Greshville Antiques and Fine Art of Boyertown, Pennsylvania, is proud to announce The Annual Berks County Art™ Show to be held Sunday, October 5, through Sunday, October 12. The show will be held in their gallery located in a restored 18th-century stone barn. The show will feature approximately 125 paintings by the [Read More]
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is presenting “House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection,” a special exhibition that examines the evolution of the domestic interior in 19th-century Europe. Cooper-Hewitt explores the origins of the modern home through Eugene and Clare Thaw’s generous gift to the museum of eighty-five 19th-century [Read More]
P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. brings a comprehensive selection of works from the major schools of European painting from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries to the 20th International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show. Otto Naumann Ltd, New York, will also be exhibiting with Colnaghi this year. Highlights include [Read More]
The California Country Antique American Country & Folk Art Show will be held in Los Altos, CA on October 19th from 10am-4pm. Featured at this show is primarily American country and folk art antiques from the 17th-19th centuries including: country to formal furniture, folk art, quilts, hooked rugs, samplers, lighting, woodenware, baskets, [Read More]
(Hillsborough, N.C.) – An oil on canvas rendering of the Archangel Uriel holding a musket and standing before a mountainous landscape, painted around 1700 by an unknown artist in the Spanish Colonial School, sold for $14,375 at a multi-estate sale held September 13 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The [Read More]
The American Folk Art Museum is “going green” with an eco-friendly exhibition at its Branch Location at 2 Lincoln Square. Recycling And Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930’s, organized by the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, highlights twelve quilts made during the Depressions Era. Presented from October 21, 2008 [Read More]
CHARLESTON, S.C. – One of the world’s great private collections of antique and studio glass – the Andy and Rob Collection – will be auctioned in its entirety on Oct. 5 in Charleston. Estate Road Show Auctioneers will produce the sale of more than 275 pieces of superior glass designs. Andy Stone [Read More]
(Oceanside, N.Y.) – An original “Peanuts” Sunday page, rendered in pen and ink in May 1953 by the late comic illustrator Charles Schulz, soared to $67,800 at a multi-estate sale held Sept. 13-14 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The eight-panel strip showed Charlie Brown and Snoopy playing fetch. In addition, two daily “Peanuts” [Read More]
DALLAS – DGSE Companies, Inc. (Amex: DGC), which wholesales, retails and auctions fine watches, jewelry, diamonds, precious metal and rare coin products via traditional and Internet channels, announces exceptionally strong prices realized at Superior Galleries’ September 2008 Pre-Long Beach Elite Auction Sale that concluded on September 15, 2008. This exciting sale featured [Read More]
The Hollywood Poster Auction will be held in conjunction with the Ray and Sharon Courts’ Hollywood Collector’s Show, September 27 and 28 at the Marriott O’Hare in Chicago. More than 600 lots of movie memorabilia will be offered for live bidding, including stills, lobby cards, sheet music, magazines, slides, and all sizes [Read More]
VINELAND, NJ – Nearly 2,500 lots of American, European and Japanese toys will take the spotlight Nov. 7-9 at Bertoia Auctions’ gallery, with prestigious collections anchoring the sale. Automotive collectors will be treated to more of the late Bob Smith’s friction and pressed-steel toys, while holiday enthusiasts will be invited to take [Read More]
Collectibles-Museums.com is home to the World’s Largest Online Collectibles Museums List™, the World’s Largest Free Online Collectibles Price Guides List™ and The World’s Largest Collector Glossaries List™. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, August 25, 2008 — Collectibles-Museums.com has compiled the World’s Largest Directory of Online Collectlor Glossaries™. Glossaries are also known as Definitions of [Read More]
It was the Dutch East India Company who, in 1650 opened the doors of Europe to the export of Japanese porcelain. Most of this early export porcelain was decorated as blue and white, much favoured by the Dutch and still widely collected in the Netherlands today. The Japanese Emperor had granted the [Read More]
New York, NY – AutographStore.com, a leading auction website specializing in celebrity autographed photos and memorabilia, invites fans to bid on its popular celebrity signed collectibles. AutographStore.com is unique because it offers autographed photos of many favorite movie stars, models, musicians and more from the modern era and yesteryear. Whether fans and [Read More]