Over the course of three 12-hour days, over 3,500 people from across the world chose to bid on a little piece of history from one of the worlds best-loved hotels.Many came to bid in person, some of whom had decided to take a trip down memory lane, having spent their honeymoon, 21st birthday party, wedding […]

The original script for one of the Two Ronnies most famous sketches has sold for £48,500 at auction.
The classic Four Candles sketch, penned by Ronnie Barker and first shown in 1976, showed Barker attempting to buy fork handles in a hardware store.
A private buyer outbid eight or nine others to win the auction, the Original […]

The three-day auction saw almost 3000 lots of furniture and artefacts from the London landmark hotel go under the hammer, the actual total was £1,857,096 .
A team of 13 auctioneers worked for more than 10 hours a day to sell all 2,600 lots, plus a further 100 late entries. Every item was sold.
Most of the […]

Sotheby’s will offer a Francis Bacon painting of a nude woman, estimated at 25 million pounds, close to the artist’s record, at a February London sale.
Sotheby’s contemporary auction will for the first time be held in a different week from the equivalent sale by larger rival Christie’s International. Sotheby’s sale will be on Feb. 27, […]

A group of Tyneside businessmen have come up with a solution to help boost the flagging property market.
Jonathan Netts, Simon Van Der Velde and Martin Schapira have launched the auction group in a bid to help both estate agents and owners move their properties faster.
Further details about The Auction Group are available from www.theauctiongroup.org or […]

A. E. Dowse and Son is a long established firm of Fine Art and Antique Auctioneers and Valuers, situated in the heart of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Auctions include Fine Art and Antique, Victoriana and Collectables, as well as specialist Diecast, Tinplate and Collectors’ Toys with minimum of 28 a year.
The city centre complex of over […]

BidPay.com sent an email to users on Wednesday informing them it was discontinuing it’s service from December 31, 2007, without giving a reason reason.
CyberSource bought BidPay.com in March 2006 from First Data, which shut the site down in December 2005 when it had 4 million registered users. The deal was valued at about $3 million, […]