On June 8th, 2008, Freeman’s will offer a very exciting collection of jewelry brought up from Concord, North Carolina, from the estate of the late Mariam Cannon Hayes, heiress to a vast textile fortune. Known for her philanthropy in the Charlotte, Concord, and western North Carolina areas, Mrs. Hayes left behind a [Read More]
MANHATTAN, NY – Spink Smythe’s April 9th sale featuring part 14 of the Schingoethe collection was an outstanding success with realized prices on some notes breaking world records. The jewel of this sale was a Brigham Young signed Kirtland note (see photo) which had a presale estimate of $10,000 to 15,000 and [Read More]
Subodh Gupta’s Vehicle for the Seven Seas (2004) posted an auction record price for the Indian artist when it fetched €502,330 ($785,243), more than triple its €140,000-180,000 estimate, under the gavel of Francis Briest in Paris on April 3. This world auction record is also the best second world record for Indian [Read More]
An important and rare self-portrait of the Croatian artist Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) and his family made £90,000 – over double its estimate in Bonhams sale of 19th Century European Paintings held on 16 April 2008 in London. The painting, which was bought by a private collector, is the second highest price for [Read More]
NEW YORK, NY.- Today at Sotheby’s, the sale of 19th Century European Art including The Orientalist Sale achieved a total of $26,377,050 (est. $23.7/32.9 million). Today’s sale was the first time in almost a decade that Sotheby’s held a dedicated offering of Orientalist Art, highlighted by exceptional masterpieces representing the entire region [Read More]
Hamburg, (kk) – All the birds are in it, all the birds, all … Even the Oriole’s nest (Plate 31), that is usually not shown, is included in the first edition with beautiful period colouring. Carrying an estimate of € 50,000, the ornithological life’s work of Johann Leonhard Frisch, director of a [Read More]
Bargain hunters, Trash and Treasure ‘tragics’, collectors and motoring enthusiasts from around Australia will be beating a path to ‘Bushy Park’ near Brisbane on Sunday (April 20) for Australia’s ultimate ‘garage sale’ at Billy’s Service Station. Billy’s, the private treasure-trove of American and Australian automotive memorabilia assembled by Queensland enthusiast Greg Kowplos [Read More]
Dallas, TX – Heritage Auction Galleries, the world’s third largest auction house, is holding its first Russian fine art auction at its new fine art galleries located in Dallas’ Design District on June 4, 2008. Among the master Russian artists featured at the auction will be Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt, Nikolai Timkov, Konstantin [Read More]
A 1909 Sizaire-Naudin Model G Voiturette topped the Charterhouse sale of classic cars, motorbikes and automobilia, when it sold to a telephone bidder for over £26,000. “There had been a great deal of pre-sale interest in this vehicle. It is well known in motoring circles having been in the vendor’s ownership for [Read More]
One of the oldest toys ever seen at Tennants Auctioneers was a Georgian Dissected Puzzle dating from 1812 – a forerunner of today’s jigsaw puzzle –sold for £420 in January, more than double it’s lowest estimate. Amazingly still complete after almost 200 years, the puzzle was entitled ‘My Pony’ and its mahogany [Read More]
BOSTON – The now famous David Ortiz replica Red Sox jersey that was chipped from beneath two feet of cement in the new Yankee Stadium is available for auction on eBay. The auction will benefit the Jimmy Fund, which supports adult and pediatric cancer care and research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in [Read More]
New York, NY – April 17, 2008 Sotheby’s spring sale of Magnificent Jewels in New York achieved $26,343,850 (est. $21/28 million*). Leading the sale today was a stunning collection of Van Cleef & Arpels jewels from the Estate of Rita K. Hillman, a distinguished New York philanthropist and renowned collector of fine [Read More]
BOSTON – Following Tuesday’s announcement by eBay that it will exit the live online auction business, Artfact today announced the launch of Artfact Live!, including an online bidding platform and audio/video broadcast services. Artfact Live! is a next-generation online marketplace connecting the world’s 1,000 leading auction houses with the 6 million most [Read More]
NEW YORK – Sotheby’s spring auction of 19th Century European Art in New York will feature a broad selection of paintings and sculpture of the highest quality across all areas of the category. The auction is distinguished by an extraordinary offering of works by the Academic painter William Bouguereau and a major [Read More]
Wellington, OH – Over 350 models of trucks, automobiles and airplanes are lined up waiting to cross the auction block Saturday April 19 in Wellington, OH. Antiques and Estate Auctioneers are hosting the auction to generate operating revenue for the Medina Toy and Train Museum. “The current economy has caused the local [Read More]
(Oceanside, N.Y.) – A battery-operated “Mr. Atomic” toy robot, made in Japan by Cragston in the early ’60s and still in the original box, sold for $15,820 at a multi-estate sale held the weekend of April 5-6 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The robot was but one offering in Part 1 of the [Read More]
Entries are still open for Barons’ Classic and Collectors’ Car Sale at Sandown Park, Surrey on April 29th, which features a strong entry from British marques. The sale is headlined by the 1921 ex-Henry Royce experimental ‘Goshawk’ 20hp, believed to be the oldest-surviving example of this ‘baby’ Rolls-Royce (estimate £30,000-£50,000). Another interesting [Read More]
NEW YORK – Sotheby’s two-day sale of Russian Art in New York totaled $46,449,401 (est. $41/57 million), with strong prices realized across the wide variety of works on offer — 19th and 20th Century and Contemporary Russian paintings as well as a broad selection of Works of Art. Highlighting the morning session [Read More]