Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers will hold it’s next Oriental Art and Carpets auction at Bredgade, Copenhagen, 27 November 2008 at 1.00pm
Auction info www.bruun-rasmussen.dk

Sotheby’s Milan will hold an auction on Monday 17 November 2008, 6.00 p.m. The catalogue – consisting of over 140 lots – opens with a pictorial group of Fondo oro panels among which is a striking gold-ground painting by Salomone de’ Grassi, The Trinity, commissioned by the Visconti family. Salomone, a renowned miniaturist and painter, [...]

Rapp auction house will hold a stamp auction in Wil, Switzerland, from 24 to 27 November. For the first time, bidders will have the opportunity to join in the bidding live on the internet. Sales totalling around 15 million Swiss francs are anticipated.
Auction info
Rapp Auction House
Phone: +41-71-923 77 44
info@rapp-auktionen.ch
www.rapp-auktionen.ch

Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design in Paris on 26 November includes a section of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower.
The section is numbered n°15, has sixteen steps, stands 12ft (3.6m) tall and weighs 750kg (estimate: €40,000-60,000).
In 1980 the company in charge of the Tower assessed its overall condition as it [...]

This special auction of art from the Kraft Bretschneider Collection in Tübingen will focus on important German Informel works. The choice offering of classic post-war art is headed by Emil Schumacher’s “Mabudan”. Painted (1965) in oil with collaged canvas on canvas, this work carries an estimate of € 150 000-250 000. Measuring 77 x 179 [...]

On 29 November Ketterer Kunst opens the doors of its new Munich headquarters.
Covering some 3500 square meters and three floors, the new house for art in the immediate vicinity of Neue Messe Munich comprises a state-of-the-art auction room, a generous amount of exhibition space, an art lounge with a readers’ corner, a coffee bar [...]

A 1493 first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle is for auction at Heritage’s Dallas. Texas, headquarters, as part of the Grand Format Rare Books Auction on Oct. 16
This early secular history of the world was printed at a time when the Western world’s idea of itself was rapidly expanding. Christopher Columbus had sailed for the [...]

The first central European auction of quality English thoroughbreds took place in Pardubice, Czech Republic last Friday.
Horse breeders could purchase thoroughbreds for their stables in Pardubice for the first time in 30 years in the auction that was held two days before the Grand Pardubice steeplechase.
“I firmly believe that the auction will help increase the [...]

A German court in Munich has suspended the sale of an ancient Iranian relic, belonging to the Elamite civilization, PressTV reported.
The silver cup, which dates backs to around 2,000 BCE and bears cuneiform inscriptions, went under hammer in Munich on June 22, 2007 for over $80,000.
?The German embassy notified the Iranian government about the auction [...]

Handwritten lyrics for Jacques Brel’s song, “Amsterdam”, have fetched more than 108,000 euros at a Paris auction.
The words were scribbled in a school notebook which was one of 95 lots for auction at a Sotheby’s Paris auction held 30 years after Brel’s death on October 9, 1978.
Brel’s widow and three daughters, who hold full rights [...]