Wild West World’s computer and telephone equipment have been scheduled for auction Jan. 22, according to a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Southern Kansas Telephone Co. has previously objected to the sale of $335,000 in telephone equipment it sold the park, claiming it is networked with the park’s point of sale computers.

Sterling Glen of Stamford recently hosted its third annual Festival of Trees event, which included a gala cocktail party and silent auction of a variety of beautifully decorated holiday trees. Approximately 80 people attended the gala event, and more than $3,000 was raised on behalf of the New Covenant House of Hospitality, Stamford’s only soup [...]

A chest of antique coins worth up to £300,000 was stolen by a gang in a sting on two auctioneers as they drove away from a exhibition centre.
Experts fear that the collection, which featured two gold coins of priceless historical value, could have been melted down. One of the coins can be dated back to [...]

Yellow Apricot is the only wholly online Property Auctioneer in the UK . Traditional property auctions occur in posh hotels or halls and you have to travel to the Auction Venue on the advertised date in order to manually bid on the property that you are interested in.
Using Yellow Apricot as your Auctioneer, you [...]

The assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto and the subsequent closure of markets in Pakistan following the eruption of violence upset Pakistani buying at the year-end auctions of the Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA).
Pakistani buyers picked up blacker leaf grades on Thursday, but were sceptical to operate intensively on Friday at the dust auctions following news [...]

A rare daguerreotype of abolitionist John Brown was bought by an unidentified bidder for $97,750 earlier this month, an auctioneer said.
The telephone bidder, declined to be identified, auctioneer Wes Cowan said. Cowan, an appraiser on the PBS show “Antiques Roadshow” and host of the public television series “History Detectives,” had estimated a sale price [...]

A U.S. district court ordered a German baroness to turn a painting over to the estate of a Holocaust survivor.
U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi said in her ruling that Max Stern did not voluntarily sell the painting “Girl from the Sabiner Mountains,” by 19th-century artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, in 1937.
Rather, Stern was forced by the [...]

Brazilian mobile operator Oi picked up two 2G spectrum licenses for localities in São Paulo state on Thursday in the repeat of an auction originally held in September, telecoms regulator Anatel said.
Oi paid 112mn reais (US$63.5mn) for the two licenses, surpassing the minimum asking price of 43.5mn reais by 156%.
Oi paid 110mn reais for lot [...]

GSM mobile operators have found support from the Competition Commission of India which said that competitive bidding was the right method of allocating the scarce spectrum to telecom services provider.
“In India, competitive bidding is used in case of oil and gas blocks, coal blocks and concessions for development of highways and airports and other [...]

Christie’s auction house is being sued after a fan claims he was sold a dud Star Trek item which the actor who played android Data, Brent Spiner, later said was not the real item.
Ted Moustakis from New Jersey paid $6000 for a poker visor at a Christie’s auction, which Data the android, was meant to [...]