Archive for May, 2007

GarageSale adds new eBay features

Friday, May 25th, 2007

eBay auction control application GarageSalehas been updated, introducing support for advance features of the online auction website.
The application lets Mac OS X users create and manage eBay auctions using an intuitive interface. It offers an auction editor and imports photos from iPhoto, a digital camera, or iSight. GarageSale supports advanced eBay features such as item […]

NHS heart valve on eBay

Friday, May 25th, 2007

A HEART valve was put up for sale on eBay, it was revealed yesterday.
A UK seller tried to illegally flog the life-saving device before bosses took it off the website auction.
The £300 valve — put on the website on Valentine’s Day — contravened eBay rules and staff contacted health officers.
The incident was kept under wraps […]

Annual Collective Machinery auction raises £940 for the Lindsey Lodge Hospice and Macmillan Cancer Support

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Auxtioneers Brown & Co and machinery agents Peacock and Binnington celebrated 25 years of their Annual Collective Machinery auction at Brigg with a dinner at the Courtyard Barn Restaurant at Elsham Hall.
A hundred and twenty local farmers and machinery dealers attended the charity fund raising dinner, which raised £940 for the Lindsey Lodge Hospice and […]

WiMax spectrum auction set for 2008

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Ofcom has revealed more details on its timetable for auctioning off the spectrum that could be used to introduce WiMax on a large scale to the UK.
Peter Bury, the regulator’s director of strategic resources, said on Wednesday at the Wireless Event in London that the auction of 192MHz of spectrum, situated around the frequency of […]

UK airfield to be auctioned

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Condover Airfield, near Shrewsbury, comes complete with former runways and a control tower. The tower, which opened in 1942 for use as a fighter satellite watch office, is included with nearly 104 acres of land at Little Berriewood Farm, Condover.
All plots on the land are being sold in seven lots by Shropshire agents Halls.

Four world record prices achieved for modern Indian and Pakistani Art

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

The work of Indian and Pakistani artists made record prices at Bonhams, the international fine art auction house in London yesterday (21st May 2007).
A packed saleroom saw fierce bidding for work by Jamini Roy (India 1887 -1972), Sadequain (Pakistan 1937-87), Sakti Burman (India born 1935) and Jamil Naqsh (Pakistan born 1939). All broke their […]

Raphael portrait to be sold at Christies London auction

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie’s said Monday.
Christie’s expects the portrait to fetch a record 10 million to 15 million pounds ($19.7 million to $29.5 million). The record price for a Raphael at public […]