The RMI’s Society of Motor Auctions (SMA) reports that members have seen a buoyant start to the year, but warns there is a polarisation in the market and the spectre of ageing unsold stock remains a critical factor. With greater defleet volumes expected through April and the post-Easter period, and no guarantee that retail demand […]
THE first-ever online auction site just for the Harrogate area has been launched by the Harrogate Advertiser.
Lot 24-7 went live earlier this week at www.harrogatetoday.co.uk
It works like international website eBay – but has the advantage of only showing items for sale in this area.
Rowena Wallace, Group internet commercial manager is behind the launch.
She said: “It’s […]
THREE pictures by the Leeds artist John Atkinson Grimshaw were on exhibition at Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, yesterday as part of a valuation day by the Christie’s auction house.
Grimshaw’s The Last Gleam (estimate £180,000 to £250,000), The Gossips, Bonchurch, the Isle of White ((£120,000 to £180,000) and In the Golden Gloaming (£120,000 to £180,000) are […]
A view of Venice by Joseph Mallord William Turner is in the running to become the most expensive British painting ever sold at auction when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s in New York next week.
The auction house this week lifted its estimate on the painting to more than $20m (€16.6m, £11.5m) after a […]
PHOTOGRAPHS sold at a Cumbrian auction for £75,000 last week after being valued at just £80 could be part of a missing John Ruskin collection and worth up to £500,000.
The losing bidder at the Penrith Farmers’ and Kidd’s auction Ian Sumner said he was convinced the images were either taken or bought by the Cumbrian […]
Irish Auction News
Sligo Fianna Fail Senator, Eamon Scanlon, has clashed with Senator Shane Ross over his claims that the auctioneering profession in Ireland consists of a bunch of cowboys and racketeers.
Senator Scanlon, himself an auctioneer, has rejected the claims made by Senator Ross in a speech to the Seanad.
Bidders in an internet auction are offering over 13,000 euros (9,000 pounds) for a wartime German encoding machine, similar to ones whose messages were cracked by British code breakers in World War Two.
The portable Enigma encryption machine made in 1941 has a keyboard and a series of rotors designed to scramble messages. It is […]