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• Barr & Co.

  25-02-2026 15:39 via antiquetrader.com
  Barr & Co. is a private buyer of antiques, vintage items, and estate collections serving Michigan. We purchase small collections to liquidating full estates including items such as household items, advertising, folk art, antique tools, and more. barrcogoods.comBarr & Co. purchases a wide range of goods, including:
  Antiques and vintage items of all typesTools and work-related goodsVintage clothing and textilesHousehold collections and accumulationsPersonal collections built over time
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• Q&A: Kelly McClain

  25-02-2026 18:42 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Kelly McClain grew up in the auction business that his parents began when he was three years old and has spent his adult life working at Hake’s, which he joined right out of high school, working in every department there and holding almost every job. He recently assumed the reins as general manager, so we reached out to hear some of his thoughts on the new role, pop culture memorabilia and the auction industry overall.The post Q&A: Kelly McClain first appeared on Antiques And The Arts
  
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• Lively Bidding Uplifts The Western Spirit At Jackson Hole

  25-02-2026 18:23 via antiquesandthearts.com
  JACKSON, WYO. — With back-to-back auction days, Jackson Hole Art Auction (JHAA) conducted two successful auctions February 11 and 12. Between the Attainable Art for the Emerging Collector auction and the annual Winter Online Auction, 91 percent of the 435 lots were sold, realizing more than $1.2 million in total sales.
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• Merrill’s Bidders Fight For Historical, Sporting & Firearms

  25-02-2026 18:22 via antiquesandthearts.com
  WILLISTON, VT. — Saving up consignments for months for this auction that saw much crossover collecting appeal, Merrill’s Auctioneers & Appraisers was pleased with the results of its February 13 auction of historical, sporting, military and antique firearms. The sale featured a wide range of material from a Civil War Confederate carbine to a sword recovered from a gunboat sunk in Lake Champlain in 1776 with both among many lots that outperformed their estimates and elicited strong
  
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• Freedom Takes Bidders To The Big Top With ‘The Circus On Paper’

  25-02-2026 18:14 via antiquesandthearts.com
  SARASOTA, FLA. — Freedom Auction Company’s specialized sale on February 12, The Circus on Paper, celebrated the beauty of the circus through 814 lots of heralds, broadsides, couriers, handbills, posters, photography, books, costuming, Jerry Bangs material and other items, which earned a 95 percent sell-through rate.The post Freedom Takes Bidders To The Big Top With ‘The Circus On Paper’ first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Abstract Expressionists: The Women – Muscarelle Museum Of Art

  25-02-2026 18:07 via antiquesandthearts.com
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• The Pillsbury Doughboy Has Been Baking Up Love Since 1965

  25-02-2026 18:01 via antiquetrader.com
  Courtesy: Getty Images November 24, 2022: Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with an inflated Pillsbury Doughboy character.
  Getty Images/GummyBone.From the tip of his chef’s hat to his blue button eyes, scarf, and that signature giggle, Poppin’ Fresh (better known as the Pillsbury Doughboy) has been a cultural icon since 1965, rising to stardom quicker than Grands! Biscuits inflate in the oven.Super collectors Lial and Sandy Miller of Willow Spring, North Carolina, and Baile
  
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• Victorins Auctions

  25-02-2026 15:35 via antiquetrader.com
  Founded in 2000, Victorins Auctions operates as a respected authority within the international antiques trade. Our thoughtfully curated inventory includes rare furniture, art pieces, devotional objects, and fine and vintage jewelry. victorins.com/en
  Email: [email protected] USBy Appointment Only
  Victorins, LLC
  10306 Eaton Place
  Fairfax, VA 22030
  +1 (202) 656-3504
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• Block Auction House Highlights the Career of Rosa Parks

  25-02-2026 15:14 via antiquetrader.com
  Program for the NAACP Providence Branch Freedom Fund banquet, where Rosa Parks was a guest of honor, June 28-30, 1984; related documents included. 11 x 8 1/2 in.An upcoming sale at Block Auction House in Ferndale, Michigan, will feature a tribute to one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most celebrated figures. The “Important Rosa Parks Archive, Gibson Guitar & Estates” auction will be held online on February 27 and includes ephemera from the Rosa Parks Congressional Career Ar
  
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• Antique Desk’s Secrets Revealed in St. Louis Store

  25-02-2026 15:00 via antiquetrader.com
  The envelope was discovered in a secret compartment of an antique desk. Credit: KMOV St. Louis.A customer at the White Rabbit antique shop in St. Louis, Missouri, was examining a desk for sale and found a surprise. The desk had a drop front and fitted interior, not an uncommon sight at an antique store (or in many homes), but the customer realized it had a secret compartment with an envelope inside.The customer immediately brought these findings to the staff’s attention. Andrea Goris, the
  
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• Gotta Catch ’Em All: eBay Celebrates 30 Years of Pokémon with a Landmark Live Auction

