The forthcoming Phillips de Pury & Company New York Photographs sale to be held on April 1, 2009 has numerous highlights appealing to art and photographic collectors worldwide. (02/23/2009)
Founded last year, RarityGuide.com is an ever expanding online resource which aims to categorize, index, appraise, photograph, collect information about, document, review and host discussion about collectibles of all types. The aim is to educate people on the value of collectibles, preserve the past, and explore how collecting and collectibles impact on past, present, and future generations. (02/21/2009)
What is being described as a "monumental" five-day auction conducted by Julien’s Auctions will take place April 21st-25th, 2009 adjacent to the legendary Beverly Hilton Hotel at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard. The auction will feature an astounding array of art items including paintings, bronze and marble sculptures plus a myriad of Michael Jackson memorabilia. (02/21/2009)
The Children’s Health Fund (CHF), in their bid to help underserved children, have held an online auction of a Ysio Digital Radiology System, donated by Siemens. Bidding for the state-of-the-art X-Ray machine started at $99,999 and jumped to a quarter million dollars in the first ten days. (02/16/2009)
H.R.Harmer and Archives International have announced their forthcoming auction of historic worldwide banknotes, stocks and bonds from the archives of the American Bank Note Company which will include many very rare worldwide banknotes. (02/13/2009)
This week a small bone was thrown to sellers on eBay's flagship eBay.com website. Effective February 18th, they are making all additional pictures, picture pack and gallery plus free for listings in the Collectibles, Art, Antiques and Pottery & Glass categories. So at least we now know eBay has finally recognized the categories and sellers they have been undermining by their blinkered attention to volume sellers rather than the providers of the more interesting offers that discretionary buyers want to browse. (02/13/2009)
Fine arts and antiques auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields have announced they will be offering property from the collections of Antonio and Liliane Mariani, owners of the well-respected Antonio’s Antiques, in a single-owner 400-lot auction to be held in its San Francisco salesrooms on Monday, March 2, 2009. (02/12/2009)
As a result of feedback received from national and regional antique dealers’ associations the National Antiques Day is being replaced by a National Antiques Week from November 2009 and will continue to be co-ordinated by Antiquesnews. (02/12/2009)
It's currently open season on bankers within the UK media and it's apparently enjoyable for many people to see the sacrifices, sackings and public ridicule currently underway. Yesterday's public humiliation of the former Chairman and CEO of HBOS and RBS was perhaps amusing to some but why are we obsessed with kicking these people instead of learning what they can reveal? (02/11/2009)
What's the best way to pump up enthusiasm among eBay's millions of users? Ignore them? Secretly meet with a few "top" sellers and make them sign non-disclosure agreements about the plans revealed? It seems the eBay level playing field will need to find a new, even lower level again as, in my opinion, they are about to tilt it toward the bigger sellers again. (02/11/2009)
eBid co-Founder, Mark Wilkinson reportedly believes eBid’s 10 years online has been based on building a business that removes the burden of high fees for sellers while giving buyers the best bargains to fit their budget. Sellers are certainly being attracted to eBid and, with eBay increasingly losing focus on individual sellers, listing numbers have shown remarkable growth. So can eBid finally break through and prove to be the viable alternative? A bullish press release suggests they will be giving it their best shot [...] (02/11/2009)
Written by Jay R. Fiske and Corinne A. Fiske, The Big Book of Benefit Auctions is the ultimate step-by-step handbook on how to plan and have a successful and effective auction. (02/10/2009)
