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Iron Age Stone head fetches astonishing sum

Posted by admin on April 18th, 2011

Iron Age Stone head fetches astonishing sumA carved stone head hailing from County Londonderry that could date back to 200 BC fetched 26,000 euros at an auction in Dublin.

The head was unearthed by Ross Pinkerton in the Sperrin Mountains, near Claudy, in the late 1930s.

From BBC.co.uk:

He found the stone head about 60 or 70 years ago when a stone wall was being repaired in the Claudy area. He saved it from being destroyed.

Accompanied by a letter from historian Dr Brian Lacy dating it between 200 BC and 200 AD, the head is said to be of great cultural importance.

“The human head represented the same sort of thing to the ancient Celt as the heart does to us,” Dr Lacy told BBC Radio Foyle.

“We symbolise in our culture the human heart as the seat of emotions and the human head was the same to the ancient Celts.

“And consequently all over western Europe, where the Celts lived in ancient times, the human head was carved and was preserved in various ways.”

Many imitations were carved in the 18th and 19th centuries, but Dr Lacy said he was very confident that this was the genuine article.

The head far exceeded its estimate price at a History, Literature, and Collectibles sale at Whyte’s Auctions in Dublin on Friday 23 April.

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Kate Middleton’s childhood home for Sale

Posted by admin on April 6th, 2011

If you have been recently into putting your hands on the official Royal Wedding memorabilia and still have a hundred thousand pounds to spare, you just have a chance to get the big slice.

Kate Middleton's childhood home for Sale

The childhood home of Kate Middleton, the semi-detached Victorian villa in the Berkshire village of Bradfield Southend, is on the market for £460,000 and will be sold at auction in June.

From Dailymail.co.uk:

Miss Middleton’s parents, Michael and Carole, bought the four-bedroom house for £34,700 in 1979 when they were both working for British Airways.

The future queen was born in 1982 and lived in the house, named West View, until she was 13 when the house was sold for £158,000.

The Middletons set up their partywear business in 1987 and the money it generated eventually led to the family selling up and moving to a bigger home in 1995.

The auction will be held just weeks after its former resident marries Prince William.

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President’s Day Antiques and Collectibles auction

Posted by admin on February 17th, 2011

President's Day <b>Antiques and Collectibles</b> auctionThe President’s Day Antiques and Collectibles auction will be held on Monday Feb. 21 AT 10:00 A.M. at the West End Fire Hall, Brodheadsville, PA 18322.

Interested parties keen to opt for an extensive listing with Photo Gallery can visit Auctionzip.com (Auctioneer ID# 4958).

From News-antique.com:

THIS AUCTION FEATURES military swords, fighting knives and bayonets, The Personal Papers and Effects of Capt. David Ayers and Pvt. John J.H. Jacobus (7th NJ Volunteers), military paper and photos inc. CDVs, ¼” glass plate portrait of Capt. Ayers, Civil War military records and certificates, Confederate stamp on cover, etc.; also, large collection of Sports Memorabilia 1908 & up inc. pre-1965 baseball cards, Rookies, schedules, World Series tickets and other Baseball ephemera, football, boxing, Indy 500 and other autographs, cards, publications and photos, 1938 and 1941 Indy 500 programs, event tickets (crisp, mint) for sporting and entertainment events (Bobby Darin Concerts, Cassius Clay/Ali fights, Gene Autry, etc., Gold, Sterling and costume jewelry, Gold and Silver U.S. Coins inc. $5.00 Indian Gold and Silver Dollars, early U.S. Stamps in nice lots, oil paintings by listed artists such as Sterling Strausser, prints, Jos. Graves Delaware Water Gap and other fine post cards inc. RPPC’s, Limoges, Murano glass, Roseville, G. & M. Washington dresser tray (Germany), 1907 CI inkwell, b/w/opalescent sugar shaker, signed bronzes, early German children’s book, Art Deco travel guides, “slice of life” 1931 Trip to Bermuda folio with provenance, 19th C. Circus photos, tintypes and encased photos, big boxes of military and other paper and pamphlets, War Ration Books, Victorian and other furniture inc. carved sofa and bowed glass china cabinet, clocks, Tiffany style 1920’s stained glass hanging lamps, Sterling desk items, toys inc. (5) orig. Peanuts nodders, Walt Reach Toy sedan, Marx race car, Lofts Candies truck bank, mini-baby carriage with twin bisque dolls (Germany), Mule Ear Tobacco ad, Sterling & bone letter opener, Stanley No. 4 plane, Coke Tray, ammunition by the box full, rifle sighting scope, black powder pistols, powder horn, machine gun boot, lighters and more arriving daily.

The West End Fire Hall is minutes off I-80 and PA 33 in Brodheadsville, PA near the intersection on PA 715 and US 209…..”Right Behind the Wawa Market”. GPS Coordinates: 40 degrees 55’33.38”N, 75 degrees 23’38.43”W. DOORS OPEN: 8:30 A.M. Auction Day for a period of Inspection. TERMS: Cash, VISA, MC, PA Check with ID. Handicapped accessible. Good Food served. Great Auction

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Legendary flowing hair silver dollar sold

Posted by admin on November 26th, 2010

Legendary flowing hair silver dollar soldOne of the world’s pre-eminent numismatic auctioneers, Bowers and Merena Auctions, recently hosted its Boston Rarities Sale on Saturday, Aug. 7 at Park Plaza Hotel and Towers in Boston, Massachusetts.

