(Lincoln, UK) Two of the Majestic Paper Horses and a chariot created by Richard Sweeney (one of the world’s greatest paper artists) for this Summer’s Flower Festival at Lincoln Cathedral are to be auctioned to raise money for charity at Unique Auction’s Annual New Years Day Auction. Lifesize Paper Horses by Artist [Read More]
The sale will be held at the firm’s gallery in Weaverville, N.C., about 10 miles north of Asheville. (WEAVERVILLE, N.C.) – Around 400 lots of quality merchandise in an eclectic mix of categories will be sold without reserve (everything goes, regardless of price) in an auction slated for Saturday, Jan. 12, by [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts on Saturday, January 12th in its Boston gallery. The sale presents an excellent assortment of European and American sculpture, Russian icons, English glass stemware, and antique furniture. More than 300 lots of British ceramics will be offered as part of [Read More]
Bonhams will be celebrating the start of 2013 with the unveiling of Scotland’s largest private collection of pre-Islamic & Islamic art, which has never been seen in public before. The collection will go on view at Bonhams Edinburgh galleries from the 8th to the 13th January. The collection focuses primarily on items [Read More]
Archives International Auctions will conduct their inaugural Hong Kong auction in association with Dynasty Auctions Company, Ltd. (HONG KONG, China) – Archives International Auctions, in association with Dynasty Auctions Company, Ltd., will offer the Allen Berk single-owner lifetime collection of rare Chinese and Asian banknotes on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Harbor [Read More]
(Lincoln, UK) Nearly 1,000 items of Antiques, Fine Art and Highly Collectible Items will be sold as part of Unique Auctions (UK) Annual New Years Day Auction on 1st January 2013 at 9am (GMT). Reclining Chinaman Money Bank Highlights of the sale include a fine selection of Oriental and Jade Items, English [Read More]
General George Armstrong Custer’s personally owned Army-issue Model 1865 Spencer Carbine brought $179,250 to claim top lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ $2.5+ million Political, Western Legends & Americana Signature® Auction, Dec. 11-12. Items relating to the well-known general led the event, from an important oil painting of the Battle of Washita by [Read More]
The sword was the top lot in an auction that saw about 1,700 lots of militaria come up for bid. (BOUCKVILLE, N.Y.) – A Samurai sword surrendered by Japanese Rear Admiral Nobukagu Yoshimi on the Marshall Islands in 1945, plus an archive of material pertaining to the soldier’s surrender, sold for $7,538 [Read More]
The trend of coveting retro-style continued at Bonhams New York today when their December 11 sale of The Richard Balsbaugh Collection of Vintage Radios proved another landmark success in the collecting history of this popular field. The auction totaled $555,437, doubling its pre-sale estimate, and was 100% sold by lot and by [Read More]
The auction will feature original works by Antoine Blanchard, Jean Dufy, Avinash Chandra. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Original works of art by noted artists such as Jean Dufy, Antoine Blanchard and Avinash Chandra will be part of a fine artwork and decorative arts auction slated for Saturday, Jan. 12, by Elite Decorative [Read More]
The auction, already online, features porcelain, jade, paintings, furniture, carvings, more. (WEST CHESTER, Pa.) – Nearly 500 lots of Chinese and Asian objects, many of them rare and highly collectible pieces drawn from prominent estates and collections, will be sold in an Internet-only auction to be held Saturday, Dec. 29, at 9:30 [Read More]
After an absence of over thirty years, Lichfield hosted its first major auction at Richard Winterton’s newly opened Saleroom just behind the historic market place, (12th/13th December). A packed room and the internet buzzing with buyers around the globe – from New Zealand to Bulgaria, from Germany to Singapore resulted in a [Read More]
Ms. Bowen operated Bowen’s Antiques in Eupora, Miss. — a ten-building antiques “village.” (EUPORA, Miss.) – The antiques industry lost a true jewel with the recent passing of Earlean S. Bowen, an enthusiastic buyer and seller of antiques and longtime owner of Bowen’s Antiques in Eupora, a small and quaint town in [Read More]
International auctioneers, Bonhams, announces a stellar result for its Gems, Minerals & Lapidary Works of Art and “The World of Opals, The Splendor of Gold” auctions on December 10 and 11 in Los Angeles. The December sales brought more than $2 million and featured exotic discoveries retrieved from mines, caves and excavations [Read More]
The new facility is located in Lynbrook, N.Y., not far from the previous gallery in Oceanside. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – You can’t keep a good auctioneer down, and that adage can definitely be applied to Philip and Emily Weiss, whose business and residence on Long Island, N.Y., were both hit hard by Hurricane [Read More]
Bonhams auction of Russian Literature and Works on Paper brought spirited bidding for many of the sale’s significant lots, underscoring and celebrating the perennial interest in this area of collecting. Most coveted was Henrietta Leon Girshman’s Carnets de Salon, which raised paddles to $230,500. Society doyenne and hostess, Girshman captured the early [Read More]
Impeccably Sourced Wines, Dedication to Service & Integrity, and Global Reach Produce Strong Results for Chicago Auction House (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart capped off the year with another successful auction this weekend in Chicago realizing $3,750,448 against a pre-sale auction estimate of $2,621,460-$3,939,080. Wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti continued [Read More]
Bonhams is selling a painting of the epic fight between H.M.S. Shannon and the U.S.S. Chesapeake during the Anglo-American War of 1812-14 – one of the most renowned naval encounters of the nineteenth century and arguably the quickest and most decisive frigate action ever fought. This oil painting by John Steven Dews [Read More]