Art from one of the world’s most incredible science fiction and fantasy art collections will be sold at auction October 15 in Dallas by Heritage Auction Galleries. Jane and Howard Frank met on a blind date while he was in college and she was in high school in the 1960s (they married [Read More]
Antiques News
Simply Primitive Antique Mall at 1004 Main Street, Hamburg, Iowa opened for business Oct. 1st, 2008. Owned by Noel and Judy Hatfield, Simply Primitive Antique Mall has 4000 square feet of booth space for antique dealers and quality antique or vintage furniture consignment. Located in the beautiful Loess hills just 45 miles [Read More]
Bonhams is to offer the Wanamaker de Heeren Family Collection at auction on October 22, 2008. The 430-lot sale is to be held at the firm’s Madison Avenue galleries featuring European furniture, decorative arts, silver, rugs and carpets, ceramics, and books from the Estate of Aimee de Heeren. The Brazilian born Aimee [Read More]
(Matthews, N.C.) – An extremely rare American Ammunition Company Smokeless 12-gage empty shell box, one of only a few examples known and in nice condition, sold for a new world record price of $6,859 in an Internet and catalog auction that went online Sept. 1 and concluded the weekend of Sept. 27-28. [Read More]
Cackleberry Farm Antique Mall will be hosting a 12th Annual Columbus Day Weekend Antique Extravaganza Sale on Saturday, October 11 through Monday October 13. During this event, antiquers will have a free chance to win one of many door prizes, also a free gift with every purchase, (plus free balloons for the [Read More]
The Hong Kong International Arts and Antiques Fair (“HK ART & ANTIQUES 08”), to be staged from 4 to 7 October 2008 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, will mark a new milestone in the exciting and robust Hong Kong art scene. With a unique combination of both antiques and [Read More]
L. H. Selman Ltd., premier antique paperweight dealer, is gearing up for its forty-second semi-annual paperweight auction. “Due to the overwhelming response to the Alschuler Auction Part I, we anticipate another exceptional sale this fall,” says Larry Selman. The second half of the Sam and Winifred Alschuler collection includes many of the [Read More]
The Collinsville Antiques Company of New Hartford is teaming up with Time Was Garage to host an Antique CARtober Fest on Sunday, October 5th, 2008 from 10.00-3:00 to benefit The New Hartford Fire & Rescue. (Rain date-following Sunday). Owners, Doug and Cindy Szydio of the antiques center and Michael O’Brien of Time [Read More]
Lushpad is a unique online home for lovers of mid-century Modern furniture, accessories and related objects sought by vintage collectors and anyone else interested in contemporary design and art. In the spirit of democratizing good design, Lushpad is a resource for everyone, where buyers and sellers can connect at every price point. [Read More]
Greshville Antiques and Fine Art of Boyertown, Pennsylvania, is proud to announce The Annual Berks County Art™ Show to be held Sunday, October 5, through Sunday, October 12. The show will be held in their gallery located in a restored 18th-century stone barn. The show will feature approximately 125 paintings by the [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is presenting “House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection,” a special exhibition that examines the evolution of the domestic interior in 19th-century Europe. Cooper-Hewitt explores the origins of the modern home through Eugene and Clare Thaw’s generous gift to the museum of eighty-five 19th-century [Read More]
P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. brings a comprehensive selection of works from the major schools of European painting from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries to the 20th International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show. Otto Naumann Ltd, New York, will also be exhibiting with Colnaghi this year. Highlights include [Read More]
The California Country Antique American Country & Folk Art Show will be held in Los Altos, CA on October 19th from 10am-4pm. Featured at this show is primarily American country and folk art antiques from the 17th-19th centuries including: country to formal furniture, folk art, quilts, hooked rugs, samplers, lighting, woodenware, baskets, [Read More]
(Hillsborough, N.C.) – An oil on canvas rendering of the Archangel Uriel holding a musket and standing before a mountainous landscape, painted around 1700 by an unknown artist in the Spanish Colonial School, sold for $14,375 at a multi-estate sale held September 13 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The [Read More]