Former Christie s and Sotheby s auctioneer launches mobile-first digital auction app
Fast paced, micro auctions in a myriad of categories from Burgundy to Banksy.
LONDON
.-ARBY hosts mobile-first, daily digital auctions backed by seasoned auction professionals. Auctions hammer at the same time each day (2pm GMT, 9am EST, 10pm HKST. Founded by Richard Brierley, a near 25-year veteran auctioneer of art, wine and collectibles.
Brierley explains Despite everyone spending a lot more time at home, attention is the real prize in engaging with collectors and passionate professionals. By limiting each auction to just a handful of lots, at most, ARBY requires just a few moments of your time each day at the same time but always something new. The goal is to make ARBY a fixture in your daily calendar. You dont have to sort through hundreds of lots to find a treasure!
Eli Wilner & Company announces 2021 fully-funded frame restoration grant opportunity for museums
A 19th Century portrait frame in the collection of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, before and after restoration by Eli Wilner & Company.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Eli Wilner & Company extends another fully-funded frame restoration grant opportunity to museums and other non-profit cultural institutions. Frame restoration projects are often among the last initiatives considered for inclusion in often limited conservation budgets, especially during the past year with the impact of pandemic related revenue losses.
In 2020, Wilner awarded two fully-funded grants to museums for important historical framing projects. The first grant was also open specifically to frame restoration projects, and was awarded to the Museums at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington Virginia, for the frame on a 1779 portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, by Charles Willson Peale, 49 x 40 inches, originally co
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We’ll apologize off the bat for taking a page from old Dodge ads to create the sub-heading on this post. What we will emphatically
not apologize for, however, is our drooling over a Hellcat-powered Gladiator pickup truck.
Found over on auction site Bring-a-Trailer, this 2020 Jeep is guilty of snorting several lines of intoxicating powder power.
The crew at Dakota Customs in South Dakota have stuffed a 6.2L supercharged V8 into the face of Jeep’s new pickup truck, creating a machine that’ll surely hang with competitors both on- and off-road.
A dyno run is said to have recorded peak output of 546 horsepower and 522 lb-ft of torque, according to a chart in the auction photo gallery. This is a testament to the high friction driveline losses one finds in off-road focused vehicles like the Gladiator. However, this amount of power is hardly a trifle and will surely cause explosive acceleration when the driver flexes their big toe.