Engines, cabooses, boxcars, barrel loaders, semaphores, and stations, all of which boys and girls of any age dream, will be sold April 10 at Gateway Gallery Auction. “This particular collection of model trains is in excellent condition and has been lovingly cared for, with many of the box sets unopened” said Micah [Read More]
Christie’s auctioneers has announced that they will offer the first part of an extensive selection of exceptional medieval and renaissance masterpieces on 7 July 2010 in London. The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula Part I is an outstanding private collection which has been assembled over the past 3 decades and [Read More]
Auction features the C.W. Slagle Firearms Estate Collection to include derringers, palm pistols, powder flasks and other curio type firearms. C.W. Slagle was well known throughout the firearms collecting industry and especially known for his collection of unusual and unique antique and Curio & Relic firearms. Collectors everywhere should take note that [Read More]
The Art Fund is delighted to announce that the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest archaeological Anglo-Saxon find ever unearthed, has been saved for the nation. The news comes after the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), the government’s fund of last resort for heritage items at risk, pledged £1,285,000 – bringing the campaign to [Read More]
The V&A presents its first major exhibition of quilts, open through 4 July 2010. Exploring 300 years of British quilt making, the exhibition shows more than 65 quilts from a cot cover made in the 1690s to recent examples by leading contemporary artists including Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry as well as [Read More]
Amighini Architectural, a leading source for architectural salvage pieces and doing e-commerce at salvageantiques.com, announces the arrival of a new container of architectural pieces from Italy. Amighini Architectural specializes in providing a diversity of unique antique doors, door hardware, stained glass, windows, wrought iron, antique tiles and more. A family-run company and [Read More]
On Sunday, March 28th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell 460 lots including hundreds of items stored in a locked and darkened warehouse since the late 1970’s. Ronan Clarke, founder and owner of Clarke Auction, wasn’t sure what he would find when he finally unlocked the door of the decaying warehouse. [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields has announced the March 29, 2010 auction of Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts. The 500-lot Los Angeles auction features an array European furnishings from the 16th through the 20th century, with a focus on English, French, Italian, Spanish and German works. Highlights on offer include select property from the [Read More]
An extremely rare Kelly Tires double-sided tin trade sign, 24 inches in diameter and showing a lady waving while driving, sold for $13,200 at a Spring Petroliana & Advertising Auction held Mar. 5 by Matthews Auctions, LLC. The auction was conducted on the day before the popular Chicagoland Petroliana & Advertising Show, [Read More]
In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sulphate, and sodium chloride that occurs naturally in Egypt), bags of sawdust, floral [Read More]
The National Museum of American History is taking numismatic treasures out of Washington, D.C., and into communities across the United States with a new traveling display “Good as Gold—America’s Double Eagles.” The exhibition tells the story of the evolution of the $20 gold coin, the largest coin to circulate in the United [Read More]
Bellevue, WA – This spring, Bellevue Arts Museum offers visitors a rare opportunity to experience the private collection of Seattle-based art collectors John and Joyce Price. On view through August 8, 2010, Eyes for Glass: The Price Collection focuses on one aspect of the Prices’ broad collecting activities: works whose common denominator [Read More]
Eileen Rhoads Presents The Carolyn Sunstein Collection Dollhouse & Miniature & Toy Auction on Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28, beginning at – 9 a.m. (The Preview will be held Friday, March 26, noon to 5 p.m.) The auction will take place at Rhoads & Rhoads Auction Center in Spring City, [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions, in New York, announces the sale of the William E. Fischelis Collection of Victorian-era works on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 10 a.m. This immaculate single-owner sale, a culmination of over 40 years of thoughtful collecting, consists chiefly of 18th and 19th century British art, with the inclusion of French [Read More]