Friday 13th December 2024
Bonhams’ latest Bond St auction grosses £2.6m
Playing to a boisterous saleroom full of Christmas spirit courtesy of Bonhams and Pol Roger, auctioneer Richard Stafford sold two thirds of the firm’s final motor car sale of the year catalogue.
Once a flagship auction, yesterday's event has slipped in importance over the years. In 2014 th...
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Friday 6th December 2024
Aguttes hits €4.5m for its autumn Paris sale
French fine art auction house Aguttes, the ‘other’ Parisian firm, which also handles watches, classic cars and anything relating to ‘luxury and the art of living', held an end-of-season sale in the French capital on 1 December.
Top-sell...
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Monday 2nd December 2024
RM returns to Dubai and sells ‘One-Off Series’ Pagani Zonda LM Roadster for $11m
In its second visit to the Gulf state this year, RM achieved a broadly similar result to the one recorded nine months ago: 73% sold-by-number, 80% of cars bought below average estimate. Several big-ticket items, though, added $11m to the gross: $2...
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Monday 25th November 2024
€23m+ for RM Sotheby’s in Munich
With nine out of ten motor cars offered finding new owners in the capital of Bavaria on Saturday, it was a solid event for the Canadian firm. Many, though, sold below low estimate, including the top-selling 1923 Mercedes Type 122 Indianapolis Race...
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Sunday 24th November 2024
RM sells the final 300 SL ‘Gullwing’ for $2.4m in Las Vegas
At a star-studded charity event held on the eve of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, RM Sotheby’s sold the last-ever ‘Gullwing’ built for $2,400,000.
Billed as “The Last One”, chassis 198.040.7500079 was completed on 15 May 1957 as an ‘ex...
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Monday 4th November 2024
RM hits £17.4m at The Peninsula – a new highlight of ‘London to Brighton Weekend’
Knightsbridge’s recently opened uber-chic Peninsula Hotel was the fresh backdrop for RM’s seasonal November auction, held on the eve of the venerable London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which dates all the way back to 1896 and attracts a globa...
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Thursday 31st October 2024
Classic Car Auction Yearbook 2023-2024
It’s landed. After months of painstaking research, the annual tradition that is Adolfo Orsi’s exhaustive work on developments in the classic car market at public auction has been published. In a 430-page hardback volume, Orsi examines a busine...
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