Ableauctions to Host Victorian Casino Antiques Auction on eBay Live Auctions
LAS VEGAS, NV--Feb 21, 2006 -- Ableauctions.com (AMEX:AAC - News) announced today that it will host, through their subsidiary iCollector.com, the Victorian Casino Antiques auction on March 11 & 12, 2006. This event will feature a Caille Bros. 25 cent Eclipse Upright slot machine and antique items dated from as early as the 1840s. Other items of interest include vintage cigar boxes dated 1849, an antique baby carriage, various fabulous 1950s slot machines, an early candlestick phone with dial, hand painted parlor lamps, "Vendo" Coca-Cola machine and a Seeburg model L-100 jukebox.
Victorian Casino Antiques has been a full service auction company for 30 years. During the last 5 years, current partners Peter Sidlow and Pat McGuire have led the Company into a premier position in the antique auction community, by focusing and specializing on their niche categories. These include coin operated gambling and vending machines, western and folk art, and other Victorian items.
Currently there are three scheduled auctions:
* March 11-12, 2006 - 1,100 items. Auction will be held at the Victorian Casino Antiques gallery at 4631 Dean Martin Blvd., Las Vegas, NV.
* July 8, 2006 - The Liberty Belle Saloon auction, held at the Reno - Sparks Convention Centre, Reno, NV, will showcase the personal collection of the Fey Bros., whose grandfather, Chas Fey, invented the slot machine.
* October 14 -15, 2006 - 1,000 items. Auction will be held at the new South Coast Hotel & Casino, 9 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV. This auction will feature a large collection from a Southern collector, which has not been seen for the past 10 years.
Both the March and October auctions will feature live Internet bidding, through iCollector and eBay Live.
Further information can be found at www.vcaauction.com
About iCollector.com
iCollector.com is the pre-eminent supplier of live online
auction technology and services to some of the world's most prestigious
galleries and industrial auction houses and operates one of the largest
eBay Live Auction sales and support centers in the world. It is the only
auction technology company to be endorsed by the National Auctioneers Association (NAA)
and has partnered with eBay Live Auctions in streamlining the process of broadcasting
auctions real-time on the Internet. iCollector's technology enables auction houses
to open their establishments to the world by allowing online bidders to participate
in real-time on the auction floor.
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About Ableauctions.com
Ableauctions.com Inc. (AMEX:AAC) is a high-tech liquidator and on-line auction facilitator that operates the domains iCollector.com, Naalive.com, Unlimited Closeouts.com and iTrustee.com.
As an on-line auction facilitator, the Company, with the experience of over 3,000 auctions, has developed state-of-the-art technology to broadcast auctions over the Internet (www.ableauctions.com/technology) and currently provides the technology and related services to auction houses, enabling them to broadcast auctions over the Internet. The Company broadcasts business and industrial auctions over the Internet for auctioneers and members of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and art, antique and collectible auctions for numerous galleries and auction houses around the world through eBay Live Auctions.
As a liquidator, the Company, through Unlimited Closeouts and iTrustee, purchases overstocks, order cancellations and discontinued products from major manufacturers and importers, then sells the merchandise to major retail chains, other resellers or the public.
For a comprehensive Corporate Update and prior releases, visit www.ableauctions.com. For more information, contact Investor Relations at investorrelations@ableauctions.com
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