Archive for April, 2008

Spring Vintage Toy & Collectible Auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Will begin on (or about) May 1st,
Ending:
May 16 for Character / Classic Toys (678 lots)
May 17 for Toy Vehicles (571 lots)
The catalog used by bidders without internet access will be mailed the first week in May,
with online registration and bidding beginning at the same time.
Serious Toyz™ is proud to present an in-depth preview of the [...]

City of Macon Auto Auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The city of Macon will sell off vehicles by public auction on May 10, along with an array of other surplus items.
Local auctioneer L.W. Benton Company Inc. will preside over the bidding.
Bo Benton, president of the company, said in a statement that his employees have run government auctions across the state. But this will be [...]

South Jersey Model Auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

On Saturday, May 3, The South Jersey Train, Slotcar, Toy Show and Auction will take place, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Auctions by Mesiano auction house, located in The Cranberry Plaza Shopping Center, 233 South Broadway (Route 49) in Pennsville, New Jersey (located only three miles from the Delaware Memorial Bridge, Route I-295, [...]

Zachys Spring Wine Auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Zachys Wine Auctions will hold the last New York auctions of the Spring on Wednesday, May 14th, Thursday, May 15th and Friday, May 16th. The weekend starts with An Evening Sale of Extraordinary Wines at 6:00PM on Wednesday, May 14th in the Private Room at DANIEL. This 198-lot session contains pristine high-end rarities selected especially [...]

Leonard Auction Outstanding Results

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Leonard Auction’s April 19, 2008 sale featuring Tramp Art was a rousing success as bidders had the opportunity to take home many important and unique items not often seen in the Midwest. The auction was well received attracting more than 120 live and phone bidders in addition to 350 internet bidders. “We were thrilled with [...]

Artek Pavilion by Shigeru Ban Auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Sotheby’swill offer the Artek Pavilion by internationally recognized architect Shigeru Ban in collaboration with UPM, one of the world’s leading forest products groups, as part of the June 14, 2008 sale of Important 20th Century Design. Made primarily from recycled materials, this prefabricated pavilion, which has been exhibited in Milan, Helsinki, and Miami, demonstrates [...]

American and European Paintings Auction May 16

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Skinner Auction has announced that its spring painting sale will be held on May 16th in Skinner’s Boston gallery. The auction of American and European Paintings will include more than 500 fine landscapes, portraits, marine-scapes and modern works.
Previews for the auction will be held from 12 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 14th, 12 to 7 [...]

Motorbikes owned by Steve McQueen, Evel Knievel, Private and Corporate Collections for Auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

May 3 2008 Half Moon Bay
An exceptional offering of celebrity motorbikes and rare models from private and corporate collections come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields’ second annual auction in concert with Legend of the Motorcycle, the eagerly-anticipated international concours d’elegance returning to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay, CA. The auction takes place [...]

Delaware state police seized property auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The public will have the chance to bid on seized property ranging from video game systems to a wine refrigerator at the annual Delaware State Police auction Saturday.
The auction, which is rain or shine, is at state police headquarters on U.S. 13 at the north end of Dover.
Bidding begins at 9 a.m. with property being [...]

Bloomsbury New York 20th Century Prints Auction

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Bloomsbury Auctions inaugural sale will showcase many iconic Pop images, including a pristine example of Roy Lichtenstein’s masterpiece graphic work Sweet Dreams Baby, a selection of images of John F. Kennedy from Warhol’s Flash series, a unique $ silkscreen, and a number of hand-colored lithographs from the 25 Cats Named Sam, and One Blue Pussy.
Modern [...]

Dinosaur Dung for Auction

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Bonhams will hold an auction of meteorites, fossilized dinosaur droppings and other natural history artifacts.
Bonhams New York said its new Madison Avenue galleries will play host to Wednesday’s auction, which includes the Fukang Meteorite, which fell on China in 2000 and is expected to fetch up to $2.75 million; a 30,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk, expected [...]

Mikhai Gorbachev portrait makes $144,000 at Gene Shapiro New York Auction

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A portrait of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, painted in 1989 by the Russian artist Semyon Faibisovich (b. 1949) and originally intended as cover art for an issue of TIME magazine, soared to $144,000 at an auction of important Russian art and other works held April 17 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan.
The sale was [...]

Roanoke Firm to Conduct Sale of Radford University Real Estate Foundation Property

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Woltz & Associates, a Roanoke-based auction and real estate brokerage firm, will auction the 78-acre former Saint Albans Hospital property on May 16 at noon. The auction will take place on-site in the Conference Center overlooking the picturesque New River, which runs along 12 acres of the property.
Originally founded in 1892 as an elite boys’ [...]

Friday’s Kids Respite Holds Fundraising Auction to Help Children with Special Needs

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Friday’s Kids Respite (www.fridayskids.org), a local nonprofit organization, will be holding its first annual Lifting Angels Auction the week leading up to Mother’s Day. With more than 175 diverse items to auction, Friday’s Kids’ goal is to raise $15,000 to continue providing respite care to families of children with special needs. As the major fundraising [...]

Twin Cities boat auction

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Kujawa’s Crystal-Pierz Marine is holding its first public used-boat auction Sunday at the Minneapolis Auto Auction in Maple Grove.
Auction info www.publicboatauction.com