It was online-only sale #72, Part 1 of the Mel Hammer bottle collection, which ran from Dec. 10-19. Offerings included schnapps and gin bottles, bitters bottles and inkwells, many boasting 9.5 grades. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A Dr. Renz’s Herb Bitters bottle (San Francisco, circa 1868-1881), 9 ¾ inches tall, with a uniquely [Read More]
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Expected top lots will include an exquisitely carved mahogany stained glass bronze bar and an oil on canvas abstract modern painting by Sudanese Asian artist Hussein Shariffe (1934-2005). CRANSTON, R.I. – An exquisitely carved mahogany stained glass bronze bar pulled from a mansion home in Newport, Rhode Island, and an oil on [Read More]
The Rare Autographs, Photographs, Books Plus PSA Slabbed auction has over 530 lots in a wide array of collecting categories. A 201-lot subset will feature important items that are PSA/DNA slabbed and graded. WILTON, Conn. – A manuscript handwritten in German by Albert Einstein, signed, with several lines of mathematical equations, a [Read More]
Featured will be items by Yaacov Agam; Judaica (silver, bronzes and more); paintings by noted American, Chinese and European artists; enameled Russian silver and Buccellati silver pieces; European porcelain, including Meissen and KPM; and Chinese and Japanese items. EAST MEADOW, N.Y. – World Auction Gallery will ring in the New Year with [Read More]
Rarity and desirability trumped condition in both cases, as bidders closed out a banner year for vintage comic books. Next up for Bruneau & Co. is a 20-lot comic book auction on January 1st. CRANSTON, R.I. – Vintage Spider-Man comic books – even ones in poor condition – can still bring dizzying [Read More]
The top lot was an elegant George I chinoiserie decorated cabinet on later stand that fetched $27,500, almost seven times its presale estimate. Part 3 of the collection will be held Feb. 20 DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Andrew Jones Auctions had great expectations going into Part 2 of the John Nelson [Read More]
Major categories included advertising signs, and tins, general store, tobacciana, clocks, co-op, petroliana (gas station collectibles), automobilia (car collectibles) and breweriana. NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – A 1930s Canadian Eco Model 160 clockface gasoline pump and a circular, 1946 McColl-Frontenac double-sided porcelain sign, also from Canada, each knocked down for $35,400 in [Read More]
The auction has more than 1,900 lots in a wide array of collecting categories and at price points that will appeal to both novices and veteran collectors alike. Important collections will be sold. RENO, Nev. – Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is famous for its five-day auctions featuring thousands of highly collectible [Read More]
Eager bidders can bid online at the American Bottle Auctions website: www.americanbottle.com. Offerings include schnapps and gin bottles, bitters bottles and inkwells, many having 9.5 grades. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Part 1 of the Mel Hammer bottle collection – an incredible hoard gathered over a 50-year span by a man who dedicated much [Read More]
Wristwatches, pocket watches, rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings and pins all came up for bid. It was a 215-lot, high-impact offering of luxury watches and fine jewelry that grossed $512,179. NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – A Cartier Pasha minute repeater men’s watch slipped onto a new wrist for $64,900 in Miller & Miller [Read More]
The rare comic books are all from a single-owner Midwest collection (Bruneau & Co. sold the bulk of them this past year). What remains are his last, final comics, to be sold without reserves. CRANSTON, R.I. – Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will ring in 2022 with a 20-lot New Year’s Day Premier [Read More]
The auction, held online and at the gallery in Reno, Nevada, did better than expected, as eager bidders pounced on the 3,100 lots in a wide array of collecting categories. RENO, Nev. – Legendary U.S. Army Captain George Armstrong Custer’s gun holster, dispatch case, belt and brass buckle from the Civil War [Read More]