Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be on Monday, January 16, 2006 and it looks like the usual attempts to cash in are being made, as evidenced by the following two news stories: King family Bible will be auctioned By MAE GENTRY Cox News Service Friday, January 13, 2006...
007’s Aston Martin on auction block Fri, 13 Jan 2006 CBC Arts “The Aston Martin car from the James Bond movies Thunderball and Goldfinger is up for auction, fully equipped with machine guns and tire slashers. RM Auctions of Chatham, Ont, a leading...
Factory-certified 1958 Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta ‘Tour de France’ Forbes.com Jonathan Fairbanks, Artfact.com Dec. 17, 2005 “NEW YORK – Ferrari’s mystique, a top-of-the-line ground-up restoration, and a well-documented past accelerated this...
The art market is booming, even in China: Art collection becomes new investment spotlight in China People’s Daily Online January 11, 2006 “From antiques to paintings, art collections are garnering huge profits for their possessors as the auction industry...
John Farkas at Antiques and Estate Auctioneers and Appraisers is holding another auction February 11th and 12th, 2006. Some of the highlights include: Toys: Ohio Art Pinocchio Tea Set, Revere Children’s Cookware, Older Tin Toys including Marx Gas Station, Unique Art...
Notable Noguchi Forbes.com Jonathan Fairbanks Artfact.com “A major new record for American-made modern furniture was set in Chicago on Dec. 4 when Wright auctioned a rare and important table by Isamu Noguchi for a staggering $630,000.” Read the Full Story...
Scoop also reports the following important upcoming comic books auction from Heritage Comics: Top Ten Comics in Heritage January Auction Auctions/Prices, Scoop Friday, December 30, 2005 “The Top Ten Most Valuable Comic Books, as designated in current, 35th...
Diamond Galleries’ Scoop has an extensive roundup of collectible auctions that happened in 2005, and poses the question on whether collecting (in a broad sense) broke a billion dollars in sale this past year: Collecting: Billion-Dollar Industry? Industry News,...
Here’s another unique item up on eBay at the moment – own your own dinosaur. I had to edit the all cap description, but you’ll get the idea: “Extremely rare, museum quality. Very high value. True T- Rex juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex partial skull...
Searching cyberspace for history www.fcw.com BY Aliya Sternstein Published on Dec. 26, 2005 “Historians and the National Archives and Records Administration are collaborating to monitor auction house Web sites to find missing and stolen government records. Since...