PITTSFIELD, Mass. – An exceptional cataloged antique auction featuring over 500 quality lots will be held Saturday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m. (EST), by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s gallery at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Internet bids may be placed via Live Auctioneers.com or the Fontaine’s Auction Gallery website [Read More]
Daily Archives: October 27, 2010
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A pair of Purdey shotguns once owned by Colonel William Stirling, who formed 2 Special Air Service in 1943, will be sold by Bonhams Sporting Gun Department on December 8th in Knightsbridge. The pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons are offered for sale with an estimate [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York 4 November auction of 19th Century European Art will feature three works by the prominent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. This offering comes just after the close of the important exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, which opened at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 2009 and traveled to [Read More]
Two letters written by Beatrix Potter just before the Second World War to the sculptress, Josefina de Vasconcellos, form part of an archive of papers being auctioned at Bonhams Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on 23 November (est £4,000-8,000). They provide a fascinating insight into the famous author’s no [Read More]
On October 21, 2010, PBA Galleries, Auctioneers, Rare Books & Manuscripts conducted a 450 lot auction of Americana, the Collection of Alex Schwed which included a large collection of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards, California Pictorial Lettersheets, Gold Rush and California ephemera and Hawaiiana. Schwed, a California collector, has in recent years devoted [Read More]
During the last decade of his life, Edward Bawden CBE (1903-1989) carefully put together an archive of some three thousand items which he donated to the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Now Bawden’s friend and Executor Peyton Skipwith has instigated and curated a unique sale to be held at Bloomsbury Auctions in [Read More]