Building on the success of the recent April London Design sale, Phillips de Pury & Company has announced the highlights from its New York Design sale to be held on June 3, 2009. 128 lots will be offered with a total pre-sale estimate of $2,729,300 – 3,677,000. This sale offers an array [Read More]
Sotheby’s in New York will hold the final sale of its spring season on June 13, 2009. The sale’s 1,217 lots (the first 330 to be sold without reserve) will include a selection of Bordeaux, Rhône and California wines, Champagne, and great value white Burgundy. It is expected to bring in excess [Read More]
The Counts Realty and Auction Group (www.CountsAuction.com) announces the auction of two large acreage tracts of standing timber in Bedford and Rockbridge counties, according to Bill Bryant. The first property totals 650 acres in Northeastern Bedford County, making up part of the area known as Rocky Mountain. The property will be offered [Read More]
Bonhams Greek sale shrugged off any semblance of economic gloom to return a stunning £3.6m result and 17 new world records at its New Bond Street saleroom on 19.5.2009. The sale gives Bonhams Greek Art Department market dominance in the UK, beating all other auction houses operating in the Greek Art Market. [Read More]
The medals of Robert Shankland, including the Victoria Cross will go on sale in Toronto at Bonhams May 25th Canadian Sale, valued at up to £185,000. The Victoria Cross is the token by which much of the English speaking world has come to acknowledge and define the outer limits of man’s capacity [Read More]
Sotheby’s annual sale of Indian Art in London will this year take place on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 and it will bring to the market a fine assortment of works by leading Modern and Contemporary Indian artists as well as rare and important Indian Miniatures. A significant number of the works on [Read More]
In its 17th year, the 2009 High Museum Atlanta Wine auction reached a live auction total of more than $900,000. Silent auctions on Friday and Saturday and a Paddle Raise during the live auction, coupled with event ticket sales, brought the net profit for the 2009 Wine auction to $1.3 million. Proceeds [Read More]
Christie’s New York Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Sale achieved a total of $16,820,400, with works by Milton Avery, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole commanding the highest prices. Three new world auction records were set for American artists Edwin Willard Deming, Charles H. Humphriss, and Eric Pape. Eric Widing, Head of [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – May 21, 2009 – 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 American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, June 7th at 11 a.m. in its Boston gallery. Quintessential Americana – and in [Read More]
From the scientific to the superbly decorative, astoundingly unique fossil specimens will be offered by international fine arts auctioneers Bonhams on June 1, 2007 during the firm’s Natural History auction in New York. The 525 lot sale offers a diverse group of high quality and distinctive mineral specimens, gold nuggets, lapidary works [Read More]
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, is conducting a three-day, multi-million dollar unreserved public auction at the Company’s permanent auction site in Orlando, Florida, from Wednesday, May 27, 2009 to Friday, May 29, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. each day. More than 2,650 construction, transportation and other equipment items, [Read More]
The Western End of Historic Monk’s Island, located at the Shallotte Inlet between Holden Beach and Ocean Isle Beach, NC on the Intracoastal Waterway, will be sold at Public Auction. The auction firm of Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. of Rockingham, NC, National Professional Real Estate Auctioneers has been chosen to conduct [Read More]
IronPlanet® (www.ironplanet.com), the world’s leading online auction company for used construction and agricultural equipment, reported a record-breaking first quarter performance, with gross auction sales of $91.3 million — an increase of 26 percent over the first quarter of 2008. “IronPlanet’s continuing record-breaking performance is a direct reflection of the value that our [Read More]
A MAGNIFICENT and truly Scottish gun, that has been engraved to look like a Crocodile will return to its country of origin to be offered in Gavin Gardiner’s annual flagship auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns at the world-famous Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland on Monday, August 24, 2009. The [Read More]
April 25 event, featuring about 250 fine antique clocks, also does well, as Cottone enjoys active spring (GENESEO, N.Y.) – A beautiful Tiffany Studios maple leaf floor lamp, in excellent condition and with the original patina, sold for $103,500 at a multi-estate sale held Mar. 21 by Cottone Auctions. The lamp, standing [Read More]
Renowend antique collector, dealer and decorator, Kenneth Greene is choosing to auction his life collection and waterfront estate in Norfolk, VA. Greene is changing his career path and decided use the accelerated sales services of Atlantic Asset Management Norfolk, VA – On Saturday, June 13, 2009 Atlantic Asset Management Group will be [Read More]
Bonhams first dedicated sale of Middle Eastern and South Asian Art to be held outside of Dubai features works of art by artists from no fewer than 13 countries. It takes place in Bonhams main saleroom in New Bond Street, London on 3rd June. With this auction Bonhams hopes to emulate the [Read More]
Penny Worley Auctioneers (www.worleyauctioneers.com) announces the absolute online auction of assets from the Omni National Bank receivership, according to Jerry Jenkins. Assets in this online auction include: Floridian art, computers, office furniture, phone equipment, office equipment, decorative items, lighting, electronics, and banking equipment. “There are some really nice pieces of original Floridian [Read More]