Already one of the premier sites for Americana and Sports Collectibles,
Mastro expanded the boundaries of their most recent auction by adding Fine Arts
to the mix. This led the Auction House to see the final closing tally for their
April Auction reach $13,111,246.

Committed to a strategy of expansion
coupled with the application of expertise, knowledge and excellent customer
service, Mastro Auctions sees the foray into the fine arts market as the first
of many such endeavors.

“Based on the performance of the items in our
first fine arts sale, we have already secured enough high-quality material and
additional bidder encouragement to conduct a second one in August 2006,” said
Doug Allen, president of Mastro Auctions. “We are also already reaping the
fruits of our new comics division which collectors can also expect to experience
in August 2006.”

According to Allen, one of the objectives of expanding
Mastro Auctions’ reach into new collecting markets is to provide more options
for its growing base of customers and widen its overall collecting audience.
“Crossover collecting from one genre to another continues to gain momentum,”
said Allen. “As a customer-driven company, we respond to what our customers
want. If we can provide increased opportunities that our customers and other
markets respond to in the manner that’s expected from Mastro Auctions, we will
explore them.”

It is this commitment to the collector that pushed
Mastro into the upper reaches of the auction business. The April auction closed
over four days, from April 18 through April 21, 2006. You can follow the results
of the event at http://www.mastronet.com/index.cfm?Action=DisplayContent&ContentName=Home%20Page.
We have listed some of the results below.