Bonhams is delighted to offer the silver trophy presented to the racing legend Sir Malcolm Campbell to commemorate his first world water speed record (126.33mph) on Lake Maggiore, 1st September 1937, as part of The Marine Sale at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 24th March. The trophy, a waterline model of Campbell’s [Read More]
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts’ biennial fundraiser is scheduled for February of 2010. The Silent Auction of more than 450 works of art will take place on the evening of Thursday, February 25, from 6:30 to 9, and will include an elaborate selection of hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. Tickets for all [Read More]
Napa County – The Treasurer-Tax Collector of Napa County, Tamie R. Frasier, announced that the county will hold its property auction for tax-defaulted properties. However, this year the county will hold their tax sale event online with Bid4Assets, a company specializing in online real estate auctions. The online auctions will be open [Read More]
(LITCHFIELD, Conn.) – A figural bronze statue of a warrior on his steed by the German artist Franz Von Stuck (1863-1928) sold for $20,880 in an online auction held Feb. 3-17 by Litchfield County Auctions, Inc. The bronze, titled Amazon, was the top achiever in a sale that saw over 1,000 lots [Read More]
One of the most significant archaeological projects of recent times One of the most significant archaeological projects of recent times – a reconstruction of the great Orpheus pavement – is to be sold by Chorley’s on Thursday 24 June 2010. Made from 1.6 million pieces of small, hand-cut clay blocks called tesserae, [Read More]
With a great and diverse crowd arriving from across the United States, Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers hosted the first auction of its 2010 schedule with a wide selection of Fine and Contemporary Art, Oriental Rugs, and Asian, Continental and American Furniture and Decorative Arts on January 29-30. Garth’s Vice-President Andrew Richmond noted [Read More]
Christie’s New York sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on March 10 presents an exciting opportunity for collectors to purchase superb works by the great masters Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Tamara de Lempicka, and Henry Moore and to explore a wealth of drawings, sculpture and works on paper by lesser-known artists of [Read More]
Quinn’s Auction Galleries will offer two “mystery” paintings in their March 6 sale – one of which may be a genuine Honore Daumier. The other, found in a basement, is a possible 17th-C. Flemish work FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The area around Washington, D.C., has always been a sweet spot for European [Read More]
A superb collection of quality motor cars, spanning every decade, starting with a 1910 Hupmobile Model 20 Tourer (estimate £10,000 – 12,000), and going through to a 2005 Ferrari/Foreman Mk4 V12 Spyder Recreation (estimate £65,000 – 85,000) are being offered at the Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia sale in Oxford on 6th [Read More]
Due to complete plant closure, the machinery and equipment formerly used in the continuing operations of one of the Aleris Aluminum Canada L.P. facilities in Québec will be offered at auction. Hilco Industrial will be organizing the massive 4-day auction sale March 9 through 12, 2010. The huge facility specialized in the [Read More]
“I’d like to invite everyone reading this to attend the CAI Fun Auction,” Tom Perry remarked (SUFFOLK, Va.) – Tom Perry of Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals – one of the premier auction houses in the mid-Atlantic states – has been in the business for years, but he is a firm believer in [Read More]
Christie’s New York will present For the Enjoyment of Scholars: Selections from the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection, a single-owner sale of exceptional Chinese carvings and works of art. Meticulously acquired over the past thirty years, the Blumenfield Collection is one of the most significant collections of Chinese scholar’s objects assembled. This extraordinary [Read More]
Concierge Auctions will host a real estate auction of 7 & 9 White Water Lane at The Strand at Headlands in Dana Point, California, the company announced. Previously offered to $15 million, the properties are selling bidder’s choice* with a reserve of $6.9 million and a pre-sale estimate of $8 million to [Read More]
Gray’s Auctioneers will start it’s 2010 auction season on Saturday, February 27 with one of the auction house’s most anticipated offerings to date. The featured lot is a remarkably rare late 15th/Early 16th Century Franco-Flemish Gothic Biblical Tapestry fragment depicting the life of David the shepherd boy who became the King of [Read More]
(ATLANTA, Ga.) – Gallery 63 on Roswell Road in Atlanta – one of the Southeast’s premier auction houses – will be the focus of a new reality series on The Discovery Channel. The new show will be called Auction King and is set to debut sometime in May. Filming began on Feb. [Read More]
In the 300th anniversary year of the founding of the Meissen factory – Europe’s first porcelain factory – Bonhams is proud to announce the much-anticipated sale of ‘The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part II’ at 10.30am on 26th May 2010 at 101 New Bond Street, London. This follows on from the [Read More]
Freeman’s auctioneers have auctioned the third part of the multi-million dollar art collection of the former global financial services firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI) in Philadelphia for US$600,000. Bringing the total value of the collection to date, including parts one and two, sold at Freeman’s in 2009, to over US$2.2 million. [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields, announce a stellar result for the company’s first auction exclusively dedicated to modern Montblanc writing instruments. The February 15, 2010 sale contained more than 130 lots of exceptional pens with a focus on the Writer’s Editions, Patron of the Arts and 333 series, as well as several of the [Read More]