A leather water bottle belonging to explorer Robert O’Hara Burke has fetched more than a quarter of a million dollars at auction in Melbourne.The $286,750 sale price was more than three times what the artefact was expected to fetch.Sotheby’s had originally estimated the water bottle would sell for between $60,000 and $80,000.
Justin Miller, chairman of […]

An online auction of 200 India modern art works by 70 artists next week is expected to fetch Rs.210 million ($4.7 million).Art gallery Saffronart’s winter auction Dec 6-8 would feature well-known artists like M.F. Husain, Akbar Padmasee and Tyeb Mehta, and for the first time sculptures. The auction, the 11th by Saffronart on www.saffronart.com, allows […]

The original Hollywood sign that sat atop Mt. Lee in Los Angeles in the 1920’s is now on sale on ebay. Dan Bliss, the current owner of the sign, bought the sign, which had been in storage for 27 years, from nightclub owner Hank Berger in 2003. Berger had converted pieces of the […]

London-based auction house Bonhams announced Monday that it would hold its first-ever sale entirely devoted to Russian art.
This sale begins a new Russian season on Britain’s auctioneering scene, with Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bloomsberry’s following suit later this month and in early December.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether to bar eBay from using a patented technology that helps to generate almost a third of the value of the goods it sells.
 
MercExchange, a patent-holding company, previously won an injunction from a lower court that could force eBay to stop using its  “Buy-It-Now” fixed-price feature. […]

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A US auction house is trying to sell one of Saddam Hussein’s military uniforms online, calling it an “ultimate artefact” of the US war in Iraq.
Manion’s International Auction House is offering the olive green dress uniform, complete with Saddam’s […]

The sale of a snowy street scene by Maurice Cullen for an unexpected $1.5 million has helped vault a Canadian fine art auction into the record books. The fall sale of Vancouver-based Heffel Fine Art Auction House fetched a whopping $12.2 million (including a 15-per-cent premium) worth of Canadian art in Toronto Thursday evening. This […]

NZ - Sir Ron Brierley’s Guinness Peat Group yesterday took the first steps to a takeover of Turners Auctions, buying nearly 20 per cent of the vehicle auctioneer.
Returning to the share register of the company it floated on the sharemarket in […]

A multi-million rand collection of antiques - once the belongings of a South African trailblazer - will go on auction in Strand on December 3 and 4.
The items all hail from the manor house at Matjiesfontein and the estate of JamesDouglas Logan and his heir and grandson John Buist, who died in June.
Logan, a wealthy […]