Aucton House Bonhams will hold their first dedicated International Contemporary Ceramics auction in New York, USA on Tuesday 5 June 2007. This groundbreaking and diverse sale will feature the most ambitious post-war Contemporary Ceramic Art representing several countries including Britain, America, Japan, France, Spain, Denmark, Mexico and Kenya.
Bonhams Director of Contemporary Ceramics, Ben William, [...]

A pink cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany‘s” was auctioned Wednesday for nearly $200,000 — more than six times what the auctioneers expected.
The sleeveless dress, worn for the scene in which Holly Golightly discovers her brother has died, sold for $192,000 to a private European buyer at Christie‘s sale of film [...]

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ADESA, Inc., a leading provider of wholesale vehicle auctions and used vehicle dealer floorplan financing, and Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leading provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, today reported their first quarter financial results.
Acquisition of ADESA by Private Equity Group
As previously announced, the acquisition of [...]

The Hard Rock hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is set today to hold an auction of all kinds of memorabilia having to do with the “King of Pop”, himself, Michael Jackson.
The auction has received much interest as of late as Jackson and his lawyers had been trying to block the auction from happening, [...]

Wreckage from Lindsay Lohan’s weekend car crash is up for auction on website eBay.com.
Bidding on the “pieces and parts” starts at $100 (£50) and ends on Sunday (03Jun07), although no bids have been made yet.
Lohan lost control of her Mercedes in Beverly Hills, California at around 5.30am on Saturday (26May07), hitting a curb and trees, [...]

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Rising foreclosures combined with an already weak housing market nationwide make it a perfect time for homebuyers to find bargains. As more foreclosures add to the glut of homes for sale each month, consumers are increasingly turning to real estate auctions to take advantage of the market slowdown.
Over 200 southern California homes located in [...]

Members of the National Auctioneers Association from across the country joined their fellow auctioneers in Washington, D.C. this week to educate members of Congress about the auction industry and its impact on the U.S. economy.
The two-day Auction Action on Capitol Hill Day event included seminars on federal legislation impacting the industry and training sessions on [...]

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ItsOnlyRockNRoll.com is pleased to announce that their June 2 Catalog and Online Auction of 1500 items is now available for viewing on the website featuring an impressive array of Authentic Autographs.
Authentic autographs are a rare commodity in the marketplace, with many forgers selling product online and in high end stores that claim legitimacy. All [...]

Wal-Mart and eBay share much of the same customer base, eBay CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday that she’s not worried that record-high gas prices and the housing slump pose any significant threats to the company’s business.
“Historically, eBay and Wal-Mart have a common customer base. But eBay does better when customer spending retreats,” Whitman told a [...]

The pace of existing home sales in the United States fell in April to a 5.99 million-unit annual rate while inventories swelled, the National Association of Relators said in a report on Friday that showed more weakness than analysts had expected.
Sales were off 2.6 percent in April and hit their lowest level since June 2003.
The [...]

American Airlines has filed suit against an unknown person who uses that screen name and hawked a pilot training CD on eBay this month.
According to the suit, filed in State District Court in Fort Worth, the CD is included with training materials American provides to pilots.
Pilots are barred from distributing them outside the company. eBay [...]

City officials said Friday that 11 lots will be sold for a total of $403,000, provided that bidders complete the transactions within the next month.
Total proceeds generated by the series of auctions, comprising the sale of more than 110 properties, has now grown to about $3 million, officials said. The series was launched in January [...]

Native American and pre-Columbian art comes to Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco in June, including the best selection of Northwest Coast and Plains material ever offered within the international auctioneer’s salesroom. The auction on Monday, June 4, 2007 features more than 500 lots, from both private and institutional collections.
The sale’s previews open in San [...]

The federal government’s wild horse and burro adoptions are beginning this upcoming Memorial holiday weekend. The Scottsbluff County Fairgrounds in Nebraska is the site of one this Saturday. Another’s being held in Canon City, Colorado. Wild horses and burros are rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management from public lands each year, then offered [...]

The London-based auction house Christies successfully auctioned off Peruvian archaeological artifacts yesterday in its New York city branch, despite last minute efforts on the part of Peruvian authorities to prevent Christie’s from doing so.
ELi Pelaez, the Peruvian Consul in New York, lamented the sale of artifacts which represent civilizations from Peru’s ancient past.
According to [...]