The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has acquired the outstanding fraktur collection Joy and David Brocklebank. Having focused on western Pennsylvania fraktur for 38 years, the Brocklebanks’ collection consists of more than 200 hand-drawn and printed fraktur from Westmoreland County and other western Pennsylvania counties. It was assembled by [Read More]
Antiques News
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Closed for two months for renovations, Benton Antiques, Etc., in Benton, Pennsylvania, will have a Grand Re-opening Celebration Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th with treats, door prizes, and special sale items. The market is located in a turn-of-the-century building, originally the Benton Store Company, and later a hardware store, at [Read More]
Old fashion fun is back in style as the Plantsville General Store Antique Center has just finished unpacking its newest shipment of nostalgia candy. Remember eating candy buttons? Do the names “Root Beer Barrels” and “Pixy Sticks” cause you to experience a flashback? If you loved shopping at your neighborhood candy store [Read More]
(Aberdeen, Miss.) – Several important area estates boasting fine period furniture, about 50 antique porcelain dolls, wonderful porcelains, exquisite china, sparkling sterling and hundreds of unique and beautiful antiques will be offered in a two-day sale slated for May 30-31 by Stevens Auction Company. The auction will be held at the firm’s [Read More]
DENVER, Pa. – Condition was king across the board in Morphy’s $2.6 million Spring Toy Auction, with a battle royal waged for premier examples of early American toys and folk art. The April 4-5 sale was topped by a spectacular circa-1885 William Demuth & Co. smoking Punch cigar advertising figure, which blazed [Read More]
Antiques and collectibles dealers who were blinded by the light of the Internet revolution and traded in their brick-and-mortar spaces at shops and malls for online selling via auction are slowly returning to the very places they bolted from around the turn of the millennium. That’s the observation, at least, of Tony [Read More]
IOLA, Wis. – Comics Buyer’s Guide, the world’s longest-running publication about comics, has announced the launch of an online Business Directory. Available at http://directory.cbgxtra.com, the directory is a valuable resource for anyone interested in comics. Users can find information about products, services, dealers, events, and more. A store locator allows enthusiasts the [Read More]
The Yellow Garage Antiques of Mullica Hill, New Jersey, announces its 2nd annual antiques show on Saturday, June 14th, at the Gloucester County Fairgrounds in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. The “June Festival Of Antiques” will be held, rain or shine, to benefit The Harrison Township Historical Society. Over one hundred outstanding dealers, [Read More]
Iola, Wisconsin: Comics Buyer’s Guide (CBG), the world’s longest-running magazine about comics, has announced that they will use actual sales results, from both Heritage Auction Galleries and Atomic Avenue, as the basis for their monthly price guide. “Reality-based pricing such as this has never been attempted before,” said Brent Frankenhoff, Editor of [Read More]
Leonard Auction’s April 19, 2008 sale featuring Tramp Art was a rousing success as bidders had the opportunity to take home many important and unique items not often seen in the Midwest. The auction was well received attracting more than 120 live and phone bidders in addition to 350 internet bidders. “We [Read More]
BOSTON, Mass. – April 29, 2008 – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, Inc., one of the nation’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced that its spring painting sale will be held on May 16th in Skinner’s Boston gallery. The auction of American and European Paintings will include more than 500 [Read More]
THE first (Shanghai) China Antique and Artwork Exposition opens tomorrow at the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Center. Organized by Shanghai Yunzhou Antique City, the four-day event features a high-end display section and previews by auction houses. The display area has 153 booths selling jade, ink-wash paintings, stone carvings, bronze vessels, antique furniture [Read More]
(St. Charles, Mo.) – Four important collections of American Brilliant Cut Glass – the rare and often colorful decorative glass pieces made mostly in this country between 1876 and 1916 and highly sought after by collectors – will be sold at auction on Saturday, May 31st, at the St. Charles Convention Center, [Read More]
Antique dealer Mark Scherzer is selling a large portion of his 300+ pieces of Vaseline Glass at the Historic Burlington Antique and Art Emporium in Burlington City, New Jersey. Collecting for more than 20 years, Mark states, “I love the mystery of the glass and how it glows in the sunlight, but [Read More]