More than 50 posters from India’s vibrant Hindi cinema industry – widely known as Bollywood – will be sold at Bonhams Rock n Roll & Film Memorabilia sale at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on Wednesday 20 June 2007.
Bollywood allows a fascinating window into Indian life and culture. Presented in a mixture of Hindi and Urdu, [...]

Aucton House Bonhams will hold their first dedicated International Contemporary Ceramics auction in New York, USA on Tuesday 5 June 2007. This groundbreaking and diverse sale will feature the most ambitious post-war Contemporary Ceramic Art representing several countries including Britain, America, Japan, France, Spain, Denmark, Mexico and Kenya.
Bonhams Director of Contemporary Ceramics, Ben William, [...]

A TAMESIDE auction house is auctioning off a classic car once used to chauffeur Princess Diana around.
The Jaguar Sovereign, a 1992 model in Westminster blue, is one of more than 30 vintage vehicles in the sale at Simon Charles Auctioneers in Ashton.
It is hoped its royal connections will raise up to £20,000.
The motor, described as [...]

eBay has bought social media service StumbleUpon for $75 million in cash. The deal gives eBay access to StumbleUpon’s 2.3 million users via the StumbleUpon toolbar, which allows users to “stumble” to new sites, videos, and other content within user-selected categories.
StumbleUpon’s founders and management will remain with the company, which will now be led by [...]

A pink cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany‘s” was auctioned Wednesday for nearly $200,000 — more than six times what the auctioneers expected.
The sleeveless dress, worn for the scene in which Holly Golightly discovers her brother has died, sold for $192,000 to a private European buyer at Christie‘s sale of film [...]

Brazil’s central bank said on Wednesday it will hold an auction to buy U.S. dollars on the spot foreign exchange market as part of an ongoing effort to build up international reserves.
The Brazilian currency, the real (BRBY: Quote, Profile, Research, was 0.31 percent stronger at 1.944 per dollar after the announcement. The real has traded [...]

In Tennants Summer Stamp Sale on Wednesday, 13th June there will be a superb used specialized Great Britain Stamp Collection of Queen Victoria engraved issues covering 1840. To include 1d blacks, 2d blues and 1d reds, with all the plate numbers and a range of varieties and flaws. The collection comes from a [...]

Arthur Ransome’s children’s book Swallows and Amazons became an instant classic when it was first published more than 70 years ago and is still in print today.
And now a rare first edition has come on the open market – and is expected to sell for several thousand pounds.
The book will be sold at the summer [...]

Press Release
ADESA, Inc., a leading provider of wholesale vehicle auctions and used vehicle dealer floorplan financing, and Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc., a leading provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, today reported their first quarter financial results.
Acquisition of ADESA by Private Equity Group
As previously announced, the acquisition of [...]

The Bank of Italy said its auction of seven-year treasury certificates (CCTs) was 79.34 pct oversubscribed, while the yield was up from the previous auction.
The bank received 3.587 bln eur of bids for the 2.000 bln on offer, while the yield rose to 4.25 pct from 4.14 previously, the bank said.
The price established was 101.04, [...]