Monthly Archives: October 2013

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900 LOTS OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTIFACTS, ART AND RELATED COLLECTIBLES WILL BE SOLD AT ALLARD AUCTIONS’ BIG FALL PHOENIX EVENT, NOV. 9th & 10th

Top lots will include a Mandan warshirt set, a Germantown rug and a Woodlands cradleboard. (MESA, Ariz.) – A full-sized smoked moose hide and rawhide Woodlands cradleboard (Native American baby carrier), a Mandan warshirt set complete with painted hide warshirt with quilled strips and shields, and an extra-fine Navajo Germantown weave rug [Read More]

RARE BEACON ETHYL GASOLINE SIGN MADE CIRCA 1940 IN GREAT CONDITION BRINGS $55,000 AT MATTHEWS AUCTIONS’ FALL PEOTONE AUCTION, OCT. 17-18

The event was held prior to the start of the popular Chicagoland Petroleum & Advertising Show. (PEOTONE, Ill.) – A rare Beacon Ethyl Gasoline single-sided porcelain sign with a die-cut lighthouse-shaped design, made around 1940 and in remarkable condition (rated 9 on a scale of 1 to 10), gaveled for $55,000 at [Read More]

The Library of a Gentleman – Including Fine Colour Plate, Caricature, Costume, Travel and Sporting Books

Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions have great pleasure in presenting an auction of works by some of the most celebrated book illustrators, including Henry Alken, George Cruikshank, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, as well as illustrators Joseph Crawhall and Edward Gordon Craig. This single-owner collection comprises over 340 rare and wonderful fine colour [Read More]

350 CONSIGNMENTS FROM SEVERAL IMPORTANT ESTATE COLLECTIONS WILL BE SOLD ON SATURDAY, NOV. 2, AT 11 A.M., BY MATHESON’S AUCTIONS IN FLORIDA

The auction will feature Bakelite and Lalique pieces, Chinese antiques, estate jewelry and more. (MELBOURNE, Fla.) – Over 350 fresh-to-the-market items, carefully selected from several fine Florida estates and collections, will be sold on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 11 a.m. (EST). The sale is being held by Matheson’s Auctions, based in Melbourne, [Read More]

T-Rex Triceratops and Montana Dueling Dinosaurs for Bonhams auction

Bonhams announce the complete line-up for the highly anticipated November 19 auction, The Montana Dueling Dinosaurs & Distinguished Fossils. The spectacular Montana Dueling Dinosaurs, a Nanotyrannus and ceratopsian which experts believe died together in a prehistoric death match, will headline the auction (est. $7,000,000-9,000,000). One of the most important North American fossils [Read More]

AUTHENTIC CIVIL WAR CANNON FIRED BY UNION TROOPS AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG IN 1863 HITS THE MARK FOR $86,250 AT AUCTION HELD OCT. 12th

The on-site sale was held jointly in Decatur, Alabama by Stevens Auction and Empire Auction. (DECATUR, Ala.) – An authentic Civil War cannon, fired by Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg, dated 1855 and complete with documented provenance, sold for $86,250 at an on-site sale of the contents of the Dancy-Polk [Read More]