All that remains of a 70-million year old Mosasaurus Baugei or Meuse lizard, a huge carnivorous reptile and the dominant underwater predator menacing the Earth’s seas 70-million years ago, could sell for as much as $400,000 on December 2, 2007 in Los Angeles as Bonhams & Butterfields, the premier West Coast auction house, brings an [...]

A decision by the Department of the Interior not to renew a 2005 IT lease with a minority contractor resulted in a warehouse full of new servers and data storage assets going to the auction block, according to Chris Rasmus of Rasmus Auctioneers, an online liquidator.
“It seams like a terrible waste of money,” noted Rasmus. [...]

Eclipse Aviation has sold one of its twin-engine very light jet airplanes for more than $1.8 million to a Danish man in a private online auction.
Morten Wagner, who plans to accept the Eclipse 500 at the company’s Albuquerque headquarters this week, placed his winning bid on the auction site powered by eBay in the early [...]

Save the Queen LLC of Newport Beach has acquired the Queen Mary lease and the right to develop the area surrounding the historic ship for $43 million in a bankruptcy auction. At stake in the auction were the 54 years remaining on the 66-year lease of the Queen Mary and its surrounding 43 acres of [...]

The weekend auction of 15 rare cars collected over several decades by local developer Richard Solove raised $14.3 million for cancer research at Ohio State University.
The collection included the only known complete set of Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost models from 1907 to 1915, according to Gooding & Co., which conducted the auction in Pebble Beach, Calif. [...]

Leading auctioneer Sotheby’s will present works from major Far Eastern cultures in India, China and Cambodia focussing on ‘The Arts of the Buddha’ at its New York auction on September 21.
The auction will include physical representations of the divine through different media like paintings, drawings and sculptures, Sotheby’s said in a statement.
The cornerstone of the [...]

Antiquorum Auctioneers, one of the world’s leading watch auctioneers, has ousted its CEO and Chairman Osvaldo Patrizzi.
Antiquorum’s board voted to dismiss Mr. Patrizzi at an Aug. 2 meeting. John Tsukahara, an executive of the Tokyo-based holding company ArtistHouse Holdings Inc., which owns 50% of Antiquorum, has been appointed as the new chairman.

In three weeks, 35 condominiums at Logan Martin Lake’s Lincoln Harbor go on the auction block, and that sale will mark a parting of the ways between the builder and the developer.
Lincoln Harbor Development, which is part of Shoreline Real Estate LLC, will be handling “building and marketing, and taking over total control of the [...]

Members of the Wisconsin Auctioneers Association were present to participate in the annual bid-callers competition, which was won by Rod Johnson of Johnson Auctioneering in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.
Rod’s business specializes in charity and fundraising auctions, as well as real estate. He was Wisconsin’s 2006 Novice of the Year in the same competition, and Reserve Champion [...]

A classic Ferrari once owned by actor Steve McQueen sold for $2.31 million (€1.72 million) at auction.
An anonymous car collector who placed a bid by phone bought the 1963 Ferrari Berlinetta Lusso during an auction Thursday that drew 800 people to the Monterey Jet Center and attracted spirited bidding, said Christie’s spokesman Rik Pike.

According to a recently published ohio.gov press release, more than 280 vehicles will be put up for auction at the State and Federal Surplus auction on Saturday, August 18th at 4200 Surface Road in Columbus, Ohio.
The vehicles that are expected to go up on the auction block aren’t just cars. In fact, the state will [...]

The fifth annual ArtPartners Live Auction and Showcase features works of art that make a lasting impression on everyone – from those who create the works to those who view the finished product.
ArtPartners gives people with chronic illnesses a chance to shine. The VSA arts of Alabama program brings together people living with chronic illnesses [...]

Matthew Holiday of Holiday Auction & Realty, LLC is pleased to announce that he has received an auctioneer license from the Georgia Auctioneer Commission enabling him to offer his auction services in the State of Georgia.
His company, Holiday Auction & Realty, already conducts auctions in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Michigan and offers real estate [...]

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A developer and a group of investors are expected to vie today to run the Queen Mary attraction and its surrounding Long Beach waterfront property, city officials said.
The officials said the bidders — real estate developer O&S Holdings in Santa Monica and a group called Save the Queen — would appear in U.S. Bankruptcy [...]