A number of fine antique dressing boxes, (the property of a private collector) have been sold at Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield in recent months. Two boxes by Asprey of London have already totalled over £10,000, (beating auction records for comparable boxes sold in London and elsewhere in the UK). Two further [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 9, 2013
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The auction of fine decorative arts, fine art and Chinese works was held Nov. 2nd in Florida. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – A Chinese hand-carved red coral sculpture of four Guan Yin (Buddhist deities of mercy and compassion) from the Qing Dynasty, and a Chinese hand-carved red coral group figure depicting two Guan [Read More]
The dispenser was the top lot of the auction, which was held Oct. 4-6 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – A rare antique Pepsin Gum (“And Your Fortune – One Cent”) embossed tin dispenser, coin-operated to accept one cent for both gum and fortune, sold for $57,000 at an auction [Read More]
Norman Rockwell’s full-length portrait The Song of Bernadette realized $605,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $3.7+ million Illustration Art Auction event. Records were set for scores of artists across Classic and Golden Age Art, Science Fiction, and Pulp genres, as sell through rates reached 98 percent by value and 92 percent by lot. [Read More]
An 1893-S Morgan Dollar MS64 NGC, from the famously low mintage of any regular issue Morgan, brought $235,000 to take top lot honors at Heritage Auctions’ U.S. Coin Signature® Auction Nov. 1-3 in New York. High-grade silver coinage, gold rarities, and a 1943-S Bronze cent achieved the top prices at the event, [Read More]
Stunning jewellery made by Italian society jeweller Stefano Scortecci for a prominent family of European diplomats during the 1960s will be sold by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions London saleroom on Wednesday 27th November. Stefano Scortecci opened his workshop in Rome in 1920. He became one of Rome’s leading society jewellers during the [Read More]
Bonhams newly designed headquarters and salerooms provided the setting for the two days of Japanese auctions (6th-7th November) which achieved an impressive total of over £2.3million. Suzannah Yip, director of the Japanese art department said: “It was a great pleasure to welcome our clients from all the over world to our elegant [Read More]