A public auction of Eclipse Aviation Corp. will be held Jan. 14 if there is more than one bid for the jet manufacturer.
The auction is part of a restructuring plan the maker of the six-seat Eclipse 500 proposed after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Nov. 25 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
An affiliate of [...]

Two letters from first-class passengers aboard the British ocean liner Titanic on White Star Lines stationery inscribed with “On board RMS Titanic” are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned on January 16 at Spink Smythe in New York.
“Letters from passengers aboard Titanic are extremely rare, and are among the most prized artifacts from [...]

Daniel P. McLaughlin & Co. Auctioneers, of Boston, will conduct a foreclosure auction on the 125,000-square-foot mill building located at 15 Cottage St. property at 11 am. on Jan. 6 at the premises. The building formerly housed Easthampton Dye Works, a factory that made colored thread.

The 120-acre property, which includes a nine-hole golf course, tennis courts, pools and a new clubhouse has a reserve of $2.9 million. It is being sold off by Susquehanna Banks, which foreclosed on the property.
The auction is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 9 at the Adams County Sheriff’s office.
Gettysburg Country Club is located [...]

Bonhams’ highly anticipated inaugural New York sale of American Furniture and Decorative Arts will be presented in January 2009. The more than 200 lots feature a full spectrum of 18th and 19th century furniture, folk art, silver and ceramics, and include collectibles from Phyfe to Herter Brothers.
Taking place on January 22nd, the American Furniture and [...]

Over 500 lots in an array of categories – beautiful antique furniture, fine porcelains, original artwork, antique lighting, handmade rugs, china, collectibles and more – will cross the block.
“We are pleased to start off the new year with such an incredible antique auction,” said Dwight Stevens of Stevens Auction Company. “It isn’t the easiest thing [...]

Mastro Auctions recently announced the results of the company’s second successful live sports auction of 2008. The event, held on December 8, 2008 at The Sports Museum of America in New York City, featured two sessions, “Legends of the Diamond” which offered over 80 premium lots of high-end baseball memorabilia and “Legends of the Gridiron” [...]

Sotheby’s 2009 auction season in New York will begin with the two-day sale of Important Americana. Leading the Folk Art offerings is A Rare and Important Molded Copper Fireman “Old Jake” Weathervane Made for the Union Fire Hall, now Charley Rouss Fire Company, Winchester, Virginia, American, circa 1850 (est. $3/5 million). “Old Jake,” as the [...]

Tim DeChristopher, 27, a University of Utah economics student and environmental activist, brought 22,500 acres of land between Arches and Canyonlands national parks that he doesn’t plan to develop or even pay for, after being asked if he wanted to bid at a U.S. Bureau of Land Management auction for oil and gas parcels.
According to [...]

About 270 original prints — many of them signed and/or numbered, by major 20th-century masters like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro and others — will be sold at auction on Saturday, Feb. 7, by Baterbys Art Auction Gallery. The sale will be conducted live (and online), in the beautiful Pointe Orlando complex, [...]

Five rare Yenko muscle cars from a celebrated collection will be sold at No Reserve during the 38th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., Jan. 11-18, 2009. For the first time, four Yenko Camaros and a Yenko Nova from the Gary Holub Collection (Lot #’s 1276-1278) will be offered to the public. Hailed [...]

On February 17th, John Moran Auctioneers will launch their 2009 art auction season with the sale of over 150 strong and carefully curated works that will captivate collectors worldwide. Three times each year in February, June and October, John Moran Auctioneers hosts the sale of works by California Impressionists, California style watercolorists, historical western artists [...]

The Constantiner Collection achieved the highest total for a single owner dedicated photographs sale at Christie’s, selling for a total $7,721,875.
Assembled by Leon and Michaela Constantiner, this spectacular collection focused on photography as a key shaping force within the media worlds that have, for over half a century, celebrated fashion, style, celebrity and desire, [...]

The overall total of lastweek’s 20th Century Decorative Art and Design auctions at Christie’s was $9,104,625. This result reflects the totals from the sales 20th Century Design from the Collection of George and Frayda Lindemann, Important Works of Art by Tiffany Studios, and Important 20th Century Decorative Art and Design.
The single-owner sale of 20th Century [...]

United Country Auction Services, a division of United Country Real Estate, Inc. (United Country), and Colliers International (Colliers) announced today a strategic alliance to provide accelerated commercial real estate transaction services to their respective commercial real estate clients.
“It’s likely that a large number of commercial assets nationwide will need to be sold in the next [...]