Including The Olander Collection, The Fox Cellar and The Collection of Huston Street (Chicago, IL)-Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 auction house in the U.S., announces an exceptional three-day auction that will take place December 14th, 15th and 16th at Spiaggia in Chicago. Valued at $5.6-8.5 million, the auction will feature [Read More]
The 1920s photos were discovered hidden away, presumably for decades, in a storage locker. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A group of never-before-seen photos of sports legends Babe Ruth and Jim Thorpe, plus one of former major league baseball catcher Wally Schang, will come up for bid on Saturday, December 2nd, at Ripley Auctions, [Read More]
The auction featured the largest and finest selection of Western sodas the company has ever sold. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A rare and beautiful Indian Queen bitters bottle patented in 1868 sold for $14,375 and a Lafayette DeWitt Clinton half-pint lime green flask brought a record $10,925 in Auction #64, an internet and [Read More]
The auction, ending November 29th, is now online for viewing at www.woodshedartauctions.com. FRANKLIN, Mass. – An oil on canvas painting attributed to the renowned Hudson River School artist Jasper Francis Cropsey is expected to realize $200,000-$300,000 and several other works have estimates in the six figures in Woodshed Art Auctions’ next Prestige [Read More]
The auction will be held online, via several bidding platforms, and in Holabird’s Reno gallery. RENO, Nev. – Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is gearing up for a huge three-day auction event December 1st, 2nd and 3rd, one that’s packed with over 2,200 lots of railroad passes, Express collectibles, Western and postal [Read More]
The show is a public-private partnership between The Renaissance Auction Group and BCTV. Some of the items in the auction have direct historical ties to the city of Reading and the area. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit BCTV. The show is slotted to run from 6 pm to [Read More]
The auction will begin promptly at 10 am Eastern. MALVERN, Pa. – An English repousse silver pitcher made by R&S Garrand of London around 1861, a seven-piece sterling silver tea service made in Germany, and a fine selection of Tibetan Buddhist thangkas (religious paintings) are key lots in Converse Auctions’ next East [Read More]
The auction will be held online and in Bruneau’s gallery, at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, R.I., starting at 12 noon Eastern. It will be preceded by a live-only DiscoverIt sale (no online bidding) CRANSTON, R.I. – An oil on canvas landscape painting by the Scottish-born abstract modernist William Gear (1915-1997), titled [Read More]
The 300-lot auction was held in A.B. Levy’s gallery at 211 Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Fla. PALM BEACH, Fla. – A 17th century Chinese polychrome-decorated, carved wood figure of a seated bodhisattva (in Buddhism, a spiritually enlightened person) sailed well past its pre-sale estimate of $8,000-$12,000 to sell for $60,000 at [Read More]
WILLOUGHBY, OH When antique toy collectors gather and talk about the truly great comic character collections of the past, the names of a certain few trailblazers in the hobby invariably come up. However, it has been many years since a virtually unknown collection of fine, early comic character toys has appeared at [Read More]
EPPING, U.K. – In the world of fine jewels, provenance is second only to inherent quality. If a jewel has previously been owned by a celebrity – Elizabeth Taylor, for example – that connection becomes a permanent part of its history and allure. But an even greater level of cachet is added [Read More]
The trove is from Jon Gould, who was a friend of both artists and who died in 1986, at age 33. AMESBURY, Mass. – An attic find of original artworks which includes some by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat – literally unseen by anyone since being stored away more than 30 years [Read More]
Top lots by American Impressionists, American Watercolorists and American Genre Painters were highlights. MILFORD, CT – Strong prices were reported at Shannon’s 20th anniversary fall art auction held October 26th. Nearly 300 lots went under the hammer, grossing over $2.3 million, with 72 percent of lots sold. Shannon’s set a world record [Read More]
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. recorded history this past weekend offering a full barrel of 2016 Château Montrose, a first for the Château and the wine auction house. The auction room at Spiaggia fell silent as Montrose’s CEO Hervé Berland offered a few words surrounding the lot, including the special evening to [Read More]
The auction was held online and in Bruneau’s gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, R.I. CRANSTON, R.I. – A rare copy of Marvel Comics Amazing Fantasy #15 from August 1962 – the first appearance of Spider-Man in a comic book, signed by the legendary artist-illustrator Stan Lee – sold for $13,750 [Read More]
This important auction will be held online and live at Woody Auction’s showroom in Douglass, Kansas. DOUGLASS, Kan. – Part 2 of the Fred and the late Maxine Zumthurn collection out of California – which features figural napkin rings and quality pickle castors but also includes art glass pieces, Wave Crest, Mount [Read More]
The auction will be held Nov. 17-19, in the firm’s gallery on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, La. – A 19th century oil on board painting by South Carolina artist William Aiken Walker (1838-1921), an oil on cardboard work by folk artist Clementine Hunter (1887-1988), and a bronze figural [Read More]
The auction will be conducted in Mesa, Ariz., just outside Phoenix, by Allard Auctions, Inc. MESA, Ariz. – An historic early 20th century Navajo rug from J.B. Moore, a San Ildefonso pottery plate crafted by Maria Martinez around the same time, a circa-1940 watercolor painting by Oscar Berninghaus (Am., 1874-1952), and a [Read More]