Robb Report Collection August 2014

A teacup. An old photograph. A clock, its workings exposed to create the feeling of time furiously ticking by, and a series of matchsticks used to tediously measure the minutes. Each of these objects was carefully collected by the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, who spent decades scouring Istanbul junk dealers and antique shops for the […]

What a Racket Tennis advertising has its own brand of topspin, and an assortment of 70 posters promoting the sport traces it for more than a century. The vintage images, from a private Australian collection, are believed to form the largest such grouping ever to come to auction and they date to the late 1890s, […]

Maserati’s 100th anniversary is a milestone for the marque and its most passionate collectors. So this is lidia,” Doug Magnon says, waving his arm at a silver Maserati in the center of the showroom that holds dozens of his cars. Lidia is a 1963 3500 GTI, the first Maserati that Magnon ever bought and one […]

  << 1913: Brothers Alfieri, Ettore, and Ernesto Maserati open an auto repair shop in Bologna, Italy.    1920s: Inspired by the colossal statue of Neptune in Bologna, brother Mario Maserati designs the trident logo.    1926: The Maseratis build their first car, the Tipo 26. Alfieri drives it to a win in the first race […]

Maserati is marking its centennial with concours, rallies, and events around the world. Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion August 14 to 17; Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Salinas, Calif. The festival will feature Maserati races, parade laps, heritage car demonstrations, and an 85th birthday salute to Sir Stirling Moss, the Hall of Famer who drove for Maserati […]

Dick Estey dominated amateur golf tournaments until he had to quit playing. But that did not stop him from dominating the game.  About 20 years ago, Dick Estey’s life was destined to change. At the time, he was living like a PGA tour pro, although without a tour card or, for that matter, the professional status. […]

Wine apps are becoming almost as essential as a corkscrew. Eric Levine caught the wine-collecting bug on a trip to Tuscany in 1999. This would not be a remarkable development, except that LeVine was an engineer at Microsoft, and while other novices might have been overwhelmed by the endless complexities of the wine world, LeVine […]

Opening a museum has an irresistible allure. Then comes the public.  When Steve Oliver and his wife, Nancy, commissioned the first of many monumental artworks to grace the landscape of their 100-acre sheep ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., they did not foresee a future where they would admit a bus full of visitors a day, three days a […]

At the Mint 400, a novice takes the wheel of an off-road race machine—and goes for the win. The buggies start in the dark. Out in the desert a half hour south of Las Vegas, a line of off-road buggies and tricked-out Jeeps stretches into the gloomy blackness beyond portable floodlights. This is the Mint 400 […]