
Jan 23 2018
By David Parsons
From the David Pitts Collection, to be offered for sale by Spink during 2018
By David Parsons
From the David Pitts Collection, to be offered for sale by Spink during 2018
Spink kicks off the New Year 2018 by putting on five solid auctions in its Hong Kong offices and achieves a total of HK$65 million proving that rare items and collectibles are still on trend.
London, 1st November 2017
Many of you may remember our very successful
2013 Spink China sale, in which we offered a
selection of memorabilia associated with famous
actor Bruce Lee. Four years on we held the first
evening auction to take place in our Spink London
gallery, in honour of another famous and
iconic British actor: Sir Christopher Lee.
New York, 6th–7th December 2017 | Spink were pleased to host this outstanding event at our New York premises, with three sales including the “Inclinados” of Brazil, Classic Russia and the general Collectors’ Series Sale.
A full cask of Macallan 1987 Single Malt Scotch whisky fetched HK$2,928,000 (£282,890 or US$374,839) at Spink’s Hong Kong auction on the 3rd Oct 2017, setting a new world record for both the sale of a whisky cask and for the most expensive per-bottle cask sold at auction.
Spink is pleased to announce the publication ofDefacing the Past. Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome, in collaboration with the British Museum. The book is written by Dario Calomino, project curator in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, to accompany his current exhibition in Gallery 69a (on view until 7th May 2017 and free). The display features a selection of objects on which the names and images of ancient rulers, especially Roman emperors, were d...