Eleven folders of old papers rescued from his parents’ closet sat in Thomas Willcox’s sport utility vehicle for months before he realized that some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Yesterday, the three letters written by Lee during the Civil War sold at auction for $61,000.
That was far off the record $630,000 that a […]

The Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auction, a Phoenix-based business and one of Scottsdale’s popular January collector-car auctions, will debut a new auction in March at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla.
The Florida event will be the third car auction for the 7-year-old Russo and Steele, which conducts an event […]

Marsh Supermarkets has retained a Florida-based auctioneer to sell 27 surplus properties throughout Indiana and Ohio, the auction company said Friday.
“Although these properties no longer fit into the future plans of Marsh, they are located in many prime markets around the region, with some of the locations being no more than a few years old […]

The equipment is from Alaska Seafood International, a now closed venture in Anchorage. A local auctioneer will sell off an assortment of equipment from the business on Saturday.
Items to be sold by North Pacific Auctioneers, range from bathroom fixtures and electronic controls to insulated piping and ammonia cooling towers.
The auction begins at 11 a.m. […]

Bonhams & Butterfields next entertainment memorabilia auction, on Sunday December 9th, will contain animation art from the Estate of Bill Tytla, one of the greatest animators of all time.
The collection includes a cel, animation drawings and preliminary drawings including a celluloid of the character “Chernabog” from Fantasia. The 1940 gouache on celluloid, a close-up of […]

A new auction company in Massachusetts is meeting the Bay State’s growing demand for quick and efficient auction solutions. The company, Sullivan & Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC, was founded by Marianne Sullivan, an industry veteran with more than 18 years of experience in the industry.
“Our goal is to offer clients bundled services, beyond the standard […]

A rare copy of the Magna Carta, the document that enshrined human rights in English law, is to be sold in New York.
The copy owned by the Perot Foundation is expected to fetch more than $20m (£9.94m), auctioner Sotheby’s says.
The copy on sale, dating from 1297, was bought by Ross F Perot in 1984 and […]