Review and Photos by W.A. Demers NEW YORK CITY – The bard himself, who would be a spry 455 years old this month, would have approved of the venerable New York International Antiquarian Book Fair...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A rare and important Southern map soared to $252,000 against an $80/120,000 estimate at Brunk’s Premier auction on March 23. A Map Of Virginia Formed From Actual Surveys, And The Latest...
PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Tickling buyers’ fancies in Fontaine’s Auction Gallery’s March 23 auction was a Steinway Model D Centennial concert grand piano that attained $169,400, including the buyer’s...
GREAT FALLS, MONT. — The C.M. Russell Museum marked a successful Western Art Week, following the Russell Live Auction on March 23 in the Great Falls Civic Auditorium. Top lot in the $3.5 million sale...
DALLAS — A flurry of competitive bids from multiple collectors drove the result for a Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939) half sheet Style A to $108,000, with buyer’s premium, to claim top-lot honors in Heritage...
GENESEO, N.Y. — Two rediscovered marble busts by the French Eighteenth Century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) sold at Cottone Auctions’ sale on March 23. The busts, reductions in Serevezza...
SPARKS, MD. — An Edgefield, S.C., alkaline-glazed stoneware face harvest jug led Crocker Farm’s March 23 sale as it sold for $82,600. The circa 1845–70, 8½-inch-high jug features an applied and twisted...
WOODSTOCK VALLEY, CONN. — The first session of the renowned collection of Dr. Charles and Jane Aprill, featuring a selection of bold, beautiful and blue early glass bottles, flasks and more, closed at Heckler’s...
By Jessica Skwire Routhier BALTIMORE – The Minotaur – the fearsome half-man, half-bull monster that haunts the center of the labyrinth in Greek mythology – is one of the most recognizable...
NEW YORK CITY – The Metropolitan Museum is known for its blockbuster exhibitions that fill large galleries with color, light and sometimes sound. “Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia,”...
Review and Onsite Photos by Greg Smith VINELAND, N.J. – Four early toy collections converged in Bertoia Auctions’ March 9-10 Signature Sale. The auction, all 810 lots of it, was a colorful...
With many antiques shops now gone and fewer still keeping regular hours, we turned to Deborah Norman, the warm, gracious proprietor of Grand & Water Antiques in Stonington, Conn., for insight into...