Although thematically different, multiple lots earned six and seven figure totals to lead auctions worldwide this past week. At Heritage, a 1914 Babe Ruth rookie card struck a home run for $4.026 million,...
GLEN COVE, N.Y. — Roland Auctions NY conducted its October 2025 Estate Sale on the 18th of the month, which offered just under 750 lots of contemporary and modern art, alongside a selection of fine decorative...
ASTORIA, N.Y. — Auctions at Showplace conducted an Important Fine Art & Design Auction on October 23; its second-to-last sale of the month, featuring just 145 lots. “I am thrilled with the results,”...
CANAAN, N.Y. — Ralph Fontaine’s Heritage Auctions celebrated its 30th business anniversary with a 534-lot auction on October 26. Following the close of the sale, owner Ralph Fontaine said, “You know,...
DALLAS — In an Early Twentieth Century Design sale that realized $1,034,319 on October 22, Heritage Auctions presented nearly 260 lots of Tiffany Studios lamps, glass and metalware, French art glass...
NEW YORK CITY — On October 23, Bonhams’ books and manuscripts department auctioned 236 lots in its Americana, Exploration and Travel sale, including items from the collections of William C. Nesheim,...
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND. — “We had some reserves, but not many,” acknowledged Michael G. Straswer, commenting on the high sell-through rate achieved by the six sales the Strawser Auction Group handily...
WESTPORT, MASS. — On October 18, White’s of Westport, Mass., welcomed the first Atlantic Coast Decoy collector show, hosted and organized by Tom Reiley, Jim Jankowski and Tim Seiger. Reiley enthusiastically...
ONLINE — While fields lined with tents of dealers or the perfectly neat aisles of booths at both indoor and outdoor antiques shows nationwide may be every collector’s happy place, sometimes the life...
I really appreciated Charlie’s broad insights on museums. With several others, Charlie consulted for a museum where I worked. The leadership very much wanted to expand, taking over several sites owned...
For this week’s interview, Antiques and The Arts Weekly sat down with Jan Whitlock, who wore many hats in the textile field but retired from being a show dealer about 15 years ago. In our conversation,...
SHEBOYGAN, WIS. — The night Sinatra died, my wife and I were living in a rapidly gentrifying Italian neighborhood in Brownstone Brooklyn (N.Y.), twilight time for red sauce ristorantes that didn’t...