Bonhams announce it will offer a 12-bottle case of 1975 Château Pétrus (est. $20,000-$30,000) and additional fine selections from the estate of American composer Henry Mancini in its Fine and Rare Wines auction, November 23 in San Francisco, also simulcast in New York and Los Angeles. Mr. Mancini (1924-1994) has been lauded [Read More]
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The fall antique extravaganza auction will be held at the firm’s gallery in Aberdeen, Miss. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – Choice items from the estate of Dr. Ray Gregory, a general surgeon from Corinth, Miss. – to include around 200 pieces of Roseville pottery collected over the course of 40 years, about 50 pieces [Read More]
Two magnums of vintage Krug champagne made from grapes picked during Queen Elizabeth II’s first years as monarch, and produced to commemorate her Silver Jubilee will be making their first appearance since being won as a raffle prize in 1977. They will be offered alongside wines from the top estates of Burgundy [Read More]
One of the most important albums of drawings by the celebrated 18th century caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, Comparative Anatomy Resemblances between the Countenances of Men and Beasts (1822), sold for an outstanding £57,600 in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury’s auction, The Library of a Gentleman, Thursday 7th November. It had been estimated at £10,000 – [Read More]
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]
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]
The two-session sale (one cataloged, one discovery) will be held in Fontaine’s Pittsfield gallery. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Three exceptional E. Howard & Company astronomical regulator clocks – including a No. 68 astronomical regulator expected to realize $100,000-$150,000, plus a pair of R. J. Horner mahogany grandfather clocks, one signed Tiffany & Co. [Read More]
Le jardin de Maubuisson, Pontoise, la mère Bellette by Camille Pissarro led Bonhams November 5 sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, selling for $1,805,000. A masterclass of Impressionist innovation from the movement’s most important years, the picture was formerly in the collections of noted connoisseur Alfred Bergaud and French Prime Minister Fernand [Read More]
Exactly 300 works of art came up for bid in an auction that grossed more than $2.4 million. (MILFORD, Conn.) – An oil on canvas of a young woman striking a wistful pose in a field by the American genre and landscape painter Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942), titled Far Away Thoughts, sold [Read More]
Today’s medical professionals face the same problems as 18th Century physician Robert Pitt: should apothecaries be allowed to prescribe medicine? Pitt’s book ‘The Antidote: or, the Preservative of Health and Life’ contributes to the long running dispute and goes up for auction on Thursday 14th November at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Godalming. [Read More]
YORK, Pa. – America’s first collectibles auction house, Hake’s Americana & Collectibles, presents a blockbuster lineup of pop culture, original comic art and rare Americana in their online, phone and absentee auction closing November 19-21. Bidding has opened in Auction #210, which contains 3,105 choice lots. The selection is led by three [Read More]
The sale will be conducted by John McInnis Auctioneers at the firm’s Amesbury, Mass., gallery, online bidding will also be offered at www.liveauctioneers.com/john-mcinnis-auctioneers (Amesbury, MA.) – As the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the media and the entire world is recalling not only that tragic day but also celebrating the [Read More]
Items will include a Bvlgari 18kt gold bracelet, a 1990 IROC-Z Chevrolet Camaro with 9,315 miles, and Japanese World War II swords and other sporting items collected by Daniel Pagano. (BRISTOL, Conn.) – An online-only auction totaling more than 500 lots in a wide array of categories will be held in the [Read More]