Baldwin’s bi-annual London auctions are always a highlight of the numismatic calendar but this, the first of the year, will be a Great British spectacular! The 2-day auction will be held over the 3rd and 4th May and comprises a sensational array of British rarities, together with a selection of Russian numismatic [Read More]
Daily Archives: April 13, 2011
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The sign was the top achiever of the approximately 1,900 lots that crossed the block April 1-3. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – A magnificent Rock Island Railroad reverse glass sign, made in 1890 by an employee of the firm who fashioned reverse glass lamp shades for the Pullman cars, sold for $165,000 at [Read More]
The Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule that paved the way for Yuri Gagarin historic space mission sold for $2,882,500 to Evgeny Yurchenko, chairman of the investment fund AS Popov. Mr. Yurchenko purchased the icon of space history with the intention of returning it to his homeland, Russia. “The Vostok 3KA-2 space capsule is [Read More]
On Sunday, April 17th at 12:00 Noon, Clarke Auction will sell 400 lots drawn from estates on Central Park West and Sutton Place and from Great Neck, Scarsdale, Greenwich, and Brooklyn Heights. Fine Art includes Americo Di Franza, Christina Morton, John Burr, Clifford Alexander, Mary Townsend Mason, John Clifford Huffington, Ivan Olinsky(2), [Read More]
A work by Marcel Janco, the Rumanian-born artist, one of the founders of the Dadaist (anti-artists) movement, and a contemporary of Pablo Picasso, is the top lot in Bonhams Israeli Art & Judaica in London on May 24th. The painting titled ‘Marseille Port’, 1933, an oil on canvas, 100 x 133cm (39 [Read More]