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• Bidders Feast On Fresh Finds At Amelia Jeffers’ Thanksgiving Weekend Auction

  10-12-2025 18:00
  DELAWARE, OHIO — Black Friday shopping looked a little different for some in Central Ohio who fought leftover tryptophan drowsiness to raise their paddles with gusto. Amelia Jeffers’ Annual Thanksgiving Weekend Americana Auction at the historical Garth’s Auction Barn featured three lifetime collections on November 28-29. Day one featured the first installment of the collections of the late Deborah Fisher of Lebanon, Ohio, and Peggy McClard & Randy Segotta (McClard-Segotta A
  
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• $4 Goodwill Platter is a Priceless Piece of History

  10-12-2025 18:00 via antiquetrader.com
  Ali Knipfing thrifted this platter for $4. Image: TikTok/@knipfing.thriftingOne of the delights of buying vintage is that, no matter how experienced you are, there’s always something to surprise you. Ali Knipfing of Greenville, South Carolina, has been shopping at estate sales and thrift stores ever since her mother introduced her to them as a child, and she shares her favorite finds on TikTok as @knipfing.thrifting. There are still plenty of antiques that are new to her, as she
  
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• Fine Art, Fancy Jewelry & Furniture Find Fortune At Schwenke

  10-12-2025 17:58
  WOODBURY, CONN. — Schwenke Auctioneers closed out its 2025 season with the firm’s November Fine Estates Auction, conducted on the 18th of the month. Just in time to secure unique gifts for the holiday season, the sale offered 343 lots consigned by estates and collectors from Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.The post Fine Art, Fancy Jewelry & Furniture Find Fortune At Schwenke first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• At Jeffrey S. Evans — Benny Long’s Collection Goes The Distance

  10-12-2025 17:55
  MOUNT CRAWFORD, VA. — Single-owner auctions are a standard component in Jeffrey S. Evans’ sale structure. For his Fall 2025 Premier sales, about 170 lots from the collection of Benny Long were in the spotlight, scheduled alongside another 335 or so lots on November 21. This auction was in between a 457-lot sale of glass, ceramics and lighting on November 20 and a 535-lot various-owners Americana sale on November 22. Of the nearly 1,500 lots that crossed the block, fewer than 10 faile
  
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• #WhatsItWednesday: December 10, 2025

  10-12-2025 17:40 via antiquetrader.com
  Be the first to guess the pictured item by leaving a comment on our Facebook page or dropping us an email. If you have a whatsit of your own, our editors may include it in a future post. Please email [email protected] and attach a clear picture, the size, and any markings. Hopefully, we will be able to identify it for our readers!It measures approximately 12.5″ wide.If you sign up to be notified of each response (by checking the “Notify me of follow-up comments” box
  
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• Mid-Century Christmas Collectibles Sparkle Anew

  10-12-2025 15:45 via antiquetrader.com
  A pair of large-size mid-century red and green ceramic Christmas Elf figurines, Japan stamp, boy elf is 6 3/4 in. by 6 in.,
  girl elf 6 1/4 in. by 6 1/2 in., $186.As Christmastime rocketed into the mid-century Space Age, postwar America’s sugarplum dreams were on full display. New prosperity and technologies created an optimism that made anything seem possible.The holiday season in the United States was characterized by a booming consumer culture and a focus on suburban family life. New tra
  
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• Fabergé Egg Cracks Auction Record

  10-12-2025 14:51 via antiquetrader.com
  The Imperial Winter Egg, by Fabergé, designed by Alma Theresia Pihl, Workmaster Albert Holmström, St Petersburg, 1913 | Image courtesy of Christie’s.Fabergé is one of the names that immediately suggests luxury, especially when it comes to the company’s famous eggs. One of the most extraordinary of these eggs, the Winter Egg commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II in 1913, sold at Christie’s auction house in London for £22.9 million ($30.2 million), a new au
  
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