The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company announced today that 10 vehicles from the collection of the estate of Las Vegas headliner star and philanthropist, Danny Gans, will cross the block during the 3rd Annual Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Collector Car Auction on Sept. 23 – 25. Barrett-Jackson will sell a group of Gans’ personal and [Read More]
Epik.com, the largest mass domain development company in the world, announced today that they have partnered with Moniker® (www.moniker.com) and SnapNames® (www.snapnames.com), both Oversee.net® companies and providers of domain name registration, management, monetization and brokerage services, to provide a live and online auction of web sites at their inaugural conference. The Epik.com [Read More]
The summer auctions will take place Aug. 21 at the Palm Beach gallery and Aug. 28 in Orlando. (ORLANDO, Fla.) – Over 300 original and reproduction works of art by some of the most highly recognizable names in the world of fine art, plus many exciting up-and-coming artists, will be sold at [Read More]
An important and large painting Looking Towards Mornington Crescent Station (1972 -74) by the highly acclaimed artist Frank Auerbach will be sold by Bonhams in the 20th Century British Art auction at New Bond Street on November 17th 2010. The painting, which has never appeared at auction before and hasn’t been since [Read More]
The Phillies and Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) announced today that the popular lineup of “Phanatic Around Town” statues – including the one autographed by the entire 2010 Phillies team – will soon be available via an online auction at www.phillies.com/phanaticaroundtown. Set to debut on Friday, August 27, the online auction [Read More]
The on-site auction will be held in an historic home in Marianna that Mr. Brewton renovated (MARIANNA, Fla.) – A major on-site auction featuring over 150 items from the estate of the late Floye E. Brewton – the 2006 Citizen of the Year in Marianna, Fla., and former owner of The 1840 [Read More]
Copley’s fifth annual summer auction was a huge success, with the much-anticipated collection of five oil paintings by Carl Rungius (1869-1959) out of the collection of H. Wendell Endicott headlining the record-breaking sale. These museum-quality works saw active participation in the room and on the overflowing phone banks, which brought outstanding results. [Read More]
Freeman’s, America’s oldest auction house, is announced that it will be offering the Estate of Joseph S. Sorger on 5 October, 2010 in Philadelphia. The collection from his home at 2003 Delancey Place was amassed over 70 years and spans the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among the more than 450 works [Read More]
Three very different but equally intriguing 19th century topographical artists star in Bonhams next Travel and Exploration sale in London on 15 September – reminders of the hardship and courage involved in bringing back images of far flung places when the only realistic way to do this was to go out and [Read More]
The 102-acre Teton Valley Ranch, one of the most premier and storied ranch estates in the nation, was successfully sold today, announced NYC-based luxury real estate auction firm Concierge Auctions. The auction process produced a combined sale price well above the $15 million reserve, in addition to back-up bids. The buyer of [Read More]
Christie’s New York announce a special highlight of its October 20 Jewels sale: an iconic pair of ear pendants by Joel Rosenthal, the celebrated contemporary designer who goes by the simple moniker of JAR. The earrings, estimated at $300,000-500,000, were cut and designed for the award-winning actress Ellen Barkin and featured in [Read More]
As part of its neighborhood stabilization efforts in South Florida, Fannie Mae (OTC Bulletin Board: FNMA) will hold private and public community homebuyer auctions for nearly 100 of its HomePath® REO (real-estate owned) properties in Florida’s Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Saturday, August 14. [Read More]
On August 20th, Tranzon Auction Properties, with corporate offices in Portland, Maine, will auction a multi-unit retail plaza with prime frontage along a stretch of Route One in Hampton, New Hampshire. The commercial property, known as Brothers North Plaza, boasts 6-7 retail units, (including the former Brothers North Restaurant), and is assessed [Read More]
(DES MOINES, Iowa) – An outstanding 72-inch Washington Chief Gasoline double-sided porcelain sign with full Indian headdress profile for a graphic climbed to $20,900 at an auction held Aug. 6 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, based in Nokomis, Ill. The sale was conducted on the final day of the 2010 Iowa Gas Show, [Read More]
Bonhams are to auction a replica Supermarine Spitfire for The Royal British Legion during The Goodwood Revival on September 17th 2010. The full sized aluminium replica of a MKVb Supermarine Spitfire was built in 2008 by members of the Ripon Branch of the Royal British Legion in order to publicise their work. [Read More]
Tranzon Fox announce the ABSOLUTE AUCTION of 3 oceanfront residential condos in Nags Head, N.C. on Sunday, August 29 at 2 p.m., the condominiums will be sold on-site individually at the live public auction with no minimums or reserves! This absolute auction format presents an opportunity for buyers to name their price [Read More]
A very rare signed scrimshawed whale’s tooth from Charles Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle, 1832-36, (£30,000-50,000) is one of the most intriguing items in the forthcoming Travel and Exploration sale at Bonhams on 15 September. It belonged to Private Thomas Burgess, a Royal Marine on board HMS Beagle for the entirety of [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to announce the August 22, 2010 Sunset Estate Auction featuring a selection of important books from the Estate of Glenn Goldman. Goldman was the founder and owner of the legendary Los Angeles independent bookstore, Book Soup, which opened in 1975. Nestled in a Sunset Strip storefront across [Read More]