ROYALTON (AP).- For $275, you can bid to adopt a purebred ram from Fat Rooster Farm and help its owners for a day during lambing season. For $1,375, you can bid on helping create habitat for the chestnut-sided warbler and spend a day birdwatching with …
Works by Three Major Northern Lights to Star in Bonhams Auction
LONDON.- Works by three major Northern artists are heading south to London to feature in Bonhams 19th Century Paintings auction on 29th September 2010. John Martin (1789-1854) was born in Haydon Bridge and went on to become one of the most popular arti…
Bertoia Auctions to Sell Toys from K-B Toys Co-Founder Collection
VINELAND, NJ.- If there were a World Cup for antique toys, the name engraved on the trophy quite likely would be that of K-B Toys co-founder and toy collector extraordinaire Donald Kaufman. The late Mr. Kaufman’s incomparable array of antique and …
Bertoia Auctions to Sell European Toy Vehicles from K-B Toys Co-Founder Collection
VINELAND, NJ.- If there were a World Cup for antique toys, the name engraved on the trophy quite likely would be that of K-B Toys co-founder and toy collector extraordinaire Donald Kaufman. The late Mr. Kaufman’s incomparable array of antique and …
Christie’s Announce Landmark Lowry Sale from the Collection of Selwyn Demmy
LONDON.- Christie’s announce the landmark sale of 21 works by the iconic British artist Laurence Stephen Lowry, R..A. (1887-1976) to be offered at auction on Thursday 11 November 2010 from the private collection of Selwyn Demmy (b. 1932), renowned…
Mechanical Banks Draw High Rate of Interest at RSL’s $1.8 Million Auction in Baltimore
TIMONIUM, MD.- Interest was keener than ever, and the bidding action was relentless in RSL Auction’s sale of antique toys and banks held May 22nd at Richard Opfer’s suburban Baltimore gallery. “We started at noon and finished at 20 till …
Elvis Presley’s White Knabe Grand Piano Expected to Bring $1,000,000+ at Auction
MEMPHIS, TN.- Elvis Presley’s beloved White Knabe Grand Piano, as featured in his music room at Graceland from 1957 to 1969, is expected to bring $1,000,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Elvis Memorabilia Auction, Aug. 14, …
Winston Churchill’s Choppers Sold at Auction in England
LONDON (AP).- A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill — described as the teeth that saved the world — sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.) The upper dentures, one of several sets specially ma…
Dora Carrington Drawing Scooped for Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum
LONDON.- Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum has acquired an important topographical drawing by celebrated artist Dora Carrington (1893 – 1932), who attended Bedford High School as a child. Bedford Market (1911) was acquired at auction for …
For Sale: Jewels Britain’s King Edward VIII Showered on U.S. Lover
LONDON (REUTERS).- Jewels bought by Britain’s King Edward VIII for his American wife Wallis Simpson are expected to fetch up to 3 million pounds ($4.55 million) at auction in November, Sotheby’s said on Thursday. The king, who renounced his claim to th…