Wild West World’s computer and telephone equipment have been scheduled for auction Jan. 22, according to a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Southern Kansas Telephone Co. has previously objected to the sale of $335,000 in telephone equipment it sold the park, claiming it is networked with the park’s point of sale computers.

Sterling Glen of Stamford recently hosted its third annual Festival of Trees event, which included a gala cocktail party and silent auction of a variety of beautifully decorated holiday trees. Approximately 80 people attended the gala event, and more than $3,000 was raised on behalf of the New Covenant House of Hospitality, Stamford’s only soup […]

A rare daguerreotype of abolitionist John Brown was bought by an unidentified bidder for $97,750 earlier this month, an auctioneer said.
The telephone bidder, declined to be identified, auctioneer Wes Cowan said. Cowan, an appraiser on the PBS show “Antiques Roadshow” and host of the public television series “History Detectives,” had estimated a sale price […]

A U.S. district court ordered a German baroness to turn a painting over to the estate of a Holocaust survivor.
U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi said in her ruling that Max Stern did not voluntarily sell the painting “Girl from the Sabiner Mountains,” by 19th-century artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, in 1937.
Rather, Stern was forced by the […]

Christie’s auction house is being sued after a fan claims he was sold a dud Star Trek item which the actor who played android Data, Brent Spiner, later said was not the real item.
Ted Moustakis from New Jersey paid $6000 for a poker visor at a Christie’s auction, which Data the android, was meant to […]

In 2007 Bonham’s Books & Manuscripts sales, a first edition, presentation copy of John Steinbeck’s 1939 masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath brought $47,800, setting a new at-auction world record.
In October, Sir Isaac Newton’s Optikcks; or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light set a luminous world auction record at $90,000.
The department’s […]

Competitive bidding on December 10 night pushed the price for a 1914 oil on canvas painted by E. Charlton Fortune to a record high for the artist. The Winter sale of California and American Paintings & Sculpture established a new world auction record for Fortune when the artist’s Late Afternoon, Monterey sold for $1,832,000 – […]