Articles tagged with: Auctions
Sean Connery’s ‘61 Bentley Reaches Bonhams’ Auction House
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile, Car on 19 June 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Automobile, Car on 19 June 2008
A striking 1961 Bentley S2 once belonging to actor Sean Connery would reach the Bonhams' auction house in England coming Saturday. The coupe is up for auction as a part of a Bonhams' Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Select Pre-War Motor Cars and Automobilia Sale during the ...
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 ...
World’s Most Expensive Watermelon Fetches $6,100 in Japan
Posted in Auctions, Expensive Food, News, Worlds Most Expensive on 7 June 2008
Posted in Auctions, Expensive Food, News, Worlds Most Expensive on 7 June 2008
Weighing 8-kilogram, the royal "Densuke" watermelon, full-grown at the northern island of Hokkaido lately got auctioned for 650,000 yen ($6,100) in Japan, making it the world’s most expensive watermelon ever sold. A nautical products dealer inked a neat deal with this black outsized watermelon, as an ...
£1,000 Trailer May Fetch £500,000; Courtesy Banksy Street Graffiti Artist
Posted in Art, Auctions on 6 June 2008
Posted in Art, Auctions on 6 June 2008
Little was the strange street artist Banksy aware that £1,000 graffiti on a Trailer has a potential to generate him £500,000 ($977,865). The pattern on the side of a lorry promo that twofolds as a family home for the present proprietor is expected to be sold at ...
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 ...
