DOWNINGTOWN, PA – Premier Pennsylvania auction house Pook & Pook and veteran toy auctioneer Noel Barrett will jointly host a treasure-filled auction of American and European antique tin toys, trains, dollhouses and vintage objects of interest on Friday, Sept. 15. The 500-lot sale will take place at the historic Pook & Pook [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
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Volunteers and staff members at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., spent Wednesday, Aug. 30, helping to clean and prepare the more than 100 boats it will have available as part of the 20th annual Charity Boat Auction on Saturday, Sept. 2. Advanced, absentee bids will be accepted, and [Read More]
The 2,000+-lot auction, which ends Sept. 9th, is open for bidding at www.smalltraditions.com. DENVER, Colo. – Eight sets of completely graded baseball cards dating from 1948 to 1954 from the collection of David “Doc” Serota – including a near-complete set of 1948 Leaf cards, missing just two players, a complete set of [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – Fine collections of Newcomb Pottery, bronzes and Asian items, original artwork by American artists (much of it from New Orleans and other regional painters), silver, estate jewelry, French and American [Read More]
BOULDER, CO – While entire libraries are devoted to cultures of the past, no book, no matter how scholarly, can explain the story of an ancient society quite as well as the objects and art its people left behind. “The tools, weapons, clothing, jewelry, implements and everyday wares of any given culture [Read More]
Including a Range of Rare Spirits and Selections from The Semersky Collection and The Paul Chiu Collection (Chicago, IL)-Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in the U.S. and renowned wine retailer, will hold its first auction of the fall season on September 14th, 15th and 16th at Chicago’s [Read More]
Ms. Cravens’ superb collection of archaeological and ethnographic items dates back to 4500 BC GENESEO, N.Y. – Day 1 of Cottone Auctions’ upcoming Fine Art and Antiques Auction, slated for September 22nd and 23rd, will feature the lifetime collection of Annette McGuire Cravens, the well-known philanthropist and patron of the arts from [Read More]
The auction will be held online and in Bruneau’s gallery, at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, R.I., starting at 12 noon Eastern. It will be preceded by a live-only DiscoverIt sale (no online bidding) CRANSTON, R.I. – An oil on board genre painting by William Aiken Walker (Md./S.C., 1838-1921), a Chinese Ming [Read More]
The July 26th internet-only auction also featured artworks attributed to other famous artists. FRANKLIN, Mass. – A tempera on paper painting attributed to Claude Monet (1840-1926), titled Study for Gare Saint-Lazare, and a tempera and gouache on paper attributed to Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), titled Morning, Going to Work, each soared to [Read More]
The 260-lot auction is already online and will go live on Tuesday, Aug. 29, at 10:30 am EDT. WESTPORT, Conn. – A fantastic selection of autographed documents, manuscripts, books and relics are up for bid in an internet-only auction already online by University Archives, based in Westport. The auction will go live [Read More]
The group is being offered through September 5th by Manhattan Rare Books of New York City. NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. – A complete set of 66 original Polaroid photos of Madonna, taken in 1983 by the noted portrait photographer Richard Corman (Am., b. 1954), just six weeks before the release of the [Read More]
The 275-lot auction will be held online and at Fontaine’s gallery, located in Pittsfield, Mass. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A rare Tiffany Studios 18-light Lily lamp, a Gustav Becker astronomical floor regulator clock and a carved Carrara marble sculpture of a standing nude woman by Italian artist Pasquale Romanelli (1812-1887) are expected top [Read More]
SOUTHAMPTON, PA. – The sparkle of fine jewelry from the estate of world traveler and Philadelphia businesswoman Ruth London sets the tone for Stephenson’s much-anticipated August 18 Summer Antiques & Decorative Arts Auction. An estimated 90% of the 200+ lots of jewelry offered in the sale are from the private collection, vault [Read More]
The nearly 450-lot auction will feature Royal Bayreuth, R.S. Prussia, Wave Crest, Tiffany and more. DOUGLASS, Kan. – Fred and Maxine Zumthurn of California accumulated so many pieces of art glass and other antiques over the course of their long and fruitful lives (Maxine has passed away), it will take at least [Read More]
The auction will be online-only – no live bidding – and will begin promptly at 9 am Eastern time. MALVERN, Pa. – A colorful cloisonné tripod censer of three enameled cranes is expected to bring $3,000-$5,000 and a wonderfully rendered oil portrait attributed to the French artist Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921) carries [Read More]
The Wednesday auction will be held at the firm’s gallery in Bloomfield, N.J., as well as online. BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Paintings by the Russian Federation artist Kharlampi Kostandi (1868-1939), Reginald Marsh (Am., 1898-1954) and Ogden Minton Pleissner (Am., 1905-1983), plus items from the collection of Academy Award-nominated actress Grayson Hall (1925-1985) and [Read More]
On the night prior to D-Day (6th June 1944) a top secret mission was carried out code name ‘Operation Mallard’ with Lieutenant Frederick Scott Platoon Commander, their aim an Airborne assault by gliders to land behind enemy lines to attack and help the main D-Day assault. The next day Lieutenant Frederick Scott [Read More]
Featured will be extensive collections of Cambridge glass in the Wildflower pattern, cake plates, crystal and cut glass compotes and more. The Specialists of the South will conduct the auction. PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – The lifetime single-owner collections of Kenneth and Joan Cole – a wide array of items, to include [Read More]