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Welcome to The FREE, Government Auctions UK Newsletter Back to archive   In this issue: Auctions This Week Beatles Sale Could Set New Records When the gavel comes down, London rules the art world BidNation.co.uk to Provide Reverse Auction Platform Auctioneers expect £1m for Henry Moore Sculpture Military memorabilia under the hammer Football Fans lost £40,000 in eBayfraud Irish Sales Hi, PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS INFORMATION APPEARS IN THE NEWS SECTION AT THE MEMBERS' AREA AT GOVERNMENT AUCTIONS AS SOON AS WE RECEIVE IT. FULL DETAILS ABOUT EACH AUCTIONEEER CAN BE FOUND AT THE SITE. The GAUK Newsletter is our regular FREE auction news bulletin designed to keep you updated with news, latest sales, auction results and general pieces of interesting auction information that have occurred throughout the week. It is also published as an RSS feed, the very latest in technology which you need to take advantage of, allowing you to recieve news from all your favourite news sourches when you want it. This is a supplement to information contained in the main GAUK Database and is an additional service. Please Read On...

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Ramsey Auction Rooms
Saturday 13th August
Contact: http://www.auctions.freeserve.co.uk/
Catalogue: http://www.auctions.freeserve.co.uk/lots.htm

To include approx 393 Lots to include: Beatles Memorabilia including John Lennon plates by Danbury Mint, Ltd Edition Hand Numbered CD Plaques, Film Cell from Beatles Hard Days Night, Framed Beatles Badge with Christies Certificate, John Lennon Blue Plaque Collection with Pete Best autograph, Beatles Advertising Storyboard (1 of only 2 in the world), Paul McCartney RIAA Gold Award Disc, Beatles Yellow Submarine Collectors Cards, Beatles Video & CD Booklets, Beatles Yellow Submarine Teaset, Beatles Hard Days Night DVD's in Display Case with Lithograph Promotional Certificate from Buena Vista, Full set of Beatles Autographs 1963/1964 with full Authentication from Frank Caiazzo, Beatles "Butcher" Sleeve Proof Poster Auctioned at Bonhams in 2000. Desert Eagle 150cc 4 stroke Quad Bike, Selection of Toys to include: Water Warrior Guns, , A Maze in Ball, Speedstars, Star Wars, plus much much more, Coffee Tables, Tables & Chairs, Mirrors, Leather Sofa's, Arm Chairs, Hornby Railway Spares, Signed Shirt of Ronaldo, Man Utd Team, Louis Saha, Washbasins, Computer Desks, Selection of Gold Jewellery, Watches, Vacuum Cleaners, Sideboards, Selection of China & Glass, Wardrobes, Pine Dresser, TV, Guitar, Photographic Equipment, Hi-Fi's, Kettles, Toasters, Dinner Sets, Purses, Netsuke, German Bayonet, Ladies Sunglasses, Knitting Machine, Plus much much more.

Arthur Johnson & Sons, The Nottingham Auction Centre, Meadow Lane, Nottingham. Tel: 0115 986 9128. Saturday 13th August at 11am; a sale of commercial catering equipment. Taking place at The Nottingham Auction Centre.

Wyles Hardy, Ley Hill Road, Bovingdon, Hemel Hempstead. Tel: 01442 832234. Thursday 18th August from 10am to 4pm; a tender sale of light commercial vehicles. Taking place at Ley Hill Road.

George Hazell & Co, The Auction Centre, 32 Norwich Road, Watton, Thetford. Tel: 01953 88255. Thursday 18th August at 10.30am; electrical wholesaler's contracting stock. Taking place at The Stanhope House, Stephenson Way, Thetford, Norfolk.

CJM Asset Management, Duchess House, Queensway Court, North Lincs. Tel: 01724 334411. Friday 19th August at 12noon woodworking machines, wood stocks, building materials, office furniture and business equipment. Taking place at Unit 1, Enterprise Works, East Common Lane, Grange Industrial Estate, Scunthorpe.

