The Randolph Street Market Festival returns to the West Loop with new dealers, new goods and a special tribute to the United States. This month’s market highlights select vendors featuring Americana good and antiques including stamps, coins, vintage propaganda posters, Uncle Sam collectibles, handmade flags, red, white and blue decorative accessories and [Read More]
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Art and antique aficionados from across the country and around the world will celebrate the final days of summer at the 29th annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show Labor Day weekend, September 3-6, at the Baltimore Convention Center. Guests will have the unique opportunity to view and purchase from the collections of over [Read More]
Skinner, has announced its recent sale of Fine Judaica – held in its Boston gallery on May 21st – was a tremendous success, more than tripling the pre-sale estimate and grossing more than $1.2 million for just over 200 lots of antique and artisan Judaica. The top lot in the sale was [Read More]
An original oil on board painting of a lone woman by the sea, done by the renowned Dutch artist Josef Israels (1824-1911), sold for $20,700 at a multi-estate sale held Apr. 25 by Gordon S. Converse & Co., the fledgling auction firm launched just last year. The painting – titled Watching and [Read More]
Avid collectors and dealers have always looked for, if not longed for, the chance to discover special items during their forays to thrift stores, yard sales, and now, the big online auction venues. The probability of stumbling across something that everyone else missed may be small, but it energizes the hunt. Still, [Read More]
Phoenix Ancient Art, the world’s leading dealer in rare treasures from ancient Western civilizations, announced today that it has voluntarily repatriated 251 antiquities valued at $2.7 Million (EU 2Million) to the State of Italy. “We returned these ancient artifacts in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration with the international art world, and [Read More]
More than 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise, in a broad array of categories, will be sold at a two-day Historic Hillsborough Auction the weekend of June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It is the grand opening event for the firm at its new, 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art gallery facility, located [Read More]
One of the nation’s longest-running and best-loved antiques shows returns to the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center July 29 –August 1, 2009. The show is now in its 60th year, sponsored by All Saints’ Episcopal Parish. “This year collectors will find items in individual room settings, making it much easier o visualize them [Read More]
The second Esher Hall Antiques and Fine Art Fair opens its doors again at Esher Hall, Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey from Friday 9 until Sunday 11 October 2009. Around 40 leading antiques dealers from across the UK, mainly members of the British Antique Dealers’ Association and LAPADA, the Association of Art [Read More]
Inspired by Governor Jodi Rell’s Staycation concept of keep-it-in-Connecticut day-trips and vacations, a group of merchants and antiques dealers in Woodbury has tapped into the picturesque town’s vein of ‘antiques gold’ to come up with a collaborative village spree called Woodbury Auction Week. From now until May 31, so-called “participating merchants” will [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. has announced it will host an auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, June 7th at 11 a.m. in its Boston gallery. Quintessential Americana – and in many cases from New England – Queen Anne, Federal, painted, and country furniture examples, tall clocks, ship portraits, marine arts, basketry, [Read More]
A beautiful Tiffany Studios maple leaf floor lamp, in excellent condition and with the original patina, sold for $103,500 at a multi-estate sale held Mar. 21 by Cottone Auctions. The lamp, standing 64 inches tall, featured a signed base and a 22-inch shade (#1999). It was the top item of the 300 [Read More]
Crawleys Furniture compares its range of antique and modern furniture to the various eras in English Furniture. 16th Century Furniture – If you visit any antique shop or auction, a large quantity of surviving antiques are furnishings. Furniture made even 500 years ago is very durable, and often has a distinct style [Read More]
When The Illustrious Guest (1847) appeared on the PBS program Antiques Roadshow earlier this year, appraiser Alan Fausel of the Bonhams auction house said the painting “could hang in a museum.” Now it is. “I was intrigued by the painting when I saw it on the program,” says Rebecca Lawton, curator of [Read More]