Estate auctions fill Rago’s galleries with 18th, 19th and early 20th century furnishings, decorative arts and fine arts including lamps and metalwork, rugs, American folk art, Native American, bronzes, prints, Asian art and antiques, glass and porcelain. Select highlight: Edouard Jean Baptiste Detaille (French, 1848-1912), Oil on canvas, French Infantry soldier, $15,000-20,000. [Read More]
Daily Archives: August 3, 2011
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Other prominent collections will also cross the block that weekend, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – The lifetime country store, advertising and toy collection of Mike and Colleen Empey will headline a major auction slated for the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2 by Showtime Auctions. The event will be held [Read More]
A small leather-bound book that powerfully evokes ‘The Few’ of WWII Battle of Britain, listing 107 signatures of RAF flying officers, sold at Bonhams Militaria Sale in Oxford yesterday, August 2nd, for £33,600. The pre-sale estimate was just £6,000 to £8,000. It went to a private British buyer. Collected by Norman Phillips, [Read More]