Thirteen phone bidders and one in the room chased the Martin Johnson Heade oil on canvas "Still Life with Cherokee Roses" to $402,000 at Skinner's American and European paintings sale.
Less than a year ago, the map division of the New York Public Library was a public disgrace but all that changed when the room re-opened, renewed and restored.
Nan Gurley produced a very fine antiques show at the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, Mass.with lots of booths of great period paint, folk art and weathervanes.
For 31 consecutive years, the faithful members of the Pound Ridge Historical Society have gathered for their fund raising affair - the Fall Antiques Show.
The sounds and smells of Christmas past pervade the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate this holiday season in recreations of past American Yuletide traditions.
Christie's November 1 sale of Impressionist and Modern art totaled $160,931,200, the highest total for a various owners Impressionist and Modern art evening sale there since May 1990.
A desirable Gunthermann Gordon Bennet 12-inch racer, modeled after a renowned French racecar from the 1930s, drove the auction action at James D. Julia's last month.