Van Cleef & Arpels brooch sold for $1.83 million
A pearl, diamond and emerald art deco brooch by the renowned jewelers Van Cleef & Arpels was just sold for $1.83 million at Bonhams Fine Jewelry sale. The brooch was estimated at £250,000 – 350,000. The surmount designed as a geometric labyrinth of old brilliant, step, square, baguette and single-cut diamonds, suspending similarly set highly articulated diamond cascades of unequal length with arrow-shaped terminals, one side with...
Bead Bird Sold for $55,000
A strong demand for works from the Arts & Crafts period could be seen throughout the Bonhams fall auction of 20th Century Decorative Arts (October 1). This sale brought more than $1.1-million and one of the highlights was ‘Bead Bird’ figure by Finnish artist, Birger Kaipiainen (est. $20,000-30,000, sold for $55,000). The bird was acquired by the consignor in 1960 at the Arabia store in Helsinki, Finland. link...
After a Life at Sea a Rare Bottle of Cognac Will End its Voyage at Auction
A rare bottle of Rémy Martin Black Pearl Cognac (estimated at US$ 7,900 – 11,000) will be offered at Bonhams Fine & Rare wines sale on 13th September at New Bond Street, London. The history of this unusual Cognac is very interesting: after several years traveling the world on a luxury cruise-liner in the on-board shopping mall it was purchased by an experienced South African bar manager. He spotted the bottle while cruising...
Expensive collection of Hermès bags to be offered at auction in November
After Bonhams May sale, which included sixty-four pristine Hermès bags, realizing a total of £562,750 now all eyes are on the Bonhams Jewelry sale in Knightsbridge, London on 28th November, where eighteen iconic Hermès handbags from a private collection will come to auction. One of the highlights of the collection for sale in November is a red crocodile Birkin bag (named after British actress Jane Birkin), estimated at £28,000 –...
The world’s oldest four-cylinder car to auction
On August 17th in Carmel, California, The 1895 Buffum 4-Cylinder Stanhope, the world’s oldest four-cylinder car will be presented at auction by Bonhams. Displayed for decades at the Princeton Auto Museum in Massachusetts (one of the first auto museums in the country) and later at the Owl’s Head Transportation Museum in Maine, now it is for he first time it has ever been offered for sale to the public. The estimate value of...
The most expensive British car ever sold at auction
According to Bonhams (one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques), ‘Birkin’ Bentley at £5 million is most expensive British car ever sold at auction. The ex-Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin 1929 4 ½-liter supercharged ‘Blower’ Bentley single-seater, which when new raised the Brooklands Outer Circuit record to 137mph. It sold for £5,042,000, the highest price achieved for a British...
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