EDINBURGH, U.K.- Lyon & Turnbull‘s two-day Design Since 1860 sale will showcase almost 600 lots of furniture, fittings, artworks, and objects from leading artisans, studios, and manufacturers. It will take place April 21-22, with absentee and Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – A selection of sizable stones will feature in Jasper52s‘s Fine Loose Diamonds sale, scheduled for April 14 and starting at 6 pm Eastern time. No longer in the rough, these diamonds need your imagination — or that of a jewelry designer — to realize their full potential. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET, England – The Out of the Ordinary auction at Sworders on April 13-14 is its largest to date, numbering close to 600 lots. The sale brings together the weird and the wonderful, from an original Dalek from the Doctor Who television series to a sword presented by Catherine the Great to a cossack who helped put down a rebellion to ‘the Smallest Show On Earth’ –the UK’s last surviving flea circus.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police arrested a suspect Tuesday in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said. The paintings, however, remain missing.