On Tuesday, May 1, Bonhams & Goodman will offer a particularly good selection of some 300 lots of unreserved antique and contemporary jewellery. The auction includes two large private collections of antique jewellery and three estates. The auction will take place at 11am in our Double Bay rooms with viewing on Monday 30 April 10am [...]

Australian online auction website OZtion claims its new online shopping tool helps turn shoppers watching an item on sale into buyers.
From an analysis of its recent Australian sales figures, OZtion says that when Aussies use online shopping tools which allow them to monitor the price of an item they are considering buying, they are 20 [...]

At the Bonhams & Goodman Decorative Arts Auction on Tuesday 24 April, the earliest documented piece of silver crafted entirely in Australia sold for a record breaking price of $408,000 including buyer’s premium. The piece, a commemorative silver pepper caster, is attributed to one of the earliest documented Australian silversmiths, the convict James Grove [...]

CallPlus CEO Martin Wylie is calling for rules to exclude the major telcos from an upcoming auction of 3G radio spectrum.
“The Australian government precluded Telstra from bidding for WiMAX spectrum and I hope that Minister Cunliffe will seriously take this on board before they finalise the rules for the auction,” Wylie says.
He argues the [...]

A Tasmanian woman faces jail after pulling off a travel scam on popular internet auction site eBay.
Nadia Lee O’Loughlin, 24, of Sutton Place in Burnie, appeared in the Burnie Magistrates Court yesterday.
She pleaded guilty to one count of using a computer with intent to defraud.
Prosecutor Colin Buxton told the court that on March 2, 2005, [...]

A RECENTLY discovered painting by Australian modernist Albert Tucker last night sold at auction for $840,000 - more than $600,000 above its original estimate.
Flirtation (1954) achieved a record auction price for the artist. The winning bidder was art consultant Brian Kino, acting on behalf of Melbourne property developer Max Moar and his former wife, Iris, [...]

The South Australian Government is taking steps to prevent the sale of a historic artefact found by two brothers in the state’s far north-east.
The men found what is believed to be a breastplate that in 1863 was presented to Aborigines who helped explorers Burke and Wills before their deaths.
Auctioneers say the brass plate could be [...]