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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

Skinner, will host an auction of Fine Oriental Rugs and Carpets at its Boston gallery, located at 63 Park Plaza on Saturday, December 6th at noon. More than 300 lots will be offered from prayer rugs, to long rugs, to room size carpets including seven Serapi carpets, seven Marasali Rugs, and six Ushak carpets.
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ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS AUCTION DEC 6

Sotheby’sauction of African and Oceanic Art from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal surpassed pre-sale estimates, bringing $10,859,944 (est. $6,849,500/ 10,808,000). This offering represents the most important collection of African and Oceanic Art to be offered in forty years in New York and is the highest total for a single-owner sale of African and Oceanic Art in New York. Three works sold for over $1 million: the Senufo Primordial Couple, bringing $4 million; An East Sepik River, Sawos, Ancestral Malu board, which achieved $1,314,500; and a Kota reliquary guardian figure, which realized $1,058,500. The sale was 86.7% sold by lot with 70% of the sold lots achieving hammer prices at or above their estimates.

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African and Oceanic Art Auction Raises $10,859,944

A painting by London artist Nasser Azam was sold on Friday 14th November for $332,500 in New York at Phillips de Pury’s Contemporary Art Part II auction.
Azam’s work, Homage to Francis Bacon: Triptych I was the second highest bid of the day, selling for $75,000 more than the high estimate. Nasser’s work was one […]

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Nasser Azam Triptych Sold for $332,500

Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers will hold it’s next Oriental Art and Carpets auction at Bredgade, Copenhagen, 27 November 2008 at 1.00pm

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Copenhagen Oriental Art and Carpets Auction Nov 27