The auction will be held in the firm’s new gallery, at 57 Lancaster Ave., Malvern, Pa. 19355. MALVERN, Pa. – Around 425 lots of quality estate merchandise in a broad mix of categories will come under the gavel on Friday, May 23rd, when Gordon S. Converse & Company holds a Spring Roundup [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2014
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U.S. & Worldwide Banknotes, Autographs and Scripophily to be auctioned. (FORT LEE, N.J.) – More than 600 lots of rare and highly collectible U.S. and worldwide banknotes, scripophily and security printing ephemera will be sold at public auction Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 by Archives International Auctions at their offices in Fort Lee, [Read More]
A map by Charles Louis Minard, sold for £5,208 in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions sale of Maps & Atlases alongside a private collection of cartographic curiosities on Friday 25th April 2014 at their saleroom, in London’s Mayfair. Carte Figurative et Approximative des Tonnage des Merchandies qui ont circulé en 1855, was a [Read More]
As London prepares for a week of Asian art auctions in May, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are delighted to present an extremely rare 17th century transitional hanging from the Ming/Qing dynasty, which will headline their spectacular sale of Chinese Ceramics and Asian Works of Art, including an extensive selection of Tibetan art, [Read More]
Bonhams, offers an exceptional selection of fine mineral specimens from estate sources in its upcoming Gems, Minerals, Lapidary Works of Art and Natural History auction on May 20th. Once regarded as a relatively unknown and hidden collector’s hobby, the steady rise in demand for mineral specimens has elevated the status of this [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is pleased to announce “A Celebration of Burgundy,” an auction devoted exclusively to the wines of Burgundy. This special 1,358 lot sale will be held on May 17th in Chicago and is estimated to fetch $2,619,270-$3,928,150. With worldwide demand for Burgundy at an all-time [Read More]
Bonhams, will sell the largest single owner collection of paintings by Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) ever to be offered – some 15 oil paintings produced over three decades on May 28th in New Bond Street, London. The collection is estimated in excess of half a million pounds. Bonhams is the third largest international [Read More]
Bonhams, is to auction nearly 200 lots of African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art on May 15 in New York. An important and rare wooden Maori Handclub ‘wahaika’ from New Zealand, formerly in the James Hooper Collection, leads the sale (est. $50,000-70,000). Maori handclubs were historically used by warriors in hand to hand [Read More]
Specialist Musical Instrument Auctioneers Ingles & Hayday are delighted to announce they will be selling a violin after the ‘Lafont’ Guarneri of 1736 to benefit charity Luthiers Sans Frontières, in their auction on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 2pm at Sotheby’s, New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA. Made in 2012 at the [Read More]
A fine medical recipe book dating from 1680 sold for £3,968 in Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Printed Books & Manuscripts on Thursday 17th April 2014. The work entitled A Booke of Phizicke Sirgery & Walters & Cordialles, 1680, was mostly written in an extremely attractive italic hand, with symbols for [Read More]
The sale featured 412 lots of rare Chinese and Asian banknotes, 247 of which sold for $204,774. HONG KONG, China – An unlisted 1909 1-Yuan Empire Issue Chinese banknote soared past its pre-sale estimate of $100-$200 to garner $15,230 at an auction of rare Chinese and Asian banknotes held April 12th by [Read More]
The 1,000+ lot auction will be held by Ahlers & Ogletree, at the firm’s gallery in Atlanta, Ga. ATLANTA, Ga. – More than 1,000 lots of fresh estate merchandise – to include many pieces by Tiffany, Gallé, Duffner & Kimberly, plus Asian objects and artifacts, period furniture, estate jewelry, antique clocks, fine [Read More]
A little more than 250 lots will cross the auction block, online and in Shannon’s Milford gallery. MILFORD, Conn. – Just over 250 American and European paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures – to include original oil paintings by Henri Le Sidaner, Frederick Carl Frieseke and LeRoy Neiman – will come up for [Read More]
The sign tied with an El Bart Gin tin sign for top lot in an auction that grossed over $1.3 million. ANN ARBOR, Mich. – An Aetna Insurance Company (Hartford, Conn.) reverse glass painted sign with mother of pearl inlay, 34 inches square and in excellent like-new condition, sold for $51,300 at [Read More]
The pieces – many of them rare and unusual – are from the collection of Dale and Nancy Carter. LONE JACK, Mo. – A little more than 350 lots of rare and unusual Weller Pottery and Royal Bayreuth figurals from the single-owner lifetime collection of Dale and Nancy Carter will come up [Read More]
A first edition of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, (1953) thrilled bidders, selling for £24,180 at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Modern Literature on Friday 11th April, held at their saleroom in London’s Mayfair. The first book in the 007 series, Casino Royale (1953) introduced Fleming’s renowned James Bond franchise to the [Read More]
Part 1 of the planned 5-part series was a big success. Woody Auction will conduct all five sales. WICHITA, Kan. – Fresh from the first of a planned five-part series of auctions to liquidate the lifetime collection of mostly porcelain and fine art glass gathered over the course of five decades by [Read More]
An adaptation of the French play by Charles Nodier, The Bride of the Isles, A Tale of the Vampire (1820) sold well above its estimate of £180-220 for £2,928 in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Bibliophile Sale, held yesterday Thursday 11th April. The book is itself an adaptation of the extremely popular 1819 [Read More]