This Week:

Frank Marshall, Chelford Agricultural Centre, Cheshire. Tel: 01625 861122. Wednesday 10th August;agricultural and contractors plant, building materials, farm implements, tractors, small tools etc. Taking place at Chelford Agricultural Centre, Macclesfield.

Chas W Harrison, Ashfield House, Illingworth St, Ossett, West Yorkshire. Tel: 01924 279005. Wednesday 10th August at 10.30am; complete contents of an American themed bar. Taking place at Panama Joe's, Pitt Street, Barnsley.

Team Auctions, 60 Bentinck Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Tel: 0191 226 0670. Sales of commercial catering equipment at 11am.Wednesday 10th August at The Hilton Dundee, Earl Grey Place, Dundee. Thursday 11th August at Carlisle Racecourse, The Bell Hall, Durdar Road. Monday 15th August at Newport Rugby Club, Rodney Parade, Newport, Gwent. Tuesday 16th August at Ledbury Rugby Club, Ross Road, Herts. Wednesday 17th August at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Coalbrookdale, Telford.

Shirlaw Cathcart, 12 Lambhill Quadrant, Kinning Park, Glasgow. Tel: 0141 420 6690. Thursday 11th August at 12noon;collection of movie memorabilia, DVDs, toys, games, collectibles etc, computers and office equipment, electrical contractor's stock, small plant, gym equipment. Taking place at 12 Lambhill Quadrant.

Simon Charles Auctioneers, Unit 5, Pear Mill, Pear Industrial Estate, Stockport Road West, Lower Bredbury, Stockport, Cheshire SK6 2BP Tel: 0161 406 0111.Thursday 11th August at 10am;upholstery and cabinet furniture, beds, carpets and bathroom fittings, catering equipment and appliances, garden furniture, tools, gym equipment. Taking place at Unit 5, Pear Industrial Estate.

Bonnie, Docherty & Hewitt. Tel: 01522 778331. Thursday 11th August to Saturday 13th August from 8am to 5pm; tender sale of ex MoD vehicles and miscellaneous equipment and hand tools. Tenders due by Monday 15th August by 12noon. Taking place at East Field Farm, Swinderby Road, North Scarles, Lincoln.

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Auction News

Beatles sale could set new records

BEATLE-MANIA is set to take over Ramsey Auction Rooms on Saturday as various pieces of authentic Beatle memorabilia go under, as it were, Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

The collection of goods from Liverpool's Fab Four will Come Together with the usual items up for auction which includes garden furniture, china, jewellery, electrical goods, tools and bicycles.

Antony Pryor who has been involved in the running of Ramsey Auctions for 18 months, is thrilled with the rare find. He said: "To have such an exclusive lot up for auction is amazing and very exciting for us.

"The collection is extensive but even more important is the bill of authenticity we have obtained, which proves that the articles are genuine. We were provided with a bill of sale proof from Christie's auction house in London and a mark of authenticity from Frank Caiazzo, who is the number one authority on the Beatles handwriting.

"His original email is probably worth as much as some of the goods."

The estimated value of the lot ranges from £5 to £2,750 with the most expensive item being a framed picture from Strato UK of the four band members, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, complete with their signatures.

Other exclusive items include a proof of an album cover for The Butcher which was banned because the pictures were too graphic, a framed box set of the album and film A Hard Day's Night and the gold disc given to Paul McCartney when his song All the Best sold its 500,000th copy.

Visitors can also bid for smaller collectables, such as framed CDs and a miniature Yellow Submarine tea-set, with the teapot shaped as a yellow submarine.

They can expect to be in good hands as the auction gets underway. David Palmer, auctioneer at Ramsey Auction Rooms, is a familiar face on television programmes, including the BBC antiques series Flog It! and will be governing proceedings at the auction on Saturday, August 13. Visitors will find their money Can't Buy Me Love but some precious items may go From Me to You.

