Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. OX20 1PX.
Saturday 5th July 2008 at 14.30
Viewing Times:
Friday 4/07/08 from 1.00pm until 6.00pm – Saturday 05/07/08 from 10.00pm – Admission by catalogue only (£25 for two people)
Auction info www.coys.co.uk

SonicZero has launched a new eBay alerting service in beta called Stuff Alert. The internet application is designed to help eBay users easily locate items that are hard to find, as they become available.
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A ukulele formerly owned by The Beatles band member, George Harrison and 1950s film star George Formby is being offered at a Bonham’s auction on June 18.
The gold-plated Dallas E Banjolele was bought by Harrison at auction, the instrument is estimated to be sold for between £20,000-35,000.
Auction info www.bonhams.com

A1 Team Great Britain continues its fundraising efforts for Demelza Hospice Care for Children with an online auction of memorabilia from the 2008 A1GP Brands Hatch race to run from Friday 30 May for one week.
Team GBR will this week begin a one week charity auction of memorabilia from the 2008 A1GP Brands Hatch race, [...]

Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera
Wednesday 23 July commencing at 11am
Viewing Tuesday 22 July 9am-7pm and morning of sale from 9am
Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera
Wednesday 27 August commencing at 11am
Viewing Tuesday 26 August 9am-7pm and morning of sale from 9am
British Topographical Books & Maps, Vintage Photography
Wednesday 3 September commencing at [...]

A sketch from The Two Ronnies show, entitled ‘The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town’ is set to go for auction on Thursday 19th June.
Experts at auctioneers Dominic Winter, in South Cerney, believe the original hand-written manuscript could fetch up to £5,000.
Written in black ink by Ronnie Barker, the 56-page script contains all eight [...]

A portrait showing Britain’s late Queen Mother with her daughters, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, was sold for 90,000 pounds at a Lyon and Turnbull auction on Thursday, fetching almost double the estimate of 50,000 pounds.
Entitled A Royal Portrait of Elizabeth the Queen Mother and her daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, it was [...]

A unique and unrecorded 1863 English Penny with a die number 5 below the date, was sold in Tennants Auctioneers specialist Coin Sale in Leyburn, North Yorkshire on Wednesday, 21st May 2008 for a record £17,500 plus buyers premium.
Other auction highlights.
A large collection of proof gold coins made over £100,000 in the sale with gold [...]

JK Rowling has penned a prequel to the bestselling Harry Potter series describing what happened to Harry before he went to Hogwarts.
The story, which is shrouded in secrecy, was written in the past month and is just 800 words long.
The Harry Potter prequel comes almost a year after the last book in the boy-wizard series, [...]

Posh Spice is putting six costumes she wore during the band’s recent world tour up for auction to raise money for a children’s charity managed by her mother.
The items, all designed by Roberto Cavalli, range from a mini-dress adorned with Swarovski crystals, probably worth half a million dollars, to a gold corset and leggings.
A spokesman [...]

This Thursday, when you list on eBay.co.uk using the Auction-style, Auction-with-Buy It Now or Buy It Now Only (Fixed Price) formats in eligible categories, insertion fees will be half price for each item you list. Final value fees and feature fees are not included in this promotion.

In June 2008, Christie’s will offer a wide array of exceptional Russian works of art, offered at the auctions of Russian Art, Icons and Artefacts from the Orthodox World, The London Jewels Sale, and the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, all taking place at King Street. Highlights include:
Icons and Artefacts from the Orthodox [...]

The winning self-portrait that modern artist Luc Tuymans (born 1958) entered into an art competition at the age of 19, in the hope that it would help shape his success as an artist, will be sold in the Impressionist and Modern sale at Bonhams in New Bond Street on Wednesday 18 June.
Produced in 1977, the [...]

Christie’s auction house will offer Jeff Koon’s Ballon Flower (Magenta) at its Post War and Contemporary Art auction on June 30 in London. The sculpture is estimated in the region of £12 million. This work is one of five unique versions: Magenta, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Red and was executed between 1995 and 1999.
The sculpture comes [...]

Sketches by Spanish painter Goya that have been missing for 130 years will go on sale at Christie’s auction house in London on July 8.
The three sketches, “Witches and Women”, “The Constable Lampinos stitched inside a dead horse” and “Repentance”, were last seen in public at a sale of Goya sketches in Paris in [...]