With more than 320 paintings and sculptures included in the two day auction, Christie’s will stage its largest yet sale of Latin American Art on May 28-29 in New York.
Expected to realize in excess of $30 million. the sale is particularly strong covering Mexican and Cuban schools, and major artists including, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, [...]

United Country will be conducting multi-property auctions in the following cities, and the company is currently accepting properties to be included in these auction line-ups. For more information on selling property at one of these live auction events, visit http://www.ucauctionservices.com/multi-property-auction.
• New York, NY – June 8
• Dallas, TX – June 14
• Atlanta, GA – June 21
• Orange County, CA [...]

Henscratch Farms Vineyard & Winery in Lake Placid, Fla., will be sold at auction at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 31.
Parcel 1 is a 10 +/- acre tract zoned for agriculture that includes the gift shop, ice cream shop, mobile home, vineyard, blueberry bushes and more. This parcel also will include the inventory of the [...]

The auction will be held by by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery on Saturday, June 14, starting at 10 a.m,in Pittsfield, Mass.
The sale will feature early E. Howard examples, to include #1, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #9, #10 and #11; as well as a spectacular #61 Astronomical Floor Regulator with mercury pendulum; and a #70 clock [...]

A life preserver from the Titanic is up for auction on June 25 at Christie’s in Manhattan.
Christie’s auction house says it is the first one to be offered at auction in the United States and is expected to fetch $60,000 to $80,000.
The vest was found during the initial recovery effort following the April 14, 1912, [...]

Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio of New Hope, Pennsylvania, is hosting a fine art auction featuring a collection of American and European paintings and works on paper on Sunday, June 8, at 2 p.m. The setting for the auction will be the Eagle Fire Company located up the street from the gallery in New Hope [...]

Rock Island Auction Company’s first premiere sale of the year concluded on May 5th, putting some of the world’s finest firearms into the hands of many serious collectors from across the globe.
The two highest grossing lots of the auction were both extremely rare antique Colt firearms, a Colt Walker model 1847 ‘D Company’ revolver, which [...]

James Horak, operator of the Westminster Livestock Auction Market, faces four counts of violating state animal health regulations.
The Maryland Department of Agriculture charged the livestock auction operator in connection with alleged inhumane treatment of a downed cow at auction last month.
Agriculture officials began investigating the market after the Humane Society of the United States released [...]

The first of four paintings auctioned by Virginia’s Randolph College to raise money has sold for more than $7.2 million.
Rufino Tamayo’s “Troubadour” was bought Wednesday night by an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie’s Latin American art auction.
Christie’s spokeswoman Sung-Hee Park says the price is a record for the Mexican painter, who died in 1991.

The Gulf Coast Chinese American Association is asking local residents to open their hearts — and wallets — for victims of the May 12 earthquake that devastated the Sichuan province of southwestern China.
The association, along with the University of West Florida Florida-China Linkage Institute, is sponsoring a “China Earthquake Relief” art auction and charity sale [...]

Moultrie, Ga – This Georgia land auction offers a unique investment opportunity and is being offered divided and selling at high bidder’s choice. Myers Jackson, CAI, AARE, CES, e-PRO, a licensed Georgia real estate broker and real estate auctioneer, has been commissioned to conduct a Georgia real estate auction, including equipment, for 18.91 +/- acres [...]

The highest bidder for a 32-acre parcel that’s key to the success of the now-shuttered Powder Ridge Ski Area in Middlefield has until Monday to prove he has the finances to close on a deal to buy the property.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Lorraine Murphy Weil directed attorney Ronald I. Chorches, the court-appointed trustee for the [...]

Oregon State wildlife programs will receive more than a half-million dollars from the proceeds of this year’s auction and raffle tag sales.
Big-game hunting tags grossed $559,776, of which $335,992 will go to the Access and Habitat program and $189,384 to big-game research and management.
The 11 big-game auctions grossed $344,000, including $87,500 for a bighorn sheep [...]

The world’s most valuable private collection of South American postage stamps, assembled over four decades by a retired college professor who now lives on an island, will be offered in a public auction in New York City and online on June 5 and 6, 2008. One 1840’s item from Brazil is expected to sell for [...]

Heritage Auction Galleries’ latest Fine Jewelry and Timepieces Signature® auction, held on May 20, 2008 in Dallas, Texas, realized $1,413,272 for 667 lots offered, including $107,550 for a “James Bond” Submariner Rolex wristwatch that the consignor initially valued at $500 – $1,000.
Highlights of the auction included:
Natural Fancy Intense Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Platinum, Gold Ring:
REALIZED: $131,450
Rolex [...]