Most Expensive Art 2005 Connoisseur’s Guide Forbes.com Leah Hoffmann “Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s should have plenty to toast this holiday season. The two auction houses–which together control some 95% of worldwide fine-art auction...
Scoop reports on the recently held MastroNet auction which was held on December 7th to 9th, 2005: MastroNet Realizes $13.5 Million Auctions/Prices Scoop Friday, December 16, 2005 “Over 2,800 lots of Sports and Americana certainly got the attention they deserved....
Barrett-Jackson car auction boasts extra bidding day Bob Golfen The Arizona Republic Dec. 17, 2005 12:00 AM “Craig Jackson leaned casually on the fender of a gleaming orange Hemi ‘Cuda convertible, basically a 1970 Plymouth coupe with an enormous...
Athenaeum’s Audubon Book Fetches $5.6 Million At Auction Controversy Surrounded Sale Of ‘Birds Of America’ Masterwork NBC 10 NEWS POSTED: 8:11 am EST December 16, 2005 “NEW YORK — A copy of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of...
Decoy Prices Fly High At Guyette & Schmidt Antiques and the Arts Online “CAMBRIDGE, MD. – Guyette and Schmidt, Inc, conducted its annual fall decoy auction in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival on November 9-10. …The auction grossed...
Movie Posters Bring $425,000 at Bonhams Auctions/Prices Scoop, Friday, December 09, 2005 “Collectors, connoisseurs and movie-buffs alike packed the Sunset Boulevard galleries of Bonhams & Butterfields on December 5, 2005 to take part in the auction of...
$2.2 Million Toy Sale At Bertoia Auctions Antiques and the Arts Online Story And Photos By David S. Smith November 18-20, 2005 VINELAND, N.J. – ‘A Toy Feast,’ a pre-Thanksgiving auction conducted by Bertoia Auctions, literally turned into a feast for...
This auction at Lelands.com features some truly unique items. One of them is a 1921 Babe Ruth bat, described as “the best and most documented Ruth bat we have ever handled.” It was the bat that Babe Ruth used to hit his 52nd homerun of the 1921 season....
Shoeless Joe’s bat strikes out at auction Chicago Sun-Times December 11, 2005 BY ANDREW HERRMANN Staff Reporter “Ex-White Sox player ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson’s ‘Black Betsy’ bat went up for auction Saturday — but it turned...
Lost Titian portrait fails to sell at auction The Sydney Morning Herald December 9, 2005 – 10:14AM “A unique portrait by Italian Old Master Titian, painted over and rediscovered more than 400 years later, failed to sell at auction in London today, despite...