technologizer reports that pay-per-bid auction site Swoopo has filed for bankruptcy, “although the company’s front page claims “technical issues,” documents from a Munich, Germany bankruptcy court indicate its parent company — Shopping Entertainment AG — filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday. The company is asking for protections from its debtors, and it [Read More]