Antiques

The western fifth was the top lot of 144 bottles that changed hands. The sale grossed $250,000+ (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) – A Trademark Barkhouse Bros. & Co. Gold Dust Kentucky Bourbon bottle, one of the most popular western fifths and one of the finest known to exist, sold for $28,000 in an Internet [Read More]

Lord Nelson’s snuff box which he gave to his Secretary, George Unwin, is for sale at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 18 January. It is estimated at £4,000-5,000. According to Unwin’s son, the gift was made in strange circumstances. In a note, which used to be folded in the box [Read More]

A group of fine Chinese furniture, formerly in the Collection of Eleanor Majors Carlisle – a pillar of San Francisco society at the turn of the 19th century, took the spotlight at Bonhams more than $12.8-million auction of Fine Asian Works of Art held December 20-21. The two-day sale offered up 900 [Read More]

The finest collection of vintage baseball-themed board and arcade games ever assembled, The Dr. Mark W. Cooper Collection, is currently being offered in its entirety via Private Treaty sale from Heritage Auctions. “The best-known documentation of baseball’s rich history comes in the form of the rare early cardboard that bears the faces [Read More]

Christie’s New York announces Americana Week 2012, two weeks of sales, viewings and a symposium devoted to three centuries of American craftsmanship in all its forms, including important furniture, folk art, silver, and decorative arts. The sales begin on January 19 with Important American Silver, followed by John James Audubon’s The Birds [Read More]

A superb European sculpture unveiled at the Los Angeles Scottish Rite Cathedral on Christmas Day of 1913 is the highlight of Don Presley’s Dec. 31-Jan. 1 New Year’s Auction. The sale features 1,000 lots of antiques, Asian and other fine art, plus a bumper selection described by Presley as “a gallery of [Read More]

Sotheby’s announce that its New York auction of Important Americana on 20 & 21 January 2012 will feature a previously undocumented high chest of drawers by renowned cabinetmaker John Townsend, which represents one of the most important discoveries of American furniture to come to light in decades. Signed and dated in 1756 [Read More]

Christie’s new York auctions the Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr. Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, the sale will conclude the series of sales comprising Americana Week. The late Peter Frelinghuysen, longtime U.S. Congressman from New Jersey and last grandchild of the famed collectors H. O. and Louisine [Read More]

The first of the farewell letters written in the Antarctic by Captain Robert Scott as he realised that he and his team would not survive is for sale at Bonhams Polar Sale in London on 30 March 2012. It is estimated to make £100,000-150,000. The letter, which was found on Scott’s body [Read More]

Following a hugely successful first open house in May 2011, Bonhams will once again open the doors of its Knightsbridge saleroom to offer free verbal valuations on Wednesday 4th January 2012. 9:30am to 4pm. Famille rose Tibetan-style ewer, penba Jiaqing seal mark and of the period. Photo: Bonhams. 20 of Bonhams art [Read More]

An array of 18th-century Britannia standard silver and one of the most extensive Georg Jensen flatware services to see the auction block in many years will headline Stephenson’s New Year’s Day Antiques & Decorative Arts sale. The suburban Philadelphia auctioneers specialize in estate antiques and art. Often, they are called upon to [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announces that in a tense bidding battle yesterday, in its English Literature, History, Children’s Books & Illustrations sale, Charlotte Brontë’s autograph manuscript, The Young Men’s Magazine, Number 2, was sold for £690,850 / $ 1,069,229, more than twice the pre-sale estimate of £200,000-£300,000 – a record at auction for a [Read More]

A sixteenth century cottage in the Lichfield area of Staffordshire has revealed a wealth of antiques and valuables when it was emptied for auction recently. The traditional black and white timbered cottage in a sleepy village setting had every nook and cranny packed with interesting and unusual furniture and artefacts from days [Read More]

The sale will be held by Woody Auction, based in Douglass, Kansas, starting at 9:30 a.m. (CST) (ST. CHARLES, Mo.) – Nearly 450 lots of highly collectible American Brilliant Cut Glass, drawn from several important collections consigned from around the country, will be sold Saturday, Jan. 21, by Woody Auction, at the [Read More]

A simply magnificent 1892 South African Republic gold Proof Pond 1892, PR65 NGC – the best of just 10 like pieces known to have been minted – is expected to bring $300,000+ as one of the principal highlights of Heritage Auctions’ Jan. 2-3, 2012 World & Ancient Coins Signature® Auction, an official [Read More]

An 1841 Sovereign is set to make a new world record when it is sold in the Medals, Banknotes and Coins sale on Wednesday 14th December at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Estimated to sell for £8,000- 10,000, the coin depicts Queen Victoria, in relief, and has been virtually uncirculated. It is considered one of [Read More]

Bonhams announced a sales total of $1.36 million at its December 6 Antique Arms, Armor & Modern Sporting Guns auction in San Francisco. Highlighting the auction was a historic, Paris-made Confederate artillery officer’s frock coat of Lt. Col. Richard Snowden Andrews that sold for $64,350 (est. $40,000-60,000), along with a number of [Read More]

Sotheby’s Important Tiffany sale, on 15 December 2011, will be highlighted by A Highly Important Three-Panel “Magnolia” Window, circa 1910 (est. $400/600,000*). Tiffany Studios, A Highly Important Three-Panel “Magnolia” Window (detail). Circa 1910. Est. $400/600,000. Photo: Sotheby’s. As Julie L. Sloan writes in her catalogue essay, “this brilliantly colored, small jewel of [Read More]