A pair of extraordinary late 17th Century Jacobean curtains – £4,000 – £6,000 – which have come from a couple in Nairn, Scotland, who put them up every winter and took them down each summer to protect them from the light, will be sold at Bonhams auction of Textiles in Knowle on [Read More]
A Burmese Arakan gilt bronze figure of a seated Buddhist Deity, possibly Avalokitesvara, The Bodhisattva of Compassion, 17th Century, given to Emma Harker by Mahatma Gandhi, will be sold by Bonhams at the sale of Asian Art on 8th September in Knightsbridge. The 13in high sculpture is estimated to sell for £3,000-5,000. [Read More]
A MAGNIFICENT townscape by highly respected 20th century Indian artist Sadanand K. Bakre is among the highlights of the sale at Bellmans, Wisborough Green, West Sussex as part of their three-day monthly auction from Wednesday, August 5 through to Friday, August 7, 2009. Sadanand K. Bakre Bakre (1920-2007) was one of India’s [Read More]
American antiques experts, authors and television hosts, Leigh and Leslie Keno are no strangers to the spotlight, regularly sharing their expertise with the American public as furniture appraisers on the popular tv series Antiques Roadshow. This August, it will be their family’s beloved 1938 Jaguar SS 100 Roadster 3 ½ litre taking [Read More]
Heritage Auction Galleries has just announced a new online feature – HERITAGE Live!TM Budget Bidding – that will afford budget-conscious buyers greater control over their spending while participating via Heritage’s real-time proprietary internet bidding platform. The budget feature activates after Internet bidding for an auction has closed and the HERITAGE Live!TM interface [Read More]
Cat Auction Services, recognized the world over for its commitment to building customer loyalty, announced today that it will hold an unreserved public auction in Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday, August 4, beginning at 9 a.m. at Nebraska Raceway Park (14200 238th Street, Greenwood, Neb. – I-80, Exit 420). This marks the company’s [Read More]
Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the online auction of furniture, fixtures and equipment from Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast receivership, according to Jerry Jenkins. Items in this online bank auction include: computers, executive office furniture, art works, leather chairs, office equipment, storage and shelving, filing cabinets, decorative items, jewelry, an antique [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields announced the November 8, 2009 auction of The Estate of Elizabeth Colyear Vincent, Newport Beach, California. Assembled over the course of a lifetime, the Estate features a diverse group of 18th and 19th century works with a focus on the Northern European aesthetic. The 300-lot Los Angeles-based sale will [Read More]
An engagement between an American and a British naval vessel during the War of 1812 by Derek Gardner is estimated to sell for £30,000 to £50,000 at Bonhams next auction of Marine Art on September 15th in New Bond Street, London. The painting depicts the action shortly before the ‘Macedonian’s’ main topmast [Read More]
In a move that is expected to revolutionize the auction-bidding process, Manhattan-based LiveAuctioneers.com announces the debut of its custom-designed, downloadable iPhone application. The new “app” is the first of its kind within the auction industry to be openly available to any auction company, providing they interface with LiveAuctioneers’ services. Additionally, it is [Read More]
(NORTHPORT, Ala.) – A magnificent, nearly flawless diamond and platinum ring, boasting VVS1 quality, with a 6-carat center stone and a total weight of 8.22 carats, soared to $77,000 at a multi-estate sale held June 28 by Hal Hunt Auctions. Multiple bidders in the room battled for the ring before one determined [Read More]
MATTHEW BARTON, who has over 20 years experience in the auction world, is delighted to announce that he will be holding his first independent auction of Silver, Works of Art and Objects of Vertu on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 in West Kensington at 25 Blythe Road, W14. He will be working as [Read More]
This year’s surprise package – and current Formula One Championship leaders – Brawn GP have announced plans for a selection of race cars from their memorabilia collection to be sold by Bonhams at the Silverstone Classic Historic Race Meeting on Saturday 25 July. Historic race cars, scale 1:1 show cars and a [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions’ first No Reserve Bibliophile Sale on June 30, 2009 sold over 82% by lot. The sale contained property from The Heritage Book Shop, Colonial Williamsburg and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and contained over 450 lots. A manuscript letter written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and signed to Elizabeth Craig Clarkson, [Read More]
On July 16th space buffs around the world were tuned in to Bonhams New York’s first ever Space Sale. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of man’s first steps on the Moon, the sale consisted of nearly 400 lots of objects and documents pertaining to the history of Space Exploration. The importance of the [Read More]
Research In Motion Limited (“RIM”) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM) disclosed today that it has effectively been prevented from submitting an offer for the Nortel Networks Wireless Business that is the subject of a bankruptcy auction scheduled to occur on July 24, 2009. The assets being sold are Nortel’s CDMA and Long Term Evolution [Read More]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, sold more than US$20 million of heavy equipment and trucks – including 61 cranes – at its unreserved public auction in Chicago, Illinois last week (July 16 17, 2009). More than 2,200 people from 49 U.S. states and 27 other countries registered to [Read More]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , is conducting a complete dispersal auction for George Schmid Sons, Inc., a family-owned excavation business founded in 1958 and based in Washougal, Washington. The unreserved public auction, to be held on Friday, July 31, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m., will be located at 13910 SE Mill Plain – [Read More]