Ritchie Bros have conducted a US$29 million unreserved public auction that was held on June 23 & 24 at the Company’s permanent auction site in Los Angeles, California.
The auction attracted more than 1,900 bidders from around the world including an on-site buyer from Russia who purchased more than US$840,000 of equipment. The US$29 million auction [...]

A rare, second-class passenger list from the doomed ocean liner the Titanic, produced by White Star Line and with the words “Titanic, First Sailing, April 12, 1912” handwritten on the cover, sold for $33,900 at a three-day multi-estate sale conducted June 20-22 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The list was from the estate of Ken Schultz, [...]

A Hong Kong fund manager has paid $2.1million to win an annual charity auction for a meal with Warren Buffett, breaking the previous record by a factor of three.
Zhao Danyang, who runs a Hong Kong fund called Pureheart China Growth, emerged the winning bidder after much last-minute bidding on eBay. He can take up to [...]

Purple Wave, the “click and mortar” auction company, announced that the company has recently expanded its operation to cover six U.S. states, including locations in Sierra, NV; Dallas, TX; Kansas City, Wichita and Hays, KS; Thomas, OK; and Pueblo West, CO. These new locations are in addition to Purple Wave’s headquarters in Manhattan, KS.
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ORRICK, Mo – When Donald Potter first bought the Mudhole Duck Club, it was already established as one of Missouri’s top waterfowl hunting grounds. But its productivity took a major leap after Potter installed wells and valves that enabled him to flood areas at will for the best possible hunting.
Now, Potter is preparing to sell [...]

A star-studded line up of Entertainment Memorabilia including Animation Art was offered and sold at a Bonhams & Butterfields auction on June 16th in Los Angeles.
The top lot of the sale was an original painting of album art for Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 album After Bathing at Baxter’s. The work was created by artist Ron Cobb, [...]

Tickets are now available for the first annual Marin Wine Auction, which will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008 at the Marin Art and Garden Center in Ross, Marin County. The inaugural event will be hosted by the Keiretsu Forum Charitable Foundation San Francisco/North Bay.
The Marin Wine Auction will feature more than twenty Marin [...]

Tickets go on sale June 13 for the 2008 Auction of Washington Wines, the must attend Washington wine weekend of the summer! This year the Auction celebrates the Coming of Age of Washington wines, August 14-16.
Washington’s wine industry has advanced remarkably in size and stature since the Auction’s inception over 20 years ago. The event [...]

The 62nd Annual Back Mountain Memorial Library Antiques Auction will be held July 10 to 13 on the library grounds in Dallas, Pennsylvania. More than a dozen specialty food vendors will be there, adding to the nightly excitement. This year, in addition to Family Night on Thursday, WNEP-TV News Anchor Mike Lewis will be performing [...]

From June 20–30 artnet Online Auctions will feature a special sale of Photographic Portraits celebrating icons of film, entertainment and popular culture from the 1930s–1960s.
Leading the sale is a selection of photographs of film stars including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Marilyn Monroe.
Among the highlights is a luminous photograph of Audrey [...]

A limited edition 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 that is retro in appearance to Dodge’s pony car of the early 1970s will be auctioned next month at Wells Dodge Chrysler in Avon Park.
The Hemi Orange Challenger on display in the Wells showroom is just one of only 6,400 vehicles manufactured in the world. It is the [...]

The New River Marina on State Road 84 on the Marina Mile in Fort Lauderdale will be sold to the highest bidder on July 17.
“To be here this long and to work this hard and to have this happen to us is very sad,” said Mary Wickman, who owns the marina with ex-husband, Bob Wickman.
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The John Deere Collectors Center will hold its 9th annual tractor and memorabilia auctions at the John Deere Collectors Center in Moline, Ill., June 26-28, 2008.
Like previous years, the auctions will focus on memorabilia on Friday and tractors and implements on Saturday. Friday’s memorabilia auction starts at 11 a.m. and will be held at the [...]

Aesoph Real Estate & Auction welcomes you to the largest antique and collectable auction in the Midwest in Watertown, SD, Sept. 6th & 7th, 3 rings both days offering many mantel clocks, dozens of clock advertising items, a well restored Sky-Chief gas pump, gas globes, roll top desks, art work by Redlin and others. Buffalo [...]

On Monday June 30, Clarke’s final auction of the spring season will again offer 400+ lots, with fine art and antiques drawn from a single owner Westchester estate and additions from homes in Rowayton, Central Park West and Roslyn Long Island.
Highlights also include a pair of massive patinated Foo lions; carved antique marble and limestone [...]