On Wednesday, Christies will auction a newly discovered Faberge egg, tipped to fetch up to nine million pounds.
Faberge, a Russian jeweller whose name is synonymous with extravagant craftsmanship, made 50 eggs for the Russian royal family but is only known to have created 12 eggs to similar standards for private clients.
The egg on sale this […]

London’s auction houses hope to smash new records this week as a treasure trove of Russian art goes under the hammer here starting Monday.
Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonham’s and McDougall’s believe prices will be fueled by wealthy Russians seeking to bring treasures home either to put on display or for their own private enjoyment.
“It’s our biggest week, […]

Equipment from Newmarket’s Equine Fertility Unit is going under the hammer on 1 December.
The world-famous Equine Fertility Unit (EFU) is dividing a diverse range of equipment into 300 lots and putting them under auction by Cheffins.
Among the lots for auction are stable equipment, tack, tractors and grass-care machinery, specialist veterinary and related fertility equipment and […]

The 100 paintings on sale at Bonhams in London in February will include works by the Americans Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who pioneered the genre in the 1980s, and their British counterparts such as Antony Micallef and Banksy.
“What this sale does is show how urban art has emerged from an underground sub-culture to the […]

Before the sale, at Graham Budd Auctions, at Sotheby’s Olympia, experts accurately predicted the programme, for the 1928 Blackburn versus Huddersfield FA Cup final, would sell for between £800 and £1,000.
In the end it fetched £920. The buyer successfully bid £800, there is also an extra £120 to the auctioneers in buyers’ premium.

Bonhams will hold a remarkable sale of wines from the legendary Imperial winery at Massandra, in the Crimea.
The collection of wine will be sold in two separate sales, the first on 28 November 2007 at New Bond Street in London and the second on 1 December 2007 in San Francisco.
The sale will include wines […]

A small, uninhabited town in Texas has been sold on the internet auction site, eBay, to a buyer in Italy for a little over £1.45m.
The town, called Albert, is about 100km (62 miles) outside San Antonio and features a schoolhouse, a dancehall and a bar.
The town’s current owner, Bobby Cave, said he was checking the […]