The auction will be held by Crescent City Auction Gallery, at the firm’s New Orleans gallery. NEW ORLEANS, La. – A two-day estates auction featuring original paintings by the iconic folk artist Clementine Hunter, a hand-colored engraving from the John James Audubon book Birds of America, a pair of Meissen porcelain figural [Read More]
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The sale will be held in Panama City, Fla., by The Specialists of the South, in the firm’s gallery. PANAMA CITY, Fla. – The many antique and collectible items gathered over the course of 70+ years by a St. Louis, Mo., woman and her Florida daughter, both of whom are deceased, will [Read More]
The Black Forest hall tree was the top achiever in an auction that grossed around $857,500. REPAUPO, N.J. – An antique Black Forest hall rack, rare and highly collectible mainly for its finely carved, life-size dog, 30 inches tall, sold for $19,600 at an estates auction held Nov. 16-17 by S & [Read More]
A possibly unique Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Peking Branch issued banknote will be in the sale. HONG KONG, China – More than 370 lots of rare and highly collectible Chinese and Asian banknotes, coins and scripophily (stock and bond certificates) will be sold at public auction on Saturday, Jan. 10, by Archives International Auctions [Read More]
Strong December auction totals $6.5M, brings annual total to $42.8M (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart capped off 2014 with a remarkably strong auction in Chicago on December 12th & 13th, realizing $6.5M against pre-sale estimates of $4.7-$7.0M. The auction’s unparalleled quality and breadth attracted a multitude of participants, whose aggressive bids [Read More]
The event will be held in the firm’s gallery, located at 74 Merrick Road in Lynbrook, New York. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – Original artworks by noted, listed artists, and brilliant estate jewelry items (offered on behalf of the New York County Public Administrator), will co-headline an auction slated for Sunday, Jan. 11, by [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, located at 715 Miami Circle (Suite 210) in Atlanta. ATLANTA, Ga. – An ambitious New Year’s Signature Estates Auction packed with about 1,100 diverse and high-quality lots of merchandise, pulled from prominent area estates and collections, will be held Saturday and Sunday, January [Read More]
The price eclipsed the previous record of $277,300.00, set almost exactly a year ago, also at Fontaine’s Auction. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – An E. Howard & Company No. 47 wall-hanging astronomical regulator clock – one of only three examples known and so rare it doesn’t even appear in the E. Howard catalog – [Read More]
A haul of vintage watches has just totalled £9,200 at a Lichfield Auction this week on 25th November. The collection of wristwatches dating from c.1910 to the present day was discovered on a valuation day in Lichfield. Adrian Rathbone, Head of Fine Arts at Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield comments: ‘The collection [Read More]
Featured: Egyptian bronze Osiris, marble of Aphrodite from Greek island of Rhodes MONTROSE, CA – In 2003, after years of producing and writing ancient-history documentaries for History Channel, Discovery Channel and other respected networks, Gabriel Vandervort took his considerable knowledge and love of antiquities down a different path. He founded Ancient Resource [Read More]
London – Roseberys 9-10 December sale of Fine Art will showcase some of the most exceptional pieces of Asian Art ever to be offered for sale by the auction house, and will include what is believed to be an excessively rare 18th century Imperial cloisonné enamel hat box. From a Dorset manor [Read More]
The on-site auction will feature nearly 30 trucks by names like Corbitt, Oren, Autocar and Mack. GREENSBORO, N.C. – Nearly 30 rare, antique big-rig trucks from the lifetime collection of the late Donald A. Smith – with desirable examples by makers such as Corbitt, Mack, Autocar and Oren, plus many parts, ornaments [Read More]
The Oct. 25th session was held in New York City; the Nov. 4th session was held in Fort Lee, N.J. FORT LEE, N.J. – A pair of rare and high-grade 1939 sequential banknotes from the Palestine Currency Board, each in the amount of 10 Palestine Pounds, sold for $31,860 and $34,220 at [Read More]
A rare folding single bed has just totalled £1,700 at auction in Lichfield. Lot 1546 is not however your average folding bed but a rare nineteenth century ‘Campaign’ bed. ‘Campaign’ furniture refers to articles of furniture made to break down or fold up to make it easier to move around on military [Read More]
The auction featured around 800 lots of American Indian artifacts, art and related collectibles. MESA, Ariz. – An early 1970s 14kt gold necklace set with a #8 spider web turquoise stone sold for $5,750 at Big Fall Phoenix, an auction held Nov. 8-9 by Allard Auctions, Inc., based in Saint Ignatius, Mont. [Read More]
London – A unique colour trial proof for ‘Blackglama’ from Andy Warhol’s renowned ‘Ads’ series joins a substantial collection of both unusual and iconic works from all periods of Warhol’s artistic career in a sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints at Bloomsbury Auctions on Wednesday 3rd December. Blackglama was one of the [Read More]
Two firms conducted the sale: Tim’s, Inc. Auctions and Litchfield Real Estate Auctions, LLC. GOSHEN, Conn. – A turquoise blue 1957 Buick Special in showroom condition sped off for $8,610, an antique Nantucket sewing basket with swinging handle fetched $4,500, a 19th century walnut grandfather clock with carved angels rose to $6,250, [Read More]
London – Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are delighted to be offering the working library of the late Rosemary Verey (1918-2001), one of the most distinguished and influential garden designers of the 20th Century, in the sale of Printed Books & Manuscripts on Wednesday 17th December 2014. The sale will be held at [Read More]