Auctions

Florida Doctor Trying to Sell 1959 Masters Jacket Thinks Golf Club's Claims to Ownership Are Bull

Last Tuesday, Dallas County District Judge Emily Tobolowsky temporary halted Heritage Auctions' planned sale of the 1959 Masters green jacket. Augusta National, the famed Georgia golf club that hosts the tournament, had sued Heritage to have the auction stopped, claiming that the jacket had been sto ... More >>

A Dallas Judge Halted Heritage Auctions' Sale of the 1959 Masters Green Jacket [Updated]

Update at 4:02 p.m.: Heritage has issued a statement: "Yesterday the Augusta National Golf Club filed suit against Heritage Auctions over the Art Wall's 1959 Green Master's jacket being offered in an upcoming sale in New York City. Prior to their filling the lawsuit, Augusta National did not conta ... More >>

Revenge Of The Munny

Art Conspiracy's RZN8 Pits Art Against Music

See also: Scenes from Art Conspiracy's RZN8 It takes money to make money, and so it also takes money to raise money. Saturday night, Art Conspiracy continued its trajectory with a seed event to prepare for their fall shindig, and moving from Sons of Herman Hall to Life in Deep Ellum gave the art be ... More >>

Get Annie's Gun (And Hat) at Heritage Auctions on Sunday

The A.P. is reporting that Heritage Auctions, the purveyor of valuable and collectible arcana, is hawking the hat and guns of Annie Oakley, the famed sharpshooter who could split a playing card, edge-on, with a bullet. The items, which are being put up for sale by some of Oakley's California-based ... More >>

Heritage Auctions is Being Sued by Mongolia -- Yes, the Country -- Over the Sale of a Dinosaur

My 3-year-old son is crushed. Yesterday, his dad was about $1,052,480 shy of purchasing a 75 percent complete fossil skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, sold by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. Or at least I would have been had I put in a bid. It's just as well, though, because whoever purchased the ... More >>

Industry Rallies for Andrew Lostetter, Dallas Bartender Injured in Snowboarding Accident

Andrew Lostetter has been a bartender in Dallas for almost 15 years, serving at Fireside Pies, Neighborhood Services Tavern and Marquee Grill. Recently he was snowboarding in Breckenridge, Colorado, when he was hit by a wayward skier and propelled into a tree. The impact caused four fractures to hi ... More >>

The Right Stuff, But Whose Stuff? NASA, Astronauts Tussle Over Items Sold by Heritage.

​Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: "Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas." (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage's website, the listing for the historic ar ... More >>

No Pony for Christmas? Then How 'Bout a Fort Worth Cattle-Drivin' Quarter Horse?

​Saw a story in The Wall Street Journal this morning concerning something we've written about a couple of times in recent months -- how the drought's causing donkey owners 'round these parts to cut 'em loose, creating what Dallas County Sheriff's Department Senior Sergeant Patrick Bonner refers to ... More >>

Heritage to Sell Odd Bit of Cotton Bowl History. Turns Out, the City Has Its Own Stash o' Seats.

Heritage Auction Galleries​For the longest time I've had this auction item sitting on my desktop: a chair said to be from the Cotton Bowl circa 1960-'62, during the Dallas Texans' days at Fair Park. Heritage is parting with the curio this weekend, during the same auction at which it's offering the ... More >>

Because, Apparently, Dallas ISD Will Order Far More Band Uniforms Than It Needs

​A couple of years back we espied three pallets of band uniforms and hats being auctioned off by the Dallas Independent School District, and at quite the nice price. (The whole lot wound up going for ... $15.) This, then, is the sequel: Whilst perusing the latest DISD surplus-equipment offering on ... More >>

Heritage Auctions Asks Dallas Federal Judge: Tell Us Who Owns John Quincy Adams Letters

Via.John Quincy Adams by Ed Alstrom, 2003 ​Once again Unfair Park's cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries finds itself caught between two parties claiming to own historical missives -- in this case, letters written by John Quincy Adams, which are currently being kept in a vault on M ... More >>

Own the Duke's Duds

Stone Family Fundraiser Hosted By Pecan Lodge and Lockhart Smokehouse

Shannon Stone​Pecan Lodge Catering and Lockhart Smokehouse will hold a fundraiser to benefit the family of Lt. Shannon Stone, the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter who died July 7 after falling from the outfield stands at a Texas Rangers game in Arlington. The event, August 14th, at Shed 2 in ... More >>

Perfect For Your Blue Thunder Remake

​I was going to post about something else presently up for grabs on Lone Star Auctioneers' website ... till I ran into this: The city of Dallas is auctioning off a Bell Helicopter Model 407, with the current bid sitting at $987,500. Sounds nice: "The engine is a Rolls Royce model 250-C47B, total e ... More >>

Does JOT the Dot Jog Your Memory, Oh, Longtime Local? Because Its Cels Are For Sale.

