Advanced computer technology and antique tractors may seem like a mismatch. However, to the growing tractor restoration community, online technology is pertinent to their success. For years, antique tractor enthusiasts have had to consult friends and neighbors or hunt through salvage yards to locate parts for their old tractors. Now, essential tools [Read More]
Antiques News
Carlton Hobbs, the pre-eminent international antiques dealer, announced today that he will mount a special exhibition called “ON TOPS: Table Tops from the 2nd Century AD to the 19th Century,” which opens at his gallery, located at 60 East 93rd Street, (between Madison and Park Avenues), on Wednesday, May 13-22, 2009. A [Read More]
Artfact has launched a new look for Artfact.com and its sister site in the UK, Invaluable.com. The newly designed site pairs Artfact’s suite of powerful online services with a bold, user-friendly interface. The largest global marketplace of fine and decorative arts, antiques, collectibles and estate auctions, Artfact offers live online bidding at [Read More]
Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that Conestoga Auction Company has selected the Company to provide live online bidding for its upcoming auction of The George Kegerreis Collection of antique American arms and accoutrements. The two-day live event will take place Friday, March 27 at 5:00 [Read More]
An astounding 2,000 lots – mostly fresh-to-the-market merchandise from prominent estates and collections – will be sold at auctions planned for Mar. 28-29 and Apr. 4 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The sales will be conducted at the firm’s spacious gallery, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, N.Y. Bids will also be [Read More]
Currently ongoing at iGavel is The Santa Barbara Auction, presented by Alexander Rose Fine Art & Antiques. Highlights of this auction include a Austrian Biedermeier Fruitwood Settee, 19th Century, estimated at $2,000-$3,000 with a starting bid of only $750. A Laver Kirman Rug, Early 20th Century, estimated at $600-$800, has a starting [Read More]
Nearly 450 lots of mostly Victorian lamps and antique glass will be sold on Saturday, Apr. 4, by Woody Auction at the Holiday Inn Airport West in Earth City, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis located five miles from the airport. Headlining the auction will be the estate of Mrs. Patsy Cary, [Read More]
(Hillsborough, N.C.) – Nearly 625 quality consignments, most of them drawn from prominent Southern estates, will be sold in a quarterly cataloged auction slated for Saturday, March 21, by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. Offered will be fine art, period furniture, sterling silver, books, clocks, watches, estate jewelry and antique [Read More]
Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of fine jewelry at its Boston gallery on Tuesday, March 17th at 10:00 a.m. The sale will feature unique antique, Renaissance Revival and Art Deco jewelry items from Tiffany & Co., Boucheron and Castellani, a number of which descended in [Read More]
Dig Antiques, the first country and folk art antiques search engine and online community, is now available at http://www.digantiques.com/search.php The new search engine and website makes it easy to find country and folk art antiques across tens of thousands of Web pages. “I’ve barely scratched the surface of Dig Antiques but it [Read More]
Kovels.com, the Web’s largest free price guide for antiques and collectibles, today released its list of the top 20 searches for January 2009. Cleveland, Ohio, February 23, 2009 — Kovels.com today released its latest list of the most searched-for antiques and collectibles. See what fellow collectors were looking for in January 2009. [Read More]
More than 400 fresh-to-the-market lots, drawn from prominent area estates, will be sold at auction Saturday, Mar. 7, by auctioneers Tom Perry and Jay Bradshaw of Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals, beginning at 9 a.m. The sale will be held in a former schoolhouse building now used for community activities, located at 8420 [Read More]
Tim’s will hold its 17th annual Cabin Fever Auction on Saturday, March 28, at the Litchfield Firehouse on Route 202 in Litchfield, beginning at 11:30 a.m. “We call it the Cabin Fever Auction because folks need a good reason to come out of their homes at the end of winter,” Tim Chapulis [Read More]
The lifetime collection of the late Ken Wadginski – a decorated war veteran who retired to the forgotten rural town of Hollow Rock, Tenn., and ended up buying many of the stores and buildings there – will be sold on Saturday, Mar. 28, by Stevens Auction Company. The auction will start at [Read More]