Nicklebys' Fine Art Auctions on the Net.

Never made it to Woodstock '69? You can still get a ticket. You can also get a promo poster and program. Minimum price: $1,000. And the ticket's autographed by Jerry Garcia.

Feeling more traditional? What about "Out the Window," a Norman Rockwell lithograph, signed and numbered by the artist. Minimum: $750.

Denver-based Nicklebys.com locates or collects fine art, authenticates it, and then auctions it -- sometimes in its Broadway showroom, but more often over its site (www.nicklebys.com). Twice this spring, live auctions will be held simultaneously on the Internet via voice and video streaming, although simultaneous bidding won't be available until June, said CEO and chair Bruce A. Capra. Then, a large screen on the showroom floor will track the bidding process, letting live bidders see what the online competition is doing -- and vice versa, he said.

Art ranges from antiques and artifacts to rock'n roll memorabilia and posters. Depending on the item, bids can start as low as $25 or as high as $25,000; the highest winning bid was more than $28,000, although Capra would not say for what.

Each item has its own page, with a spot to bid on each page. When the bidding closes (dates are posted), winning bidders are notified by e-mail. Meantime, bids are automatically tracked and posted on each item's page. A separate, personal bidder program lets you place a maximum bid, and the program bids just higher than any other offer until the maximum is reached or the bidding closes. If the bidding doesn't reach the maximum, the bidder gets it for the actual bid, not the max.

Capra's 25 years in Denver's fine-art scene includes owning The Mushroom Gallery Ltd.; Image Tech, a fine-art screen printing company; and working as GM for American Design Ltd., before starting Nicklebys.

A year ago, Nicklebys purchased Denver-based Museum Auctions, a live-auction company with a presence in four major cities, in a stock acquisition. Nicklebys is issuing its second private placement in March, building momentum for an IPO that would fund expansion in other major cities, Capra said. Presently, it holds its out-of-state auctions in major hotels. The IPO also will fund Nicklebys vertical search engine of fine art sites. The search engine is an educational source, understands common language, and automatically filters out irrelevant or unrelated sites, he said.

The year-old company auctions art from estates, dealers and others -- but with strict guidelines, Capra noted...