On October 22, 2009, Sotheby’s will offer for sale Leopold Carl Müller’s rediscovered depiction of A Street Scene, Cairo. The picture will be included in Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Art Including Orientalist Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures and is estimated at $600/800,000. The work boasts a spectacular provenance – it was [Read More]
A long hidden cache of English art and antiques will auction without reserve, with 600 other largely unreserved lots, at the Rago Arts and Auction Center on August 7th and 8th, 2009. The Estate of English and Continental antiques dealer Joseph Stanley has been shuttered in a New Hope, PA mansion since [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields is delighted to offer for sale by auction nothing less than one of the most charismatic Grand Prix racing cars ever built – the 1939 Auto Union ‘D-Type’ with rear-mounted 3-liter twin-stage supercharged V12-cylinder engine. The annual collector’s motorcar car auction is set for August 14, 2009 in Carmel, [Read More]
Not too long ago, the only vintage comics that could bring prices above $50,000 were all from the “Golden Age” of the World War II era. In the meantime, however, the nicest copies of some comics from the Baby Boomer generation have cleared that hurdle quite easily. Case in point: a comic [Read More]
VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The auction will take place at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, at the VSE Warehouse, in Miami, FL. The agencies that are also participating [Read More]
Kicking off in May and culminating on Audi’s official birthday of July 16th, Toy Collector has been running a weekly blog, tracing the history of the Audi Marque though model cars donated by Audi from their merchandise range. The models then went up on the auction block in the site’s forums. Further [Read More]
Celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, fashion, and politics have joined forces to raise money and awareness for children/young adults with Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI) by donating their valuable time and products to an online auction. The auction, being hosted on Charitybuzz.com (http://sarahjane.charitybuzz.com/viewLots.do?sourc…) through July 29, 2009, features amazing celebrity experiences [Read More]
During the fall 2009 and winter 2010 auction seasons Sotheby’s in New York will present works from the collections of renowned philanthropist and patron of the arts Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. The offering of several hundred objects from Dr. Sackler’s collections comprises important Impressionist and Modern paintings, Chinese Furniture, Asian Carpets, English [Read More]
Wines for Humanity helps charities raise funds by donating certificates for silent or live auctions; good for a 7 bottle wine tasting for up to 14 people. Wines for Humanity conducts in-home wine tastings that educate guests about fine wines while in the process raising money for local charities. Our certificates are [Read More]
Racebrook Marketing Concepts, LLC will acquire the assets of Sheldon Good & Company, the nation’s leading real estate auction firm, pursuant to a sale approved Tuesday by the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York. The new corporate structure will take effect on August 1, 2009, with the [Read More]
Sperry Van Ness/Guardian and MarketMaker™, have announced a regional commercial property auction for the Northwest to be held September 30. This announcement resulted from a surge in potential listings from investors and banks just weeks after they jointly launched the MarketMaker West Coast Auction being held in Los Angeles on July 30. [Read More]
Streambank, LLC today announced that a bid deadline and auction date have been finalized for the sale of the intellectual property assets of KB Toys, Inc. Bids may be entered until 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 4. The auction will commence Thursday, August 6 at 10:00 a.m. The US Bankruptcy Court for the [Read More]
Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, announced today worldwide sales of £1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) for the first six months of 2009, down 35% by £ on last year’s figure of £1.8 billion ($3.5 billion) for the same period (Figures include buyer’s premium). In Christie’s salesrooms around the world, 211 works [Read More]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc. one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it will host an auction of Country Americana on Sunday, August 9th at 11 a.m. in its Marlborough, Mass. gallery. The auction features nearly 800 lots including marine paintings and ship [Read More]
The stunning 98 foot $7.8 million motor yacht that was the star of the 2008 Sanctuary Cove Boat Show is headed for auction. It was purchased in 2008 by Brisbane entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff’s DSB Cruises which is now in receivership. Under instructions from Receivers Ian Hall and Guy Edwards from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), [Read More]
Seoul Auction is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Alexandra House, Central, Hong Kong. To mark the occasion, Seoul Auction is also holding an inaugural private sales exhibition, “Cutting Edge”, featuring works by young Korean artists. The exhibition is being held at Seoul Auction’s new office, 1808, Alexandra [Read More]
Christie’s, the world’s leading auction house for fine jewels and the market leader in the category for the past 15 years, announced that The Annenberg Diamond, a spectacular D color, Flawless diamond of 32.01 carats, will be the leading highlight of Jewels: The New York Sale on October 21, 2009. Valued between [Read More]
Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Clark County Public Auction has selected the Company to provide live online bidding for an upcoming Michael Jackson memorabilia auction. The live auction is slated for Sunday, July 26 at Noon PDT, with live online bidding taking place at [Read More]