WILLOUGHBY, OHIO — Safe to say it has outlived its subject matter. Milestone Auctions’ September 30 sale featuring World’s Fair, advertising and coins was led by a rare survivor — an 1893 World’s...
PHILADELPHIA — Two determined private collectors recognized the rarity of a 1549 first edition of Georgius Agricola’s De Amantibus subterraneis liber that rose to the top of Freeman’s September 27 Books...
DALLAS — Nearly 1,150 movie posters crossed the block at Heritage Auctions on September 30 and October 1, in the firm’s Movie Posters Signature auction. Leading the event at $28,800 was a jumbo lobby...
LOS ANGELES — A group of six Safavid cuerda seca pottery tiles, the largest measuring just 9½ inches square and dated to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century, was the surprise of the day at the Design...
PHILADELPHIA — Across Time And Culture | Ethnographic, Ancient, Asian & Textile Arts was the title of a live showroom auction at Material Culture on September 28. Leading a selection of more than 660 lots...
BOSTON — An impressive form of late Eighteenth Century American furniture would have to be a Federal inlaid mahogany gentleman’s secretary; Doyle offered one attributed to Nehemiah Adams of Salem,...
GENESEO, N.Y. — Cottone Auctions conducted a fine art, antiques and silver auction on September 29 featuring the collection of New York State Senator and Ambassador Hugh Douglas Barclay of Pulaski, N.Y.,...
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — One of the two highest priced lots at CRN Auction’s October 1 sale was expected to be just that: Childe Hassam’s impressionistic landscape of a tidal dam and bridge in Cos Cob,...
NEW YORK CITY — Papers of the Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, including diaries, correspondence, lecture notes and more led Swann Galleries’ September 28 sale of printed manuscript Americana, realizing...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — SJ Auctioneers presented 236 lots on September 3 during its Fine Décor, Sterling, Toys & Hobbies auction. Collectors were bidding on Daum paté de verre art glass, Steuben tableware,...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Brunk Auctions presented a 505-lot Emporium Auction on Thursday, September 14, followed by a two day Premier Auction September 15-16 that saw an additional 814 lots cross the block....
MONROVIA, CALIF. — John Moran Auctioneers’ Art of the American West sale featured 495 lots of Puebloan pottery, historical and contemporary Indigenous North American art and design, Navajo textiles,...