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]
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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]
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]
The three-day event, packed with approximately 2,000 investment-grade items, will be held by Showtime Auction Services, at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ANN ARBOR, Mich. – What will quite possibly be the largest and most important collection of Cowboy and Native American Indian items ever offered at auction [Read More]
BOULDER, CO – Some of the world’s greatest private and institutional collections of antiquities and cultural art are represented in a 357-lot auction set for August 3 at Artemis Gallery in Boulder, Colorado. Acclaimed experts in their field, owners Bob and Teresa Dodge have left no stone unturned in bringing together a [Read More]
The morion was the top lot in an auction that featured 1,500 items spanning many generations. BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. – A rare, 16th century Spanish or Italian combed morion (tall dome-shaped infantry helmet featuring a rim and upswept front and rear peak) sold for $7,675 to take top lot honors at Militaria Auction [Read More]
SPRINGFIELD, MA – A distinguished eastern Tennessee family’s three-generation collection of antique American glass bottles and flasks will be auctioned with no reserve on Thursday, Aug. 3 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Auctioneer John W. Coker has chosen the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel as the venue for his auction of the Frank M. [Read More]
The 300+-lot auction will be held online and at the firm’s gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A pair of hexagonal form ‘Chan’ side tables by Philip and Kelvin Laverne and a 1906 oil on canvas painting by American artist Ben Austrian (1870-1921) will be part of [Read More]
The auction was held at Weiss Auctions’ gallery in Lynbrook, New York and grossed $220,000. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – Ocean liner memorabilia took top lot honors at Weiss Auctions’ June 22nd sale, as a letter handwritten aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic on April 13, 1912 sold for $22,600, an original life ring from [Read More]
Privateers during the Napoleonic Wars ‘Queenborough’: 1806 (12 June) Articles of Agreement between the Owners, Commander, Officers and Crew of this private ship of war. This four page vellum document is extremely rare, giving explicit details of the obligations of the owners and crew, together with a detailed breakdown of the distribution [Read More]
The auction will be held online, via several bidding platforms, and in Holabird’s Reno gallery. RENO, Nev. – Fresh off a two-day, 400-lot antique bottle auction on June 16th and 17th that saw several records fall and grossed more than $120,000, Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC will climb right back in the [Read More]
BOULDER, CO – It is only through the art and surviving relics of ancient cultures that history can be relived in the present. “We connect to civilizations of the past when we hold and admire pieces they created and revered so long ago,” said Teresa Dodge, executive director of Artemis Gallery. Teresa [Read More]
The event was held June 16-17, as part of the 53rd annual Reno (Nev.) Bottle Show & Auction. RENO, Nev. – An 1800s H. T. Tobin Western pumpkinseed pint whiskey flask, produced for the Walla Walla Saloon when Washington was still a territory and not yet a state, sold for $4,840 at [Read More]
WILLOUGHBY, OH – On June 24, 2017, Milestone Auctions of Willoughby (suburban Cleveland), Ohio will present its much-anticipated Premier Firearms & Militaria Auction, highlighted by an outstanding 40-year collection of guns, tomahawks and accoutrements of the Revolutionary War era. Over 800 lots will be offered at the Saturday event, with a timeline [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Stevens Auction Company, based in Aberdeen, Mississippi. QUITMAN, Miss. – The only antebellum home in Quitman spared by General Sherman during the Civil War (but only because of a connection to George Washington), plus its outstanding contents of fine antiques, will be sold on-site Saturday, June [Read More]
Headlining the auction will be early American estate items from Mt. Hope Plantation in Miss. The auction will be held in the firm’s gallery, at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – A pair of 20th century Italian-style composition Blackamoor torchieres, a mid-19th century French three-piece gilt [Read More]
The Monday auction event will be held online and at the firm’s gallery in Lynbrook, N.Y. Also sold will be the superb lifetime coffee advertising collection of Lowell and Barbara Schindler. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – Ocean liner memorabilia will take center stage at Weiss Auctions’ June 22nd sale, as a letter handwritten aboard [Read More]
The event will be held at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno; the show is just June 17. RENO, Nev. – A two-session auction featuring a premier selection of rare and vintage bottles – headlined by the Ralph Van Brocklin collection of Western whiskey flasks and the Rod Stock Hutchinson bottle collection [Read More]