Border items made redundant by Poland’s Thursday midnight entry into Schengen free-travel zone are to be auctioned to help refugees, according to the Internet site of Poland’s liberal Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
Red-and-white striped barriers, signs reading “State Border — No Entry”, “No Photos” and “The Border Guard Commander receives questions and complaints Monday from 1300 hrs [...]

Sotheby’s will offer a Francis Bacon painting of a nude woman, estimated at 25 million pounds, close to the artist’s record, at a February London sale.
Sotheby’s contemporary auction will for the first time be held in a different week from the equivalent sale by larger rival Christie’s International. Sotheby’s sale will be on Feb. 27, [...]

A painting by the celebrated Spanish artist Joan Miro sold for a record 11.6 million euros in Paris on Friday,the highest price ever for one of his works, the auctioneers Drouot said.
The 1927 painting “Blue Star” had been estimated at between five to seven million euros, and was considered by Miro himself as the key [...]

A group of Tyneside businessmen have come up with a solution to help boost the flagging property market.
Jonathan Netts, Simon Van Der Velde and Martin Schapira have launched the auction group in a bid to help both estate agents and owners move their properties faster.
Further details about The Auction Group are available from www.theauctiongroup.org or [...]

A. E. Dowse and Son is a long established firm of Fine Art and Antique Auctioneers and Valuers, situated in the heart of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Auctions include Fine Art and Antique, Victoriana and Collectables, as well as specialist Diecast, Tinplate and Collectors’ Toys with minimum of 28 a year.
The city centre complex of over [...]

BidPay.com sent an email to users on Wednesday informing them it was discontinuing it’s service from December 31, 2007, without giving a reason reason.
CyberSource bought BidPay.com in March 2006 from First Data, which shut the site down in December 2005 when it had 4 million registered users. The deal was valued at about $3 million, [...]

A charity auction in a private home featuring a painting by Bono and a sculpture by an American artist has raised over €200,000 for Amnesty and third world charity, Goal. The organisers exceeded their target by €100,000.
The auction took place in the Dublin, Killiney home of Olivia Gaynor and businessman Brian Long. The two works [...]

The prospect of a bespoke piece of art by Tracey Emin raised a remarkable £25,150 for The Independent’s Christmas Appeal yesterday, as bidding closed for the paper’s charity auction.
The prize – a special drawing of the buyer’s pet embroidered on to a cushion in Emin’s trademark style – went to 29-year-old James Laing from Harrogate. [...]

Nottingham Forest boss Colin Calderwood is auctioning off his manager of the month trophy because he believes it has brought the club bad luck.
Calderwood won the award for guiding Forest to four wins in five games in November, only to win just once since.
He told BBC Radio Nottingham: “It always seems to be when we’ve [...]

The Greek Sale at Bonhams on December 13th achieved 6.1million pounds with an auction of 209 pictures which saw 82 per cent of lots sold. This sale was 2million pounds up on the last Greek sale earlier this year which made almost 4million pounds.
The top picture in the sale, lot 10, Cesare Felix Georges dell’ [...]