Antiques

The auction will be held in Stevens’ gallery, at 609 North Meridian Street in Aberdeen, Miss. ABERDEEN, Miss. – Hundreds of antiques and collectible items, pulled from prominent estates and collections throughout the South, will be sold in a spring auction planned for Saturday, April 9th, at Stevens Auction Company, in the [Read More]

The sale will be held in Woody Auction’s gallery, located at 120 East Third Street in Douglass, Kan. DOUGLASS, Kan. – The lifetime art glass and antique collection of Sue Frick of Missouri, as well as four other smaller area collections, will come up for bid on Saturday, April 9th, at Woody [Read More]

They are a few of the expected top earners at a Spring Estates Auction featuring nearly 900 lots. ATLANTA, Ga. – A circa 1775 English George III satinwood marquetry demilune console, two artworks by the renowned Venezuelan artist Jesus Rafael de Soto, a large sculpture by the iconic surrealist Salvador Dali and [Read More]

On Wednesday 27th January Chiswick Auctions will be holding a sale of Printed Books and Manuscripts. Items of interest include: Lot 5 – Eliot, George (1819-1880). Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871- [1872]. 8vo. Title page in volume 1, half titles in seven books, [Read More]

Six ancient helmets and 10 suits of armour – all from Italy and Germany – a collection of a European Prince, an important collection of American Firearms plus a copper saucepan rescued from Sebastopol in 1855 are among the array of objects offered in Thomas Del Mar Ltd’s auction of Antique Arms, [Read More]

Kaminski Auctions presents a selection of important Chinese jade, porcelain and textiles, as well as Islamic and Indian items on November 8th starting at 10:00 am. A Chinese finely carved Jadeite pendant with diamond encrusted filigree work and diamond baguettes, a total carat weight of 101.01 carats is the top valued lot [Read More]

Dr Timothy Bolton’s Inaugural Western Manuscripts & Miniatures Sale at Bloomsbury Auctions illustrates the History of Writing and Illuminating Books LONDON, Dover Street – With Dr Timothy Bolton at the helm, the inaugural Western Manuscripts & Miniatures sale at Bloomsbury Auctions on Wednesday 8th July is a journey through the history of [Read More]

BOULDER, CO – Attention time travelers and antiquities collectors: No boarding pass is required for Artemis Gallery’s May 21 journey to past civilizations. All that’s required is an Internet connection and you’ll soon be browsing a fascinating auction catalog filled with more than 400 choice Classical, Near Eastern and Far Eastern antiquities; [Read More]

MONTROSE, Calif. – Among antiquities connoisseurs, there are two non-negotiables when considering a new acquisition: authenticity and the assurance that a dealer will stand behind their merchandise. It was those two principles that served as the foundation for Gabriel Vandervort’s Ancient Resource auction house. A former writer and producer of ancient-history documentaries [Read More]

A rare folding single bed has just totalled £1,700 at auction in Lichfield. Lot 1546 is not however your average folding bed but a rare nineteenth century ‘Campaign’ bed. ‘Campaign’ furniture refers to articles of furniture made to break down or fold up to make it easier to move around on military [Read More]

London – An exceptional private single owner collection of Bilston and other English enamels will be offered in Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions sale of Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu on Thursday 27th November. The collection dates from mid-18th century during the most prolific period of enamel production in Bilston. David Rees, [Read More]

BOULDER, Colo. – Once in a great while, an auction house is blessed with an “embarrassment of riches.” That may very well describe the offerings in Artemis Gallery’s Oct. 23-24 absentee/online auction of antiquities, Pre-Columbian and tribal art, featuring the collection of career diplomat William N. Dale. “This is surely one of [Read More]

An important two-day marine chronometer from HMS Beagle, the legendary Admiralty survey ship that took Charles Darwin on an epic five-year voyage to South America and the Galapagos Islands, has surfaced at Bonhams. It will be offered in the 9th July Fine Clocks sale at New Bond Street, London with an estimate [Read More]

Bonhams sale Treasures from The Caren Archive on April 7 will feature a rare and exceedingly important early newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence as published in The New England Chronicle (Powars and Willis) on July 18, 1776 (est. $50,000-70,000). The 4-page newspaper tied with Gill’s Continental Journal as the first [Read More]

Two wonderful ceramic survivors ? a Sèvres plate and teapot – have just been discovered in Devon by one of Bonhams local specialists, Sam Tuke, of the Exeter office. They will form part the next European Ceramics sale at Bonhams 101 New Bond St saleroom in London on 18th June The teapot [Read More]

Bonhams announce its Fine European Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction achieved more than $2 million, March 17 in San Francisco. It was led by a never before offered Francois Linke, Louis XV/XVI style, gilt bronze and marquetry bibliotheque that sold for $353,000. The bibliotheque came from the Collection of Jack and Helen [Read More]

Chatting soon after their Thanksgiving feast, Patrick Martin learned one of his guests had strong family ties to Texas. Pushing the wine glasses and butter dish to one side, Martin opened a small black book and unfolded n early, hand-colored map of the Republic of Texas, complete with the short-lived Santa Fe [Read More]

Bonhams will offer a recently rediscovered Francois Linke Louis XV/XVI style gilt bronze and marquetry bibliotheque (est. $400,000-600,000) in its Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts auction, March 17 in San Francisco. Francois Linke is the most sought after French ebenistesof the second half of the 19th century. This unique cabinet, never [Read More]