Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers has just released a catalog of over 1,000 lots selling in four sessions during the highly anticipated two-day summer auction. The firm hopes for another round of summer fireworks in the saleroom as Asian Art and Fine & Vintage Jewelry cross the block on Thursday, July 24, with [Read More]
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The event was held June 13-14, online and at Mohawk Arms’ gallery, located in Bouckville, N.Y. BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. – A Confederate cannonball from the Battle of Gettysburg, mounted on three brass leg finials and engraved in script “Rebel shell – Gettysburg 1863,” sold for $5,850 at Mohawk Arms’ Auction #71, held June [Read More]
A sale of ‘Interiors’ at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions saw renewed interest in Chinese glass, with a fine and unusual vase from the Peking Glass Factory achieving a staggering £21,080.The sale was held at the auctioneers Donnington Priory saleroom in Newbury, Berkshire earlier this week. The leading vase was laden with auspicious [Read More]
A C.R.W. Nevinson Print of The Road from Arras to Bapaume, owned by a War Hero who served in Arras during the Great War achieved an exceptional £47,120 in a sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints that also saw auction records for Lichtenstein, Riley and Broodthaers along with top prices for prints [Read More]
The original chalk drawings of two lost paintings by American portrait and history painter, Benjamin West, surface at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Works on Paper on Thursday 24th July 2014. The black chalk on buff paper of Moses, 1787, [Lot 12] and another of St. [Read More]
Sales Up 24% from 2013 to $24.7 Million After Spectacular $8 Million June Auction (Chicago, IL) – In a tremendous, two-day sale this past weekend, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. confirmed its status as the #1 Wine Auction House in the U.S. in the first half of 2014. HDH has the largest [Read More]
A pair of English George III giltwood armchairs by cabinet-maker and furniture designer, Thomas Chippendale, were one of the highlights from Roseberys latest fine art auction. Held in London on 24-25th June the sale totalled an impressive £900,493 (including buyers premium). Roseberys Managing Director Ian Cadzow said: “This year has been a [Read More]
Many of the furnishings are original to the home, completed in 1859 and used as a Union Army camp and residence for General U.S. Grant, his wife and their slave (yes, Grant owned a slave!) HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. – The entire contents of Walter Place – a spectacular antebellum home completed in [Read More]
A unique group of medals including the only Victoria Cross awarded for the British campaign in Tibet is to be offered by specialist London auctioneers Morton & Eden in a sale of Medals, Orders and Decorations. The sale is on Wednesday July 2. The medal group awarded to Lieutenant, later Colonel, John [Read More]
A mysterious antique Chinese box has just totalled £1,600 at auction this week, (25th June). The box discovered in a rural property in the Tamworth/Lichfield area appeared as Lot 655 in Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield three-day Antique, Home & Interiors Sale. Oriental works of art of all varieties are kept back [Read More]
The worldwide banknote session was led by the Tasmanian Devil Collection of Australian notes. FORT LEE, N.J. – A 1973-1976 specimen set of five banknotes from the United Arab Emirates sold for $16,520 at an auction of rare and highly collectible U.S. and worldwide banknotes, scripophily and security printing ephemera held May [Read More]
Also, a George II mahogany tilt-top table and a Lannuier Empire table each brought $30,000. ATLANTA, Ga. – A mahogany carved and figured Queen Anne highboy (high chest of drawers raised on cabriole legs), likely originating from Massachusetts and dating between 1730 and 1750, sold for $32,500 at a huge, high-end, multi-estate [Read More]
Henri Matisse’s cut-outs have been receiving floods of visitors at the Tate Modern exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs which opened earlier this year. On Thursday 3rd July Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are offering collectors and investors the opportunity to take home some of the fascinating and rare cut-out works from the final [Read More]
A comprehensive collection of privately sourced wristwatches from the finest watchmakers will be sold as part of a series of luxury auctions at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Donnington Priory saleroom in Berkshire on Wednesday 9th July, alongside Fine Jewellery, Silver, Pens and Luxury Accessories. Leading the sale will be an Audemars Piguet, [Read More]
Innovative jewellery produced in the mid-20th century by artists in collaboration with Italian jeweller Mario Masenza will bring Roman charm to a 220 lot sale of Fine Jewellery at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Donnington Priory saleroom on Wednesday 9th July 2014. From UK and European collections the sale spans the late 18th [Read More]
WACO, Texas –A & S Auction in Waco, Texas, is no stranger to unique Western Americana. For 30 years, the family-owned company has brought the Old West to life for collectors with their expertly produced specialty sales of antiques, firearms, art, and riding gear. Their July 12th Summer Western Auction will feature [Read More]
The screen had been sold in a previous auction, but the buyer never made good on his purchase. BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – A large, important 19th century Chinese porcelain screen consisting of four large panels – each one famille rose, with mountain scenes and elders – sold for $126,900 at a Fine [Read More]
I’m guessing in every woman’s jewellery box there is one item of unworn forgotten about jewellery lurking in the depths amongst the broken pieces of gold, beads and pearls. Not quite fashionable anymore, not exactly pretty, probably passed down from an elderly Aunt or Grandmother…I’m going to take a guess and say [Read More]