Thurman “Jack” Naylor’s photography collection is estimated to have brought in around USD 2m in Guernsey’s auction, according to Arlan Ettinger, Guernsey’s founder. Naylor said the money from the auction will go towards his 14 grandchildren’s college education.
“I have been trying to sell it for the past two years so it will be a relief […]
San Antonio Geologist, Phil Mani’s 1,410-pound piece of space rock that was expected to sell at auction Sunday at Bonhams in New York for up to $700,000, was withdrawn after it drew a top bid of only $200,000.
The meteorite, dug out of a Kansas farm field in 2005, is co-owned by Mani; Steve Arnold, an […]
The Kaufmann House, a 1946 glass, steel and stone landmark built on the edge of this desert town by the architect Richard Neutra, has twice been at the vanguard of new movements in architecture — helping to shape postwar Modernism and later, as a result of a painstaking restoration in the mid-1990s, spurring a revived […]
Over US$25m has changed hands in American wine auctions in the last few days.
Four major sales in three cities, which have all taken place since 25 October, fetched US$27,551,707 in total October.
The most largest sale, Acker Merrall Condit’s in New York on 26-27 October, made US$15,563,359. Acker had estimated the 1,963-lot cellar, believed […]
In attempt to raise money for their research, the University of Florida researchers George Austin and Andrew Warren are offering to sell the naming rights for a newly discovered species online.
The scientists, who helped discover a new species of Mexican butterfly, are hoping to raise at least $50,000 by auctioning off the rights to name […]
In conjunction with the annual and much-anticipated San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, the West Coast’s longest-running international antiques event, Bonhams will be offering a wonderful selection of American and European furniture and decorative arts to auction on 29 October 2007. Previews will open in San Francisco on October 26 in the auctioneer’s salesroom and gallery.
American […]
Meteorite collectors, scientists, and admirers of sculptural artifacts from outer space bid today for Historic Meteorites and Related Americana in the first sale exclusively dedicated to meteorites to be held by a major auction house. We opened our New York City salesroom on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, for a 53-lot sale which featured important examples […]