Bonhams has been hosting an auction of important collector and sports cars during the world-renown Monterey Peninsula Car Week since 1998. So it is with great pleasure to once again be preparing for the annual August sale at Quail Lodge, which promises to be better than ever with a new, two-day format. [Read More]
Continuing its track record of strong live-auction results in 2010, Greg Martin Auctions’ third event of the year realized over $3 million in sales. Over 1,270 rare and historic arms and militaria came up for bid on June 26 and 27 in four sessions: Fine Antique & Collectible Arms, Collectible Colts & [Read More]
Located just outside Starkville, Miss., the Cane Creek Farm offers 76+/- acres, a 3,200 square foot main home, a six-stall show barn, additional barns, fishing lake, stock ponds, caretaker’s house and mill building. It will be sold absolute, regardless of price. Held in conjunction with United Country ? Bulldog Realty of Starkville, [Read More]
A monumental silver wine cooler, weighing 168 pounds (11 ½ stone or 2597 oz.) and measuring well over a meter across, has been sold at Sotheby’s for £2,505,250, establishing a new record price for English silver. The spectacular cistern, as “Large as a Small Bathing-Tub”, sold to a private Asian buyer. It [Read More]
Grand Estates Auction Co., the national leader in auctioning of one-of-a-kind luxury homes, sold $10.7 worth of premier properties during five June auctions extending from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the foothills of Colorado. Grand Estates’ extensive marketing program yielded a total of 1,040 inquiries, with more than 350 groups [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc. one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, reported its auction of Asian Works of Art held on Friday, June 25th and Saturday, June 26th grossed $4,822,312.50, including buyer’s premium. Of the 1,700 works offered, 95 percent sold by lot and 99 percent [Read More]
Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., the leading hybrid model salvage auto auction company and a wholly owned subsidiary of KAR Auction Services, Inc. (NYSE: KAR), today announced a new branch facility in Macon, Georgia. This marks the 43rd branch location in IAA’s southeast portfolio and adds to the more than 150 locations throughout [Read More]
Bonhams are to sell a private family collection of items relating to the Indian Mutiny of 1857/58 during their Summer Athenaeum sale at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk on Thursday 15th July. The Indian Mutiny of 1857/58 stands out amongst the many major historical events of the 19th century and lasted thirteen months [Read More]
MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MEDG) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, DubLi.com, Ltd., successfully launched its previously announced Global Auction Portal and Australian Auction Portal in late June. DubLi.com now offers four auction platforms; including the two existing platforms in the North America and the European Union, and two new platforms, [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a remarkable example of 16th-century craftsmanship – an Italian rosewood table, inlaid with ivory and finely engraved, on Tuesday 6th July 2010. In 1989 this same piece sold at auction for £6,000. More recent research by Sotheby’s specialists has revealed that in fact the table has [Read More]
A World War II bunker/pill box on the exclusive Burgh Island, just off the South Devon coast, is due to go under the hammer with Westcountry Property Auctions. With a guide price of just £50,000+, bidders will have a rare and possibly unique opportunity to snap up the property at the next [Read More]
Sotheby’s London sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Thursday, 13th July 2010, will present two paintings that provide a fascinating glimpse into Victorian life as it would have been experienced by London residents at the time. Populated by a cross section of classes in the social spectrum, the pictures chart the [Read More]
A completely original 1959 Gibson Les Paul “Black Beauty” guitar, serial #91786, one of the most sought-after guitars on the planet, is the highlight of the fine vintage guitar collection being sold by Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills as part of the company’s July 17 Signature® Music & Entertainment Memorabilia Auction. The [Read More]
Rare artifacts relating to famous Sons of the South proved both popular and valuable with the more than 780 bidders who competed for almost 900 lots in Heritage Auctions’$1.16 million June 25 Signature® Arms & Militaria Including Civil War auction, with the Presentation Flag of Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, along with [Read More]
An exceptional 19-strong motor car collection which belonged to the late Swiss gentleman driver and car collector, Peter F Baumberger (1925-2009), is to be sold by Bonhams at the Gstaad Palace Hotel, Switzerland on 20 August 2010. All motor cars will be sold without reserve to the highest bidder. Headlining the sale [Read More]
Christie’s London announced the sale of Property from The Collection of the Late John Appleby, which will be offered from July to November 2010, throughout several specialist sales at Christie’s, as well as a single-owner collection sale to be held in South Kensington on 4 November 2010. The collection, consisting of approximately [Read More]
A 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Convertible, one of only nine produced, sold for a remarkable £551,500 today (2 July) at Bonhams annual Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia auction at Goodwood Festival of Speed. The sale fetched a magnificent £3,707,687 in total with a 75% sale rate. Top prices were paid for [Read More]
Concierge Auctions announces another astounding Hawaiian property auction. On August 23, the firm will conduct a live, on-site auction of Pueo Point, a premier ocean bluff residence and adjacent lot located on the North Shore of Kauai, a destination of choice for luxury vacationers and A-list celebrities. The sale is being conducted [Read More]