(Pittsfield, Mass.) – Over 500 vintage antique clocks – many of them very rare, museum-quality pieces, to include an E. Howard astronomical #61 floor regulator – will be sold in a two-session sale slated for Saturday, Nov. 8, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, beginning at 10 a.m. The sale will be held at [Read More]
Daily Archives: October 21, 2008
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One of the finest bottles of Glencadam single malt whisky – discovered behind a trap door in a house in Washington State, USA – is expected to fetch £3,000-5,000 at Bonhams first sale dedicated to the spirit. The auction will be held on 12 November in Edinburgh, Scotland. Martin Green, Bonhams’ newly [Read More]
E.H. Shepard is one of children’s literature’s most famous illustrators and Bonhams is delighted to present for sale a superb selection of his works on 4 November – direct from his family. The auction in New Bond Street will include an original drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh (£15,000-20,000) and a first sketch for Wind [Read More]
No one at Rago’s had ever seen anything like it before. An Arts & Crafts style table lamp, but only sort of – heavy and tall, with a finial of a jumping horse, medallions with the initials NHS suspended around the circumference of the bronze shade and a copper band mounted to [Read More]
The Kern River Golden Trout Resort in Kernville, Calif., sold for $1.26 million Saturday, Oct. 18, in a two-hour auction that pitted buyers seeking to buy the entire resort against others who only sought to purchase part of it. Thirteen bidders gathered on the deck of the 24-room Golden Trout Resort for [Read More]
LONDON – Inspiring, informing and extending aesthetic horizons, Christie’s Photographs Department continues its unprecedented programme Distinctively. This carefully curated series features photo-based works from specific regions which are sold-out and no longer available on the primary market, by established and emerging artists. Following the success of Distinctively Japanese at Christie’s in May [Read More]