RM Sotheby’s “The Junkyard”: The Rudi Klein Collection, Los Angeles, October 26-28, 2024
There are places we know, or hear mentioned, but rarely if ever see. Places like Caruso’s on Long Island, the legendary A.K. Miller in Vermont, even Austie Clark’s museum (as much storage yard as museum.) Every once in a while, usually part of an end-of-life event, they surface and are dispersed in a flash of […]
RM Sotheby’s, Hershey, October 9-10, 2024
RM’s post-sale press release quoted RM’s President Gord Duff, “It’s always an experience coming back to Hershey. There’s something about the atmosphere—whether it’s the history, the people, the swap meet, or the cars—that makes it feel like a homecoming.” And that is exactly how it feels. It’s early Fall, a delightful season in Pennsylvania (when […]
Bonhams, Audrain Motor Week, Newport, RI, October 4, 2024
This was Bonhams fourth year at the Audrain Motor Week. The sale total was barely over half of what they had realized here in prior years. There were only 37 lots crossing the block (figuratively speaking as the cars were on static display in the Tennis Hall of Fame indoor court). Fortunately 24 of the […]
Mecum Auctions, Monterey, August 15-17, 2024
Mecum Auctions has firmly cemented its presence among the Monterey Week auction titans. It’s a different auction from RM and Gooding although with some notable exceptions Mecum has left Bonhams well-established Quail Lodge sale in its dust, particularly in 2024. Mecum Monterey has expanded its docket into seven figures with 24 lots bid into the […]
Bonhams Quail, August 16, 2024
Some history: In 2018 Bonhams, then led by Robert Brooks who had combined Brooks Auctioneers with Bonhams in 1999, was acquired by Epiris, a British private equity firm. Barely three years later, in August 2021, Robert Brooks died after “a long illness” suggesting the sale was an expedient resolution of an uncertain future. Originally motor […]
Broad Arrow Auctions, Monterey, August 14-15, 2024
Broad Arrow, backed by Hagerty, has now become an entrenched feature at Monterey. In their three-year history they have put up consistent and impressive numbers. Their sell-through rate this year was second only to RM Sotheby’s and the total dollars changing hands were third behind RM and Gooding, a credible performance after a hard-earned scramble […]