Bloomsbury are holding a sale of Printed Books, Paintings and Prints all at no reserve. Many of the lots on offer will be the ex-stock consigned to Bloomsbury from Heritage Bookshop in Los Angeles but in addition it will include many previously unseen items which must be sold. There will be no [Read More]
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A one sheet movie poster for the 1923 Paramount Pictures release, Hollywood, realized $89,625 in an auction of Vintage Movie Posters at Heritage Auction Galleries, July 23-25. The graphically stunning and downright bizarre poster depicts the head of a large male, with the word “Hollywood” in relief across his forehead, as a [Read More]
Honoring people and events in the Dutch royal family’s history has a long tradition in the Netherlands. In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the waterway that would eventually bear his name. The explorer called it “de Maurits Rivier” after the reigning prince of Orange-Nassau. Maurits (r. 1584-1625) was the successor of William [Read More]
A large single-owner collection comprising around 400 lots in an array of categories – to include Chein toys, Coca-Cola collectibles, framed art and lithograph prints, Indian art and artifacts, vintage dolls, toy trains and airplanes, Americana and more – will be sold in an online, phone and absentee bid auction slated for [Read More]
The annual Hong Kong International Art and Antiques Fair (HKIAAF 09) will be held in the prestigious Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 3 to 6 October 2009. HKIAAF 09 is now recognized as Asia’s premier art fair presenting a unique combination of Art and Antiques. This will be the 5th [Read More]
The small pistol gangster John Dillinger was carrying hidden in a sock when he was arrested in Tucson, Arizona 75 years ago — six months before he was fatally gunned down in Chicago — was sold for $95,600 in a public auction in Dallas, Texas Saturday. The winning bid was more than [Read More]
Fusco & Four Public Relations and Marketing will be celebrating its 13th anniversary producing the Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS) November 12-15, 2009. The show is a perfect complement to Fusco & Four ‘s 30 years of public relations and marketing services in the arts and antiques industry, and roster of [Read More]
Not too long ago, the only vintage comics that could bring prices above $50,000 were all from the “Golden Age” of the World War II era. In the meantime, however, the nicest copies of some comics from the Baby Boomer generation have cleared that hurdle quite easily. Case in point: a comic [Read More]
The largest public display ever assembled in the United States of huge, modern, certified Chinese gold coins will be exhibited at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money, August 5 – 9, 2009, in West Hall A of the Los Angeles, California Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa. The event is open [Read More]
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces the forth and final exhibition in the yearlong “Passion for Collecting” series, highlighting the museum’s acquisitions from the past decade. The exhibition “From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World,” on view July 29 through October 18, 2009, presents works from many eras [Read More]
Drawing on the rich holdings of the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama, this exhibition will feature a selection of maps that chart the development of the Chattahoochee Valley over the course of five centuries. On display will be maps from the Hoole Library as well as the Columbus [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. has announced it will host an auction of Country Americana on Sunday, August 9th at 11 a.m. in its Marlborough, Mass. gallery. The auction features nearly 800 lots including marine paintings and ship dioramas, folk portraiture, country furniture, children’s furniture, basketry, blown glass, hooked rugs, weathervanes, country decorative arts, and [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields announced the November 8, 2009 auction of The Estate of Elizabeth Colyear Vincent, Newport Beach, California. Assembled over the course of a lifetime, the Estate features a diverse group of 18th and 19th century works with a focus on the Northern European aesthetic. The 300-lot Los Angeles-based sale will [Read More]
A pair of extraordinary late 17th Century Jacobean curtains – £4,000 – £6,000 – which have come from a couple in Nairn, Scotland, who put them up every winter and took them down each summer to protect them from the light, will be sold at Bonhams auction of Textiles in Knowle on [Read More]