The Wild Rice Trade, Art & Antique Expo – 2009 will be held July 17-19 on Highway 59 at the south entrance to Mahnomen, MN. A replica of the World’s Largest Bratwurst will be served on Saturday, July 18, to benefit the Deputy Dewey Fund, the deputy sheriff shot in the line […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
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Houston Antiques Dealers Association presents our Fall 2009 Antiques Show & Sale! This is the 46th Semi-Annual HADA Antiques Show & Sale. What: For one weekend only, shopping enthusiasts and antiques aficionados will be able to peruse antiques from the 1750s through Art Deco and Mid-Century Modernism when more than 150 of […]
A Japanese toy designer took a discarded tin can in 1945 and hammered it into the shape of a U.S. Army jeep. Just inches in length, crudely painted by hand, and powered by nothing more than an elastic band, Matsuz? Kosuge’s jeep spawned a huge automotive industry–in miniature. From July 9 to […]
For the last few weeks, the talk in the rare lamp and art glass world has been the Julia auction of June, 19th & 20th. Without question the auction was the epitome of diversity, quality, rarity and value. This was the finest offering to take place in the glass world this year! […]
Following the highly successful sale of a collection of papers from Rocket Engineering icon, Dr. Werner Von Braun, Bonhams New York will be presenting a sale entirely devoted to the history of man’s exploration of space. Taking place on July 16th, the approximately 400 lot sale fittingly coincides with the week of […]
More than 500 U.S. and world bank notes will be offered in the Official Auction of the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money® conducted by Bowers and Merena Auctions at the Los Angeles Convention Center and online, August 2 – 8, 2009. One of the many highlights is an 1870 $100 […]
A stunning 5-piece rosewood Victorian bedroom suite, signed Mitchell & Rammelsberg (circa 1860), soared to $51,700 at the living estate sale of Katherine Creamer, a discerning collector from Mobile, Ala., whose stately mansion was built to contain her vast collections. The sale was held June 13 by Stevens Auction Company at the […]
Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced that it will offer the Richard Wright Collection at auction in October 2009. Richard Wright was one of the world’s best known experts in the field of fine dolls, and a prominent and colorful appraiser on the […]
The Everson Museum of Art is proud to announce a major gift from the Syracuse China Corp., consisting of examples of china dating back to the mid 19th century, will be joining its permanent collection. This gift consists of 275 pieces of ceramics representing many eras and styles. For the past 138 […]