A Chalmers Catawba wine bitters bottle graded 9.8 for condition and considered one of the top five western bitters known, sold for $ 19,600 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 18 by American Bottle Auctions (www.AmericanBottle.com). The bottle was the top lot in a sale that saw around 325 [Read More]
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On January 18, 2010 Gateway Gallery Auction held it’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday auction, which consisted of an eclectic mix of fine antiques and artwork. The standing room only crowd was filled with motivated live and phone action, and received extensive absentee bidder interest. Of significant interest, two signed Lily [Read More]
Beginning in April 2010, Sotheby’s New York will have the privilege of offering the James S. Copley Library, an astonishing survey in original manuscripts of American history and worldwide literary, artistic and scientific achievement. The core of the collection is its remarkable range of handwritten letters, documents, and other manuscripts which trace [Read More]
A spectacular two-day, multi-estate auction will be held the weekend of Feb. 26-27 by Richard D. Hatch & Associates, at the firm’s spacious gallery facility located at 913 Upward Road in Flat Rock. Over 1,300 lots in a variety of categories will cross the block, as several prominent local estates will all [Read More]
Freeman’s two-day Fine English & Continental Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts sale, scheduled for January 26 & 27, includes an impressive selection of property consigned from a number of private estates and collections. The first day is focused primarily on English furniture and decorative arts, followed by sections of English and Continental [Read More]
Collectors of antique toy soldiers and figures have long known that good things come in small packages, and that ever-growing legion of enthusiasts helped push the total for Old Toy Soldier’s Nov. 21 auction to $193,000 – the company’s highest sale total to date. Leading the charge in the 644-lot sale was [Read More]
Cowan’s Auctions, a leader in auctions of significant historical artifacts, has been tapped by Edgar Allen Poe scholar Cliff Krainik to sell at auction a previously-unknown watercolor portrait of Poe by A.C. Smith. Wes Cowan, President and Principal Auctioneer, estimates that the portrait could sell between $30,000 and $50,000. “Cowan’s is delighted [Read More]
Over 400 lots of antiques and collectibles in a wide array of categories – important stoneware pieces, furniture items, jewelry, good used guns, decorative accessories and more – will be sold at a multi-estate sale planned for Saturday, Feb. 6, by Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals of Suffolk, Va. The sale will be [Read More]
Over 350 lots including the contents of two homes will be sold at the Fairfield Auction gallery January 24th. Offerings include a good selection of Americana, paintings, antique firearms, fine silver and other accessories. American and European paintings include works a large oil on masonite by Charles Courtney Curan, May Morning, measuring [Read More]
World renowned antiques expert Judith Miller will open the National Fine Art and Antiques Fair which is returning to the NEC from 20th to 24th January 2010. Judith, the co-founder of the internationally acclaimed Miller’s Antiques Price Guide and BBC Antiques Roadshow expert, is supporting the UK’s most prestigious antiques event outside [Read More]
After 40 years of trading at the top end of the business, legendary English antique dealership, Sampson and Horne, are to sell their entire stock, comprising nearly 800 lots, and attracting a pre-sale estimate of £1,000,000, at Bonhams on 28th April 2010. Widely considered as the leading dealer in British pottery and [Read More]
The University of Virginia Art Museum is the final venue of a two-year tour of “Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University,” an exhibition organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University. Touted as “eye-opening” by Roberta Smith, art critic at the [Read More]
Cheekwood Museum of Art has been selected to house the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, among the world’s most significant compilation of Fabergé pieces. The exhibition will open in February 2007. Harold H. “Spook” Stream, a long-time Nashvillian, has arranged for the Collection to be on loan to Cheekwood. Mr. Stream is [Read More]
The unexpected variety of medieval glass vessels will be explored in an exhibition of objects for daily use and display at The Corning Museum of Glass beginning on May 15, 2010 and running through January 3, 2011. The exhibition “Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants” will follow the evolution of glass [Read More]