Hindenburg Beer Sells for $16,000
It is charred and its contents are undrinkable, but its rarity is extreme: a single bottle of Lowenbrau rescued from the wreck of the Hindenburg has sold at auction for $16,000. Fire chief Leroy Smith...
View ArticleMadoff’s “Bull” Brings In $700,000
Victims of Bernie Madoff are more than $1 million closer to restitution after yesterday’s Ft. Lauderdale sale of his three boats. “Bull,” Madoff’s classic Rybovitch sport fisherman, garnered $700,000,...
View ArticleBonhams Floats Record
In its New York sale of martime art and ship models last Friday, Bonhams set a new world record when a “cut-away” model of the R.M.S. Ascania (circa 1925) sold for $122,000, well above its pre-sale...
View ArticleTitanic Sales Soar
Almost 100 years after she sank, the Titanic continues to exert a powerful pull on the public imagination, witness this week’s sale of memorabilia from the doomed ship at Wiltshire’s Henry Aldrich...
View ArticleNautical Collection Of Malcolm Forbes To Sell
Last month Sotheby’s sold Malcolm Forbes remarkable collection of toys, which included a number of boat models. But it was only a scintilla of the irrepressible publisher’s vest maritime collection—the...
View ArticleMalcolm Forbes’ Art & Queen Victoria’s Bloomers
What didn’t interest Malcolm Forbes? The late publisher collected art, hot air balloons, historical documents, yachts, real estate, motorcycles, maritime artifacts and toys—thousands of them. Now, yet...
View ArticleWyeths Lead New Hampshire Auction
Three generations of Wyeth’s have stood at the forefront of American art and illustration for much of the past century, and two of them are represented in a sale next month at Bonhams in Portsmouth,...
View ArticleSpectacular Maritime Art Auction
By today’s auction standards big money won’t cross the block, but beauty will, when some of the most enchanting paintings of ships at sea come to Annapolis, Md., where Heritage is selling what it...
View ArticleModel Ship May Take $250,000 Cruise To New Port
For $250,000 you could choose between quite a variety of powerboats and sailing vessels. Or you could apply the sum toward a model paddle wheeler that Bertoia Auctions is offering at a New Jersey sale...
View ArticleMaritime Art At Bonhams
In the mid-19th century, when sailing vessels ruled the seas, stormy voyages were a favorite theme of maritime artists. One of the most accomplished was James Edward Buttersworth, whose masterpiece may...
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