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September 29, 2020Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Leland Little Auctions HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – On September 19, Leland Little conducted its fall auction featuring more than 400 lots of jewelry, art and antiques....
September 29, 2020By Laura Beach WILLIAMSBURG, VA. – To what do we owe our enduring fascination with the Quaker folk painter Edward Hicks (1780-1849)? Is it the charm of the winsome creatures who congregate on his crowded...
September 29, 2020Notable sales found in our October 9, 2020 issue include a woodcut on paper by Blanche Lazzell titled “The Monongahela II” and an Art Deco Després ring that spurred 45 bids to drive the final price...
September 29, 2020NEW YORK CITY – A highlight in Showplace Auctions’ September 27 auction was one among many pieces of Asian porcelain and decorative arts to coincide with Asia Week. A Chinese Kangxi period...
September 29, 2020CHICAGO – Potter & Potter Auctions presented its circus, sideshow and oddities sale on September 26, conducted entirely online but streamed live from the firm’s gallery. “Cavalcade...
September 29, 2020DALLAS – A flurry of competitive bidding drove the final price for David Bates’ “Crab Legs” from 1984 to $275,000, more than five times its high estimate to claim top-lot honors...
September 29, 2020CINCINNATI, OHIO – A portrait by Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827) of Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), Kentucky’s first governor, bested its $75/100,000 estimate to sell for $112,500 in Cowan’s...
September 29, 2020YORK, PENN. – The ultimate prize from the late Dr Paul Muchinsky’s trove of baseball buttons knocked it out of the park at Hake’s September 23-24 pop culture memorabilia auction. The oversize...
September 29, 2020DALLAS – A 1934 United States bank note set the world record for the most valuable type of its kind sold at auction when it brought $384,000, including buyer’s premium, at Heritage Auctions....
September 29, 2020LONE JACK, MO. – Soulis Auctions offered the iron shooting gallery target collection of Richard and Valerie Tucker on September 26, many of which were illustrated in the couple’s 2014 book...
September 25, 2020DENVER, PENN. — If it feels like déjà vu, it is because Antiques and The Arts Weekly ran a similar headline in March, 2019 when Morphy Auctions set an auction record for any unboxed robot with the $86,100...
September 22, 2020NEW YORK CITY – A September 11 US federal judge’s ruling has set precedent for the upcycling industry. Vortic Watch Company announced victory in a trademark case filed against the company by Hamilton...
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