The Antique Silver Library has announced the release of a free antique silver book from their growing library on the silversmith arts. Interested collectors and dealers, can claim their free antique silver handbook with 461 pages and over 2,500 extremely rare and unusual silversmith marks, by simply joining our free Antique Silver Mini-Course & Newsletter today. Get your own copy of Hallmarks On Gold And Silver Plate by W. Chaffers, published in 1883…one of the rare reference ... Read The Full Story

Bonhams are delighted to announce the sale of a private collection of furniture by one of the UK’s leading design talents, Tom Dixon. The collection includes some of Dixon’s most iconic works as well as a series of fixtures and fittings privately commissioned for a London house. The collection will be offered in Bonhams’ Vision 21 sale on July 1st. Tom Dixon, the former Creative Director of Habitat, began designing in his early twenties after having injured himself during a ... Read The Full Story

Heritage Auction Galleries, the world’s leading numismatic auctioneer, has created a new online auction venue for World Coin buyers with its new Monthly Internet-only World Coin Auctions. The first installment of this new venture is currently online at www.HA.com/WorldCoins, closing on July 12. The next auction will start the same day, July 12, immediately following the closing of the previous auction. “The format of the auctions is quite simple,” said Cristiano ... Read The Full Story

REHOBOTH BEACH, DE, June 29, 2009—Antique Prints, Inc. of Ocean View, Delaware will bring a number of rare and unusual items to the All Saints’ Antiques Show in Rehoboth Beach next month. Those items include early Delaware maps and notable images of Abraham Lincoln. “We are lucky to have some very early maps of Delaware that depict the eastern shore,” Print specialist Brandon Case comments. “We’ll also be bringing some prints that depict early life and times in Delaware.” ... Read The Full Story

Carlton Hobbs, the eminent international antiques dealer, is very pleased to announce that they were awarded the Fair Patron’s Award 2009 for the Finest Work of Art in Association with CINOA, the prestigious international federation for art and antique dealers. Presented by Sir Timothy Clifford at this year’s Olympia International Art and Antiques Fair in London, Hobbs’ winning piece was the Metamorphic Secretaire à Abattant Within a Cork Ruinwork Case. “We are ... Read The Full Story