INFORMATION: Ramsey Auction Rooms hold a live auction every second and last Saturday in the month. The rooms are at Units 9 and 10, Northern Mill, Field Road in Ramsey. They are open from 10am-3pm and anyone interested in viewing the goods before the day can do so on-line at www.auctions.freeserve.co.uk.

When the gavel comes down, London rules the art world

August 11th, 2005
London overtook New York to become the world's biggest art auction centre in the first half of the year, with $854-million (U.S.) of sales, reported Artprice.com, a French data service.

London racked up a 38.2-per-cent share of the $2.23-billion of fine art sold by Sotheby's Holdings Inc., Christie's International and other houses between Jan. 1 and July 18, Artprice said in an e-mailed report. New York sales in the period totalled $833-million or 37.3 per cent of the total, which rose 10.2 per cent from a year earlier, it said.

"This increase is essentially due to the spectacular ascent of the U.K. market, which has over the years become the most dynamic epicentre of the global art market," said Artprice, whose headquarters are in Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, France.

One or two big pictures can put a city ahead in the auction stakes. London last topped New York in 2002, when Canadian newspaper magnate Ken Thomson paid £49.5-million pounds ($107.3-million Canadian at current exchange rates) for Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents, according to Artprice.

For 2004, New York had a 46-per-cent share of global auction sales and London had 27 per cent, according to Artprice. The U.S. city's total was swelled last year by a Picasso painting that raised more than $100-million (U.S.).

New York has the biggest sales of impressionist, modern and contemporary art. London is the No. 1 market for Old Master paintings -- its last sales were in early July, showing up in Artprice data -- and has a diversity of sales from Islamic to British, Irish and Asian art that pushed it ahead in the first half.

Even after the terrorist attacks last month, a Canaletto painting of Venice sold for £18.6-million at a London auction, breaking a record for the 18th-century Italian artist.

France's market share was 5.7 per cent and Italy's was 3.4 per cent, Artprice said.

BidNation.co.uk to Provide Reverse Auction Platform
August 10th, 2005

BidNation ( http://www.bidnation.co.uk ), the thriving 'reverse auction' website where the lowest unique bidder wins the goods, has secured a deal to provide its bespoke platform to Archant ( http://www.archant.co.uk ), the UK’s fourth largest independent newspaper group. The resulting site, launching under the banner of bid24, will go live to 1.5m readers in the London area during August.

Since its introduction in January 2005, BidNation.co.uk has attracted over 14,000 members who bid for a variety of luxury products such as iPods, foreign holidays and plasma TVs. Users can bid on many items for just £1 a time plus a small administration fee, and can win high-value goods for literally pennies. The idea is to place the lowest unique bid, which can be between 1p and the maximum bid amount for a particular auction.

Archant approached BidNation to supply its reverse auction platform for bid24 to assist in expanding and developing interactive media platforms throughout the group. If the system proves successful in London, Archant will roll it out nationally through its newspaper, magazine and website titles.

Clive Haden, director of digital media at Archant Group, comments: "We view our relationship with BidNation for the provision of the bid24 reverse auction platform as an important step in our strategy to capture future new media revenues from the online auction sector."

Justin Chamberlain, marketing director at BidNation, comments: "The growth of BidNation in terms of our user base and commercial applications has taken us by surprise over the past six months. The contract with Archant is just the tip of the iceberg as we are about to sign another three separate commercial deals which will ensure BidNation reaches a UK TV audience, while re-branded licensed platforms will also be launching globally."

BidNation is based in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, and launched December 2004 to provide an online reverse auction platform at http://www.bidnation.co.uk. The company has eight employees.

Auctioneers expect £1m for Henry Moore Sculpture
August 9th, 2005

A tiny marble sculpture by Henry Moore - bought for 18 guineas soon after it was carved in 1931 - should fetch more than £1 million at auction.

The eight and three quarter-inch high figure, entitled Mother and Child, was described by the sculptor as "one of my best earlier pieces".

