“Portrait of Ms Jenny” (oil on canvas, 136 * 98 cm), by Xu Beihong, is up for sale at Beijing Poly Art Auctions Co Ltd’s November 6 auction.
Beijing Poly Art Auctions Co Ltd was only established recently. The subsidiary of State-owned Poly Group is to hold its first auction between November 6 and 8. […]

The annual New Zealand stamp auction was held yesterday and together with a coin auction on Friday raised 750 thousand dollars.Bidders came from around the country to take part in the auction, with hundreds of others taking part by phone, e-mail and fax.Stamp dealer John Mowbray says the top price went to the unissued 1915 […]

Nicolae Cretanu, 30, his 23-year-old wife, Adriana, and George Titar, who made nearly £300,000 duping thousands of people into buying items that did not exist on eBay, were jailed on Friday for carrying out a “well planned and sophisticated fraud”.
The Romanian husband and wife team would advertise on eBay for variety of items including […]

Siam Nissan Automobile yesterday filed a complaint with Minister of Public Health Suchai Charoenrattanakul, claiming it was given no justice in the bidding process for 232 ambulances which was won by its competitor Toyota Motors. It said the Public Health Ministry’s bidding panel allowed Toyota Motors to change the equipment to locally-made products without giving […]

A BAHRAIN judge is alleging that he was swindled by an insurance company which sold him a car at auction.
It is alleged that a document stating that the car was being sold without its original registration plate was forged by a 42-year-old Bahraini manager at the company.
The word “without” was added only after the judge […]

A teenager who swindled eBay customers out of thousands of pounds now wants to advise the internet auction site on how to tackle online criminals.
Phillip Shortman, 18, of Pontypool, south Wales, was sentenced to 12 months’ detention in May this year after duping customers out of STG45,000 ($NZ113,400).
Shortman’s crimes funded a lavish […]

The first ever postage stamps sold in New Zealand 150-years ago are going under the hammer today.People have come from all over the country and the world to bid on the one penny, two penny and one shilling 1855 Queen Victoria stamps.Stamp dealer John Mowbray says they should fetch a good price.He has estimated the […]

AUCTIONEXPLORER’s latest on-line rare book auction ended last night,
with participation by a number of countries around the world. “These
auctions are continuing to attract increasing international interest, and
overseas book dealers and collectors are now making up (a considerable)
percentage of our clients,” says Paul Mills, a director of
AuctionExplorer.

A Hungarian company has agreed with the family of ailing soccer hero Ferenc Puskas to purchase dozens of his memorabilia items that were to have been sold at auction next week.
Orszagos Szaknevsor Bt., which publishes telephone directories in Hungary, paid more than 100,000 pounds ($208,635 Cdn) for the items, the London-based Bonhams auction house said […]

A sale of Scottish art has fetched more than £3m at auction in Edinburgh.
Twelve pieces by the Scottish colourists brought in £1.4m at the Christie’s auction.
One work by Samuel Peploe - Pink Roses, Fruit and Books on a Polished Table - sold for £433,600, the fourth highest ever price for a Scottish painting.
Elsewhere in the […]