Auction Blog

Monday 8th December, Waterloo, at 11am

The Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction will see 367 lots offered. Highlights include GJ Angas’ South Australia Illustrated (1847); 3 volumes of Cook’s First Voyage (1773); and C. Ptolemy’s Geographica (1574). Also on offer will be a collection of 19th Century sub-division maps of land in Sydney & district; early collectables concerning trams in Sydney (Illustrated), as well as Art reference titles, Australiana and other Ephemera.

Viewing
224 Young Street
Waterloo NSW 2017

Thursday 4 December Noon to 6pm
Friday 5 December 10 to 6pm
Saturday 6 December 11 to 6pm
Sunday 7 December 10 to 4pm
Monday 8 December 9 to 10am

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Bonhams & Goodman Books, Maps and Manuscripts Auction

An Italian white truffle weighing just over 1 kg sold at an auction on Saturday for $200,000.

The auction ran held simultaneously in Rome, London, Abu Dhabi and Macau, auction organisers said.

The 1.08-kg truffle, the largest found in Italy this year, was found on November 21 in the central Molise region.

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White Truffle Auctions for $200,000

Pickles Auctions is holding a ground-breaking totally unreserved auction of over 50 near-new used cars and demo Holden vehicles, under instruction from Draper Dillon Chartered Accountants.

Pickles Auctions Sunshine Branch Manager, Mark Thorne, says this is a great opportunity for the general public to save thousands on high quality, near-new vehicles.

There are a range of models to suit everyone’s needs and budget, including Barina, Viva, Astra, Captiva, Epica, Rodeo, Colorado, 60th Anniversary SS, SV6 Sedans, SS V Sportswagon, SS/SV6 Utes, and Monaro’s.

In the current economic climate, it is great to be able to conduct an auction with no reserve prices. All of the vehicles must all be sold and many of the vehicles have under 100kms. There has never been a better opportunity to save on a car purchase, says Mark.
Pickles Auctions can provide competitive finance to ensure a fast and stress-free vehicle purchase on auction day.

The UNRESERVED Dealer Liquidation Auction will be held on Tuesday, 2 December at 2.00pm at 41-45 McIntyre Road Sunshine Victoria. Viewing is available from 8.30am to 4.00pm on Monday, 1 December and from 8.00am on the day of sale.

Pickles Auctions is Australia’s leading Auctioneers, specialising in ex-Government & fleet, repossessed vehicles, damaged vehicles, and used trucks, machinery & earthmoving equipment.

Across the country, Pickles Auctions offers more than 8000 new & used cars, trucks and machinery live in real-time to bid on and are conducting in excess of 100 auctions per month.

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Pickles Auctions to Liquidate Used Cars and Demo Vehicles

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has held a tender for wireless local loop (WLL) spectrum licences for Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K) and the country’s northern areas (NAs). In the tender for 3.5 GHz spectrum for Mirpur (TR-1), one block was taken by PTCL at the highest bid of PKR 10 million, while the other was withdrawn because there was no second bidder. For Muzaffarabad (TR-2), PTCL made the highest bid of PKR 4 million, followed by Wateen which matched the price. For the northern areas (TR-3), Wateen offered the highest bid of PKR 4 million, and the second block went to PTCL for the same price. A total of PKR 26 million was collected in the auction of five WLL licences in three regions.

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Wireless Spectrum Auction

Sotheby’s two-day Milan auction saw 70,6 % sold with excellent prices set for good quality works with updated estimates.

Stefano Moreni, responsible of the sale, comments: “Along with this November results I would like to underline that Sotheby’s has raised in Italy the best annual total ever for contemporary art and 2008 total is € 25.083.080 (+ 4% on 2007).”

The 3 sale catalogues offered a total of 286 lots, showing a constant and progressive selectiveness according to an International sale strategy.

Among the best sold of the sale we would like to mention Cy Twombly (lot 247, doubling its starting estimate and selling for € 432,750 and the wide rug by Boetti – cover of the sale catalogue part 1 - which raised € 408.750.

The private collection offered in a single catalogue has set interesting prices for Dorazio (lot124 and 111), Scanavino (lot 110) , Melotti (lo115) and Daniel Spoerri’s Tableau piège (eaten by Gilbert and George and Schum) has doubled its starting estimate ( lot 133, sold for € 40.350).

“The second small and refined private group – says Raphaelle Blanga, specialist of the department - published in the centre of the catalogue part 1 has raised good prices for lot 230, Castellani, with € 204.750 (all the works by this artist offered in the auction have been sold, see for example also lot 251, Superficie bianca, 1969, whose starting estimate has been more than doubled). Good results also fetched for Jean Dubuffet ( lot 237), for the two works by Klein ( lot239 and lot 245) and a brilliant price set for Blue Daughters of air by Sam Francis that from an estimate of € 60/80.000 has been sold for € 102.750”.

Among the Transavanguardia artists of the sale, interesting prices has been raised by Clemente and De Maria and an excellent result has been realized also for the wide 1984 work by Mimmo Paladino titled Vespero selling for € 216.750.

Vasarely and Carlos Cruz Diez are in constant growing. Cruz Diez (lot 254) with Physichromie n. 655 dated 1973 has been sold for € 78.750.

Asta Cielare II by Arnaldo Pomodoro, a bronze sculpture coming from an American private collection, has raised € 90.750.

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Milan Contemporary Art Sale Results