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• Sterling Flatware Tops Hudson Valley Auctioneers

  05-01-2026 21:03 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BEACON. N.Y. — Silver prices have been at historic heights in recent months, and not surprisingly, two sterling silver flatware sets topped the action at Hudson Valley Auctioneers’ annual New Year’s Day auction. Each attained $8,750, including buyer’s premium. One (shown) was a large Reed & Barton Spanish Baroque set, 120 troy ounces plus 20 large handles and 17 small handles, that comprised 11 dinner forks, 12 lunch forks, 34 small spoons, eight sorbet spoons, seven
  
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• Boston Clothespress Starts Year Strong For McInnis

  05-01-2026 21:02 via antiquesandthearts.com
  AMESBURY, MASS. — John McInnis Auctioneers sold nearly 1,100 lots across three sessions for the firm’s New Year’s Week Estates Auction, January 1-3. The sale’s apex was achieved early when an Eighteenth Century mahogany clothespress, cataloged as an “unusual piece of Boston Chippendale case furniture,” sold to a private collector on day one for $496,000, including buyer’s premium, stunning its $30/60,000 estimate. While this example stood 69 inches tall
  
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• Ship Portrait Sails Past Estimates At Americana Auctions

  05-01-2026 21:00 via antiquesandthearts.com
  REHOBOTH, MASS. — Americana Auctions started off the new year with its 540-lot Superb January Estates Auction, which featured property from the David B. Vietor estate of Edgartown, Mass., as well as select items from other Massachusetts homes. Sailing straight past its $7/9,000 estimate to achieve the highest price of the sale was a Nineteenth Century ship portrait of the Black Ball Line packet ship Montezuma, captained by Alfred Dowber. The painting depicted the ship rescuing survivors f
  
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• Clown Hits The Target With Soulis Bidders

  05-01-2026 20:53 via antiquesandthearts.com
  LONE JACK, MO. — December 29 marked the 20th Annual Between-the-Holidays Auction at Soulis Auctions, which saw 351 lots from multiple estates cross the block. Top-lot status was shot down at $17,220, with premium, by a J.T. Dickman “Bright Eyes” clown shooting gallery target, which surpassed its $10/15,000 estimate. The 1911 target got its name from its back-lit eyes, which were illuminated with gas-powered lighting. It was marked “Pat’d Sept. 19. 1911 by J.T. Dick
  
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• David’s Webb Monkey Sculpture Climbs To $212,500 At Nadeau’s

  05-01-2026 20:49 via antiquesandthearts.com
  WINDSOR, CONN. — David Webb may have been feeling playful when he created an 18K gold and rock crystal monkey sculpture, but for buyers at Nadeau Auction Gallery, it was serious business. The 9½-inch tall piece featuring four monkeys scrabbling up the rock was the top lot of Nadeau’s Annual New Year’s Day Auction, January 1-2, when it attained $212,500, including premium, selling to a phone bidder. Crossing the block during the second day of the sale, this piece once be
  
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• Newtown Bee Names Andrea Valluzzo Antiques Editor

  05-01-2026 20:46 via antiquesandthearts.com
  NEWTOWN, CONN. — The Bee Publishing Company is delighted to welcome Andrea Valluzzo as editor of Antiques and the Arts Weekly, to fill the position of Madelia Hickman Ring, who left the company at the end of the year.
  Valluzzo, who was formerly an assistant editor at Antiques and the Arts Weekly from 2005 to 2017, is excited to return to The Bee.The post Newtown Bee Names Andrea Valluzzo Antiques Editor first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Where’s the Kaboom?

  05-01-2026 20:15 via antiquetrader.com
  A Sotheby’s specialist showcases the 54-pound NWA 16788 meteorite.
  Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.One of this year’s most galactic auctions took place at Sotheby’s in July. A 54-pound Martian meteorite, named Northwest Africa 16788 (NWA 16788), fetched a record $5.3 million and was sold to an anonymous bidder. NWA 16788 was discovered by a meteorite hunter in 2023 in Niger’s Sahara Desert near the city of Agadez.Laboratory analysis determined that the meteorite was a g
  
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• Antique records 21 firecracker-related injuries - Philippine News Agency

  05-01-2026 11:16 via news.google.com
  Antique records 21 firecracker-related injuries  Philippine News Agency
  
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