Artfact Live! Online Bidding at Important Meteorite Auction
ArtfixDaily (press release)
Artfact.com is the largest global marketplace of fine and decorative arts, antiques, collectibles, and estate auctions. In 2009, Artfact launched two live online bidding platforms, Artfact Live! and Invaluable Live! In the UK, allowing users to bid in …

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Doing your bidding
China Daily
In the past year, business at the esteemed auction house in Hong Kong has skyrocketed, with world price records regularly breaking with the sales of wines, paintings, antiques, jewelry and watches. Affluent buyers from Asia – especially the newly rich …

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Art Treasure at Risk of Meltdown on Record Prices for Gold, Silver Futures
Bloomberg
… people coming to auctions who could be described as speculators. They're looking at heavy items like centerpieces.” Silver was the strongest performing asset in the latest UK Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors art and antiques market survey. …

Fine Art Auction Group acquires Bloomsbury Auctions
Auction Central News
Rupert Powell and I have known each other for many years as presenters on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and I warmly welcome him and his team into our fold,” said Clive Stewart-Lockhart, Dreweatts' deputy chairman. “In selling the Bloomsbury business to …

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Auctioneer takes high-tech approach to selling antiques
Christian Davies Antiques (blog)
Lancashire dealers often travel to auctions in the neighbouring county of Cheshire. One of the top auction houses is Peter Wilson Fine Arts, of Nantwich, who recently entered the digital age. Currently, visitors from Preston can see antique desks and …

Woodcarvings under hammer
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
The artworks will go under the hammer tomorrow at 11.30am at Freehold Street Auctions, in Freehold Street, Kingsthorpe Hollow. All proceeds will go to the Cornwall Air Ambulance charity. Auctioneer Trevor Gaskill said: “They are genuine pieces actually …

Pavilion of Art & Design London Announces More Details
Art Daily
British antiques dealers Blairman & Sons (UK) display fine 19th C. furniture and decorative objects from the Arts & Crafts movement by artists such as Dr Christopher Dresser and EW Godwin. Dominating a significant portion of the fair are stands …

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Warhol Helps Christie's First-Half Sales Rise 15% to Record
San Francisco Chronicle
It sold 2 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) of art and antiques worldwide in January through June, the most for any half-year in sterling, Christie's said today. "Sales have increased across a range of departments," Steven P. Murphy, chief executive …

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Auction Results
Irish Times
Antiques auctions, 11am. Sunday (July 10th) Mullen's Laurel Park, Bray, Co Wicklow. Antique furniture and fine art auction at noon. Over 600 lots. Sunday (July 10th) Limerick Auction Rooms, Ballysimon Industrial Estate. Antiques auction at 2.30pm. …

Other UK News In Brief
4ni.co.uk
Detective Constable Ian Lawson, from the Art and Antiques Unit, said: “We have been made aware of approximately 20 thefts of rhino horn from museums and auctions houses across the UK and Europe in the past six months. Additionally we have been made …

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