The Israel Antiquities Authority is embarking on a first of its kind campaign to register the antiquities collections that are held by the general public in Israel. An individual that is listed in the state’s databank as the owner of an antiquities collection will be recognized by the state as a “collector [Read More]
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The Royal Bayreuth Collectors Club President, Sandy Heerhold, is pleased to announce that the club will hold its 15th annual convention in Memphis Tennessee. The big event will take place September 17, 18, & 19th at the Embassy Suites in Memphis. The club is proud of the many exciting & educational sessions [Read More]
Several prominent local estates – including one with collections that span multiple generations – will be sold at auction on Saturday, Sept. 12, by Jay & Wilma’s Local Estates, based in nearby Wakefield. The sale will be held at the Ivor Municipal Building, located at 8420 Bell Avenue. Ivor is located in [Read More]
Medieval Times joins the site’s stable of targeted blogs, including the Dinky Toys Blog and the recently-relaunched webzine Tales of Toy Cars for small-scale model cars. The blog will focus on figures and dioramas depicting knights, peasants, crusaders and other medieval characters in all scales and materials, painted and unpainted. Robert Hill [Read More]
A Parker Brothers AA Pigeon Gun wood and metal advertising sign, one of only two known, sold for a record $7,543 in an Internet and catalog auction that concluded Aug. 1-2 by SoldUSA.com. The only other known example sold a few years ago at auction to a Parker Gun Collectors Association member, [Read More]
On Saturday, Aug. 29, Dan Morphy will host the 16th edition of the York Antique Toy, Doll, Holiday & Advertising Show at the Memorial Hall, York Fairgrounds, in York, Pa. The semiannual show has developed into a must-do event on collectors’ calendars. Approximately 75 to 100 top-notch dealers from North America and [Read More]
An historic archive comprising nine ambrotype and daguerreotype images of James A. Garfield – taken in the 1850s and the first known images of the slain president – sold for $21,470 at a massive weekend sale held July 31-Aug. 2 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Around 1,200 lots in a broad array of [Read More]
For more than sixty years, the Pacific Northwest community, art collectors worldwide and enthusiasts of all ages have enjoyed the annual Bellevue Arts Museum artsfair presented by Microsoft. This year’s three-day festival, held July 24 – 26, was no exception as an estimated 320,000 visitors came to enjoy the 325 juried artist [Read More]
One of the most important Colonial maps of North America – Henry Popple’s Map of the British Empire in North America, published in 1734 – will be the highlight of an online sale slated for Sept. 4-16 by Old World Auctions (www.OldWorldAuctions.com). The map is just one of hundreds of antique maps, [Read More]
The contents of the Kirkwood mansion – one of the most famous and stately privately-owned antebellum homes in the South – will be auctioned on Saturday, Sept. 5, by Hal Hunt Auctions, based in Northport, Ala. The sale will be held at the mansion itself, located at 111 Kirkwood Drive in Eutaw, [Read More]
The Historic Alexandria Antiques Show, November 13-15 at the Holiday Inn Historic District. Thousands of pieces of period furniture, paintings, prints, folk art, carpets, lamps, ceramics, metalware, glass, textiles and unusual decorative accessories await curious homeowners in search of inspiration. And while shoppers feast their fancies on five centuries of mementos, they [Read More]
Several prominent lifetime collections of American Brilliant Cut Glass – known as ABCG and hugely popular with collectors – will be sold at auction on Saturday, Sept. 5, beginning promptly at 9:30 a.m. The sale will be held in the junior ballroom of the St. Charles Convention Center by Woody Auction of [Read More]
(ANN ARBOR, Mich.) – After skipping its customary live spring sale to conduct a catalog auction, Showtime Auction Services will return this fall to stage a remarkable three day event with the entire collection of Ron Wallace, a dedicated collector for over 30 years and former president of shipping giant UPS. Mr. [Read More]
Showcasing some 50 wondrously wrought examples, Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer, opening on August 6, will explore the development of this important artistic tradition from the 13th to the 18th century. Drawn from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s holdings as well as the collection of Florence and Herbert Irving, the [Read More]