(Indianapolis, Indiana) Dan Ripley’s Antique Helper is welcoming spring on March 29 and 30 with a weekend offering two very special auction opportunities. On Saturday, March 29, Dan Ripley will present the Spring Italian Glass Sale. This exceptional auction consists of more than 200 select lots. Highlighting the sale are two very [Read More]
Green Valley hosted its sixth annual winter auction of glass and lighting on January 25, 26 and 27, selling more than 3,500 pieces in 1,804 lots over four sessions. The sale was conducted at the firm’s auction galleries in Mt. Crawford, Virginia, located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, and was [Read More]
Detroit, Mi – Starting Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 1pm, and running through Thursday, March 27, 2008 an auction of houses will take place at the Doubletree Hotel-Dearborn. On Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30, more houses will be auctioned at the Ford Motor Company Conference & Event Center.(near The Henry [Read More]
On Sunday, 30 March 2008 at 12noon, the general public will have the opportunity to secure an item from Pro Hart’s eclectic decorative arts collection when Bonhams & Goodman conducts a sale of his estate in its Adelaide rooms. Australian Art Icon Kevin Charles (Pro) Hart died in April 2006 and his [Read More]
FAIRFIELD, MAINE – James D. Julia’s most recent antiques and fine art auction was its largest winter sale to date, grossing nearly $2.9 million over three days, January 31–February 2. One of the most noteworthy nautical finds in many years was an exceedingly rare American pilot chart book from 1794. The book [Read More]
Zachys Wine Auctions has the pleasure of announcing the forthcoming auction of an extraordinary private European wine collection, that of Graham Lyons. Over 5,000 bottles of some of the world’s oldest and rarest wines will be auctioned off at Restaurant Daniel in New York City on Friday, April 25 at 9:30am. Mr [Read More]
Bloomsbury’s sale of Modern First Editions, Literature & History, Economics & Law on 13th March was a big success, emphasising once again that Bloomsbury is the natural home of First Editions. The star of the Modern Firsts section was undoubtedly a single Graham Greene, Rumour at Nightfall (lot 84). Brought to Bloomsbury [Read More]
Secretariat.com is proud to be the recipient of a very special collection of authentic shoes and memorabilia to be auctioned to benefit the Secretariat Foundation. The Claiborne Farm Stallion Memorabilia Auction features an array of artifacts representing some of the most famous names in Thoroughbred racing and breeding history… including the Big [Read More]
Bonhams is to hold its first Sculpture Sale at its New Bond Street salerooms on 15 April 2008. Over 120 works of art by some of the world’s most revered sculptors, and spanning five centuries, will go under the hammer in London next month. The sale embraces sculpture from a number of [Read More]
New York – Christie’s New York annual Important Old Master Paintings sale is set to take place on April 15 and features a broad selection of French, German, English, Dutch and Italian masterworks. Expected to realize in excess of $35 million, this is the third year in which the Important Old Master [Read More]
Rain or shine every Friday morning, a host of private individuals and regional automotive dealers flock to a large new building near Virginia’s largest inland shipping port at Deepwater Terminal to buy and sell cars and trucks. Most of these vehicles are everyday drivers, some of them completely driven down to the [Read More]
A new service has been deployed that features a new take on charitable donation to the military. MilBid.com is an auction service much like the other hundreds of services you’d find on the Internet. But what sets MilBid.com apart from the rest is the fact that it donates profits from auctions to [Read More]
Toys made by the biggest name in American tin windups, Louis Marx, will highlight the April sale of Smith House Toy & Auction Company. The spring roundup will also feature a selection of about two dozen boxed, battery-operated toys made in Japan in the 1950s and 60s; two dozen boxed windups made [Read More]
New York – Christie’s is honored to announce the most spectacular and comprehensive collection of period jewels from the 17th century through modern day in the April 15th evening sale in New York, Rare Jewels and Gemstones: The Eye of a Connoisseur. With 115 lots, this extraordinary collection expects to realize record [Read More]
(Hillsborough, N.C.) – A watercolor on Bainbridge board street scene by the renowned South Carolina painter Alfred Hutty (1877-1954) sold for $34,500 to take top lot honors at a Fine and Decorative Arts Cataloged Antique Auction held March 15 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The multi-estate sale was held [Read More]
Dallas, TX: A foot-long aluminum scoop used by astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell to pick up moon dust on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission is estimated to sell for a quarter-million dollars in a public auction to be conducted by Heritage Auction Galleries (www.HA.com) in Dallas, Texas and online on March [Read More]
From the lavish brushwork of a Western landscape to the myriad of textures embodied by a metropolitan setting, the representation of the American experience, as captured on canvas, is awash in color, texture, beauty and light. On April 8, 2008, Bonhams & Butterfields – California’s oldest and largest auction house– will bring [Read More]
The most significant private collection of neon and other garage signs, petrol pumps to come onto the Australian market for many years will be auctioned in Brisbane by Shannons on April 20. Billy’s Service Station, the private treasure-trove of automotive memorabilia assembled by Queensland enthusiast Greg Kowplos over the past 30 years, [Read More]