SUDBURY, MASS. – A Japanese bronze eagle sculpture flew the coop to land at $15,240 at Tremont Auctions’ Annual Spring Asian art & Antiques sale June 27. The 31-inch-high work featured...
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. – The Chimpanzee Bank, an early 1880s cast iron mechanical bank by Kyser & Rex, sold for $26,400 at RSL Auction Company’s June 26 sale offering the single-owner...
CINCINNATI- A half-plate daguerreotype featuring San Francisco firefighter Walter Van Erven Dorens was alit with desire at Cowan’s June 25 American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction as it sold...
DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. – More than 99 percent of the 774 lots that Pook & Pook offered from the estate of Joyce Bowes Collis on June 24-25 found new homes, with a top price of $36,900 realized for an important...
PHILADELPHIA – A bright, crimson Salor Chuval carpet from Eighteenth Century Turkmenistan flew to $59,375, including premium, the top lot at Material Culture’s June 27 sale of the Leigh Marsh...
BRANFORD, CONN. – A portrait of American artist William Trost Richards (1870-1952) painted by his daughter, Anna Richards Brewster, sold for $175,000, including buyer’s premium, nearly 70 times...
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – On view at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) until September 5 is “America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution,” an exhibition that explores the development...
NORWALK, CONN. – The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum (LMMM) has received a gift of three pieces of Herter Brothers furniture from R. Joseph Wiessinger, a collector, resident of Belleair, Fla., and frequent...
Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy Ledbetter Folk Art & Americana Auction GIBSONVILLE, N.C. – Down in back country North Carolina, Matt Ledbetter and his Gibsonville Mafia mounted another...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Brunk Auctions ASHEVILLE N.C. – “It was a classic, great old estate, with lots of old things collected a long time ago, with ‘goodies’...
Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy South Bay Auctions EAST MORICHES, N.Y. – The silver collection of Charles C. Williams (1925-1996) was offered at South Bay Auctions in 240 lots on June 12, producing...
Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers AMESBURY, MASS. – The estate collection of Jack “Jacques” and Grace Weil was offered over two days at John McInnis Auctioneers...