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December 6, 2022So, Santa Claus and George Washington walk into an auction… There’s no punchline, both figures appeared across the block recently and topped the charts of their respective sales. More ambiguous figures...
December 6, 2022MEYERSTOWN, PENN. - Kleinfelter's Auction hosted its online-only Antique Extravaganza sale on November 19, offering almost 600 lots of salvaged architectural goods, early furniture and decorative arts,...
December 6, 2022BEVERLY, MASS. - For more than 25 years, Kaminski Auctions has hosted a Thanksgiving weekend sale; this year, the "favorite tradition," as Frank Kaminski calls it, took place Saturday and Sunday, November...
December 6, 2022PHILADELPHIA - Material Culture's Fine, Folk & Outsider auction took place on November 21, offering more than 500 lots from a diverse range of schools, origins and mediums. The upper lots were mainly fine...
December 6, 2022BOSTON - As of the end of December 2022, both Karen Keane and Steve Fletcher will relinquish some of their day-to-day operational responsibilities. Both are remaining with the company and both will have...
December 6, 2022MARLBOROUGH, MASS. - For the last 35 years or more, collectors and dealers have gathered in Marlborough for the annual Gurley Antique Show's Thanksgiving Sunday Antique Show; during the last five or six years,...
December 6, 2022VINELAND, N.J. - A week before Thanksgiving Thursday and Black Friday, on November 17-18, Bertoia Auctions conducted its annual Fall Auction, tempting bidders with nearly 1,600 lots of toys and games of every...
December 6, 2022Regular readers of this feature know that its subjects are generally collectors, trade personalities or museum folk embarking on a new role at a cultural institution. There are occasions, however, when...
December 6, 2022SANTA FE, N.M. - When an example of Pueblo pottery enters a museum or marketplace, the form and decoration is often discussed by art historians saturated in the philosophy of Western civilization. Or else,...
December 6, 2022YORK, PENN. — Financial markets may be taking a breather, but there’s never a time-out for those who pursue investment-grade vintage collectibles. Hake’s, the auction house that lit the fire for America’s...
December 6, 2022MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — The top lot in Bonhams Skinner’s European Décor and Design sale on December 1 was a monumental carved Carrara marble library table, which sold for $17,850. Actually, three Massachusetts...
December 6, 2022DALLAS — Earning $47,500 with buyer’s premium in Heritage Auctions’ Texana auction on November 30 was an 1829 pay order signed by James Bowie (1796-1836) ordering L. Hughes to pay Angus McNeill $134.
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