Youngs

Decorative Oriental pieces to bring auction crowds

Decorative Oriental pieces are a major highlight of Young’s Auctions forthcoming weekly sale from 9.30am Friday July 31 at 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.

The pieces include figurines and paintings, a long buffet and two colourful screens three metres long by 2.4 metres high.

The auction contains a comprehensive range of silver jewellery featuring necklaces, bangles and rings along with a large number of new and reproduction furniture items.

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Abbeys Auctions

Abbeys weekly general auction returns after special sale

Abbeys Auctions returns to its regular weekly general sale from 9am Friday July 31 at 480-482a Station Street, Box Hill after last Saturday’s special auction.

The comprehensive range of items on offer includes shop soiled outdoor furniture and lounge suites featuring a classic three-piece Chesterfield made in Melbourne and refrigerators, washing machines and kitchen utensils.

Don’t forget the special online art auction of works by the late Annette Edwards beginning at 7pm Sunday August 2.

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Leonard Joel

Single owner Ralph Lauren collection hits auction scene

A single owner collection that features a massive range of Ralph Lauren items – including furniture, fittings, clothing and shoes – will be auctioned as part of Leonard Joel’s Modern Designer Luxury Collection from 5.30pm Thursday July 30 at 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra.

The collection has never been used or worn and gives auction goers the chance to buy these items at less than retail price.

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Leonard Joel

Petite contemporary art auction to attract young buyers

A Petite Contemporary Art auction – designed by Leonard Joel to highlight quality contemporary art pieces that deserve showcasing – will be held from 2pm Thursday July 30 at 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra.

Numbering only 40 art works with estimates ranging from only a few hundred dollars, this boutique auction is particularly aimed at bringing younger buyers to the art market with pieces that should have broad appeal.

Of particular note is Rona Green’s Pretty Boys 2005 (lot 1) and David Band’s Untitled (Bottle on Blue Background) (lot 3).

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EJ Ainger

Handbags and accessories a great auction purchase

This is an excellent chance for female auction goers to purchase the English, American or Parisian handbag or accessory of their dreams when E.J. Ainger’s starts its next weekly sale from 9.30am Tuesday July 28 at 433 Bridge Road, Richmond.

Brought from a Brighton estate, the bags and accessories are by manufacturers Pierre Cardin, Chanel, Oroton, Gucci and Salvatore Ferragamo.

The auction also features the entire contents of a 40-foot container that has been in storage for many years.

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Steve Graham Auctioneer

Farm auction has great bargains

A John Deere 755 front end loader tractor with mid-deck mower and other implements will be a great pick up for some lucky purchaser at auctioneer Steve Graham’s forthcoming sale from 10am on Sunday July 26 at 485 Daylesford Malmsbury Road, Wheatsheaf.

The on site auction offers a comprehensive selection of farm items, collectables, quality household pieces, antique dolls, garden furniture and ornaments.

Of particular interest to buyers is a posthole auger, slasher and hand and power tools.

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Mossgreen

Art auction encourages first time collectors

While Mossgreen’s second Sunday Art Emporium auction for the year is geared to encourage collectors entering the art market for the first time – with plenty of paintings carrying estimates of only a few hundred dollars – it also is notable for several significant Sidney Nolan works (lots 42-46) held tightly by the family and never before seen publicly.

Two of these – Angels over Ely 1951 and Bush Sketches 1951 – are ink on glass works, a medium that is rarely seen at auction. 

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Abbeys Auctions

Swiss Atmos clock a collector's delight

Still in its original packaging with operating manuals is a Jaeger-LeCoultre of Switzerland 1972 Atmos clock that Abbeys Auctions is offering as a highlight of its special sale from 10am Saturday July 25 at 480-482a Station Street, Box Hill.

The auction contains several other items bound to whet auction goer appetites including, for music buffs, a Yamaha G5 baby grand piano with two pack black finish.

There is an extensive collection of unusually designed West German pottery – along with Moorcroft and Martin Boyd china.

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Youngs

Luxury Toorak apartment items add Oriental auction attraction

Furniture items from a recently sold luxury Toorak 40-square apartment will comprise about 25 per cent of this week’s Young’s Auctions sale from 9.30am Friday July 24 at 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.

The owner was Chinese and the furniture has distinctive Oriental flavour. It includes cherrywood dining table with eight chairs and three tall lacquered panels.

The collection also contains a contemporary lounge setting with leather chairs and settee from Natuzzi.

Other auction items include a modern porcelain doll collection and Georg Jensen silver plate.

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Mossgreen

Early artefacts in Australian indigenous auction

Mossgreen’s 2015 annual sale of Australian Indigenous and Oceanic Art features many early artefacts including an important private collection of rare Australian indigenous shields, many of which date to the early 19th century.

Among the more important is an Albury broad shield (lot 56), collected in the 1870s by Albury-based John Mitchell, and the Dja Dja Wurrung broad shield (lot 57) picked up by George Kidman between 1852 and 1864.

English-born Kidman came to Australia during the 1850s gold rush and established a mining claim.

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