The latest Vectis Tinplate and Plastic sale held on Friday 9 December
at Thornaby was popular as ever, the sale attracted bids from
around the world with a final total of £105,000, this being
the best tinplate sale to date!
Collectors, connoisseurs
and movie-buffs alike packed the Sunset Boulevard galleries of
Bonhams & Butterfields on December 5, 2005 to take part in
the auction of vintage Hollywood film posters from the collection
of Louis Leithold — property from the noted educator, collector
and dealer was offered to a standing-room-only audience, bringing
more than $425,000.
Seven years after its arrival
in bookshops, the publishing phenomenon, Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, is estimated to attract bids
in the region of £1,000 – £1,500 at the next Bonhams
Sale of Books, Maps and Manuscripts in Edinburgh on December 14.
In
a jam-packed Bonhams saleroom in New Bond Street, the most important
sculpture by Henry Moore to appear at auction in recent years
sold for £1,069,600 (with premium) after intense bidding
today.
Bonhams’
sale of Fine Wines on 29 November 2005 offers buyers the
chance to snap up some incredible vintages just in time
for this year’s winter festivities.
Memorable props which have graced
popular films have been generously donated by Supporters of The
British Academy of Film and Television Arts to raise funds for
the charity and will be sold as part of the Rock n Roll &
Film Memorabilia sale at Bonhams Auctioneers in Knightsbridge
on Wednesday 16 November 2005.
International fine arts auctioneers
Bonhams & Butterfields is pleased to announce an incredible
single-owner sale of vintage film posters set for December 5,
2005 in Los Angeles. The Louis Leithold Collection contains nearly
2,000 film posters — titles spanning the history of cinema, from
the silent era to contemporary blockbusters.
One of the greatest footballers of all time, Ferenc Puskas, star
of the Hungary team that dominated world football in the 1950s,
is to sell more than 100 of his personal mementos including the
Golden Boot awarded to him for scoring a formidable 83 goals in
84 International appearances – a world record that still
holds today.
Bonhams has been appointed by one of the world’s leading
Formula One teams, WilliamsF1, to hold a sale at its factory headquarters
in Grove, Oxfordshire, on 14 December 2005.
A
Texas-based wine lover and collector paid $17,250 on Saturday,
24 September, 2005 for a large-format bottle of an extraordinary
wine from Pride Mountain Vineyards. Auctioneers Bonhams
& Butterfields offered and sold a 9-liter bottle of
2001 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon on behalf of the winemakers,
the proceeds to be donated to support relief efforts in
the Gulf.