Moore drew inspiration for the piece, carved in the finest marble, verde di prato, from a visit to Florence in 1925, when he visited the Brancacci Chapel each morning to admire the figures of the Italian painter Tommaso Masaccio.

Matthew Bradbury, of Bonhams, which offers the work for sale in London on 29 November, said yesterday: "Very few pre-Second World War works by Moore come to auction. It is an image of true harmony - aesthetically satisfying and appealing."

Military memorabilia under the hammer

Historical items and military memorabilia are much sought after and, indeed often fought over, whenever they appear in auction houses.

So there will be much enthusiasm for Christie's 'Age of Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon sale' in the autumn.

A well-timed event, it will be held at King St, London, on October 19, exactly two days before the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Among many valuble lots are the 'secret' orders for the decisive battle.

Signed by Admiral Lord Nelson and dated October 9, 1805 they were sent to Eliab Harvey, the captain of the legendary ship, The Fighting Temeraire.

The document is estimated to fetch anything from £60,000 to £90,000.

The sale will be led by what is considered the most important medal from British military history ever to come under a gavel.

The gold medal presented to Captain Hardy after the Battle of Trafalgar, it carrries a high estimate of £120,000 and is part of a selection of medals and decorations which have passed by descent to the vendor.

Don't be surprised if the medal is actually sold for a lot more.

Christie's tell me Lord Nelson was a client and acquaintance of James Christie, founder of the famous auction house.

"The catalogue for the sale of Nelson's estate, organised by Emma Hamilton after the hero's death, is still held in our archives," an auction house spokesman said.

Football Fans lost £40,000 in eBayfraud

An internet conman fleeced sports fans of thousands of pounds before being caught with the help of the Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, a court heard yesterday.

Robert Housden used the auction site eBay to sell bogus memorabilia that included a pair of boots supposedly signed by David Beckham, the England captain.

Customers bombarded Housden, 19, with bids believing them to be genuine autographed shirts from teams including England and Brazil. In reality they were poor-quality replicas he had signed himself with a marker pen.

Housden, who was desperate to pay off loans and gambling debts, pocketed up to £40,000 through the fraud. He was caught after trading standards officers met Sir Alex and his players to obtain a genuine shirt with real signatures, and then checked them against the fakes.

Leicester Crown Court was told how Housden set up a genuine on-line sports memorabilia business after leaving school at 16 with 10 GCSEs.

But he soon found himself struggling to pay back the man who had loaned him the start-up funds.

An experienced collector, who paid £200 for a "signed" Manchester United shirt, recognised the signatures as fake.

Housden, from Shepshed, Leics, admitted 14 charges of obtaining cash transfers by deception, and one of obtaining a cheque by deception. He asked for 57 similar offences to be considered. The case was adjourned until next month.

Irish Sales
August 7th, 2005

ROSS'S: A 19th century oil painting, a 'student work', sold for £1850 while a pair of seascapes by the contempory painter, JP Rooney made £1000.

A 19th century circular mahogany occasional table realised £650 while a Victorian Vienna wall clock went at £360.

Among other lots were: carved mahogany dressing table stool £300; 19th century percussion cap tower rifle £260; Victorian mahogany chest of drawers £240; late Victorian carved walnut princess wardrobe £230; three piece embossed velour chesterfield suite £220.

Lots in Ross's basement included: J.P. Rooney oil painting £460; new 5ft divan bed £320; walnut piano - Otto Berlin £290; three piece conservatory suite £220; oak cased shop display cabinet £190; cast iron garden table & chairs £180; Yamaha electric piano £180; nine silver napkin rings £150.

MORGANS: Scotch chest of drawers, £420; Victorian mahogany dining table, £380; carved walnut three door wardrobe and matching bed, £240; oak telescopic dining table, £220; satinwood library table, £200; slate mantle clock £160; oak sideboard £130.

BLOOMFIELDS: Four Doulton figures, £420; diamond ring, £340; pair Regency hall chairs, £300; stamp album £230.

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