KAR Auction Services, Inc. (the “Company”) today announced that it has commenced an initial public offering of 23,000,000 shares of its common stock. All shares included in the initial public offering are being sold by the Company. The estimated range for the initial public offering price is $15.00 to $17.00 per share. [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will be conducting a multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment and truck auction at its Chicago permanent auction site on Thursday, December 10, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. The Company has been conducting auctions at its Chicago auction site in Morris for nearly 10 [Read More]

Newmark Knight Frank has announced that it will offer 25 surplus properties in 14 states at auction as part of a post bankruptcy liquidation plan for a major building supply company. Tranzon Integrated Property Group has been designated by Newmark Knight Frank as auctioneer to handle all of the auctions on a [Read More]

The Counts Realty and Auction Group (www.CountsAuction.com) announces the auction of 10 lake front and lake view properties at Mariners Landing on Smith Mountain Lake, according to Bill Bryant. The auction is set for Saturday, December 5 at 10am, in the Bedford Room at the Mariners Landing Conference Center. “We have homes, [Read More]

On January 14th, Freeman’s will conduct its Books, Manuscript, Maps, Prints & Posters Auction. Amongst the exciting American manuscript material to be offered in the sale are a signed Carte-de-Visite photograph of Abraham Lincoln, an uncommon standing portrait from a Brady Studio negative priced at $8,000-12,000. Also of note is an autograph [Read More]

Chorley’s are delighted to be offering a good collection of Old Master and British pictures in their sale on Thursday 10th December 2009. 11 paintings come from Penarth in South Wales. They belonged to the late Millicent Hope Bovey wh had inherited a very large collection of Old Master and British Paintings [Read More]

On the occasion of the anniversary sale, VAN HAM Cologne presents numerous works of established photographers such as Werner Mantz, Albert Renger-Patzsch and August Sander as well as interesting contemporary photo art, such as Beate Gütschow with a fascinating nature depiction, Petra Wunderlich with an urban motif and furthermore Gudrun Kemsa and [Read More]

Bloomsbury Auctions is pleased to announce a significant sale that offers the rarest Americana. This collection of just 82 lots contains accounts of European explorers in the New World, all of which were printed prior to 1625. This collection of books and charts from Bruce McKinney ranks as one of the finest [Read More]

Bonhams final wine sale of 2009 will take place at 101 New Bond Street on 3rd December. As always the sale contains a wide spectrum of different wine styles at a broad range of prices. The sale kicks off with Champagne, including three bottles of Krug, Clos du Mesnil 1979 (£4000-5000) and [Read More]

Collectors are eagerly awaiting the first sale of rare and exceptional Coins and Banknotes to bepresented by Bonhams New York. Taking place on December 3rd, the sale consists of over 400 lots ranging from 1692 to the early 21st-Century. Amongst the most coveted lots will be an exceptionally rare 1796 $10 so-called [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of Swiss Art will be held in Zurich, on Monday, 7th December 2009, at 6pm. Urs Lanter and Stéphanie Schleining Deschanel, Specialists of Swiss Art at Sotheby’s, will offer 123 lots spanning more than 250 years of Swiss artistic history. The sale highlights classical artists such as Amiet, Anker, Biéler, [Read More]

Fifteen masterworks from the collection of Helen E. Band estate brought in a combined $10,494,024, and with the other 84 lots in Heffel’s second session of Fine Canadian Art, totaled $17.5-million. The first session featuring Canadian Post-War and Contemporary Art that occurred between 4 p.m. and 6:05 p.m. brought in $3.3-million. The [Read More]

One of the major events at Sotheby’s this Autumn promises to be the sale in Paris on December 8 of a unique work by Jeff Koons: “Elephant” (Purple), donated by the artist to the Foundation Claude Pompidou in 2009. This masterpiece from 1999 (estimate €300,000-400,000) will be sold to help finance the [Read More]

Bonhams New York is pleased to present the Arnold Smoller Collection of Contemporary Livres d’Artiste. A wonderfully astute and varied assemblage of nearly 200 volumes, the collection spans several decades of American and international art. It includes experimental works made of such surprising materials as lead, hair, plastics, and rubber. The works [Read More]

An exceptional and singular 1860 John C. Breckenridge portrait banner, perhaps the most important American political textile to appear at auction, lived up to its top billing as it soared to a record final price of $95,600 to lead the day at Heritage Auctions on Nov. 17. Auction totals have surpassed the [Read More]

An early collection of ‘silver religious ornaments’ from the Ashkenazi Plymouth Hebrew Congregation’s synagogue built in 1762, the oldest in the English-speaking world, sold at Bonhams on 25th November for £175,000. This earliest and rarest set of 14 lots of silver prayer instruments was estimated to sell for £100,000, but instead took [Read More]

Fillmore Poster, Inc. (www.fillmoreposter.com), the world’s largest dealer in vintage rock ‘n’ roll concert posters, is pleased to announce that its November auction of rare and unusual sixties posters, handbills, and other memorabilia closed on November 22 with strong prices realized in all categories. Auction highlights include: Closed lots and prices realized [Read More]