Articles tagged with: auction
Bonhams’ $2 Million Motorcycle Auction
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile on 27 June 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile on 27 June 2008
On 29 June, Bonhams would be auctioning off its astonishing compilation of classic bikes valued around $2 million at the Royal Air Force Museum in London. The collection details the largest single-owner collection of motorbikes ever reached the auction block, all 300 machines coming from the ...
Elite Find of the Day: Harley Davidson Motorcycle Jacket May Fetch $2,000
Posted in Apparels, Auctions, Designer, Diamond, Elite Find of the Day on 20 June 2008
Posted in Apparels, Auctions, Designer, Diamond, Elite Find of the Day on 20 June 2008
Another auction for charity! News is Tony Soprano's boxers; black leather jacket, tan bathrobe and velour tracksuit falling amongst the old-fashioned mobster's clothes are set to be auction at Christie’s International on 25 June in New York. James Gandolfini, who enacted the lethal yet ...
Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Collectibles Reaches Christie’s!
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Designer, Fashion on 17 June 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Designer, Fashion on 17 June 2008
Whist 1 June 2008 marked a gloomy day for the fashion industry and proved to be a weighted loss for fashionistas as French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent’s passed away. A month after, the fashion house planned an auction at Christie’s on 2 July. The ...
Thomas Chippendale’s Furniture Up For Auction
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Designer, Furniture on 14 June 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Designer, Furniture on 14 June 2008
Those who are interested in rarely found furniture made by Thomas Chippendale and designed by Robert Adam shall eye Christie's upcoming auction in London. The head of London-based Christie’s head of the International Furniture Department Robert Copley shares: The 18 June auction will exhibit 12 masterpieces ...
Christina Onassis’s Jewels To Fetch £8 million at Christie’s
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Jewelry, Necklace, Ring on 9 June 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Jewelry, Necklace, Ring on 9 June 2008
Athina Onassis, the heiress once hailed as 'the richest little girl in the world', is on a move to auction off her millions of pounds of jewelry that she inherited from her mother Christina. The fortune worth is amounted at £1 billion but her call for auction ...
Elite Find of the Day: Bonhams to Auction Elton John Piano
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Elite Find of the Day, Music on 7 June 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Elite Find of the Day, Music on 7 June 2008
Pictured above is an 8ft 11in Model D grand piano that belongs to Sir Elton John (circa 1971) and comes in a burr maple wood finish with virtual cross banding on square tightening legs jointly with toning concert adaptable stool. After its completion in Hamburg ...
Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ Desk Fetches $850K
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Gold on 5 June 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Gold on 5 June 2008
Old is Gold! The substance of the statement is well identified via all antiques that undergo auction. Lately, this has been proved by a 19th century chair and desk on which Charles Dickens wrote "Great Expectations." Against the pre-estimate amount of auction i.e. between 50,000-80,000 ...
Gundam Painting Fetches $600,000
Posted in Auctions, Paintings on 4 June 2008
Posted in Auctions, Paintings on 4 June 2008
We have covered various paintings, antiques, statues at international auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s. And lately here comes a mandatory update to my list of paintings sold at Christie’s. A Gundam painting by Japanese artist Tenmyouya Hisashi lately fetched $600,000 (HK$4.8 million) at Hong Kong based ...
Steve McQueen’s Driven Porsche Up for Auction
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile, Car on 29 May 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile, Car on 29 May 2008
You hunt for something sporty may end here if you have enough dough to spill over or rather invest. The opportunity is to ink a neat deal with the Porsche driven by Steve McQueen in the Hollywood flick Le Mans. It would be up for auction at ...
John Webber ‘Indiana Jones’ Gold Cup Would Bring Home Fortune!
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 29 May 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 29 May 2008
Measuring 51/2in high, this gold cup features two alike female faces facing opposite directions with their foreheads decked up with a snake motif. During his childhood, John Webber used to feel scared on the very glimpse of this cup. In early 40’s, John inherited the cup ...
