As eBay makes sweeping changes to their business model, the sellers who built the goliath are re-examining their businesses as well… The thrust of this article is that eBay is moving and favoring a fixed price (or buy it now) model: Auctions on eBay: A Dying...
Sotheby’s Auction Sets New Rolex Record JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone 4/24/2008 “A new record for Rolex watches sold in auction was set at Wednesday’s “Important Watches” sale of Sotheby’s in New York City, the international auction...
Record Price for 1811 Chateau d’Yquem Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Tuesday April 22, 2:42 pm ET “NEW YORK, April 22 /PRNewswire/ — London based fine wine merchant Fine & Rare Wines Ltd have sold an exceptionally rare bottle of 1811...
EXTREMELY RARE EL-BART DRY GIN TIN ADVERTISING SIGN REALIZES $60,500 AT SALE OF THE GEORGE CROSS COLLECTION HELD APRIL 11-13 IN ANN ARBOR
We are big fans of Gary Hendrickson’s site “The Auction Rebel”, and if you haven’t checked it out before you can catch it here. His post from today references some of the things to look out for in the upcoming garage sale season, and includes...
Philip Weiss Auctions: Rare, collectible robots and space toys, April 5-6, 2008 SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION OF ROBOTS AND SPACE TOYS & ANOTHER FEATURING MECHANICAL BANKS AND COIN-OP MACHINES TO BE SOLD APRIL 6, 2008 BY PHILIP WEISS (Oceanside, N.Y.) – An...
A Wrist Worth Half a Million Dollars? ABC News By NICOLA RUIZ Forbes.com March 5, 2008 “Over the past few years, prices for this specific watch category have increased dramatically,” says Zimmermann, who estimates that his Rolex watch collection has...
Gallery 63 to celebrate first anniversary at new location in Atlanta with March 16 sale featuring fine jewelry, weaponry and vintage cars (Atlanta, Ga.) – Fine estate jewelry, antique guns and other weaponry, rare and vintage automobiles, artwork by important...
Barking Mad Forbes.com Nina P. West, Artfact.com 02.29.08 “There’s a market for everything. Need proof? A painting of dogs playing poker, by little-known American artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, was recently purchased at Doyle New York for $193,000. The...
Philip Weiss Auctions: The Newport Collection, February 9, 2008 An unused 1869 24-cent inverted center U.S. stamp, # 120b, certified Fine and one of only four unused examples known to exist, soared to $1.271 million at a sale of The Newport Collection held February 9,...