R.M. Smythe & Co. held 6 auctions in 2007 offering historical autographs, currency, coins, stocks, bonds, antiques and even two cannons. While compiling a list of the more interesting lots that sold in 2007, the one unifying factor that fits all of the items listed is that collectors were looking for quality merchandise. This relentless [...]

The Official Auction of the February 2008 Long Beach Coin Expo has been posted by Heritage Auction Galleries on their HA.com website. Combining the lots in the Signature, Husak, and Final Session catalogs of U.S. coins, more than 5,500 lots will be available for viewing and bidding in Long Beach. The Auction dates are February [...]

After three failed attempts to sell the former William Boyd Printing Co. plant in downtown Albany, N.Y., the owner wants to try a different tack: auctioning the buildings and land.
The company has asked U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert E. Littlefield Jr., to let Collar City Auctions Realty & Management conduct the auction, according to a [...]

By Kenny Phillips, Managing Partner
Powell Auction & Realty, Knoxville, Tenn
Ever been to a benefit auction? They’re different from a typical commercial auction, where the goal is to buy an item at the lowest possible price. At a benefit or charity auction, the bidder knows (or should know) going in that the idea is to support [...]

A block of eight licenses covering the 22MHz C block of spectrum in the FCC wireless auction received a high bid of $4.7 billion in the 17th round of the 700MHz auctions, completed on Thursday.
On this block the FCC will require open access rules, the winning bidder must allow outside devices such as mobile phones [...]

Proxibid, a premier provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that it will provide live online bidding for the seventh installment of the Jerry Darnell Estate Firearm Auction. The live auction, which is presented by Nye County Public Auction, will take place on Saturday, February 2 at 10:00 a.m. PST. Online bidding for this [...]

A wooden duck carved nearly a century ago in Burlington went for over $15,000 at an auction in New York.
Dick McIntyre of Seabrook, South Carolina, bought the oversized wooden mallard drake at Christie’s auction house on January 18th. He says it’s one of the best Iowa decoys he’s seen.

Fedders Corp. won bankruptcy court permission to put its commercial heating and cooling systems manufacturing unit on the auction block next week with a leading bid of $14.4 million in cash lined up.
Judge Brendan L. Shannon of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington on Monday approved Fedders’ request to sell its Addison unit. He also [...]

NASCAR elite are holding a live, silent auction on Feb. 13 to benefit animal welfare charities. It will be held at the Daytona 500 Club Tent at Daytona International Speedway at 6 p.m. and will feature an autograph sessions with NASCAR Sprint Cup series drivers Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series [...]

Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University on Wednesday said that some of its taxable auction-rate municipal bonds failed at auction, confirming what experts said was one of the first-ever such events.
Auction-rate debt is an instrument whose rates are reset periodically, and if an auction fails, the issuer must pay a higher penalty interest rate. An auction fails [...]

An 18th century gilt bronze egg given to Peter I will be among the antiques and art to cross the block online at Elder’s Fine Art & Antiques Auction February 18 – March 3.
For more info visit, www.eldersantiques.com
Elder’s Antiques 901 Tamiami Trail (US 41) South, Nokomis, Florida Telephone 941-488-1005

Auction previews start Feb. 4 at Gagosian’s 522 W. 21st St. outpost and run through Feb. 13, with the 72 lots set to sell on Feb. 14 at Sotheby’s in New York. Dominating the sale are seven works donated by Damien Hirst that are valued at up to $13.4 million.
More info at, http://www.sothebys.com/red

Art pottery dealers and collectors from around the world put off New Year’s celebrations long enough to take part in the two day sale hosted by J.K. Galleries of Boca Raton on December 30 and January 1. Auction owner Jay Kielstock said he had 300 bidders registered in house and 900 registered to bid by [...]

GREENWAY FARMS Near Bulle Rock
0.34 ACRE± PARCEL Believed to Be Improved by 8- TOWNHOUSE CONDOMINIUM UNITS
Sale On Premises 100 & 110 MOHEGAN DRIVE Havre de Grace Harford County, MD 21078
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2008
AT 2:00 P.M.
More Info at www.ajbillig.com
A. J. Billig & Co., 16 East Fayette Street Baltimore, MD 21202 Phone: (410) 752-8440 Fax: [...]

Ocean Tomo Auctions, LLC — the auctions arm of Ocean Tomo, LLC, the leading Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm – today announced the immediate availability of the Spring 2008 Live Intellectual Property Auction Catalogue. The Catalogue is available for online viewing at www.OceanTomoAuctions.com and provides essential information regarding the 63 individual lots, to be auctioned [...]