Articles tagged with: Auctions
Tom Devenish’s Favorite’s Up For Auction
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 5 April 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 5 April 2008
Tom Devenish is an established name in the English furniture industry based in New York. He died in 2002 and had left ample 18th-century antiques (typically furniture and mirror) in his packed, cigar-smoke-occupied shop at 929 Madison Avenue. He was little interested in selling any ...
Thundering Tornado: Tintin Comic Art Sells for $1.2 mn
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Paintings on 30 March 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Paintings on 30 March 2008
A 1932 oil painting, finished for the iconic cover of Tintin in America hammered the earlier world record for an unique comic book work. This was designed in March 2007 when a drawing by artist Enki Bilal called Bleu Sang (Blue Blood) generated €177,000. Touted ...
Charles Dickens’s Works To Fetch $2 mn
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 30 March 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 30 March 2008
Rare collection of work by Charles Dickens will reach the Christie's auction block in New York on 2 April and is expected to fetch $2 million. This includes an alliance copy of “Oliver Twist,†which is emblazoned by Dickens to a fellow author and is anticipated ...
Ming-Dynasty Gold Vessel May Fetch $7.7 million at Sotheby’s
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 28 March 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions on 28 March 2008
Melted down is not a painting but an antique bowl that have reached the auction block. This gold Ming Dynasty bowl is anticipated to sell off for $30,000, which is almost two-fold of its estimated price around four years ago. Sotheby’s disclosed that at a ...
Maltese Falcon Yacht Demands €115,000,000
Posted in Auctions, Luxury, Yacht on 28 March 2008
Posted in Auctions, Luxury, Yacht on 28 March 2008
Yacht lovers kindly lend all your ears here. There is something big that has entered the market and your ignorance about it is something I cannot bear. Don’t doubt by labeling me as a PR for the Perini Navi USA, sailing charter company that has ...
Maxim Viktorov Inks $3.54 million Deal For Guarneri Violin: Sotheby’s
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Music on 24 March 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, Music on 24 March 2008
Sotheby's lately sold a Guarneri violin once a lavish possession by the musician Henri Vieuxtemps to a Russian entrepreneur for the maximum auction price ever paid for any musical instrument. Word is around that Maxim Viktorov paid an unrevealed sum, "well in excess" of pre-recorded last ...
First Edition Copy of JRR Tolkien’s Hobbit Auctioned for £60,000
Posted in Antique, Auctions, News on 19 March 2008
Posted in Antique, Auctions, News on 19 March 2008
A first edition copy of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit lately got sold for £60,000 at an auction to an unidentified bidder. This 1937-edition signed copy is a part of the original first run of 1,500 copies. It fetched almost two-times of the expected price at Bonham's ...
Buddha Sculpture Sells for $14.3 million at Christie’s
Posted in Antique, Art, Auctions, News, Statue on 19 March 2008
Posted in Antique, Art, Auctions, News, Statue on 19 March 2008
Featured above is a lately exposed wooden sculpture of Dainichi Nyorai or Buddha carrying religious objects sealed in its torso for almost 800 years. It got sold for $14.3 million (€9.07 million) during Christie’s auction, thereby breaking the earlier record set by a Rakuchu Rakugai ...
iDiamond iPod Shuffle: Apple Unveils World’s Most Expensive iPod
Posted in Auctions, Diamond, Electronic Products, Gadgets, Luxury, ipod on 18 March 2008
Posted in Auctions, Diamond, Electronic Products, Gadgets, Luxury, ipod on 18 March 2008
Picture this: You enter into an electronic shop with a mood to pick 1GB iPod for $50-60. But you can’t end up buying the in bearing a price tag of $250-300. Mind you it is still reasonable. Those who have spare money to burn can ...
Man Auctions His Life in Australia
Posted in Auctions, News on 18 March 2008
Posted in Auctions, News on 18 March 2008
News is a man based in Australia has made up to headlines by auctioning his life (house, job, clothes and friends) on eBay, after his marriage broke up. Now he wishes to start a new life. Ian Usher, 44 is tired of old-sick life and wants to explore where life ...
