(ABERDEEN, Miss.) – Stevens Auction Company will kick off 2011 in style with a Jan. 15 multi-estate sale featuring over 600 fresh-to-the-market lots from five important estates (two of which are from just south of Atlanta). The auction will be held at Stevens Auction Company’s gallery, located at 609 North Meridian Street [Read More]
The collection of over forty hammered medieval and later coins had been brought into Richard Winterton Auctioneers’ coin expert Stephen Wrenn just before Christmas. Comprising hammered gold and silver coinage spanning the reigns of Aethelred I, Edward the Confessor, William I, Edward I, King John, Edward IV, Henry VII, Elizabeth I, Henry [Read More]
On Monday, Dec. 13, as some truly stunning rocks took center stage at Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Fine Jewelry Auction, with an almost 88% sell- through rate by value adding to the stellar $4.2+ million total for the jewelry, certainly Heritage’s finest result in the category to date. All prices include a 19.5% [Read More]
U.S. Marshals to auction the 2007 Rinker 400 boat of Indicted Ponzi Scheme Concert Promoter Silver Spring, MD – Bid4Assets, Inc. (bid4assets.com), an online auction company announced today it will host an auction, on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service, of 2007 Rinker 400 EC Cabin Cruiser Boat as part of an [Read More]
The live auction will take place Saturday, January 1 and Sunday, January 2 at Noon daily with online bidding to commence at those times. Auction registration and pre-bidding are already available by visiting www.proxibid.com/donpresley. More than 700 lots of fine art, antiques, collectibles, jewelry, original signed bronzes, Ivory, KPM, Blackamoore’s, clocks, a [Read More]
(ORLANDO, Fla.) – Owners of original and reproduction works of art are being invited to “Turn Your Art Into Quick Cash” by Baterbys Art Auction Gallery for its first-ever Discovery Consignment Auction, slated for Feb. 19 at their Palm Beach County Gallery (13900 South Jog Road in Delray Beach) and Feb. 26 [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts in two sessions on Friday, January 7th and Saturday, January 8th in its Boston gallery. The first of four European Furniture and Decorative Arts sales Skinner will host in 2011, this sale will offer more than 1,000 [Read More]
A unique, monumental bronze sculpture entitled Reina Mariana and created by Manolo Valdés, one of the most important and respected Spanish artists working today, will be transported from New York City to Naples, Fla. for the Jan. 28 – 30 Naples Winter Wine Festival. The sculpture currently is on view in Columbus [Read More]
(West Palm Beach, FL) Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches will conduct a single owner, two session auction on January 10th and 11th, 2011 offering the personal property of Mrs. Florence Rubinstein and the late Mr. Irving Rubinstein. The Rubinstein’s were the owners of the renowned Madison Galleries in New York City [Read More]
The absolute auction (everything sells, regardless of price) will be conducted in Wichita, Kan. (WICHITA, Kan.) – Woody Auction will ring in 2011 with a blockbusting multi-estate sale on Saturday, Jan. 22. It will be an absolute auction (everything sells regardless of price) held in the 4H Hall of the Sedgwick County [Read More]
A painting by Maud Earl showing the black Labrador Peter of Faskally, father of 32 field trial champions and the original blood line for all present day Chocolate Labradors, is to be a highlight of the ‘Dogs in Show & Field: The Fine Art Sale’ on 16th February 2011 at Bonhams New [Read More]
The earliest known work by an artist acknowledged as one of today’s leading international female painters, Marlene Dumas, whose pictures sells for millions, will be auctioned by Bonhams on March 23rd in a sale of South African Art. Dumas painted this charming picture of a girl for a student friend, Alida Louw, [Read More]
(MATTHEWS, N.C.) – An original United Metal Cartridges reprint lithograph bullet board showing ships and a battleship scene, and with over 170 attached cartridges, sold for $2,938 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Nov. 20 by SoldUSA.com. Around 2,000 lots of militaria, guns, ammo and hunting and fishing collectibles changed [Read More]
The weekend after Thanksgiving proved once again that antique collectors and aficionados are looking to be fed by sales of fresh to the market, quality furniture, art and decorative accessories. Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers’ 50th Annual Thanksgiving Americana sale on November 26-27, which featured the renowned Quaker Hill collection of Richard and [Read More]
Bonhams next sale of Indian and Islamic Art on January 19th 2011 in New Bond Street, features a 19th century recipe manuscript that offers a fascinating insight into the preparation of various dishes in Qajar Persia, more than a century ago. Commissioned by Muhammad Quli Khan-e Qajar Quyunlu, Majd al-Sultaneh (d. 1905), [Read More]
A week of 20th Century Design sales at Sotheby’s New York concluded, bringing in excess of $19 million. This represents the highest total for a week of Design sales at Sotheby’s New York since December 2003, achieved with less than one third of the total number of lots on offer. The week [Read More]
A beautiful painting by the Victorian watercolourist Helen Allingham entitled By the cottage gate, Mayfield, East Sussex is estimated to sell for £7,000-10,000 in Bonhams 19th Century Pictures auction on 27th January 2011. East Sussex was a county well known to Helen Allingham. Watercolours dating from the late 1870s show her children [Read More]
On January 17, Copley Fine Art Auctions will conduct its first Winter Sale, offering 430 lots of top-notch American paintings, decoys and related folk art. The first lot will cross the block at 11 AM, and all items will be available for preview from 10 AM to 8 PM on Saturday, January [Read More]