The first auction on licenses for fishery was conducted in the Environment and Natural Resources Protection Department of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara on Thursday.
As Prime-News was told by the representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection, sixteen lots out of eighteen were sold for GEL 12 640 at the auction where […]

Australian Auction Info
Bidders in an internet auction are offering over €13,000 ($A22,066) for a wartime German encoding machine, similar to ones whose messages were cracked by British code breakers in World War II.
The portable Enigma encryption machine made in 1941 has a keyboard and a series of rotors designed to scramble messages. It is up […]

Australian Auction Info
One of New Zealand’s most prestigious wineries, the Goldwater Estate, has been sold for over NZ$10m (£3.5m).
The purchaser, the New Zealand Wine Fund, has already bought Marlborough’s Vavasour Wines in 2003. It expects combined sales this year of NZ$12-15m from around 200,000 cases of wine a year.
The Goldwater Estate winery was the first […]

US Auction News
Press Release
The history of Texas is long and storied. Alonso Alvarez de Pineda mapped the coastline of the land that would become Texas as early as 1519, and after that for many years the land was claimed at one time or another by both the Spanish and the French. 1682 saw the establishment […]

UK Auction News
A rare collection of books about birds, some dating back more than 100 years, has gone up for auction in Nottingham.
Some of the volumes, the oldest of which was produced in 1850, contain prints of birds and their eggs.
The items form part of a legacy which was left to the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
The […]

Auction News
Press Release
QuikDrop International and Palisades Media Group have reached an agreement for Palisades to oversee all of QuikDrop’s media/marketing buying and planning. The agreement is effective immediately.
“We’re riding a paradigm shift in how people buy and sell goods, and we need a media services company with a cutting-edge, fresh approach to effectively reaching the […]

DRUMSTICKS signed by Alex Van Halen and a Monty Python T-shirt are items that go under the hammer on Sunday 9 April at the 2006 Nederburg Auction Rare South African Finds charity event.
All proceeds will be shared by Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, Organ Donor Foundation and an AIDS-HIV-support NGO, called Mothers2Mothers.
Other celebrity […]

The Bank of Italy said its auction of 10-year treasury bonds (BTPs) was 63.00 pct oversubscribed, while the yield rose from the previous auction.
The price established was 98.24 for a gross yield of 4.00 pct compared with 3.74 pct previously.
The bank said it received 4.890 bln eur worth of bids for the 3.000 […]

Contemporary Indian art is attracting new buyers, both among nonresident Indians and collectors on the subcontinent. Traditional Indian art sales have remained steady, while 20th-century art has been picking up admirers. Call it the attack of the billion-dollar global contemporary art market, or simply the recognition of the avant-garde’s originality by Asia’s nouveau riches.
“We’ve seen […]

The works of 10 Indians, among them M.F. Husain and F.N. Souza, are to feature at a South East Asian Art Auction here next month and are expected to fetch between $10,000 and $360,000 a piece.
Husain’s 2005 canvas of Mother Teresa in the La Pieta posture, an image that haunted him long after he saw […]