Over 2,500 rare and amazing treasures will cross the block the weekend of June 20-21 when Red Baron — the Southeast’s premier auction house — holds its annual summer auction extravaganza. Items will include a rare collection of three museum-quality heads from different parts of the world; a 1958 Plymouth Tornado concept [Read More]
Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts in its Boston gallery on June 27th at 10 a.m. More than 550 lots of furniture and decorative and utilitarian objects from the Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, Mid-Century and Post [Read More]
Bidders from Europe were especially active against U.S. buyers, with very lively internet bidding. Along with those from the U.S., there were bidders from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, bidding over the telephone or the company’s web site. “Paperweights of this [Read More]
European and American furniture and decorative arts — featuring antiques and collectibles formerly within noted institutional and private collections — come to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco on Monday, June 15, 2009. Strong international interest is expected for nearly 80-lots of deaccessioned property from several leading California museums, offered [Read More]
A rare and fine E. Howard & Co. #61 astronomical floor standing regulator clock sold for $161,000 at a sale of vintage clocks and watches held May 30-31 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. It was the third such E. Howard #61 sold within a year by Fontaine’s. The other two sold for $195,500 [Read More]
Skinner will host its June Discovery auction on Wednesday, June 17th and Thursday June 18th in its Marlborough, Massachusetts gallery at 274 Cedar Hill Street. Session I begins on Wednesday at 2 p.m. with silver, followed by estate jewelry and textiles & couture. Thursday’s session begins at 10 a.m. and features a [Read More]
dmg world media has announced the 14th annual Las Vegas Antique Jewelry & Watch Show had high sales despite the current state of the economy. Attendance for the second day of the annual trade-only show broke records set in previous years. The show was held at Bally’s May 28-June1, 2009. The Las [Read More]
On 19 June 2009, Sotheby’s will present The Graham Arader Sale. For almost four decades, Graham Arader has been one of the world’s most recognizable collectors and dealers of color-plate books, atlases, cartography, and natural history watercolors. This June, Sotheby’s will offer a remarkable selection from his holdings, ranging from original watercolors [Read More]
Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of fine jewelry at its Boston gallery on Tuesday, June 16th at 10:00 a.m. Highlights include Art Deco jewelry by Boucheron Paris, important Arts & Crafts jewels, principally from famous Boston studio jewelers, antique European jewelry Réjane, a famous French [Read More]
Alderfer Auction and Appraisal will offer something for nearly every collector in their auctions on June 11th and June 12th 2009. On June 11th, “Ephemera, Decorative Accessories, Fine Furniture and Rugs”, will offers nearly 500 lots, with baseball cards and memorabilia, political autographs and other collectibles, including Dorothy Doughty porcelains, fine jewelry, [Read More]
An extraordinary cabinet by one of the greatest French furniture makers, Francois Linke will go under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Continental Furniture And Works Of Art Sale on 17th June and is expected to fetch £1M-£1.5M. A version of this armoire by Linke was sold in New York in 2006 for [Read More]
Legendary Auctions, a leading Sports and American auction house will offer collectors a unique opportunity to own a treasured piece of baseball history. The auction house will offer a one-time sale of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame (MSHOF) bronze plaques of diamond legends in their June sales events. Bidding in the [Read More]
About 300 fresh-to-the-market lots from a pair of prominent local estates will be sold on Saturday, June 27, in a live and Internet auction to be held by Specialists of the South, Inc. (www.SpecialistsoftheSouth.com). Offered will be fine period furniture; rare and vintage postage stamps; collectible china and art glass pieces; a [Read More]
William Bunch Auctions will present “The James Galley Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain” on June 8 and June 9, 2009. Featuring over 900 lots, including many examples of Canton, Nanking, Famille Rose and Rose Medallion porcelain as well as 18th and 19th century furniture, decorative arts and folk art, the two-day sale [Read More]