Archive for October, 2006
October 30, 2006 – 6:20 pm
A nuclear bunker is up for sale at a disused airfield in Pembrokeshire. The concrete building with metre-thick walls and steel shutters was built as an RAF communication base in the early 1990s at Templeton, near Tenby. Auctioneers have put a guide price of £50,000 to £75,000 on the bunker, which will go under the [...]
October 29, 2006 – 10:07 pm
Arthur James Galleries of Delray Beach, FL chosen over Sotheby’s and Christie’s to handle the sale of art from the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach Arthur James Galleries of Delray Beach, FL has announced an important two day sale to be conducted in its gallery room on November 14 and 15. Auction owner George Martin said, “This [...]
October 29, 2006 – 9:24 pm
Famous estates provide collectors’ treasures at Matheson’s AA Auction in Melbourne, FL. Mathesons’ AA Auction owners Lloyd and Jan Matheson of Melbourne, FL had touted their upcoming September 30-October 1 sale as the one to attend to get some of what serious collectors collected. The sale featured inventory from the collections of Phoebe Morris, the [...]
October 14, 2006 – 11:05 pm
The Prairie StarBy ERIN SLIVKA, ColumnistTuesday, October 10, 2006 3:33 PM MDT Of the many qualities that set country folks apart from city dwellers, their behavior at auction sales must be among the most distinguishable. While I have never actually been to a big-city auction, I have seen them on television and have read descriptive [...]
October 10, 2006 – 10:10 pm
The year is 2020, and I have just returned from a sunny semi-tropical resort located on the Bering Straits of Alaska. Upon returning home I check my ether mail and schedule, while my holographic secretary informs me that I will be flying out to China next week for a series of Industrial Auctions. I turn; [...]
October 7, 2006 – 9:43 pm
By DREW JUBERACox News Service Tuesday, December 27, 2005 ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The great tobacco auctioneers — men named Bum Bum Leggettes and Redcap McLaughlin and Dancin’ Jakey Taylor (who jigged as he took bids) and Smokey Joe Burnette (who led buyers in Southern gospel) and Speed Riggs (fastest mouth east of the Mississippi) — [...]
