Workers at a Suffolk auction house are facing a bleak run-up to Christmas after a worker lost £2,500 intended for pay bonuses and a charity donation.
Lockdales Auctioneers said the money – in £50 notes – fell from the pocket of a staff member who was walking towards a bank in the town centre.
The company is [...]

The crew and the two teams, who each have an hour and £300 to find bargains, were at Dodd’s Auctioneers and Valuers on Chester Street on Friday and Saturday.
The programme challenges the competing teams to use their knowledge of the antiques world to try to buy things which they can sell for a profit at [...]

On Wednesday, Christies will auction a newly discovered Faberge egg, tipped to fetch up to nine million pounds.
Faberge, a Russian jeweller whose name is synonymous with extravagant craftsmanship, made 50 eggs for the Russian royal family but is only known to have created 12 eggs to similar standards for private clients.
The egg on sale this [...]

London’s auction houses hope to smash new records this week as a treasure trove of Russian art goes under the hammer here starting Monday.
Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonham’s and McDougall’s believe prices will be fueled by wealthy Russians seeking to bring treasures home either to put on display or for their own private enjoyment.
“It’s our biggest week, [...]

ANKARA – Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen Sunday called on Turkish contractors to be interested in auctions and tenders in oil producing countries.
“Oil prices have reached 100 USD but the threat caused by rise in oil prices should be turned into an opportunity,” Tuzmen told A.A correspondent.
Tuzmen said oil producing countries will use their oil [...]

Equipment from Newmarket’s Equine Fertility Unit is going under the hammer on 1 December.
The world-famous Equine Fertility Unit (EFU) is dividing a diverse range of equipment into 300 lots and putting them under auction by Cheffins.
Among the lots for auction are stable equipment, tack, tractors and grass-care machinery, specialist veterinary and related fertility equipment and [...]

The 100 paintings on sale at Bonhams in London in February will include works by the Americans Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who pioneered the genre in the 1980s, and their British counterparts such as Antony Micallef and Banksy.
“What this sale does is show how urban art has emerged from an underground sub-culture to the [...]

Before the sale, at Graham Budd Auctions, at Sotheby’s Olympia, experts accurately predicted the programme, for the 1928 Blackburn versus Huddersfield FA Cup final, would sell for between £800 and £1,000.
In the end it fetched £920. The buyer successfully bid £800, there is also an extra £120 to the auctioneers in buyers’ premium.

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The picture by French Fauvist painter Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), made 5.3 million crowns.
Experts had estimated the price of the painting dated 1914 at 7 million crowns.
Dorotheum auction house director Marie Galova said that the Czech fine arts market has a very local character and that local buyers show interest mainly in Czech authors.

Bonhams will hold a remarkable sale of wines from the legendary Imperial winery at Massandra, in the Crimea.
The collection of wine will be sold in two separate sales, the first on 28 November 2007 at New Bond Street in London and the second on 1 December 2007 in San Francisco.
The sale will include wines [...]