The Everson Museum of Art is proud to announce a major gift from the Syracuse China Corp., consisting of examples of china dating back to the mid 19th century, will be joining its permanent collection. This gift consists of 275 pieces of ceramics representing many eras and styles. For the past 138 [Read More]
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The Antique Silver Library has announced the release of a free antique silver book from their growing library on the silversmith arts. Interested collectors and dealers, can claim their free antique silver handbook with 461 pages and over 2,500 extremely rare and unusual silversmith marks, by simply joining our free Antique Silver [Read More]
Bonhams are delighted to announce the sale of a private collection of furniture by one of the UK’s leading design talents, Tom Dixon. The collection includes some of Dixon’s most iconic works as well as a series of fixtures and fittings privately commissioned for a London house. The collection will be offered [Read More]
Heritage Auction Galleries, the world’s leading numismatic auctioneer, has created a new online auction venue for World Coin buyers with its new Monthly Internet-only World Coin Auctions. The first installment of this new venture is currently online at www.HA.com/WorldCoins, closing on July 12. The next auction will start the same day, July [Read More]
In the entire world, there are but a handful of companies that attempt the level of furniture making for which West Coast-based Burton-Ching has developed its sterling reputation. On July 13, 2009, international fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields, will pay homage to the noted design firm and offer part II of [Read More]
A Heuer Carrera watch classic in vintage sixties design has found its way to the auction rooms of Birmingham based auctioneers Fellows & Sons. The stainless steel, automatic gentleman’s watch, circa 1970, will be going under the hammer on Monday 6 July. The watch features the calibre 12 movement, successor of the [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts, featuring Fine Ceramics, on Saturday, July 11th at 10 a.m. in the Boston gallery. The sale boasts more than 800 lots and features fine ceramics, as well as [Read More]
Over 500 lots of important Civil War items, rare and vintage firearms and all manner of militaria will cross the block in an auction slated for Saturday, Aug. 15, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, beginning at 11 a.m. Featured will be the lifetime collection of the late George J. Bisacca, whose mainly Civil [Read More]
Silverdollar Productions (Silverdollarproductions.net) has been the internets premier seller of both General Electric and Telechron clocks since 2005. An increasing surge in the Westminster aspect (including both Revere and General Electric) has prompted us to open a sister-site in April of this year. Revereclocks.com is devoted to providing information concerning both the [Read More]
The Speed Art Museum presents two shows celebrating the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. These exhibitions will explore the life of the nation’s 16th president in Beyond the Log Cabin: Kentucky’s Abraham Lincoln and Ed Hamilton’s Lincoln from June 28 through September 6, 2009. “The Speed is extremely proud to participate in [Read More]
The Crocker Art Museum has received a gift of an encyclopedic collection of 20th-century ceramics, comprised of nearly 800 works by more than 300 artists. The collection, given by Syndey Swidler, brings to the Museum a fully developed view of the medium from the early-20th-century to the present. Works by some of [Read More]
The Canadian Numismatic Company will be hosting The Torex Coin Auction from June 25-27, 2009 located in Quebec, Canada. There three day auction is available for viewing and live online bidding with iCollector.com. This huge event contains over 3000 lots up for bid. Some highlights from this massive 3 day auction: – [Read More]
The Royal BC Museum (RBCM) has opened the North American premiere of Treasures: The World’s Cultures from the British Museum. The exhibition, at the RBCM until Sept. 30, 2009, brings together 309 of the most celebrated objects from the renowned British Museum collection and showcases the cultural achievements that define world history. [Read More]
An important and complete 132-piece modern hammered sterling flatware service for twelve, by the renowned California silversmith Allan Adler sold for $15,525 at an Historic Hillsborough Auction held June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It was the grand opening event for the firm in its new gallery location, [Read More]