KENT’S most famous item of cricketing memorabilia went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London on Tuesday and sold for £680,000, almost £400,000 above the guide price.
The painting of Kent in the field against Lancashire at the St Lawrence ground in Canterbury in 1906 was commissioned by the club’s founder and chairman Lord Harris to […]

Full details at Bonhams
A Regency writing desk belonging to the acclaimed actor Sir John Mills (1908 – 2005) is to be sold at Bonhams’ Sale of Fine English Furniture at 101 New Bond Street, London on 27 June 2006. It is estimated to fetch between £10,000 – 15,000.
Sir John was one of Britain’s most popular […]

eBay.co.uk is integrating internet phone call service Skype into its website so users can discuss prices and delivery charges.
The new system will let sellers include a ‘Skype Me’ button on their listings page, so that potential buyers can make a free voice call and discuss the items on sale.
Users will also be able […]

Auction Blogs
Prices for works by Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Egon Schiele and other artists may rise after last week’s London auctions raised about 293 million pounds ($533 million), almost double year-earlier totals.
Art dealers track auctions as a guide to setting prices. London dealer Gul Coskun said she’ll charge more for Warhol’s guns and Marilyn Monroes […]

Irish Auction Info
Two properties owned by Queen’s University in Belfast have been sold at public auction for a total of £2.5m.
The first to go under the gavel was an end-of-terrace property at 14-16 Upper Crescent, off University Road. Bidding started at £700,000; however, it quickly soared until a final knock-down of £1.66m.
Consisting of three interconnecting, […]

A new frozen and chilled food giant could be created before the end of the year - incorporating three of the biggest names in the business.
Cap Vest, the private equity group which owns seafood brand leader Young’s of Grimsby and Findus in northern Europe is joining forces with two more financial institutions, CVC Capital […]

THE upmarket health-clubs company Esporta is in talks to sell its freehold property assets for more than £300m.
The group is believed to have received a number of unsolicited approaches about a possible sale-and-leaseback of its racket clubs. It has asked its regular adviser Citigroup to handle the inquiries.
The current favourite to clinch a deal is […]