Bonhams announced this week that two key specialists in Japanese Art recruited from Sotheby’s will join Bonhams Asian Art Department, one of the company’s most successful specialist areas.
Colin Sheaf, Bonhams Deputy Chairman and Head of Asian Arts said: “We are delighted to welcome Neil Davey and Suzannah Yip, specialists in Japanese Art to Bonhams. Neil, [...]

A collection of shop display items from Hilliard and Chapman, who were “Cutlers and Surgical Instrument Makers to The Queen and Prince Albert,” based at 56 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, will be sold at Bonhams’ annual Scottish Sale in Edinburgh between 22 – 24 August 2007.

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The smoking ban will have a positive effect in helping car owners to protect their residual values at remarketing time according to British Car Auctions.
The ban, which comes into force next week, should mean fewer ex-fleet cars will be offered for sale with smoker’s damage.
Therefore fleet owners should see the benefit in improved residual values [...]

The replica pistols were due to be sold at an auction of lost and stolen goods in Dublin today, but were withdrawn after negative political reaction.
A senior opposition politician called for the silver and black-coloured mock pistols to be pulled from the auction, but the force initially insisted they were harmless toys.
A box of around [...]

Bonhams’ record £6.1-million sale at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on 22 June 2007 is the best ever in the event’s 15-year history. It is the fourth most valuable motoring auction ever held in the UK.
The sale saw no fewer than 14 cars surpass £100,000, with top spot taken by the 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 [...]

The Indian Government has asked the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library to bid for it on July 3.
“We have received a communication from the culture ministry to bid for this rare letter of Gandhiji,” a source at the museum told PTI.
The communique from the ministry states the museum should seek “advice of the MEA and [...]

A DE&S project team has combined MoD’s office supplies requirement with those of eight other Government departments in the biggest ever public sector reverse auction to generate combined savings over existing spending of £100M over the next four years.
MoD combined its own office supplies requirement with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, Home Office, Dept of [...]

The number of commercial properties sold at auction fell sharply in the first quarter of 2007 as yields on commercial property fell below those on bonds, according to a survey on Wednesday.
Figures from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors show there were 26 percent fewer sales at auction relative to the fourth quarter of 2006.
Demand [...]

A gang of robbers who carried out Britain’s biggest heist gained the trust of the manager of a cash depot and that of his wife by posing as policemen with uniforms bought on eBay before taking them hostage at gunpoint, a court heard today.
Two of the gang, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were [...]

A rare first edition of the very first Harry Potter book, written by the acclaimed British authoress J K Rowling, fetched a magical £9,000 today (26 June 2007) at Bonhams’ Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale in London. It was bought by an absentee buyer, who had left a commission bid with the auction house.
The [...]