The Jay T. Snider’s collection of early Americana, fetched $2.3 million at a Bloomsbury auction ending yesterday in New York.
Anais Borja, a representative of Bloomsbury Auctions, said the gallery was pleased with the result.
“In times of a wintry economy, collectibles and especially books tend to stay pretty stable,” Borja said.
Of the 375 lots put up […]
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Jay T. Snider Collection Auction Makes $2.3million
Kimball International, Inc. has announced that it has completed the sale of all of the Company’s undeveloped land holdings and timberlands, a total of 27,196 acres located in Indiana and Kentucky. The auction sales totaled $50.605 million.
The Company confirmed that it reached an agreement to sell the nearly 12,000 acres in Union and Crittenden counties […]
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Kimball International Land Auction Takes $50.6 Million
Botswana auctioned 44 tonnes of ivory today in a closed auction.
The auction is the second sale of elephant tusks this week approved by CITES, the international convention that governs trade in endangered species, after Namibia on Tuesday sold more than seven tonnes of ivory for 1.1 million dollars.
Conservation groups are angry over a decision to allow the first auctions of African ivory in nearly a decade. They believe that the sale will encourage poaching and illegal trading and endanger the lives of elephants.
Most of the tusks being auctioned are from government stocks and were taken from elephants that died from natural causes or from the culling of herds to prevent over-population.
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Botswana Ivory Auction
The first ivory auction in a decade sold more than 7 tons of tusks to, raising more than $1 million.
Most of the tusks came from elephants that had died of natural causes
Tuesday’s auction was monitored by Willem Wijnstekers, CITES Secretary General. In all, 7.2 tons of ivory were sold, fetching a total of $1.3 million.
Over 44 tons will be sold in Botswana on Friday. Auctions next month will see 51 tons being offered in South Africa and almost 4 tons being offered in Zimbabwe.
Proceeds will go to the Game Product Trust Fund created in 1999 to promote conservation in communities where elephants range.
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Namibia Ivory Auction Takes $1.3 million
Bob Hope’s memorabilia raised $601,000 in a two-day auction over the weekend, with some of the highest bids going to his golf memorabilia and pictures of the entertainer with famous friends, Julien’s Auctioneers said on Monday.
An inscribed photo of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor has sold for £15,832 in an auction of Bob Hope’s […]
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Bob Hope Memorabilia Auction Takes $601,000
