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 – [...]

The Green Valley car auctions features a great selection of luxury or economic cars, at incredible prices. Monthly, more than thousand cars become government property through foreclosure laws. Because there are so many cars in this situation, their storage costs are huge; the conclusion is that the cars must be sold really cheap and fast.
Everybody [...]

Over the last couple of years, public car auctions, which were usually thought to be closed to general public, has become more open to the public at large. There are hundreds of public car auctions that are now available to the general public. As a matter of fact, if you know where to go and [...]

PARIS HILTON’s mother KATHY is selling off items belonging to stars like MEL GIBSON and TOM CRUISE in an effort to raise money for a children’s charity.
Kathy Hilton has persuaded celebrities to donate their unwanted wares to an online auction benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which helps to grant terminally ill kids their biggest wish.
Among the [...]

A Wall Street executive in New York fulfilled a childhood dream, buying a rare stamp known as the “Inverted Jenny” for $825,000.
Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas said it obtained the stamp from Sonny Hagendorf of Scarsdale, N.Y., for $750,000, then sold it to the businessman, whose name was not released.
The 24-cent U.S. airmail stamp is [...]

New York-based RCS Real Estate Advisors sold 25 Marsh Supermarkets-owned properties in the Indianapolis area for about $12 million at a recent auction. The proceeds will be used to remodel and improve Marsh’s existing stores.

The record-breaking, fourth biennial QuiksilverEdition Hawaiian Islands Vintage Surf Auction that saw more than $650,000 of prime vintage surf collectibles change hands this summer will air on FUEL TV starting tomorrow, December 27, 2007. The show will play Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 8:00pm Eastern Time (5:00pm Pacific Time), and re-air several more times over [...]

RM Auctions, will celebrate its 10th annual Automobiles of Amelia Island auction event with the sale of some of the world’s most significant and valuable automobiles, including two historic motor cars custom-built for Edsel Ford, once President of the Ford Motor Company.
To be held at the elegant Ritz-Carlton Hotel on March 8, 2008, the annual [...]

In a unique campaign funding move, supporters of Mitt Romney can now donate used toasters and other unwanted merchandise to his campaign. While they cannot send these things to any of his state campaign headquarters for a tax-deductible donation, they can sell them through an internet auction established by the Romney camp, from which the [...]