The painting, “Extra Good Boys and Girls,” is the original of a Saturday Evening Post cover from 1939.
It shows Santa going over his book of good boys and girls and planning his Christmas Eve route. A world map is in the background.
Both the seller and the buyer were anonymous. The buyer was an American who [...]

A one-of-a-kind piece of baseballhistory could set a new standard for values of the sport’s most historicdocuments on Dec. 8, when the rookie-year baseball contract of Hall of FamerChristy Mathewson is sold by Memory Lane Inc., of Tustin, Calif. The companyis considered one of the premier sports collectible auctions houses in thecountry.

Mathewson is considered one [...]

PropertyRoom.com, the largest site for online police auctions, announced today the launch of a new program for cars, trucks, boats and other large capital assets. The program rounds out PropertyRoom.com?s law enforcement auction services, which traditionally focused on smaller items such as jewelry, watches, laptops, tools and bicycles.
The new program includes Silver, Gold and Platinum [...]

James D. Julia Auctioneers conducted an $11.2 million firearms auction October 8–10, the highest grossing firearms auction ever. The sale offered 1,349 lots, with an average sale value per lot of $8,328, also an industry record.
 
For  more information  www.juliaauctions.com  or  call207-453-7125. 

Automobile Dealers across America received an early Christmas Holiday gift from FenderSplendor–the distributor of the FS 488 Paint Meter. Car Dealers and Auto Auctions started “seeing the light” 7 weeks ago when FenderSplendor, Inc released the new 2008 FS 488 with an Ice Blue Illuminated Display. Now…just in time for the Holidays. FenderSplendor is giving [...]

The Sheboygan County Forage Council will sponsor another marketing season of Quality Tested Hay Auctions. The first of five auctions will be held December 13 at Chissy’s Restaurant in Waldo. The remaining four auctions will be held the second Thursday of each month through April 2008.Quality Tested Hay Auctions encourage and promote the sale of [...]

The state treasurer’s office plans to launch an online unclaimed property auction at noon Wednesday using the online auction site eBay. The office plans to offer 110 lots for sale, including 25 diamond sets and 26 lots of collectible coins. Starting bids are as low as 99 cents.“EBay is a great place to look for holiday [...]

The first auction is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 11 — if U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Nugent approves the request from lawyers representing former park owner Thomas Etheredge. Included will be skee balls, ring toss games and park prizes, approximately 2,000 to 3,000 pieces.
Bud Palmer will handle each auction. Others, scheduled for [...]

Sales of Fine Jewelry will continue at Bonhams New York on December 17, 2007. The winter auction is comprised of nearly 200-lots and highlighted by an extremely desirable French diamond and platinum rivière necklace which features 41 diamonds of varying weights.
According to Virginia Salem, Director New York Jewelry, “The fine jewelry market is extremely [...]

Illinois started its first-ever online auction for unclaimed jewelry on Sunday, which will run until Dec. 2. The items up for auction can be seen on the treasurer’s web site, www.treasurer.il.gov. Click on the eBay logo on the left side of the main page. The jewelry comes from safe deposit boxes that were abandoned at financial [...]

Riddle’s Auctioneers has launched a new service for delinquent borrowers, Auction Before Foreclosure (”ABF”). Riddle’s can assist delinquent borrowers and their secured lenders avoid foreclosure by providing customized pre-foreclosure services.
A customized win-win solution for everyone. Borrowers can avoid loss of equity and credit worthiness. Lenders can reduce financial loss and keep foreclosed properties off their [...]

 Bank of America Corp. is selling two Wyeth paintings to help raise more than $1 million for three New York City nonprofit groups, including a parks restoration project founded by Bette Midler.
The second-largest U.S. bank will auction four paintings from its huge art collection on Nov. 28 at Sotheby’s, with the proceeds going to the [...]

The state hoped to fetch nearly $9 million for the Snohomish and its sister ship, the Chinook, on the Internet auction site eBay. It would have been the second time the state sold a ferry on eBay. In 2003 a Florida boat broker bought the ferry Tyee for $560,000The sale was halted after the ferry [...]

Bloomsbury’s inaugural Vintage and Modern Poster sale on 13th December 2007 will be eclectic and encompass all genres and styles. The Art nouveau and Art Deco movements will be the mainstay with Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, Cheret, Kurzweil as well as Cassandre, Carlu, Bernard and Colin being represented.
The sale contains approximately 250 lots and has a [...]

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