Auction features the C.W. Slagle Firearms Estate Collection to include derringers, palm pistols, powder flasks and other curio type firearms. C.W. Slagle was well known throughout the firearms collecting industry and especially known for his collection of unusual and unique antique and Curio & Relic firearms. Collectors everywhere should take note that [Read More]
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The V&A presents its first major exhibition of quilts, open through 4 July 2010. Exploring 300 years of British quilt making, the exhibition shows more than 65 quilts from a cot cover made in the 1690s to recent examples by leading contemporary artists including Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry as well as [Read More]
Amighini Architectural, a leading source for architectural salvage pieces and doing e-commerce at salvageantiques.com, announces the arrival of a new container of architectural pieces from Italy. Amighini Architectural specializes in providing a diversity of unique antique doors, door hardware, stained glass, windows, wrought iron, antique tiles and more. A family-run company and [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields has announced the March 29, 2010 auction of Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts. The 500-lot Los Angeles auction features an array European furnishings from the 16th through the 20th century, with a focus on English, French, Italian, Spanish and German works. Highlights on offer include select property from the [Read More]
An extremely rare Kelly Tires double-sided tin trade sign, 24 inches in diameter and showing a lady waving while driving, sold for $13,200 at a Spring Petroliana & Advertising Auction held Mar. 5 by Matthews Auctions, LLC. The auction was conducted on the day before the popular Chicagoland Petroliana & Advertising Show, [Read More]
In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sulphate, and sodium chloride that occurs naturally in Egypt), bags of sawdust, floral [Read More]
The National Museum of American History is taking numismatic treasures out of Washington, D.C., and into communities across the United States with a new traveling display “Good as Gold—America’s Double Eagles.” The exhibition tells the story of the evolution of the $20 gold coin, the largest coin to circulate in the United [Read More]
Bellevue, WA – This spring, Bellevue Arts Museum offers visitors a rare opportunity to experience the private collection of Seattle-based art collectors John and Joyce Price. On view through August 8, 2010, Eyes for Glass: The Price Collection focuses on one aspect of the Prices’ broad collecting activities: works whose common denominator [Read More]
Eileen Rhoads Presents The Carolyn Sunstein Collection Dollhouse & Miniature & Toy Auction on Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28, beginning at – 9 a.m. (The Preview will be held Friday, March 26, noon to 5 p.m.) The auction will take place at Rhoads & Rhoads Auction Center in Spring City, [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions, in New York, announces the sale of the William E. Fischelis Collection of Victorian-era works on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10 a.m. This immaculate single-owner sale, a culmination of over 40 years of thoughtful collecting, consists chiefly of 18th and 19th century British art, with the inclusion of French [Read More]
The collectible antique map market, briefly stalled by the global economic crisis, is roaring back. There is renewed interest in the antique map market in 2010 as new collectors as well as seasoned veterans are looking to take advantage of the end of the global downturn, picking up museum-quality pieces at bargain [Read More]
The 28th annual Chester County Antiques Show, benefiting the Chester County Historical Society, is returning for its second year to the historic Westtown School near West Chester, Pennsylvania, the weekend of March 19 to 21. This year’s Honorary Show Chairs are Leonard A. King, President of the Devon Horse Show, and his [Read More]
An art pottery auction and two-day show and sale will highlight the 2010 national convention of the American Art Pottery Association, as the organization returns to its Ohio roots for this 30th annual event. All activities will be at the Holiday Inn/Cleveland South, located at the Rockside Road exit of I-77 in [Read More]
François Linke (1855-1946), born in Pankraz, Bohemia, is considered by many as the greatest Parisian cabinetmaker of his day, at a time when the worldwide influence of French fashion was at its height. The ancien régime has always been the greatest source of inspiration for artistic design in France and, influenced amongst [Read More]