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• Clarke’s Holiday Auction Proves To Be A Good Time

  16-12-2025 23:02 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Achieving $150,000 on an estimate of $20/30,000 was this 1974 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona in 14K gold, 37-millimeter case. It sold with its Rolex boxes and booklets.
  LARCHMONT, N.Y. — Clarke Auction’s Christmas/Holiday Extravaganza auction, held December 7, brought more than 40 watches to the block, spanning generations of craftsmanship and some of the most respected makers in the world.
  There were notable highlights across the board: a vintage Cartier Santos Carrée or Massif, in
  
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• Dell Collection Continues To Heat Up At Schillaci & Shultis

  16-12-2025 22:48 via antiquesandthearts.com
  The sale’s highest price of $3,510 was achieved by this example of The Criterion music box by J. M. Paillard, New York. Its oak case measured 11½ inches high by 22½ inches wide by 20½ inches deep and it rested atop a 34-inch-tall oak stand that housed 66 Criterion discs ($2,5/4,500).
  Review by Carly Timpson
  EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. — Session three of the Arthur J. Dell, Jr, collection was auctioned by Schillaci & Shultis (Two Feathers Antiques & Auctions Serv
  
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• Single-Owner Prehistoric Collection Unearths $1.24 Million For Heritage

  16-12-2025 22:22 via antiquesandthearts.com
  A phone bidder paid $93,750, the highest price of the sale, for this Steneosaurus bollensis fossil from the Lower Jurassic period, 119 by 69 inches, which was discovered in the Posidonienschiefer Formation.
  Review by Kiersten Busch
  DALLAS — On December 2, Heritage Auctions offered 334 lots of museum-caliber specimens and decorative offerings from the collection of a distinguished Southern California collector. “The sale was great overall with excellent results from both a pure standp
  
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• At Nye & Company — Eighteenth Century Furniture & Sharples Portraits Lead Stein Collection

  16-12-2025 21:44 via antiquesandthearts.com
  The highest price of the sale was achieved by this Queen Anne cherrywood tray-top tea table, probably Connecticut, circa 1750-70, 26 inches high with a 27¾-by-19-inch top; it went out at $16,250 ($5/10,000).
  Review by Carly Timpson
  BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — “Nye & Company was both honored and thrilled to work with and handle the collection of Nancy and Bob Stein. It was a treat to work with New Jersey collectors that have such a deep passion for the objects that they collected an
  
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• Carlsen Celebrates The Holidays With $500K Auction

  16-12-2025 21:31 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Top lot status was awarded to this oil on panel of an Elizabethan noblewoman, 42 by 30 inches framed, which crossed the block for $28,125 ($1/2,000).
  Review by Kiersten Busch
  FREEHOLD, N.Y. — More than 360 lots from a New England collection, as well as estates in Cooperstown, N.Y., and Guilderland, N.Y., made up the contents of Carlsen Gallery’s Pre-Holiday Antique Auction on December 7. The sale was an opportunity for bidders to “find the perfect one-of-a-kind holiday gift&rdq
  
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• Giving Thanks For Gurley Holiday Antiques Traditions

  16-12-2025 21:18 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Ten rows of dealers, most back-to-back, loaded into the cavernous Royal Plaza Trade Center for the annual Gurley Thanksgiving Sunday Antiques Show. Though this photo was taken a few moments before the floor opened up to buyers, it was busy until well after noon.
  Review & Onsite Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring
  MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — For longer than Rachel Gurley can remember, her Thanksgiving weekends have included the annual Gurley Thanksgiving Sunday Antique Show, which her mother Nan st
  
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• Q&A: Lisa Brody

  16-12-2025 20:25 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Photo by Sandra Sellars © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
  Recently-announced new hires included that of Dr Lisa Brody, who was appointed by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) as its new Jack and Mary Ann Frable curator of ancient art. Brody’s posting follows a two-decade tenure at the Yale University Art Gallery, so we were curious as to why she made the move and what she hopes to do in her new role.
  Congratulations on your new posting. After nearly 20 years as an associate curator
  
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• New patrol cars, equipment boost Antique police capabilities - Philippine News Agency

  16-12-2025 13:25 via news.google.com
  New patrol cars, equipment boost Antique police capabilities  Philippine News Agency
  
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• Pokémon Reigns Supreme: What eBay’s 2025 Search Trends Say About Collecting Today

  16-12-2025 09:01 via antiquetrader.com
  Image courtesy of eBayWhen it comes to the collectibles that defined 2025, Pokémon reigned supreme again. According to eBay’s Collected report, three of the top ten most-searched collectibles were Pokémon-related. For a franchise that first sparked worldwide obsession in the late 1990s, it’s a powerful reminder that Pokémon’s staying power has moved beyond childhood obsession into a dominant market force.Pokémon Charizard 4 1st Edition Base Set PSA T
  
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