Yesterday’s World Book Day saw Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions sell an extremely rare copy of Christiaan Huygens’ Horologium, 1658, for £54,560 in a sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts, held at their London saleroom. Rupert Powell, Deputy Chairman of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions said: “It is a fitting celebration for this exceedingly [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
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Summer Garden, a sunny and serene painting by the leading Scottish Colourist, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, is among the major works to be offered at Bonhams Annual Scottish Sale in Edinburgh on April 15. It is estimated at £70,000-90,000. Painted in 1907, Summer Garden reflects many of the influences the artist absorbed [Read More]
The sale will be held at Fontaine’s gallery, at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield, Mass. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – 365 lots of fresh, quality merchandise in a host of diverse categories – musical items, coin-op, advertising, toys, country store, banks, gaming and more – will be sold on Saturday, March 29, by [Read More]
YORK, PA – Hake’s Americana & Collectibles, the auction house that established pop culture as a bona-fide category of historical memorabilia, has opened the bidding on its Auction #211. As always, there’s an immense array of items that fall under one of two headings: either “I had one of those!” or “I’ve [Read More]
A small but perfectly formed collection of 60 fine vintage and modern wristwatches for the collector and connoisseur, ranging from £500 – 12,000, will be offered as part of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury auctions Wednesday 26th March sale of Fine Watches, Pens & Luxury Accessories. The auction, containing the most sought after of [Read More]
Robert Edward Auctions is pleased to announce that one of the featured auction lots in its upcoming blockbuster sale will be the home run ball hit by Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk in the 12th inning of Game 6 during the 1975 World Series. Fisk’s heroics, including his dramatic motioning for [Read More]
Boulder County, CO – Artemis Gallery LIVE is proud to present a spectacular one-day auction of the fine Antiquities, Pre-Columbian, Far Eastern, Native American, and Ethnographic art on Friday, March 14, 2014, the day before the infamous “Ides of March.” “This auction is truly special,” says Teresa Dodge, owner of Artemis Gallery [Read More]
Geneseo, NY: On March 29th, Cottone Auctions will be holding their annual Winter Fine Art and Antiques Auction offering 500+ lots in Cottone’s 6000 square foot gallery at 120 Court Street, Geneseo, NY. This important estate auction will include original paintings by noted listed artists, several Tiffany lamps, silver, sculpture, Asian art, [Read More]
Did you know that St. Patrick’s original signature color was blue? Just maybe, St. Patrick himself was ahead of his time and could have eventually been a collector of Americana where blue is the hottest color around. On Saturday, March 15th beginning at 10 am, Garth’s Auctions will host a one day [Read More]
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions present the opportunity to sparkle like an Oscar winning starlet with their sale of Fine Jewellery on Wednesday 26th March 2014, to be held at the auctioneers Donnington Priory Saleroom in Newbury, Berkshire. This outstanding sale features an array of divine diamonds, and other stunning stones, to seduce [Read More]
The original artwork featuring the first ever appearance of Wolverine, by artist Herb Trimpe, on the final page of The Incredible Hulk #180 (1974), arguably the most important debut of a comic book character in the last 40 years, has surfaced from the private hands where it has resided for more than [Read More]
Also sold will be ice cream and soda fountain memorabilia, motorcycle memorabilia and more. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – An extremely rare 1891 Coca-Cola wall calendar – the first year Coke began making calendars and possibly the only surviving example in existence – plus other turn-of-the-century Coca-Cola items, will be part of an eclectic [Read More]