A signed copy of the Wind in the Willows dedicated to the daughter of the man who inspired the character of Ratty has sold at Bonhams Books Maps, and Manuscript sale today (23 Mar) after fierce bidding for an astonishing £32,400 (£3,000 – 5,000). The inscription reads, “To Foy Felicia Quiller Couch [Read More]
Christie’s New York has announced the forthcoming sale of Selections from the Baio Collection of Photographs on April 15 at Rockefeller Center. The Baio Collection embraces many of the photographic techniques and methods used over the last 170 years, with a central theme running through its diverse imagery – children. One can [Read More]
Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of government assets in Overland Park, Kan., according to Jerry Jenkins. “All items will sell to the highest bidders,” Jenkins said. “We have lots of executive office furniture, office equipment, computers, shelving and storage.” Other items in this online government asset auction include: computers, [Read More]
Rare document will be sold by Philip Weiss Auctions on final day of a massive three-day sale (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – Just weeks after successfully selling the original marriage certificate issued to Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in 1994 (for $70,800), Philip Weiss Auctions is offering yet another blockbusting piece of rock [Read More]
An important single owner sale – the entire stock in trade to be auctioned on site Leonard Joel are honoured to have been engaged as agent for the dispersal of this extraordinary collection from one of the last great Melbourne antique dealers in the golden mile of the antiques trade, High Street [Read More]
Firm Leads the Market with $8 Million in US Sales Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart achieved strong results from their two-day auction of Finest & Rarest Wines in Chicago, IL with 99.9% of lots sold realizing $4,436,497 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,878,770 -$4,299,740. A prominent private collection featuring a comprehensive [Read More]
The renowned Scottsdale Art Auction, held April 10, 2010, will have one-of-a-kind works of fine art expected to break records at this year’s event. A rare Charles M. Russell painting is estimated at $1.8 to $2.8 million, for example. Attendance at the 2010 auction is expected to exceed 400 art buyers, many [Read More]
The bell from HMS Kelly, the ship commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten from 1939 until it sank at the Battle of Crete in 1941, is to be auctioned at Bonhams, New Bond Street as part of The Marine Sale on 24th March at 2pm. The bell (estimate £2,500 – 3,500) was saved [Read More]
Rock Island Auction strives to meet each individual collector’s desire with every auction it builds. Every auction offers a plethora of opportunities for the firearm enthusiast, the April 30, May 1 & 2 Premiere Auction is no exception. This sale has many high conditioned and unique firearms from antique to modern that [Read More]
The spotlight will be focused on estate jewelry and fine art at John Moran’s two-session Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction to be held on April 27th. The evening session’s many pieces of exquisite jewelry include an abundance of diamond solitaire rings of all cuts and sizes. Among those are a 10.79 ct [Read More]
Russian fine and decorative arts have yielded increasingly strong results at Moran’s for several years, and the March16th sale confirmed this trend. A watercolor portrait of a girl in traditional Russian costume by Konstantin Egorvich Makovsky (1839 – 1915) sold for $12,650 (estimate: $2000 – 3000) to a European phone bidder. A [Read More]
Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, a division of international real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW), will conduct a grand opening auction for 45 luxury loft condominiums at 655 Hope, located at the corner of 7th and Hope St. The auction will take place at the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown [Read More]
Antiquorum achieved excellent results for its two day sale of Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, Pocket Watches & Clocks on March 10th and 11th in New York resulting in the outstanding sum of $5,000,388. The auction of 467 timepieces including ‘The Arman Collection’ from world renowned artist Arman attracted a record number of 584 [Read More]
Sotheby’s will offer the Collection of Emanuel Schlesinger in its sale of Indian and South East Asian Art on Wednesday 24 March 2010 in New York. Schlesinger lived in Bombay from 1939 to his death in 1968 and was a patron and major influence over many of the most important Indian artists [Read More]
The estate of Kansas City developer Tom Levitt has scheduled a “Dual Bid” auction for fifteen properties located in Kansas City’s Freight House District and on Main Street. Sealed bids are due on April 29 with an auction scheduled for May 6. Prior to his death in September, 2009, Mr. Levitt succeeded [Read More]
Today at DEMOspring2010 (www.demo.com), Seattle-based DigitalScirocco (www.digitalscirocco.com) will unveil its online auction-based marketplace for digital content and services. Founder and CEO Bruce D’Ambrosio, will demo the DigitalScirocco online system during the DEMOfocus on Social and Media Technologies session beginning at 10:45 a.m. “DigitalScirocco restores the original purpose of the Internet,” said D’Ambrosio. [Read More]
Bonhams announces the sale of a 1917 Curtiss MF Seagull Flying Boat, to be offered at auction on Tuesday April 13 in New York. Sourced from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio, the flying boat will be the first vintage plane auctioned in Manhattan, and it is expected to realize [Read More]
Sotheby’s spring 2010 sales of Russian Art will be held on April 21 and 22 in New York, and will once again present collectors with a wealth of exciting works from important private collections. Among the auction highlights is a group of paintings by Russian artist Pavel Tchelitchew from the collection of [Read More]