James Bond’s Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me fetches £111,500 at London auction
With the 007 movie Quantum of Solace bringing James Bond back into the public eye, Bonhams today (1 December 2008) sold the 1976 Lotus Esprit, driven by Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me, for £111,500.
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Bonhams Sells James Bond Car for £111,500
Christie’s have announced an extraordinary group of watercolors by the great 19th century British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. The five watercolors, including four landscapes and one rare study of a woman’s face, will be among the highlights of Christie’s Important Old Master Paintings auction on January 28, 2009. The group comes from the estate […]
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Turner Watercolors Highlight New York Auction
Antiquorum raised about $12.7 million, in its weekend auction of Important Collector’s Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, Clocks and Horological Tools in Geneva on Nov. 15-16.
Top lot of the sale was Lot 730, “The Royal Presentation Mirror-Image Pair” of gold pocket watches with painted-on enamel and pearls. The very rare pocket watches, made circa 1815, fetched 2.6 million CHF (about $2.17 million), a worldwide record.
Additional highlights from the auction included a Greubel Forsey “Double Tourbillion 30-degree Vision” in 18-karat gold (Lot 703), a Harry Winston “Opus V” in platinum (Lot 707) and an Audemars Piguet “Perpetual Set N-degree 1 Quantieme Perpetuel” (Lot 708). The timepieces sold for 238,000 CHF, 226,200 CHF and 220,300 CHF, respectively (about $198,400, $188,500 and $184,000).
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Geneva Watch and Clock Auction Takes $12.7m
Austria Clearingbank (OeCAG ) has held it’s held its first auction. Clearingbank is a new money auction facility backed by the Austrian government to unfreeze Austria’s interbank lending
In Wednesday’s auction, banks could say how much 2-month and 3-month money they were either offering to lend or requesting to borrow. The Clearingbank matches those bids and guarantees the money will be repaid.
The next OeCAG auctions will be on Monday, Nov. 24, and Wednesday, Nov. 26.
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Austrian Clearingbank Auctions
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
