LOS ANGELES – Han Solo’s BlasTech DL-44 blaster from the Star Wars trilogy film Return of the Jedi (Lucasfilm, 1983) sold for $550,000 at Julien’s Auctions’ Hollywood Legends auction on Saturday, June 23, in Las Vegas. The buyer was Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
DAVENPORT, Wash. – Baseball all-stars of the mid-20th century abound in a Grant Zahajko Auctions sports cards and memorabilia auction on Thursday, June 28. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CARMEL, Ind. – Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers will conduct a Thursday Evening Art and Jewelry Auction on June 28 starting at 6 p.m. Eastern Time. The auction is composed of about 75 lots of fine art, including works by listed Indiana artists, about 130 lots of fine jewelry and watches, and about two dozen lots of gold and silver coins. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
ALAMEDA, Calif. – Modern sculpture, Asian porcelain, California paintings and estate gems bring excitement to Michaan’s July 7 Gallery Auction. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOSTON – Hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer is also a noted collector, and RR Auction is offering more than 100 rare and significant letters from his vast collection. Bidding begins June 22 and the online auction will conclude Thursday, June 28. The fully illustrated auction catalog can be viewed on LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Race fans will be competing for 60 lots of motoring memorabilia when Jasper52 waves the green flag on an online auction June 26. The auction catalog contains racing posters and many contemporary limited editions designed and made by Halmo, an automotive design firm in Italy. An outstanding example is a coffee table having a real Ferrari engine as the base. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
YORK, Pa. – So far this year in the world of pop culture, only Avengers: Infinity War has been able to rival the excitement level generated by Hake’s record-setting March auction. Led by a fresh-to-the-market issue of Detective Comics #27 that sold for a staggering $569,000, the sale took in $2.35 million and emphatically validated the demand for Golden and Silver Age comics and original comic art. Once again it’s time for collectors to fasten their seat belts, as Hake’s rolls out a blockbuster July 10-12 online-auction event brimming with rare memorabilia from hundreds of popular categories.
BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. – The peaked caps and sleeve insignia of the German Third Reich diplomatic ambassador to Russia, the personal automobile standard and three other fender flags used by Kaiser Wilhelm II and a pair of British Georgian silver mounted flintlock pistols will all come up for bid Saturday, June 30, at Mohawk Arms Inc. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Maps made by the world’s most renowned cartographers of their times are presented in an auction to be conducted by Jasper52 on Tuesday, June 26. Not only will these maps serve as decorative pieces, but they also will reveal innumerable ways to view our world, from Imperial Russia to the to the Strait of Magellan. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present more pieces of fine and costume jewelry from the collections of Felicia Michalski and Anita Hellman on Sunday, July 1. Featuring over 210 lots acquired over five decades, the sale offers fine jewelry for ladies, including rings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches. Most are crafted of gold, silver or platinum, with precious stones and embellishments such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, amethyst, opal, jade, amber, turquoise, coral, cultured and seed pearls, pink tourmaline, enamel and citrine. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.