Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts on Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. in its Boston gallery. The sale features the collection of Gregory Rubin Reynolds, as well as items from the estate of Susan Parrish.
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John Moran Auctioneers’ March 6, 2012 Antiques Auction will present more than 300 carefully selected decorative and fine art items from estates and private collections, centering on a superb group of early 20th century French and American art glass e…
Waverly’s March 1 Fine and Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction offers an 1840 first edition of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. It comes with provenance from the Washington, DC-area collection of Charles Truitt and is estimated at…
A rare edition of Ernest Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories & Ten Poems [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923, one of just 300 copies printed brought $68,500 on Feb. 8 to lead Heritage Auctions’ $736,000+ Rare Books Signature(r) Auc…
Christie’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design on March 8 will be highlighted by a collection of Viennese Secessionism from the Hollywood home of Ron Bernstein, and will include approximately 40 works by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser an…
Sotheby’s announced the sale on 18 April 2012 in Paris one of the world’s most important collections of 17th & 18th Century French Silver – assembled for over half-a-century by Raymond Jourdan-Barry and his son Pierre.
French 17th & 1…
Sotheby’s announced its forthcoming sale of a private collection of Ottoman art, “An Eye for Opulence: Art of the Ottoman Empire”, which will take place on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 during ‘Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary’…
Two fine and imposing suits of armour are to be offered for public auction on 29th March. The two full suits of steel armour (two of four) were once a familiar sight in the famous Bower procession which dates back to the reign of Henry II.
Richard Wi…
Sotheby’s London sale of Musical Instruments on Tuesday, 6 March, 2012 will offer a violin by Nicolò Amati, one of the greatest names in violin making history.
Violin dated 1682, by Nicolò Amati, estimate £250,000-350,000*. Photo: Sotheby̵…
Timed to coincide with the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, Bonhams is pleased offer property from the Serendipity Bookstore in Berkeley, CA on February 12. Highlights will include general antiquarian books, art and fine press, mode…
The autograph manuscript of Peter Warlock’s masterpiece The Curlew is to be auctioned at Bonhams Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on March 27th.It is estimated at £4,000-6,000.
The Curlew, a setting of four poems by W B Yeats, is …
One of just 300 first edition copies printed of Ernest Hemingway’s first book – Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923 – is expected to bring $75,000+ when it comes across the auction block on Thursday, Feb. 8, …
Despite the frigid temperature on the evening of January 18, a record attendance of 1,400 people streamed into the inaugural Metro Show opening at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion to preview the brand-new incarnation of the former American Antiques Show. Throughout the exhibition hall, superlatives for the event reverberated from the 35 participating dealers, [Read More]
On Saturday, January 28, 2012, the much-anticipated High Noon Western Americana Auction was held in Mesa, AZ to a standing-room only crowd inside the ballroom of the Marriott Mesa Hotel. The key offering of the sale, which received worldwide media atte…