Two scale models, one of a 1922 Burrell road roller, the other of a Foden 1912 steam wagon are each estimated at £3,000-5,000 when they go under the Charterhouse hammer in Sherborne in their collectors, clocks and antiques auction on 14th March.
“These are some of the best scale models money can buy having been constructed [...]

Phillips de Pury & Co. raised a total of 21.9 million pounds, at the third auction of contemporary art in London this month, helped by a 2.1 million-pound Richard Prince painting”Nurse” and a 1.8 million- pound Damien Hirst spot painting.
The presale estimate for the 111-lot auction was 20.6 million pounds to 30.1 million pounds.
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Auctioneer Fellows & Sons has 730 lots up for sale from 10.30am on Thursday 28th February 2008. It puts on up to eight antique and modern jewellery sales a year. The highlight this time is lot 238 with a guide price of £25,000 – £30,000. It’s an 18ct white gold heart shape diamond pendant of [...]

The 2008 Hewden Auction will be held Saturday 12th July 2008 at The Hertfordshire Show Ground, Redbourne, Nr Luton. Junction 9 off the M1 motorway.
Do not miss Europe’s largest direct from user auction event.
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Tel 07900 302144
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A sports car once owned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini failed to reach its auction reserve price, achieving a top bid of just £450,000.
The Spyder, which carried il Duce through the crowds, attracted just a few bids when it went under the hammer in Cheltenham on Wednesday.
The best offer reached just over half the expected [...]

The British Home Office has launched an investigation into how an optical disc holding confidential information was discovered hidden beneath the keyboard of a laptop bought on the online auction site eBay.
The disc was found by technicians when the computer was taken into a small IT repair company for service.
The laptop had been bought on [...]

Contemporary art works, including masterpieces by Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol, have gone under the hammer for more than £95m, said Sotheby’s.
The London auction house claimed the total set a record for contemporary art auctions in Europe.
The highlight of the evening was Francis Bacon’s “Study Of Nude With Figure In A Mirror”, which was bought [...]

A Bonhams auction has raised £40,000 towards restoring the Cornish studio of one of the world’s most famous potters.
Bernard Leach set up his pottery in St Ives in 1920 which helped establish Britain’s ceramic art worldwide.
The Leach Pottery Restoration Project will see the studio undergo a major capital development by the local authority, Penrith District [...]

Christie’s announce that they will offer two impressive works at the auction of Victorian and Traditionalist Art on 5 June 2008 in London; Jasmine by Albert Joseph Moore (estimate: £600,000-800,000) and The Triumph of Love, a painting on 4 canvases framed as one by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (estimate: £400,000-600,000). Both works are offered from [...]

Louise Wallis has been appointed as the new head of the RMI’s Society of Motor Auctions (SMA).She will combine the new role with her existing position as the head of business development for the RMI’s National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA).

Tennants Friday 29 February 10.30am
A collection of vintage Hardy reels & rods, other fishing tackle, cased fish, hunting memorabilia, golf clubs, football and rugby memorabilia, Wisdens, trophy heads and taxidermy.
Medals including a Gallantry/Long Service Group of fifteen medals with citations and record of service, militaria, uniforms, edged weapons, antique and modern firearms, ethnographica including an [...]

An outstanding bronze with brown patina of a ‘Working Model for Two Piece Reclining Figure:Cut’ by the renowned artist, Henry Moore will be sold at Bonhams sale of 20th Century British Art in New Bond Street on Wednesday 12 March 2008.
Conceived in 1979, towards the end of Moore’s life, Working Model for Two Piece [...]

Pro Auction will conduct a tender sale of an entire bespoke ice cream manufacturing plant in Bristol on 28 March.
The plant with a capacity of 900 litres per hour output is an ideal opportunity for potential purchasers wishing to enter the ice cream production market without the significant new machinery costs. The plant also lends [...]

ARDGOWAN Hospice raised a record amount from their annual ball — with most of it coming from an auction.
The event produced £22,000, which was an increase of £2,000 on last year.
A total of £13,400 was raised in an auction conducted by Brian Clements of Greenock, who runs McTear’s Auctioneers and has featured recently on David [...]

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is to sell one of his paintings to raise funds for London’s Royal Academy of Arts. The rocker-turned-artist has joined the likes of Tracy Emin, Mary Fedden and Ken Howard in donating his painting of Royal Ballet stars Carlos Acosta and Darcey Bussell to an upcoming auction in the British [...]