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September 25, 2017BOSTON — The conversion rate for greenbacks to green stones just went up. Skinner’s September 19 fine jewelry sale saw an antique emerald and diamond brooch go long, eclipsing the $7/9,000 estimate...
September 22, 2017COLCHESTER, CONN. — Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques is hosting a free forum, “Slant Front Desks,” on Saturday, September 23, from 2-4 pm at 168 South Main Street, Colchester. Slant front desks,...
September 21, 2017NEW YORK CITY – Christie’s kicked off fall with an eclectic sale of everything from ship’s figureheads to Aesthetic decor and Outsider art. Eighteenth Century Philadelphia furniture took...
September 21, 2017HATFIELD, PENN. – Alderfer Auction will feature a work by South African artist Irma Stern at its September 28 fine and decorative arts sale. Irma Stern (1894-1966) was born to German Jewish parents in South...
September 19, 2017In the late Seventeenth Century, John Coney was the go-to silversmith in all of Boston. He was the best, and his engravings were second to none at the time. While he was not the earliest silversmith in the United...
September 19, 2017DENVER, PENN. — The top result in Morphy’s September 16-17 toy and doll sale was a large Felix the Cat Frolic platform toy. Estimated $20/40,000, it attracted a total of 23 bids before heading...
September 19, 2017DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Sailing across the auction block in Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett’s joint antique toy auction September 15 was a Märklin Jolanda painted tin clockwork riverboat in all original...
September 19, 2017DALLAS — A rare, first-edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – one of just 500 original copies, of which 300 were destined for British libraries – set a world record when it sold...
September 19, 2017BOSTON – The 2017 Ward Francillon Time Symposium, sponsored by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC), will be presented in the Alfond Auditorium at Boston’s Museum...
September 19, 2017Review and Photos by Andrea Valluzzo, W.A. Demers and Greg Smith BRIMFIELD, MASS. – The fall edition of Brimfield Antiques Week, September 5-10, brought out buyers from near and far for one last...
September 19, 2017By Laura Beach NEW HAVEN, CONN. – In the fevered Eastern imagination, Texas decorative arts are bouffant and bodacious, or all frontier grit. Texas silver is neither, as it turns out. Judging from...
September 19, 2017No Coffee In This Cup: Meissen Set Leaps To $767 At Jenack CHESTER, N.Y. – In an eclectic sale conducted by William J. Jenack on September 10, a Meissen decorated porcelain cup and saucer, signed,...
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