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Archive for July, 2006

Australian Auction Site OZtion Announces Public Beta for $5/month Online vShop

Monday, July 31st, 2006

OZtion, Australia’s second largest online auction site (http://www.oztion.com.au) has today announced that they are accepting registrations for a public beta of their new vShop service.
Anybody can setup their own Internet store for just $5 a month using our vShop service. You don’t need to be a computer expert to sell products online. Thousands of [...]

Record prices predicted at Sotheby’s Indigenous art auction

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Some of the most sought-after Indigenous art will go under the hammer at Australia’s largest annual auction of Aboriginal work in Melbourne tonight.
Sotheby’s is auctioning 131 pieces that are expected to fetch a record price of between $4 million and $6 million.
Sotheby’s director of Aboriginal Art, Tim Klingender, says central Australian artwork features prominently in [...]

Gold Coast and Perth to host thoroughbred dispersal sales

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Two Magic Millions sales around the country next month will offer some of the country’s best bred thoroughbreds as part of the dispersal of bloodstock from Astrik Pty Ltd.
Some 98 horses of all ages have been catalogued for the auctions on the Gold Coast and in Perth.
The outstanding offering of weanlings, yearlings, racehorses and broodmares [...]

Anzac Cove painting sells for $44,973

Friday, July 28th, 2006

A 1915 painting of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey stunned art experts when it sold for nearly five times its estimated value at an art auction in Auckland this week.
The postcard-sized watercolour was painted by Horace Moore-Jones, the artist who made Anzac medic John Simpson and his donkey Murphy famous, and was [...]

Rare coin returns to Australia

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Melbourne-based Coinworks beat off stiff competition to claim a 1920 Pattern Star shilling at a London auction, setting a new price record.
The coin - one of only seven in existence - sold for £48,300 (about $150,000, with taxes) the highest price for a coin of its make.
It is one of Australia’s rarest coins and considered [...]

Forbes to trial web livestock auctions

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Internet livestock auctions could soon be trialed at the Central West Livestock Exchange at Forbes.
The Saleyards Operators Association of New South Wales is holding its two-day conference in Forbes and the future of selling will be discussed.
Chief executive officer Ron Penny says the association has negotiated a deal with a telecommunications carrier for live website [...]

Gallipoli VC medal sets auction record

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Australia’s last privately owned Victoria Cross medal awarded at Gallipoli sold at auction in Sydney, setting a world record price of $1 million.
The medal was purchased by a prominent philanthropic Australian businessman who wished to remain anonymous and who bid over the phone.
Lot 1078 included seven other medals with a combined value of less than [...]