The base tone regularly changes from one side of the piece to the next, making a lively juxtaposition. This January, a late-nineteenth-century illustration of a Sarouk Farahan rug will feature Nazmiyal Auctions’ old fashioned mats and covers deal. Worldwide authorities were first acquainted with Persian Sarouk Farahan rugs at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair. In […]
RENO, Nev. – A portfolio of five aquatint etchings by the Chilean artist Sebastiàn Matta sold for $3,750, a pictorial letter-sheet from 1856 illustrating all the major types of gold mining done in California by 1855 brought $3,500, a monumental 12-volume railroad survey report published from 1855-1860 compiled to find the best rail route to […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Items from the estate of the legendary British conductor and composer Raymond Leppard (1927-2019), a Grammy-winning recording artist and scholarly revivalist of 16th and 17th century baroque operas, will come up for bid in a live and online auction slated for Saturday, January 16th, by Ripley Auctions. The 315-lot auction will begin […]
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. concluded 2020 with a total of $66.3 million in auction sales, spearheaded by an increase of live-bidding participation, first-time bidders, and HDH’s industry-leading bidding platform. Holding eleven wine auctions and one spirits auction over the course of the year, HDH maintained its status as the #1 wine auction house in […]
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Andrew Jones Auctions will greet the New Year with two big online sales in January. Both will be DTLA Collections & Estates auctions. The first, on Tuesday, January 12th, will feature select American and English decorative arts. The Wednesday, January 27th event will be broad and varied, highlighted by fine […]
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in the U.S., finished the year with an outstanding two-day Auction of Finest & Rarest Wines showcasing The Personal Estate of Joseph Phelps. The auction was 100% sold and brought in a total of $10.4 million against a pre-sale estimate of $5.8-8.8 million. Bidders from […]
NEW HAMBURG, Ontario, Canada – A Paces Races 5-cent horse race slot machine, made in Chicago in 1934, sold for $29,212 and a made-in-Canada Black Cat Cigarettes porcelain sign from the 1940s realized $10,516 in an online-only Advertising, Toys & Historic Objects auction held December 12th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., headquartered in New […]
RENO, Nev. – A five-day Holiday Auction packed with hundreds of lots of mining collectibles, philatelic material, Americana and more, and featuring a number of important collections in a wide range of categories – will be held December 17th thru 21st by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online and live in the gallery located at […]
Sassoon Judaica Collection will auction by Sotheby’s in an upcoming auction sale featuring Nearly 70 lots from the Sassoon Judaica collection includes religious objects and textiles. Conversationally known as the “Rothschilds of the East,” the Sassoon family has a long history at closeout. An impending Sotheby’s deal hung on December seventeenth, 2020, at 10:00 AM […]
