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.