Hundreds of items of clothing, gifts and furniture that belonged to former French President Francois Mitterrand have been auctioned in Paris.
The 367 lots, including designer suits, hats and a piggy bank, raised 150,000 euros ($220,000).
Shoes, ties and slippers embroidered with the red rose of his Socialist Party also went under the hammer.
Some 300 buyers and [...]

Press Release
On Wednesday March 5th at 7 p.m. we at Jordaens, Mortsel (Belgium) will be auctioning several thousands of bottles of very fine wines by order of the Ministry of Finances in Antwerp and from serveral other provenances. The wines will be on view on Saturday and Sunday, March 1st and 2nd from 11 to [...]

Sweden on Thursday was set to wrap up the first stage in its auction of Absolut vodka maker Vin & Sprit [VSG.UL], the centrepiece of the country’s largest privatisation programme.
Sweden has said officially that inidicative bids for V&S were due this week, although bankers said the Financial Markets Ministry had established Thursday as a cut-off [...]

A triceratops skeleton is expected to fetch 500,000 euros at an upcoming Christie’s auction in Paris.
The skeleton of the three-horned dinosaur, from a private European collection, is the highlight of the April 16 auction. It will mark the first time that such a dinosaur specimen goes up for public sale since a T-Rex called “Sue” [...]

Three of the most technically interesting and aesthetically beautiful European pre-war cars to feature within Bonhams’ inaugural Rétromobile Paris Sale, on 9 February 2008, will be a 1928 example of the legendary supercharged Type ‘S’ Mercedes, the world’s sole surviving, privately-owned Farman dating from 1921, and a gargantuan 10.6-litre 1905 Panhard-Lavassor.
Headlining the sale will be [...]

Alexander Tabalov who owns over 200 19th-century and early 20th- century paintings and is the latest big collector to emerge in Eastern Europe, has set up a new auction in Kiev.
Ukraine’s art market has “a lot of potential and is already showing rapid growth,” said Tabalov.
“We want Art Kapital to be a serious, full-fledged auction [...]

A French court has rejected a request by Canal Plus pay TV to suspend a tender auction for the rights to broadcast France’s premier soccer matches over the next four seasons.
The Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance said in its ruling that it saw no “imminent damage” for Canal Plus from holding the auction ahead of [...]

The National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) of Sweden announced yesterday that it is now accepting applications from interested parties to participate in the auction of 2500 ~ 2690 MHz radio frequencies.
The auction will commence on April 14, 2008. A total of 15 blocks of spectrum will be offered for auction, 140 MHz of which [...]

Items from the wardrobe of late French president Francois Mitterrand are going up for auction in Paris to raise money for his widow’s charity work, the Drouot auction house said Thursday.
The 368 objects on sale on January 29 will also include gifts to the presidential couple — mainly household items — from international figures such [...]

Europe’s top business lobby attacked on Tuesday European Commission plans for implementing deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, saying that auctioning pollution permits could hurt industry in global competition.
In a letter to Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, BusinessEurope urged the European Union executive to avoid forcing firms to buy carbon dioxide emissions permits, rather than [...]