In the sale, the featured coin, a rare 1794 Silver Dollar, was sold for $1,207,500.

From Worldcollectorsnet.com:

“There has been great anticipation within the industry for our auction of the condition census #4 1794 Silver Dollar,” said Greg Roberts, CEO of Bowers and Merena. “We started to see bidding activity about two weeks before the live action began with multiple bidders moving the coin from its opening bid to $750,000 where the lot opened on the live auction floor. It then quickly moved up $300,000 at increments of $50,000. When the bid hit $1 million on Saturday, the gasp from the crowd was riveting, and with two of the four bidders live in the room, the intensity was overwhelming.”

The seller of the rare coin, Martin Logies, author of the book The Flowing Hair Silver Dollars of 1794 and director and curator of CCEF, recently purchased the Neil/Carter/Contursi 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar for $7.85 million in a private transaction brokered by Spectrum Group International, Bower and Merena Auctions’ parent company. The sale marked a new world record price and the coin is currently being showcased by CCEF, a teaching organization, and is being shared with a wider national audience.

The silver dollar first struck in 1794 and only 140 surviving examples of the 1794 silver dollar coin are estimated throughout the world.

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Gold tiger finial belonging to Tipu Sultan sold

Posted by admin on October 18th, 2010

Gold tiger finial belonging to Tipu Sultan sold

A gem-encrusted gold tiger finial from the throne of Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan was recently sold for a whopping £434,400. The pre-auction estimate of the finial was £200,000-300,000.

The auction was held at the Bonhams auction on October 7 in London.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Interestingly, Tipu Sultan had sworn not to mount his throne until he defeated the British. However, when he fell, his famous golden throne was broken up so that the elements could be shared. Many of the decorative pieces that adorned the throne have been lost but the ones that have been found are the pieces found with the British royalty, like Queen Charlotte the wife of George III, or the second Lady Clive.

Claire Penhallurick of Bonhams Indian and Islamic Department says: “It is an extraordinary privilege to be involved with the sales of a second wonderful finial from Tipu Sultan’s throne. To sell one is amazing, but to have two in less than two years is almost unbelievable.” Julian Roup, the director of press and marketing, says it has been sold to a buyer in the Middle East.

The finial has a resin core and comes up to 17.5 centimeters in total height with its stand and is studded with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds.

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Prison documents belonging to Adolf Hitler for grabs

Posted by admin on August 5th, 2010

Prison documents belonging to Adolf Hitler for grabsLandberg Prison documents belonging to the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, are set to go under the auction hammer. The Daily Star reported that more than 500 prison documents will be auctioned in Germany.

Landberg Prison is the place where Hitler was held in 1924 after abortive attempt by the Nazis to get hold of power in the year 1923.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Adolf Hitler’s Landberg Prison documents are set to go under the hammer.

More than 500 documents from the prison, where Hitler was held in 1924, are to be auctioned in Germany, reports the Daily Star.

Hitler was imprisoned in Landsberg after the Nazi’s abortive bid to seize power in 1923 in the notorious “beer hall putsch” coup attempt in Munich.

In the collection, which is valued at 20,000 pounds, several hundred-index cards show who visited Hitler when he was in prison.

The collection on grabs will have many hundred-index cards showing who all visited Hitler when he was kept in the prison; the collection is valued at 200,000 pounds.

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Indian art treasures went for sale

Posted by admin on July 14th, 2010

Indian art treasures went for sale
The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), premier art gallery of India, seems helpless or out of ideas on how to acquire and preserve works of modern art from 1850s onwards.

Recently, a rare set of 12 paintings by the country’s national poet and first Nobel laureate, Rabindra Nath Tagore, went under the auction hammer at Sotheby’s in London and achieved record prices too.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Despite the nation’s collective shock of ‘how could it be allowed’, the NGMA sat through the proceedings. What many missed was the fact that the gallery, whose first stated objective as expounded in its official website is ‘to acquire and preserve works of modern art from 1850s onwards’, apparently didn’t even have a whiff of the auction till it was officially made public by Sotheby’s last month. Had it known about it, wouldn’t it have worked towards doing something about it? Or would it have really?

NGMA is, perhaps, the only gallery in the world that sits still while the country’s immense art treasure, lying scattered in India and abroad, changes hands. Instead of standing up and accepting that the country doesn’t have an acquisitions policy and something needs to be done about it, all that Rajeev Lochan, the NGMA director, tells us is, ”Please keep me out of it.” Ditto for culture secretary Jawhar Sircar, whose ministry governs the NGMA, who conveyed a message through his secretary, stating: ”There is nothing that he can say about the subject as of now.”

Siddharth Tagore of New Delhi’s Art Konsult gallery, also the great grandson of Rabindranath Tagore, is of the view that NGMA needs to get its act together on smaller fronts.

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