Daily Archives: November 6, 2009

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The Kitchen’s Benefit Art Auction

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York 7 – 9 PM Cocktails and Silent Auction 8 PM Live Auction with Eliza Osborne of Sotheby’s. Also introducing exclusive Limited Edition Create necklaces and key chains by jewelry designer Karen Karch to benefit The Kitchen and its artists. [Read More]

AUTHENTIC 19th-CENTURY VAMPIRE KILLING KIT SELLS FOR $8,800 (ON HALLOWEEN!) AT AN ON-SITE ESTATE SALE HELD IN PORT GIBSON, MISS., BY STEVENS AUCTION CO.

(PORT GIBSON, Miss.) – An authentic 19th-century vampire killing kit – containing a pistol with silver bullets in a coffin-style case, Holy water vials, a cleaver, a prayer book and a looking glass – sold for $8,800 at an estate sale held (appropriately enough) on Halloween, Oct. 31, by Stevens Auction Company, [Read More]

Bloomsbury to Auction Unique Titanic and Tsarist Photographs and Rare Images by Irving Penn, Willy Ronis and Bob Willoughby

One expects interesting, off beat, quality images from Bloomsbury Auctions well viewed and well attended Photographs sales and the auction on 10th November is no exception. Irving Penn and Willy Ronis have recently died, and Bloomsbury is delighted to offer some of their major works. The exquisite Lily Meldridge (lot 222) on [Read More]