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piece of space rock that was expected to sell at auction Sunday at Bonhams in New York for up to $700,000, was withdrawn after it drew a top bid of only $200,000.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 [...]

Some of the world’s most famous meteorites have gone under the hammer at a New York auction house in what is said to be the first sale of its kind.
The pieces were drawn from collections across the world and many examples are richly coloured and intricately patterned, some bearing gemstones.
A piece priced at $1.1m (£0.53m) [...]

A lock of dark brown hair, fingerprints and other artifacts from the capture and execution of Ernesto “Che” Guevara will soon be the property of a Houston-area bookstore owner.
Bill Butler of Rosenberg, Texas, bid $100,000 Thursday night to claim the items at a Dallas auction.
Held by Heritage Auction Galleries, the event drew television cameras and [...]

A 400-acre parcel will go up for auction next week at the Arizona State Land Department, one of the largest parcels the department has put up for sale north of Loop 101.
The land in question is north of the Reach 11 Sports Complex and tucked behind two cemeteries, including National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. [...]

Second-time entrant wins LMA’s Southwest Regional Auctioneer Championship; 8 more move on to June world championship
Nebraskan Preston Smith outscored 25 other contestants and won Livestock Marketing Association’s Southwest Regional Auctioneer Championship, Oct. 25 at Cattleman’s Livestock Commission Co., Dalhart, Texas.
This was just his second time in the regional contest for Smith, 28, of Lexington, Neb. [...]

The only meteorite known to have killed a living thing when it shot through Earth’s atmosphere and landed on a cow is being put up for auction.
In the world’s first ever sale devoted exclusively to meteorites, Bonhams is putting 54 lots under the hammer, including the Valera meteorite fragment, which holds the dubious distinction of [...]

BIOTA (Blame It On The Altitude) Brands of America was unable to meet an Oct. 22 deadline to reclaim assets from its lender, UPS Capital Business Credit, a division of United Parcel Service.
David Zutler, BIOTA founder and chief executive officer, said in a press release that his company was unable to buy back land and [...]

Previews will be held on October 26-28 in San Francisco and November 3-6 in New York City. The sale will be held in New York and simulcast to San Francisco. The illustrated sale catalogue is online for review and purchase at www.bonhams.com/us
Highlighting the sale is an oil on canvas deemed a major discovery. The classical [...]

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Is It Time To Buy?
“If you are working with someone who really knows how to negotiate”..says Scott Partridge of Community Real Estate. When Scott is working with a client he figures what the price of the home will be in the next 8-12 months or more”I do not care what the price of the [...]