NEW YORK (Reuters) - Christie, a global auction house, said on Monday that the launch of a number of online sales to collectors world rather than parallel to its traditional sales.
The online auctions, starting with the sale of rare wines, which was successful on-line component of the collection of Elizabeth Taylor, the $ 9.5 million and an online charity auction of hand bags Hermes followed, the $ 229,000 won.
"The success of these pilots, our customers around the world eager to comprehensive online sales only as a supplement to the regular schedule Christie traditional live auctions," said Steven P. Murphy, CEO of Christie International, said in a statement.
Selling wine online world includes exclusive '82 Lafite and Latour, magnums of champagne, port, aged beautifully, and the hard-to-source cult wines from California Harlan Estate and Screaming Eagle, the auction house 246-year-old said.
The 301 lots are estimated to sell for a total of over $ 750,000. Estimates for individual lots range from $ 200 to $ 35,000.
"As a class collection, the wine is good to a global platform for online auctions only suitable," said Scott Torrence, vice president and specialist in fine wines. "As a way of business, online sales are just a very natural progression gives our customers even more ways to build and expand their collections of fine and rare wines."
On-line invitations to tender for wines that can be accessed in an e-catalog starts, 6 August and ends two weeks later.
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