The British Museum will be hosting the Antiques Roadshow in a special event on Thursday 2 September, 09.0 16.30 in the Museum Forecourt, Free entry, just drop in. Bring along your family heirlooms and household treasures to the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, where their antiques and fine arts specialists will be on hand [Read More]
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A fine Leeds Pottery horse dating back to around 1825, estimated at £8,000 to £12,000, is to be sold at Bonhams Auctioneers in their Fine British Pottery and Porcelain sale in Bond Street, London on Wednesday 8th September. The horse a rare example of white pearlware with a black mane, tail and [Read More]
A rare collection of communion silver – with some pieces dating back over 500 years – has just been bought for the City of Birmingham, in England, with the help of a £27,000 grant from the ArtFund. The collection consists of a rare pre-Reformation silver parcel-gilt paten engraved with the Manus Dei [Read More]
Once dismissed as merely an afterthought, antique city maps are now an emerging segment of the collectible antique map market. Antique maps illustrate a window into the past, and city maps offer detailed layouts from hundreds of years ago that are often entirely different than what is found in today’s metropolises. Often [Read More]
On October 7th, Bonhams New York will present a special auction devoted to Vintage mechanical musical instruments and automata. Featuring a number of rare turn-of-the-century orchestrions, including $4 million of property from the famed Mark Yaffe Collection, this sale is cause for huge excitement in collecting circles. An orchestrion is a generic [Read More]
The 20th Century Decorative Arts Department at Bonhams & Butterfields, as part of its ongoing design lecture series, is pleased to announce a gallery talk with Tripp Carpenter (Arthur Espenet Carpenter III) on Saturday, October 2, 2010, at 2:00 pm. The event, which will be held at the firm’s prestigious Sunset Boulevard [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall will host a three-day Living Earth Festival, Friday, Aug. 6, through Sunday, Aug. 8, that acknowledges Native contributions to managing the environment and sustaining lifeways and foodways. The festival will include an outdoor fresh-produce market, fine-art market, symposium, hands-on activities [Read More]
More than 1,100 of the world’s best coin and paper money dealers will be buying, selling and trading numismatic items during the Boston World’s Fair of Money held by the non-profit American Numismatic Association (ANA). The event, August 10-14 at the Hynes Convention Center, will be the largest coin show of the [Read More]
A fine and beautifully crafted tall case clock by the celebrated U.S. clockmaker Simon Willard (Mass., 1753-1848) changed hands for $57,500 at a sale of antique clocks and related horology items held June 18 by Gordon S. Converse & Co., based in Strafford, Pa. The auction was held at the Yorktowne Hotel [Read More]
The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents masterworks from its collection of modern design in the special exhibition Mid-Century: “Good Design” in Europe and America, 1850–1950. Frank Lloyd Wright, Dining Table and Six Chairs, 1908-10, Designed for the Frederick C. Robie Residence, Chicago, Table: oak, leaded glass, and ceramic, Chairs: [Read More]
One of The New York Public Library’s greatest treasures, a full-text version of the Declaration of Independence handwritten by Thomas Jefferson will be on view through July 31 at The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery. The display will be open for [Read More]
Missouri’s largest antique mall is now open in Springfield. The super-sized antique mall is just 5 minutes from Battlefield Mall at 2015 W. Battlefield Road. The Mall is next to Grizzly showroom at the Kansas Expressway intersection. From James River Freeway, Exit Kansas Expressway and go north about 2 minutes then turn [Read More]
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) have set the date for their new Spring Show, which will open to the public on April 28 to May 2, 2011 at the Park Avenue Armory, it was announced by Clinton Howell, President of the AADLA. The opening night invitation-only preview will [Read More]
Established since 1989 The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show is the longest running of the fairs organised by Haughton International Fairs in New York city each year. A multi-category fair, The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show is recognised the world over as a premier showcase for exceptional quality [Read More]