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Ableauctions -- Beatles Las Vegas Collectible Auction to Include Original Nicholas Volpe Oil Portrait.


LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- Ableauctions.com (AMEX AMEX

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:AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. ) announced today that it will host ItsOnlyRocknRoll.com's "Las Vegas Beatles Memorabilia Auction" on July 3, 2007, on eBay Live Auctions through its subsidiary iCollector.com. This event will feature over 400 lots of the most fabulous Beatles memorabilia for any collection.

Amongst the anticipated items that will be up for bid is the Beatles original pastel - oil portraits by renowned portrait artist Nicholas Volpe. Known as the official portrait artist to the Oscars, Volpe created a collection of powerful images of Hollywood's finest actors including Clark Gable, Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis. As a result of winning a Grammy for the cover he designed for the 1959 album "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely," Volpe was commissioned by Hollywood's Brown Derby For the liquor stores, see .

The Brown Derby was a landmark restaurant in Los Angeles frequented by celebrities during the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was an example of novelty architecture, known for being physically shaped like a brown derby hat.
 to paint nearly 200 of the nation's top recording artists for its Hall of Fame Record Room. His work on The Beatles portraits commenced during the group's first U.S. visit in February 1964; a second session taking place during The Beatles summer 1964 tour. Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI, located in Hollywood, California. Its headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine.  marketed the poster prints adapted from the paintings soon after. The set of four, 20" x 24" pastel-oil paintings, each featuring two images, comes with an autographed photo of Volpe with the original paintings and a letter of authenticity from the son of Nicholas Volpe.

This auction will also showcase a 1964 Beatles Phonograph phonograph: see record player.
phonograph
 or record player

Instrument for reproducing sounds. A phonograph record stores a copy of sound waves as a series of undulations in a wavy groove inscribed on its rotating surface by the
 with original box. This is one of the most sought after Beatles items. This Beatles phonograph cost a steep $29.95 in the early 1960's, so not many were purchased at the time. The phonograph has four speeds (16, 33, 45 and 78 rpm) and a great inside cover picture of The Beatles. This also comes with the cardboard display box, which in itself has some great graphics on the front and back.

Also featured at this event will be a 1964 Beatles signed tour program. All four members of The Beatles have signed the inside right-hand page of this "Beatles (U.S.A.) Ltd." tour program on the inside right-hand photo above their respective images. This photo features a shot of the band on top of a wall wearing their winter coats, with John Lennon Noun 1. John Lennon - English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)
Lennon
, Paul McCartney Noun 1. Paul McCartney - English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
McCartney, Sir James Paul McCartney
 and Ringo Starr Noun 1. Ringo Starr - rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940)
Richard Starkey, Starkey, Starr

Beatles - a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and
 signing in blue ballpoint pen, while George Harrison has used a black ballpoint pen. These signatures were obtained while The Beatles were on their first full tour of the U.S., a tour which took place between the dates of August 19 and September 20, 1964. In another hand, someone has written the inscription "To our young friends in Prague from the Beatles"; 12" x 12"; Framed with cover detached.

ItsOnlyRocknRoll.com has been selling rock n roll collectibles, memorabilia, character and advertising toys and popular culture items since 1974. From 1975 to 1986 the auction house promoted a series of legendary rock music conventions, offering exclusive memorabilia through their rock relics memorabilia.

During the 1980's It's Only Rock n Roll owned and operated the It's Only Rock n Roll gift shoppe in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 City's Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. . They have produced three Rock on Video auctions, and published the It's Only Rock n Roll Catalog, from which many items were featured in national mail order catalogs such as Sony-Time Warner, Vroom, Doritos and on TV's QVC QVC Quality Value Convenience
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.

They currently supply and maintain a memorabilia for sale section in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in  Museum gift shop in Cleveland, Ohio "Cleveland" redirects here. For the Cleveland metropolitan area, see . For other uses, see Cleveland (disambiguation).
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state.
.

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 The National Auctioneers Association (NAA) is a group of auctioneers, auction businesses and related companies that seeks to promote the auction method of marketing and the practice of auctioneering in the United States The NAA is an interest group..  (NAA NAA

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) 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.

Visit www.icollector.com or (www.icollector.com/ourTechnology.aspx).

About Ableauctions.com

Ableauctions.com Inc. (AMEX "aac") is a high-tech liquidator Liquidator

Person appointed by an unsecured creditor in the United Kingdom to oversee the sale of an insolvent firm's assets and the repayment of its debts.
 and online auction facilitator that operates the domains iCollector.com, Naalive.com and Unlimited Closeouts.com.

As an online 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, 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 Investor relations

The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors.
 at investorrelations@ableauctions.com

This press release contains forward-looking statements, particularly as related to, among other things, the business plans of the Company, statements relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

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 goals, plans and projections regarding the Company's financial position and the Company's business strategy. The words or phrases "would be," "will allow," "intends to," "may result," "are expected to," "will continue," "anticipates," "expects," "estimate," "project," "indicate," "could," "potentially," "should," "believe," "considers" or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements." Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, involve known and unknown risks, a reliance on third parties for information, transactions or orders that may be cancelled, and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or developments in our industry, to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated results include risks and uncertainties related to the performance of our staff, loss of management personnel, an inability to obtain financing as and when we need it, competition from other online auction businesses, our ability to implement or manage our expansion strategy, general economic conditions, our ability to license our software to other auction houses, our ability to acquire profitable companies and integrate them into our business successfully and other factors that are detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB and on documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements made herein are as of the date of this press release and should not be relied upon as of any subsequent date. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on such statements. The Company does not undertake, and the Company specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences, developments, unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statement. E.&O.E.
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