Perhaps it was the result of the Prohibition. Americans, left without their favorite swill, needed somewhere else to get their kicks. And truly, there’s nothing quite like jumping up from your seat in a room...
HARRISONBURG, VA. – Bidders’ love for animal-themed ceramics was in the air at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates over the weekend of July 27-28 when two related pieces brought what are believed...
By James D. Balestrieri NEW YORK CITY – The story tells itself. In 1816, the legislature of the state of North Carolina authorized the commission of a monumental statue of George Washington –...
SAN FRANCISCO – PBA Galleries made a big splash in the fine writing instruments auction market with its successful debut sale of pens on July 19. The 361-lot auction attracted participants from all over...
Great items in this week’s Across The Block, as a Grateful Dead poster displayed the band’s continued relevance, along with the early English book The Great Herball Newly Corrected. Many others...
COTUIT, MASS. – The Cahoon Museum of American Art has opened its Summer season with an exhibition that highlights contemporary art, traditional American art and New England craft traditions. On view...
Review by Rick Russack WOLFEBORO, N.H. – On July 14, Peter Coccoluto of Concord Hill Auctions conducted the 18th Annual Vintage Boat and Car auction, on the grounds of the New Hampshire Boat Museum,...
Sanford Levy, Jenkinstown Antiques owner in New Paltz, N.Y., has been collecting local Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century furniture, fine art and decorative art for 45 years. He fills his show booth...
Review and Onsite Photos by Laura Beach EAST DENNIS, MASS. – “It is kind of a second golden age for scrimshaw collecting. The material that has come to market since 2005 has been of extraordinary...
Review and Onsite Photos by W.A. Demers BEDFORD VILLAGE, N.Y. – “It was a great sale with a lot of ‘sleepers,'” said Butterscotch appraiser Brendan Ryan the day after a marathon,...
RENO, NEV. — Coeur d’Alene’s 2018 Art Auction realized more than $13.2 million in sales on July 28. The annual auction was conducted at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno. An overflowing crowd of approximately...
WASHINGTON, DC – Art and antiques journals and cultural policy groups are reporting that the Trump administration’s threat to implement a 10 percent tariff in its mounting trade war with China...