Archive for October, 2007

BIOTA Sells for $3.8 million at Auction

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

BIOTA Brands of America, Inc. was sold at an on-site auction on Tuesday, Oct. 30 to an organic fertilizer company called Black Gold based out of Lubbock, Texas.
Spokesperson Kyle Zahn of Black Gold said the future of the plant is not certain.
Black Gold bought the “first option” of sale, which was the complete business. It […]

Frost Construction Chooses Worlds Largest Industrial Auctioneer to Conduct Retirement Dispersal in Lovell, Wyoming

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AuctionPublicity.com - On Friday, November 16, 2007, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - the world’s largest industrial auction company - will conduct a retirement dispersal auction for Frost Construction in Lovell, Wyoming. Close to 180 items will be sold in the unreserved public auction, which features asphalt and crushing equipment as well as trucks and construction equipment. […]

Auction Floor, Inc. Announces Release of Auction ManagerTM, the Complete Auction Support Platform

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AuctionPublicity.com - Auction Floor, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AFLR) (FRANKFURT: ZUI), a leading web-based marketer and technology provider to the auction industry, announced the commercial launch of its new Auction Manager™, a comprehensive “back of the house” desktop tool and auction management system.
The Company’s Auction Manager™, a proprietary software solution for auctioneers, enables the auctioneer to centralize […]

Barretts Equine Limited First West Coast Auction Facility to Employ Eklin Digital Repository(TM)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AuctionPublicity.com - Barretts Equine Limited, a leading California Thoroughbred auction facility, recently became the first West Coast auction house to employ the Eklin Digital Repository(TM) for review of digital radiographs (DR). Six review workstations were installed at Barretts October Yearling Sale, held earlier this month, by Eklin Medical Systems to accommodate rapid veterinary evaluation of […]

Mastro Auctions October Classic Collector Sale Surpasses $2.1 Million

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AuctionPublicity.com - It seems collectors just can’t get enough of what Mastro Auctions offers in its popular Classic Collector auctions. On October 25, the leading Sports and Americana auction house closed its final Classic Collector event of 2007. The results indicate there is no let up of
excitement surrounding these much anticipated sales that are packed […]

Fine Books & Manuscripts at Bonhams New York in December

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Bonhams’ December 4, 2007 auction of Fine Books and Manuscripts will feature a first edition of John Fisk Allen’s Victoria Regia, or the Great Water Lily of America, believed to be the first book printed in the United States using color-printed lithographs.
Described as “an extraordinary achievement, worthy of this giant Amazonian water-lily,” the book was […]

Family to Sell Robert Stevensons Model of Oldest Sea-Washed Lighthouse in the World at Bonhams

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AuctionPublicity.com - Bell Rock Lighthouse in The North Sea is one of Scotland’s greatest engineering feats of the early 19th century. Every lighthouse across the world that sits in the sea today has been built to Robert Stevenson’s same design and specification. On 28 November 2007, the original scale model for the lighthouse, which was […]