NEW ORLEANS, La. – A bronze sculpture by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (American, 1876-1973), a 155-piece set of Tiffany sterling flatware in the Harlequin pattern, and a French Empire style figural mantel clock and pair of four-light candelabra are just a few top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s live and online Important Winter Estates […]
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 […]
Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers will kick off 2021 with its Premier Gallery Auction January 9th and the most anticipated lot is certain to be an important oil on canvas of one of Mexico’s great volcanos, Popocatépetl, by visionary American Modernist, Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 – 1943). As noted by Selkirk Executive Director, Bryan Laughlin, “The […]
WESTPORT, Conn. – A four-page manuscript consisting of nearly 2,300 words written entirely in the hand of English physicist Sir Isaac Newton, a World War II-dated letter written in English by Albert Einstein in which he reveals that Nazi leaders didn’t give much thought to his Theory of Relativity, and a 16-page letter signed by John […]
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 […]
