For the first time in its 44-year history, the world-famous Hollywood Wax Museum is offering hand-sculpted wax figures and original costumes for auction. Over 200 figures, including top stars, musicians, athletes, and historical individuals that have been seen by millions of visitors in Hollywood, CA and Branson, MO from the 1970s to present will be [...]

Bonhams & Butterfields will hold its spring auction of Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art on May 4, 2009 in Los Angeles. The 170-lot sale, simulcast to the firm’s San Francisco gallery, should attract strong collector interest for its high quality and reasonably priced works by well-known artists. Highlights from the well rounded selection will [...]

Sotheby’s annual sale of American Indian Art, including Property from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal in New York will take place on May 20, 2009. The sale will feature several distinguished private collections, among them: The Estate of Herbert Wellington; Property from the Collection of Morton and Estelle Sosland, sold to benefit the [...]

VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct a large auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other agencies that are participating include: U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service and Secret Service. Proceeds from the auction are returned to [...]

Central Mass Auctions Inc. (www.centralmassauctions.com) will be offering a collection of 19th and early 20th Century posters and prints in their Thursday April 30th Auction.
Many prints and posters are promotional pieces for Harper’s and other periodicals. They cover a wide range of interests including golf, articles by famous authors and are illustrations by Penfield [...]

Treasures from the personal collection of the late entertainment icon and entrepreneur Merv Griffin will be sold at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, California on Sunday afternoon, May 3, 2009. Clars will hold a Public Preview on Friday, May 1st 1PM to 6PM and Saturday, May 2nd and Sunday, May 3rd beginning at 9am. Authorized [...]

International collector attention was focused on the April 21st sale of European Paintings presented at the New York galleries of international auctioneers Bonhams. Offering over 200 lots, the well rounded sale – which included Old Masters and 19th Century works by artists from the French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Italian and British Schools – lured an [...]

Marquis de Montesquiou, the celebrated Armagnac house, announces the auction of a rare 1865 vintage Armagnac. As a preview of the celebrations marking the 700th anniversary of Armagnac in 2010, collectors will have the opportunity to own a piece of history at an April 25 auction at Christie’s in New York.
Since 1865, this Armagnac has [...]

Over 400 lots will be included in this auction. Some of the items include surgical tools, mess items, knives, dug artifacts, personal effects of soldiers, artillery shells, cannon balls, flasks, bullets, musical instruments, civil war tokens, letters, documents, confederate money, bonds, photographs, Nazi silver, WWII memorabilia, weapons, publications, and more.
The auction will take place live [...]

Rowell Auctions Inc., has announced a 38-home auction in Georgia available now through May 5, 2009.
The highly anticipated foreclosure auction has many sought-after properties ranging from new homes to townhouses to subdivisions. The lots are spread throughout the state of Georgia and come in variety of sizes and prices, ensuring that everyone looking for a [...]

Christie’s has announced details of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 6, 2009. Comprised of 50 works from the great masters of the era, the sale presents a unique opportunity to collect rare and important works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Tamara de Lempicka, Henry [...]

American and European prints come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields on 11 May 2009 featuring a remarkable collection of Albrecht Dürer woodcuts from the early 16th century. The sale, to be simulcast to the auctioneer’s San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, will include a broad selection of lithographs, etchings and aquatints coming to auction [...]

House Auction Company [www.HouseAuctionCompany.com] announces the upcoming auction on Friday, April 24, 2009, at 10 a.m. of three Pender County farms located just outside of Burgaw.
Identified as a retirement auction by Walter House, President of House Auction Company, Inc., the sale of these strategically located land tracts will complete the farming operations of the [...]

Mecum Auction, the high-performance collector car auction specialists, will offer up for sale 28 historically significant Ford and Chrysler race and muscle cars from the Ellis Collection during Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic Auction, May 13-17, 2009, in Indianapolis, Ind.
The selected cars in the Ellis Collection – focusing on lightweight construction and high horsepower – [...]

Bonhams New York is to present for sale European furniture, decorative arts, silver and paintings from the collection of Severin Wunderman. The driving force behind Gucci’s watch legacy, Wunderman was known as much for his keen business acumen as he was for his many social and cultural philanthropic contributions.
The Wednesday afternoon auction will feature a [...]