A close-up look at one of the JOT the Dot cels about to hit the auction block​I called Heritage Auction Galleries PR man Noah Fleisher about something we'd mentioned long ago when he asked, out of nowhere, "Do you remember JOT the Dot?" Oh, sweet fancy Moses. Barely."Is that the Presbyterian Perio ... More >>

Dallas County's Car Czar Vows He'll Make it Easy to Reclaim Cars from Dowdy Ferry Lot

Patrick MichelsDallas County's "Car Czar" Bob McGrath, alongside County Commissioner Clay Jenkins and Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Dallas County Commissioner Clay Jenkins rounded up reporters this morning to help spread the good word about the county's plan to help owners get reunited with cars impounded a ... More >>

You've Got a Few Hours Left to Scoop Up Very Good Deals On Very Old Dallas and Texas Titles

Heritage Auction GalleriesSome of the titles presently available for a few dollars till 10 tonight​This morning I was scouting Heritage Auction Galleries' website for local items of note perched on the auction block when I noticed a few bookshelves' worth of titles being offered at the low, low pr ... More >>

In Tarrant County, Oswald's Brother Sues Auctioneer, Funeral Home Over Lee's Coffin

Inside the coffin of Lee Harvey Oswald​Remember when that L.A. auction house auctioned off the pine box in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth? Man, seems like only six weeks ago. Since then, of course, the c ... More >>

From a Cemetery in Fort Worth to an Auction House in L.A.: Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin

​Via Gawker, this ghoulish gift suggestion (?): Lee Harvey Oswald's Original Pine Coffin, currently up for grabs courtesy the Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders, Inc. This is the pine box in which Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery ... More >>

Steaks and Bids

Chefs Clash for a Cause

Liverpool FC, Like Your Texas Rangers, Will Also Be Auctioned Off. That Should Be Fun.

Spirit of Shankly​Sam's back in a Fort Worth courtroom this morning, where Judge Michael Lynn's trying to decide just when to auction off Your Texas Rangers. Among those in attendance: Chuck Greenberg, Nolan Ryan and, for whatever reason, Rangers GM Jon Daniels and skipper Ron Washington, who, fro ... More >>

Bill Shatner's Coming to Town in October. You Khan Greet Him in His Star Trek II Uniform.

​If I can sneak away this afternoon, I'm gonna cross Oak Lawn and visit Heritage Auction Galleries HQ -- just so's I can touch the hem of one Admiral James T. Kirk. The Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan costume worn by Bill Shatner, and since stored in the private collection of a prop-and-costume co ... More >>

Planting the SEED For Art Conspiracy

Rachel ParkerThe scene at last year's Art Conspiracy, a rather frigid affair on W. Commerce Street​Cari Weinberg sends word this morning of two significant developments concerning this year's Art Conspiracy, always an annual highlight. First: After last December's frigid wingding on West Commerce, ... More >>

Heritage Sues to Determine Who Really Owns Michael Jackson's Stuff

​Back in November, Unfair Park's across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries auctioned off a pile of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including a signed guitar, some autographed album covers and his fedora. Heritage says it got the stuff from a Los Angeles man named Benson Hopp, to whom Heri ... More >>

Bundled Up at Art Conspiracy 5

Rachel ParkerOne of the pieces auctioned off Saturday night. It looks even better on the other side.​A hip crowd in cold-weather gear packed the warehouse at 511 W. Commerce Street Saturday night for Art Conspiracy 5, the flash-gallery show with paintings and mixed-media pieces made the night befo ... More >>

Lawsuit Claims Heritage Auction Galleries Uses Fake Bidder to Manipulate Auctions

Greg Rohan, president of Heritage Auction GalleriesA former senior Civil War consultant for Heritage Auction Galleries alleges the Dallas-based company uses a fake bidder to defraud customers. A lawsuit filed May 22 by Gary Hendershott against Heritage and six others also claims the world's third la ... More >>

Tomorrow, Heritage to Begin Auctioning For Millions Artwork That Once Sold for Pennies

Heritage Auction Gallery/The Estate of Charles MartignetteGil Elvgren's A Near Miss (Right on Target), from 1964, is among the pieces being auctioned off tomorrow.A couple of weeks back, Todd Hignite -- Heritage Auction Gallery's consignment director and a scholar on the subject of illustration and ... More >>

Art Fight

At SMU Over the Weekend, the Art for Darfur Event Raised Money and Spirits

Alexa Schirtzinger Check out more photos from the auction in our slideshow.In front of a room at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts crammed with fine art and well-dressed folks sipping coffee, Ismail Omer gingerly approached a microphone. "I left Sudan in 1994," he began "I had friends who died in jai ... More >>

Gentleman Auction House, Cocky Americans

Monday, December 8, at Club Dada

Art Speaks Out

DCAC hosts a life-changing art show

Hey Beatles Fans, Any Plans For That Last Paycheck?

Richard Roper: U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. And Very, Very Busy Debt Collector.

Always Wanted to Own Ray Nasher's Art Collection? Now's Yer Chance.

Magnum, Pee-Yew

Sword Fight

We All Fall Down

Home Sweet Auctioned-Off Home

Heartsong

OK, So This is the Wright Chair After All

The Contractor Did It!

History for Sale

Heritage Auction Galleries made a fortune selling rare coins. Now it’s making a mint offering gems from America’s rich past.

So Blue

These musicians have the blues, but they're happy to be here

Horse Opera

Best Place for Millionaires to Be Geeks

Heritage Comics in Auctions Heritage Plaza

Tour Buzz

KERA salutes movies and raises money with Tour of Taste

Vroom Vroom

The Dallas Collector Car Auction kicks the tires on some oldies but goodies

Now Hear This

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