The 1933 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix Two-Seater owned by the late Fitzroy John Somerset, the 5th Baron Raglan (1927-2010), Patron and former Chairman of the Bugatti Owners’ Club and trustee of the Bugatti Trust, is to be sold at Bonhams’ Paris sale of Motor Cars on 5 February 2011. The auction [Read More]
The Hess Heritage Museum in Ashton, Idaho has closed. Prime Time Auctions will offer the entire collection at auction. Items to be sold include: Aviation, Tractors, Classic Cars, Antique Furniture, Military, Clothing – Rare Collection, Military, World Wars, Guns, Rare Antique Furniture, Pianos, Toys, Kitchen, Vintage Clothing / Dresses, Decor, Railroad, Airplanes, [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Woody Auction, based in Douglass, Kan., starting at 9:30 a.m. (ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – An important estate auction featuring the Dorothy and Malcolm Reich collection, plus an outstanding Pickard collection from the Chicago area, will be offered without reserve (everything sells, regardless of price) Saturday, Oct. [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will offer an important and rare Qur’an manuscript dated 1660 and dedicated to The Sultan of Brunei. The manuscript will form part of the sale of A Princely Collection – Treasures from the Islamic World which take place in London on Tuesday, 5 October, 2010. Estimated at £60,000 80,000, the [Read More]
After the recent successes achieved in the field of Islamic Art at Sotheby’s, the company’s forthcoming biannual Arts of the Islamic Works Sale in London, which presents more than 400 lots, on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 will be the company’s strongest ever staged. The auction contains a fine selection of rare objects, [Read More]
Bonhams is pleased to announce the fall auction of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art on November 11, 2010. The New York sale will offer a diverse group of unique and traditional works from Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia and Australia, created in the early 20th Century as well as pieces from Central [Read More]
Phillips, famous for his striking photo articles in the American Life Magazine, discovered it in Israel. Lea Grundig’s work “Holocaust (Aufstand)“ came via New York to Ketterer Kunst in Munich, where it will be auctioned off on 22 October. A work from the 1940s like this, made by one of the most [Read More]
Christie’s offers a remarkable selection of 20th century decorative art from the Wolfgang Joop Collection in Potsdam, reflecting his exceptional eye and taste, on 26 November 2010, in Paris. Wolfgang Joop has gained worldwide fame not only as a fashion designer but for his artistic passion, intuition and the perfection of his [Read More]
A percentage of the proceeds will go to benefit the church, which is in need of a pair of front doors. (NORTHFIELD, Conn.) – A first-of-its-kind Buying Seminar will be held Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Northfield Congregational Church by Tim’s, Inc., the Bristol, Conn.-based auction firm. The event will generate much-needed [Read More]
The absolute auction will be held by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, based in Pittsfield, Mass (ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa.) – The contents of the Conewago Manor Inn – an historic structure dating back to an original 1742 grant from the William Penn family, founders of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – will be sold without reserve [Read More]
Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is pleased to announce a very special offering of wines direct from the library of Harlan Estate to be sold in a two day auction on October 29-30. The highlight of the offering is an Imperial of the debut 1990 vintage, the first ever [Read More]
Christie’s will auction guitars, from American Singer-Songwriter, Judy Collins, during it’s fall sale of Fine Musical Instruments on October 8 in New York. Comprising of the 8 guitars, 7 of them by C.F. Martin and Company, and an autoharp, this collection reflects Collins’s extensive recording and performing history from the early 1960’s [Read More]
An exquisite tie pin gifted by Edward Prince of Wales, (1894-1972) (Later King Edward VIII) to a chauffeur in 1923 is to appear at auction on 30th September. Discovered on a valuation day in Lichfield, the 15ct gold pin is surmounted with an enamelled ‘E’ and plumes contained in the original case [Read More]
A pair of ‘Rover’ chairs created by Ron Arad for his Covent Garden-based architectural design office/showroom One Off are also to be offered in the sale. Estimated at £5,000 – 7,000, the chairs were one of his first designs for One Off and comprise a scrap yard seat from a Rover 200 [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York Asia Week auctions have concluded with the South Asian Art sale which made $7,547,250 to bring the overall total for the week to $27,649,251 well within the $ 21.9/31.2 million estimate. The sales stated on Tuesday with the Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles which brought $4,931,626 and [Read More]
Westbelt Storage, a Columbus Self Storage facility near Hilliard Ohio, announced that it will conduct a public auction on Saturday, September 18, 2010. At this Self Storage Auction the content of 7 storage units will be sold to the highest bidder. The self storage auction will start at 11 am at Westbelt [Read More]
A stunning piece of China’s Imperial history – a seal personally commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) – will be the highlight of Bonhams Sale of Fine Chinese Art on November 11th in London. The perfect four centimeter square jade seal bearing the inscription ‘Zi Qiang Bu Xi’, (‘Self-Strengthening Never Ceases’) is [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass – Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts on Saturday, October 1st at 6 p.m. in its Boston gallery. The sale features several significant collections, as well as more than 500 lots of Fine Silver. One such collection up for bid is that of Carita [Read More]