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June 13, 2017DENVER, PENN. — Morphy’s firearms auction June 9–10 was led by James B. Hume’s historical Henry lever-action rifle (associated with the capture of Black Bart) that attained $141,450, including...
June 13, 2017By Lori Gray Faversham CHICAGO – For the first time in three years, Chicago is home again to a high-end antiques fair. Organized by Dolphin Promotions, the Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show took...
June 13, 2017Review by Greg Smith, Photos by R. Scudder Smith RHINEBECK, N.Y. – Four buildings of treasures awaited visitors to the sun-kissed Memorial Day edition of Antiques at Rhinebeck that packed, squeezed...
June 13, 2017Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries THOMASTON, MAINE – A three-day sale, June 2-4, offered more than 1,300 lots at Thomaston Place...
June 13, 2017Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy of Humler & Nolan CINCINNATI, OHIO – Nearly 1,300 lots crossed the block in Humler & Nolan’s two-day Memorial Day weekend sale that featured Rookwood...
June 13, 2017Harold Holzer is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War era. He won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book, Lincoln and the Power...
June 13, 2017Back in the Civil War era when America felt pressure on its heels, a contingent of folk artists emerged who traveled the healthier route and outwardly expressed their patriotic feelings in the form of an object. They...
June 12, 2017SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — “What is focus? And who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?” asked Julia Margaret Cameron in a letter to John Herschel, following a critical review...
June 12, 2017LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. — A 7.19-carat diamond and platinum engagement ring led Rago’s nearly 1,000-lot sale of fine jewelry June 9-11, hammering down to the tune of $87,500. The three-section sale saw the firm’s...
June 12, 2017CINCINNATI, OHIO — The Robert E. Lee desk presented to his personal physician, Dr Robert Madison led Cowan’s Auctions’ June 9 American history sale featuring property of N. Flayderman & Co.,...
June 12, 2017BOSTON, MASS. — Selling for more than three times its high estimate at Grogan’s June 11 sale was an 1889 trompe l’oeil painting of Valencia oranges by William Joseph McCloskey (American, 1859–1941)...
June 9, 2017AMSTERDAM — Heritage Auctions Europe sold a 10 dukat “Portugalöser,” struck by the city of Deventer in the year 1640, for $179,000 (including buyer’s premium), by far a record price ever...
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