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]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
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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]