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The National Museum of Australia has bought the historic Jackie Howe Mechanical Shears at Sotheby’s Australia’s October Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design sale after a frenzied bidding war saw the price charge to $46,360 including buyers premium.
Sotheby's had placed a fairly conservative estimate of $15,000-$25,000 on the shears but with competitive bidding from both telephones and the room the price soon...
Philips Auctions October fine and decorative arts sale got off to a flying start with every early lot selling – many well above the catalogue estimates.
Great examples were the 1870s mahogany “musette” crank organ music box complete with rolls that sold for $1180 on an $800 upper estimate and an 1840s English Regency table clock that changed hands for $5192.
Another strong early result was the fine French spelter figural clock that sold for $2242 on a $...
Historically important rare books were the highlight of Mossgreen’s first auction in new salerooms in Armadale this last week.
Comprising 22 volumes of engraved plates, maps, charts and scientific discoveries made on French expeditions of the Pacific from 1826-1829, “Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe” by Dumont D’Urville was conservatively estimated at $25,000-35,000 – with the expectation that they would probably fetch a higher price on the day.
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Amanda Addams Auctions top nine results at the October 7 sale were encouraging with a William Ricketts sculpture (lot 198) bringing $5000, and a Diamond and Sapphire Pendant (lot 124) $3300.
An Argy Rousseau bowl (lot 119) prompted plenty of bidding and eventually sold for $2250, while an emerald and diamond ring (lot 130) was knocked down for $1700.
There was a great deal of interest in the antique French walnut dumbwaiter (lot 422) that sold for $1550, and...
The sale of a superb and precisely crafted lady’s art deco diamond wristwatch with cover typified Leonard Joel's September jewellery auction. Put simply, buyers were out in force for period pieces and branded jewellery.
The watch in question, lot 67, realised $5,124 (IBP) against a low estimate of $2,000. The theme of quality in demand...
Recent initiatives by Philips Auctions to better service its clientele – including the establishment of a Chinese language version of its website and regular Chinese language newsletters – has paid dividends for the company’s latest auctions, with 220 and 150 registered bidders for the respective September fine and decorative arts and jewellery sales.
More than 200 auction goers viewed the sale on the Saturday before auction and this strong interest certainly showed...
Her massive social media following (almost 600,000 Instagram devotees) might have had some bearing on the result – but when contemporary Australian ‘instafamous’ artist Catherine Jenna Hendry’s (CJ Hendry) first work to appear at auction, listed as lot 17 and entitled Red Paint Swatch (Small) and Blue Paint Swatch (Small), went under the hammer on December 1 in Sydney at Menzies Important and International art sale it sold for $63,818.18 (including buyer’s premium),...
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