One of the most rare and sought-after whiskies in the world is to go under the hammer at Bonhams in London this week. A bottle of Johnnie Walker 1805 – one of only 200 in existence – is expected to fetch between £12,000 – 16,000 at Bonhams’ Sale of Fine Wine and Spirits at 101 […]

Shrewsbury auctioneers Hall’s has been dealt a blow after a bid to relocate its auction house and offices from Shrewsbury town centre to the new livestock market was rejected.
The Welsh Bridge-based firm had wanted to relocate to Battlefield to provide a purpose-built fine art and general sale room and offices next to its livestock market […]

The top lot, an oil portrait that could be of fellow artist Lucian Freud or Bacon’s lover George Dyer, went to a telephone bidder for £470,000. It had been estimated to sell for £18,000.
Among the items were three studies of dogs, one of which went for £305,500, including buyer’s premium, against an estimate of £3,000.
Four […]

Google has aggressively tried to buy its way into the market dominated by eBay’s (EBAY) PayPal service since launching last summer. Google recently reported spending nearly $60 million at the end of last year to promote Checkout, mostly in the form of coupons offered to consumers to give it a spin. In addition, Google cracked […]

Only a few weeks ago eBay announced a new feature called “Markdown Manager” for its eBay Stores subscribers. The free tool allows sellers to offer discounted pricing by putting Fixed Price and Store Inventory items “on sale.” Based upon this brand new eBay feature x-percent.com is one of the world’s first websites to list only […]

During a reverse auction, a customer allows suppliers only a short window of time to bid down the price on their products or services. The practice was pioneered by automotive and aerospace buyers, which used reverse auctions to procure commodity parts. Today, many large companies use them to buy everything from paper clips to their […]

A collection of previously unseen paintings, letters, diaries and photographs from artist Francis Bacon’s “famously chaotic” studio goes on sale today.
The sale, by Ewbank fine art auctioneers in Surrey, comes in the same week as the 15th anniversary of Bacon’s death. He died on April 28 1992.
Its appearance on the market will arouse interest among […]