DALLAS – A 1959 Gibson Les Paul standard sunburst solid body electric guitar, serial #9 0696 soared to $350,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Neal Schon Collection of Guitars and Musical Instruments...
SARASOTA, FLA. – An atmospheric painting of New York harbor on a summer morning, by American artist Edward Moran (1829-1901) took top-lot honors at Helmuth Stone’s Fine Art, Important Asian...
STURBRIDGE, MASS. – The only known example of a centaur with the body of a horse and a cast zinc bust head of George Washington was one of the top lots in D.L. Straight’s July 31 Summer Americana...
EAST DENNIS, MASS. – A handful of lots in Eldred’s three-day Summer Sale July 28-30 hit the six-figure mark but it was a moonlit seascape by Edward Henry Potthast (New York/Ohio, 1857-1927)...
CHEVY CHASE, MD. – A pair of Eighteenth Century Chinese carved huanghuali wood “official hat” chairs more than septupled their high $4,000 estimate on day two of Sloan & Kenyon’s...
DANIA BEACH, FLA. – The collection of Alan and Susan Shovers, touted as one of the rarest selections of Steuben glass available, came up for bid on July 29 at Akiba Antiques. The Shoverses, both...
ELGIN, ILL. – An oil on canvas by Swedish/American artist John Fabian Carlson (1875-1947) sold for $11,400 in Bunte Auction Service’s August 1 sale. The quiet snowscape, “Woodland Peace,”...
REHOBOTH, MASS. – A finely inlaid minstrel banjo attributed to Baltimore maker Levi Brown sold for $19,200 at Americana Auctions on August 1. Brown was an all-around musician with little surviving...
RENO, NEV. – “Roping A Wolf,” an adrenaline pumping frontier painting by Charles M Russell (1864-1926) sold for $1,770,000 in Coeur d’Alene Art Auction’s July 31 sale. The oil on canvas...
MARSHFIELD, MASS. – Leading Will Henry’s August 1 sale was a manuscript diary kept by Captain Benjamin Beal covering the period March 17, 1776, to December 6 of that year. Following the evacuation...
Photos and Review by Greg Smith, Will Demers & Madelia Hickman Ring BRIMFIELD, MASS. – On some days a blazing inferno, on others a diluvial flood – that was the July 2021 reboot of the Brimfield...
NEW YORK CITY – The 84th rare posters auction from Poster Auctions International on July 20 featured a large roster of masterpieces and rarities from a century of poster design. Included in the collection...