By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views Contributor

Ed Jaster, a collectibles and fine art expert, has been appointed a senior vice president at Heritage Auction Galleries and is transferring to the company’s new Park Avenue location.

Heritage  is the third largest auction house in the world and the largest collectibles auctioneer. The headquarters are in Dallas, Texas, with showrooms in Houston, as well as Germany, Switzerland, Holland and France. A Beverly Hill branch opened earlier this year. The Park Avenue and 57th Street venue is slated to open in September 2010.

Jaster owned his own commercial art firm in Chicago for twenty years prior to joining Heritage in 2002. He was instrumental in helping win the Charles Martignette Estate of Illustration Art, which grossed $10 million for half of the collection alone, as well as the sale of the most expensive comic book ever offered at public auction – 8.0 Detective Comics #27, which sold for $1.07 million last year.

Art Market Views reported earlier that Tiffany Dubin had joined Heritage as director of business development for the New York office.