Government of Canada have announced funding for The Upper Canadian Antique Showcase magazine. This funding will be used for The Upper Canadian Antique Showcase’s freelance writing, editing, and photography costs, as well as for design and assembly of the magazine. “A strong magazine sector contributes to our economy and allows Canadian stories, [Read More]
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Bonhams announces the much-anticipated sale of ‘The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part II’ at 10.30am on 26th May 2010 at 101 New Bond Street, London. This follows on from the great success of Part I of the sale which made £1,097,100 in November 2009. The Hoffmeisters assembled the greatest collection in [Read More]
Highlighting the sale is the Estate of Lester Yankee, a Solebury, Pennsylvania resident for 34 years. Rago’s is selling the personal property from Mr. Yankee’s large and elegant house and gardens. He and his life partner were dedicated collectors whose taste ran to Continental decorative art and furnishings. Rago’s will also serve [Read More]
Gray’s will present its first rare books and manuscripts auction this spring and is seeking consignments. Various types of rare books will be of interest for consignment including modern first editions, literature, natural history, travel and exploration, art and architecture, children’s books, science and medicine, sets and general antiquarian books. Please contact [Read More]
An outstanding, marked KPM oval porcelain plaque, boasting a finely detailed portrait titled Rembrandt’s Mother, sold for $7,250 at the sale of the lifetime personal collections of Elizabeth and the late Clarence Lee Dubois of Arkansas. The auction was conducted Feb. 13 in the 4-H Hall of the Sedgwick County Extension Center [Read More]
The 53rd Annual Fox Valley Antiques Show in St. Charles, Illinois March 13 – 14, 2010 Difficult to find, there are a startling few ‘real’ antiques shows around the country that feature invitation-only dealers exhibiting genuine antiques, carefully screened for authenticity, and meeting very specific standards. One such venue, the Spring Fox [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York has announced that it will hold an auction of fine and decorative arts from the contents of Albemarle House, the magnificent home of vintner and philanthropist, Patricia Kluge. The two-day auction, which will take place on June 8 and 9, will be held on the premises, located outside of [Read More]
Las Vegas Vintage – International House of Labels & Collectibles has launched their new website and online store at LasVegasVintageSelections.com. Their new online vintage store sources international vintage treasures, “one of a kind item” and stocks them in the store for your fashion pleasure. Las Vegas Vintage – International House of Labels [Read More]
The Museum of Arts and Design presents a major exhibition of global jewelry drawn exclusively from the unparalleled collection of Daniel and Serga Nadler, which was pledged as a promised gift to the Museum last year. This special exhibition will showcase approximately 150 masterpieces from Northern Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the [Read More]
Nearly 2,000 lots from several major collections in an array of categories – firefighting items from the Granite Handtub Museum in Newmarket, N.H., a private arcade machine collection, around 150 rare toys and banks and more – will be sold Apr. 9-11 by Showtime Auction Services, at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds [Read More]
Colnect Collectors Club (colnect.com) reached an important milestone, as more than 8,888 collectors from around the world have registered on the site. This follows months of significantly accelerated growth in both new members and catalog items, trends that bode well for transforming Colnect into one of the world’s most popular collectible sites. [Read More]
Christie’s Hanham Court sale is to be held at Christie’s South Kensington on Wednesday, 14 April 2010. Immersed in the world of antiques from a young age, Isabel and Julian Bannerman first met in Edinburgh in 1982 and have been collecting together ever since. The sale will consist of approximately 300 lots [Read More]
Encompassing more than one hundred objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art, including some of the greatest masterworks of the Egyptian artistic heritage, To Live Forever explores the Egyptians’ beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife; the process of mummification; the conduct of a funeral; and the [Read More]
A lovely Roman marble bust that film director, Franco Zeffirrelli gave as a wedding gift to friends who worked with him on the filming of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, will be sold at Bonhams next Antiquities Sale in London on 28th April. Dating from the second century AD the Roman herm [Read More]