UNITED STATES – The world has been unable to turn away from the trainwreck Netflix documentary series Tiger King, its main protagonist Joe Exotic: a mulleted pistol-toting big cat breeder who is currently...
PHILADELPHIA – On March 24, Freeman’s successfully hosted its first online-only jewelry auction: “Luxe | Boutique Jewels & Vintage Watches @1600.” The auction achieved just...
Executive producer, director, cameraman, magazine editor and fashion director Linda Horn has long been a collector of majolica – playful, colorful earthenware pottery decorated with tin-lead glazes...
Review by Greg Smith, Images Courtesy John McInnis Auctions AMESBURY, MASS. – Three collections came together to form John McInnis’ March 21 sale of coin-op, tobacciana and G-man memorabilia....
By Greg Smith OKLAHOMA CITY – An unlikely social media star has risen in Tim, head of security and current social media manager at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City....
Op-Ed By Steven Miller Having long studied how American museums remove (deaccession) collections, I now believe that everything they own can be bought. To be sure, price tags don’t appear on exhibited...
Review by Greg Smith, Images Courtesy Merrill’s Auctioneers and Appraisers WILLISTON, VT.- Merrill’s Auctioneers and Appraisers was accepting online, absentee and phone bids in volume as the firm...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Stair Gallery & Restoration HUDSON, N.Y. – If you have to wear gloves, they might as well be white. Such was the impression one gets when we consider...
SARASOTA, FLA. – An interior scene painting by Welsh artist Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1950) filled in the top of Sarasota Estate Auction’s March 28-29 sale when it sold for $23,560 above an $8,000...
REPAUPO, N.J. – A snowy Philadelphia cityscape by American artist Laurence A Campbell was the top lot at S&S Auction, Inc’s March 26 sale when it sold for $24,375. The 1994 painting titled...
WABASHA, MINN. – A signed desk from the Wooton Desk Company took $8,338 in Jay Anderson Auction’s March 28 sale. William S. Wooton established the Wooton Desk Company in 1870 and produced the Wooton...
By Greg Smith UNITED STATES – As if we thought it could not get worse, it has become an even more difficult time to be an antiques dealer, particularly one that relies on sales at antiques shows...