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• Good Fortuny At Augusta Auctions

  15-12-2025 23:03 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BELLOWS FALLS, VT. —Augusta Auctions’ Holiday Vintage Spectacular on December 10 was worthy of its name, presenting a selection of 250 haute couture, vintage and antique garments and textiles. The apotheosis of these was a 1930s Fortuny Delphos gown that sold for $18,750, including premium, more than doubling its $6/8,000 estimate. Its shimmering pleated silk was accented with Murano glass beads, and the original gold stenciled belt was intact. More on this and other top lots to fol
  
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• Musical Carousel Is A Joyride For Bertoia

  15-12-2025 23:00 via antiquesandthearts.com
  VINELAND, N.J. — The more than 60-year collection of the late Martin “Marty” Maloy and his wife, Deborah, was the sole focus of Bertoia Auctions’ December 13 auction, which garnered over $1.6 million in sales, with only two lots of the 400 offered going unsold. The top lot was a Märklin hand-painted musical carousel, purchased by Marty from the personal shelves of Bill Bertoia. The 24½-inch-high piece featured ornate railings, decorative lamp bulbs and its or
  
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• Man Ray Drawing Tops Three-Day Sale At Millea Bros

  15-12-2025 22:57 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BOONTON, N.J. — Millea Bros closed out its 2025 season with its three-day Select Auction, December 10-12, featuring more than 900 lots of art, antiquities and other curious finds. The highest price of the sale came on the last day: a pen and ink drawing by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), which achieved $121,875 with premium. Titled “Observatory Time – The Lovers,” the 1934 work was signed and dated lower right and had several labels on its reverse, including one for an exh
  
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• Red Baron Antiques Rocks Around The Jukebox

  15-12-2025 22:26 via antiquesandthearts.com
  ROSWELL, GA. — The December 13 Holiday Rock n’ Roll auction at Red Baron Antiques was led by a Wurlitzer 110 jukebox, complete with a classic rock collection from Rhino Records, at $6,563. It was offered in fine working condition, showing a burl wood finish and colorful rotating cylinders. Price quoted with buyer’s premium as provided by the auction house; more on this eclectic sale to follow.The post Red Baron Antiques Rocks Around The Jukebox first appeared on Antiques And T
  
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• Meiji Urn Earns Palatial Price For Marion

  15-12-2025 22:22 via antiquesandthearts.com
  MARION, MASS. — More than 625 lots comprised Marion Antique Auctions’ Holiday Classic Sale II on December 6, but emerging as the Most Valuable Lot was a 30-inch-tall Meiji bronze or doki inlaid palace urn made in the late Nineteenth Century by Kanamori Soshichi (Japanese, 1821-1892), who the catalog said won a prize at the 1873 Viennese exhibition. Featuring raised naturalist tree and branch design and exhibiting both gold and silver inlay, the 117-pound urn realized $47,000, includ
  
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• Chinese Censer Smokes Butterscotch Expectations

  15-12-2025 22:20 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BEDFORD, N.Y. — Nearly 575 lots, sourced from local estates and collections, were the bill of fare in Butterscotch Auction’s December 7 Reflections of the Season sale. Earning top-lot status was an 11⅛-inch-tall Chinese doucai Eight Buddhist Emblems censer that had period Qianlong reign marks (1736-1795) and an old label inscribed “Nath’l L. Frear III.” Estimated at $15/25,000, the catalog noted provenance to a New York City family and comparisons to a simila
  
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• King Edward Serves Hot Result For Pook

  15-12-2025 22:02 via antiquesandthearts.com
  DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Pook & Pook’s Online Only Decorative Arts auction on December 3 presented nearly 825 lots in a wide range of collecting categories. Earning the sale-high price was a sterling silver Gorham tea and coffee service in the King Edward pattern. Complete with a Dutch strainer and stand and a plated tray, the set weighed around 133 troy ounces and was bid to $6,000, including buyer’s premium, selling to a trade buyer ($4,4/4,800). Additional results from the
  
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• Tiffany’s Daffodils Bloom For Morphy

  15-12-2025 21:54 via antiquesandthearts.com
  DENVER, PENN. — Morphy’s annual Winter Fine & Decorative Arts Auction, December 10-11, showcased more than 1,150 lots from all categories, including 37 leaded- and stained-glass lamps, fine art, general antiques, glassware, jewelry, musical instruments, pottery, firearms and more. One of 17 offered lamps from Tiffany Studios became the sale’s highest-achieving lot, selling for $73,800, including buyer’s premium. The Daffodil leaded glass table lamp had a 20-inch diam
  
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• Parisian Tea & Coffee Service Serves Winning Price At Doyle

  15-12-2025 21:39 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BOSTON — Live from Doyle’s new Boston location on December 12, the firm’s Property from a Commonwealth Avenue Mansion: The Estate of Anthony J. Sinskey sale featured 281 lots from the single-owner collection. Sinskey, ScD, was a “renowned MIT professor and pioneering figure in metabolic engineering, biotechnology and biomanufacturing.” The top price of the sale — $14,630, with premium — went to a French sterling silver tea and coffee service by Charles-
  
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• Frankenmuth Christmas

  15-12-2025 19:52 via antiquetrader.com
  Image: Getty ImagesThe Bavarian Glow of Main StreetWhen you step out of the car, you hear the steady sound of Christmas music drifting from a loudspeaker somewhere up the block. The crisp winter air smells of snow and cedar. Storefronts glow with soft light. The sidewalks are busy but calm. Couples stop for photos while families wait for hot chocolate. Nobody hurries. This is Frankenmuth Christmas, where the holiday season feels less like an event and more like the town’s natural rhythm.Th
  
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