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Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of Jan. 5, 2009Read more...
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Live Auction Talk: Beatles collectors come togetherRead more...
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Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of Dec. 28, 2008Read more...
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Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of Dec. 21, 2008Read more...
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Furniture Specific: Depression EraRead more...
Rago channels eclectic treasures to Discovery Auction
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. - Great property comes to Rago's with consignments destined for its high-end cataloged sales, but much arrives via its appraisal days, including jewelry, furniture, Americana, art, rugs,...
Fine art, furnishings of Hungarian nobility in Quinn's Feb. 7 sale
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Heirlooms, important artworks and historical jewelry from one of Europe's most distinguished noble families will be auctioned on Saturday, Feb. 7 at Quinn's Auction Galleries in Falls...
Rago moves up to five auctions of Arts & Crafts/early 20th-century design
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. - Rago's has announced plans for its 2009 Arts & Crafts auction season, outlining three different types of sales with prices at all levels of collecting. While showcasing the top-notch...
Brunk's Jan. 3-4 sale features art and antiques with a Charleston connection
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - The scenic oceanfront city of Charleston, S.C., commands center stage in Brunk Auctions Jan. 3-4 sale. For starters there is Louis Rémy Mignot's 1854 luminist painting with the poetic...
Elvis’ jet and Pam Anderson’s glam trailer lounge in Dec. 20 auction
LAS VEGAS - On Dec. 20, Kruse International will present the opportunity to bid on four celebrity-owned automobiles and aircraft in the auction portion of their 35th Las Vegas Car Collector Auction &...
Fisk University appeals O'Keeffe artwork ruling
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A court order has forced Fisk University to reopen the gallery displaying a collection donated by artist Georgia O'Keeffe, but the school isn't giving up its legal fight for the...
Crystal, china maker Waterford Wedgwood collapses, files bankruptcy
LONDON (AP) - Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after attempts to restructure the struggling business or find a buyer failed. Four...
Proposed assault rifle ban in N.J. exempts antiques
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - It's a gun ban George Washington could approve of - or at least the Revolutionary War re-enactor playing him each year. That's because a proposed ban on large-caliber assault weapons...
Barn Star Productions announces new December show in Lancaster, Pa.
RHINEBECK, N.Y. - Barn Star Productions and Frank Gaglio will unveil a new antiques event this year. The Lancaster Antiques and Fine Arts Show will be held in Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 5 and 6, 2009. Located...
Police: $380,000 stolen from arts group
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Police are investigating the theft of $380,000 from an arts group that stages one of Indianapolis' best-known art fairs and also grants money to local arts groups. The theft from the...
Lanceray sculpture takes top honors in Gray's last sale of 2008
CLEVELAND - A superb late-19th century Russian bronze sculpture was the most coveted lot in Gray's Auctioneers' Holiday Fine Arts & Antiques auction held Dec. 13. Created by Evgeni Alexanderovitch Lanceray...
John Case sets auction record for Tennessee sampler
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An 1836 house sampler set a record price for a Tennessee sampler at auction, selling for $28,125 at the Dec. 6 Case Antiques Auction. Signed "Mary Elizabeth Collins' work/Franklin Tennessee...
Cai Guo Qiang's ‘Descending Wolves' tops Ravenel Art auction
TAIPEI, Taiwan - More than 500 people packed the auditorium in the Fubon National Conference Center on Dec. 7 for Ravenel Art's autumn auction, which had total sales in excess of $7.2 million. Nearly...
Architectural antiques, Victoriana achieve strong results at Kamelot
PHILADELPHIA - Thirty-two running feet of antique commercial oak and glass display cabinetry sold to a New York publisher and fine art dealer for $52,800 at Kamelot Auctions' signature architectural...
13th-century Limoges tabernacle soars to $295K at Jackson's International
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - Neither rain, snow, ice or a faltering economy thwarted buyers from participating in Jackson's International's auction of Dec. 2 and 3. The two-session 1,000-lot sale featured American...
In Memoriam: Peter B. Schiffer, 60, founder of Schiffer Publishing
ATGLEN, Pa. (ACNI) - Peter Berwind Schiffer, 60, who founded a book publishing empire based on collecting, hobbies and other special interests, died on Dec. 19 of a heart attack. He was 60 years old....
Santa Claus - He's a native New Yorker
The spirit of Christmas is universal, but the embodiment of that perennially popular Yuletide figure, Santa Claus, has a history that began in the unlikeliest of places - New York. For centuries, European...
Alderfer's hires Jason Cutts to expand services into New Jersey
HATFIELD, Pa. - Alderfer Auction Companies in Montgomery County, Pa., are expanding their business into southern and central New Jersey with the appointment of their new sales associate, New Jersey-based...
'Sci-fi' originator, literary agent, editor Forrest J. Ackerman, 92
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent and magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term...
Farmer rescues antique implements from rusty oblivion
DEAVER, Wyo. (AP) - It's not old junk sitting fallow in fields or farm yards. Robin Murdock, 61, of Deaver has rescued forgotten farm equipment and put it back to work. A 1900s-vintage hay loader, possibly...
Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of Jan. 5, 2009
Electric lamps with glass shades were popular from the 1870s to the 1920s. Unlike a candle flame, a lightbulb could face down and was not too hot for a shade with a closed top, making the use of glass...
Live Auction Talk: Beatles collectors come together
The Beatles traveled to their historic Aug. 15, 1965, Shea Stadium concert by helicopter, limousine and Wells Fargo ammored van. No question the cargo of the armored van was precious. Two thousand policemen...
Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of Dec. 28, 2008
Educated collectors find bargains. The more you know, the more likely you are to find a sleeper at a house sale or auction. And it is also important to handle a piece to judge weight, texture and quality....
Kovels - Antiques & Collecting: Week of Dec. 21, 2008
Houses were decorated with special Christmas objects long before special dinner plates were made for the holiday. There are at least five states that claim they had the first American Christmas tree: Pennsylvania...
Furniture Specific: Depression Era
One of the most interesting and important times in American history is quickly fading from living memory. The Depression Era, as it is commonly called, encompassed the better part of three decades early...
Style Century Magazine: Austrian Art Nouveau Lamps
Tiffany Studios’ stunning turn of the 20th century leaded-glass lamps appear frequently in the auction marketplace, but many collectors may not be aware of a contemporaneous but far-less-expensive...
Style Century Magazine: Mexican Silver
Beginning in the 1930s, silver workshops clustered in the mining town of Taxco spearheaded a revival in this traditional craft in Mexico. At the same time, the artists and artisans working there took a...
Style Century Magazine: Robert Rauschenberg
He hated the term neo-dadaism, which all too frequently was used to describe his work. He was, perhaps, a father to pop art but certainly not of that school. Nor could he be pinned down on the canvas of...
Style Century Magazine: Matko Peckay Furniture
To Matko Peckay, wood causes a contagious feeling that leads to a work of art or something functional, often both. The 58-year-old Slovenian has been creating hand-carved armchairs, rocking chairs, loveseats...
Style Century Magazine: Lino Tagliapietra
Italian designer Lino Taglipietra (b. 1934) emerged from the traditional Venetian glass workshops in Murano to become a catalyst for innovation in the international studio glass movement. At the Smithsonian’s...
