Texas History
December 4, 2023
This 1879 Map Is Now the Priciest Map of Texas Ever Sold at Auction
It fetched $705,000, topping the list of about 165 items from Ted Lusher's Texana collection.
Auctions
Texas History
November 30, 2023
A Treasure Trove of Texas History Is Up for Auction. Here Are the Coolest Items.
An original broadsheet announcing the fall of the Alamo, the first book published in Texas, and other stuff that Phil Collins will probably buy.
Books
May 1, 2023
Exclusive: View the Full Larry McMurtry Estate Auction Catalog
This month, fans have a chance to bid on books, guns, and a pinball machine owned by the definitive chronicler of twentieth-century Texas.
Being Texan
June 24, 2020
Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Master Auctioneer?
Eight days inside America’s Auction Academy, learning the secrets of “the dynamo from Dallas.”
Film & TV
January 15, 2019
The Texas Film Showcase Presents: ‘Auction’
In this documentary, filmmaker Joel Fendelman captures the auctioneer, attendees, and atmosphere at a small-town cattle auction in Gonzales.
The Daily Post
December 4, 2017
Now You Can Decorate Your House Like It’s a Spaghetti Warehouse
Want to upgrade the kitschiness of your kitchen? There’s an auction for that.
Sports
February 21, 2017
The Houston Police Department Estimates The Value Of Tom Brady’s Missing Super Bowl Jersey
With that figure, it'd make it one of the most expensive pieces of sports memorabilia of all time.
Texas History
October 7, 2016
A 1957 Porsche Speedster That Spent The Last 40 Years Under A Tarp In A Garage Is Going To Auction
If you’ve got a quarter million dollars, get on it.
Business
January 26, 2015
The World’s Largest BBQ Smoker Is for Sale in Brenham
Anybody need to smoke 8,000 pounds of brisket?
The Daily Post
October 17, 2014
Deion Sanders’ Palatial North Texas Estate Is For Auction Next Month
If you've got an eight-figure house-hunting budget and a need for a place with goalposts in the backyard, give it a look.
Music
October 2, 2014
You Can Buy Willie Nelson’s Actual Braids
. . . which were formerly owned by Waylon Jennings. Do you want them?
Business
March 5, 2014
Someone Paid $7,250 For a License Plate That Says “DALLAS”
We're betting they live in Highland Park.
January 21, 2013
NASA Called. It Wants Its Historic Space Artifacts Back.
Some Apollo-era astronauts, including Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell, had their hands slapped by NASA for putting space artifacts on the auction block.
June 20, 2012
How Some Dino Bones Brought Mongolia and Texas Together
A seventy-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton finds itself at the center of a legal battle involving a Dallas auction house, a Houston lawyer, and the president of Mongolia.
The Culture
May 31, 2008
Tom “Spanky” Assiter, Auctioneer
Assiter, who lives in Canyon, is the founder of the auctioneering firm Assiter & Associates. He has been an auctioneer for 25 years and has hosted approximately four thousand auctions. In 2007 he was inducted into the Texas Auctioneers Association Hall of Fame and the National Auctioneers Association Hall of
Business
December 1, 1997
Lights! Camera! Auction!
All over Texas, smart shoppers are bidding on everything from antiques to airplanes. Join them before the best buys are going, going, gone.
Country Notes
July 31, 1978
The Loser
When another farmer goes broke his neighbors thank God it wasn’t them; then they wonder when their turn is coming.