(Oceanside, N.Y.) – An original “Peanuts” Sunday page, rendered in pen and ink in May 1953 by the late comic illustrator Charles Schulz, soared to $67,800 at a multi-estate sale held Sept. 13-14 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The eight-panel strip showed Charlie Brown and Snoopy playing fetch. In addition, two daily “Peanuts” [Read More]
Daily Archives: September 16, 2008
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A stunning milk white marble bust of Ranjit Singh sculpted in India around 1900 is to sell for £50,000 to £70,000 at Bonhams next Indian and Islamic Sale on 6 October. This great Emperor of the Sikhs built an empire which stretched almost from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. His court [Read More]
A 19th-century percussion target pistol made by Morgan James, New York State gunsmith, will be sold at auction on Saturday, September 20, at Hesse Galleries in Otego, New York. James was born in 1815. He began making firearms in 1830 when he was only fifteen. He worked mostly in Utica, New York, [Read More]