  25-02-2026 14:47 via antiquetrader.com
  This Friday, collectors around the world are gearing up for a celebration that’s been 30 years in the making. To mark Pokémon’s big three-decade anniversary, eBay is hosting a special live auction event, “The 30/30 Collection,” that brings together 30 of the franchise’s most iconic collectibles spanning its history. From vintage trading cards and sealed games to limited-edition memorabilia, this curated lineup spans generations of fans.Set to kick off on Pok&
  
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• Silver & Fine Art Are First Choice At Sloans & Kenyon

  24-02-2026 22:12 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Top-lot status was awarded to “White Abstract” by Willem de Looper (American, 1932-2009), 1974, oil on canvas, 69 by 49 inches unframed, which totaled $5,120 ($1,5/2,500).
  Review by Kiersten Busch
  CHEVY CHASE, MD. — Various antiques, painting and sculpture, ancient pottery, black-and-white photographs, silver, decorative arts, rugs, Asian ceramics and works of art, jewelry, coins and clocks were among the offerings in Sloans & Kenyon’s February Estate Catalogue Auctio
  
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• Japanese Katana Slices Down Estimate At Vero Beach

  24-02-2026 20:56 via antiquesandthearts.com
  VERO BEACH, FLA. — A curated sale featuring the collection of long-time collector Bob Lighter was conducted by Vero Beach Auction on February 21. The Japanese & Asian Art Auction featured 164 lots of Edo and Meiji period items, including katanas and daggers, artwork, porcelain, tsubas, samurai items, signed pieces and more. The highest-earning lot was a 27½-inch-long katana with a black and brown woven handle and two menuki, or decorative metal ornaments, which sliced down its
  
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• Van Cleef & Arpels Bracelet Secures Highest Price At Burchard

  24-02-2026 20:51 via antiquesandthearts.com
  ST PETERSBURG, FLA. — On February 22, Burchard Galleries conducted an Estate Antiques, Fine Art & Jewelry Auction, which featured 523 lots of museum quality antiques, fine art, sculpture and jewelry from several major estates, including that of Baroness Lizelotte Von Schwarzbek of Austria. Surpassing its $2/4,000 estimate to make a sale-high $7,073, including premium, was an 18K yellow gold Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet from the Sweet Alhambra clover collection. It had a lobster cla
  
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• Ripley Sporting Scene Shoots To Top At Copley

  24-02-2026 20:47 via antiquesandthearts.com
  PEMBROKE, MASS. — Copley Fine Art Auctions’ Winter Sale, conducted February 20-21, was headlined by the Robert S. Doochin collection of sporting, wildlife and Western art, with curated additions from other estates and collections. The two-day, 638-lot sale realize a company record of $5.8 million, setting new records across multiple categories. Leading the charge was a significant painting by Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) that came from the Doochin collection. Done in oil on canv
  
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• ‘Masterpieces’ Are Greatest At ACES

  24-02-2026 20:43 via antiquesandthearts.com
  STAMFORD, CONN. — More than 300 lots from local estates were included in ACES Gallery’s February 22 Winter Estates Auction. Earning the sale’s highest price was a Franklin Mint “The 100 Greatest Masterpieces” gilt coins set. The 100 gold vermeil on sterling silver coins in this first-edition proof set were numbered 6251 and about 50 of them were placed in the drawers of the fancy presentation box; all others were in their original sleeves. Together, the “Mast
  
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• Winter Painting Leads Thomaston Place Auction

  24-02-2026 20:32 via antiquesandthearts.com
  THOMASTON, MAINE — Fitting with the blizzard that hit the East Coast on Sunday, February 22, an Andrew George Winter (American, 1893-1958) painting was the top lot of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ Winter Enchantment auction that ran February 20-22. The oil-on-canvas painting depicting Captain Upton’s House in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, attained $30,000, including the buyer’s premium. A complete report will appear in an upcoming issue.The post Winter Painting Leads Thoma
  
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• Veracruz Figure Leads Everything But The House

  24-02-2026 20:25 via antiquesandthearts.com
  CINCINNATI — Leading Everything But The House’s February 22 auction of the Norman Simon and Ruth Lichtenberg Simon pre Columbian collection was a Veracruz Late Classic Period standing male figure. From the Seventh to Ninth Century, the figure drew 66 bids and made $3,500, including buyer’s premium. The terracotta model, known as a smiling figure or sonriente, was from the Remojadas culture of Veracruz, Mexico. A complete report on the auction will appear in an upcoming edition
  
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• Hidden Passage Confirms a Safe House on the Underground Railroad

  24-02-2026 20:18 via antiquetrader.com
  The Merchant’s House Museum was built in Manhattan in 1832, but a recent discovery shows that there is still plenty to learn about it. After two years of research, a strange feature, still intact after nearly two hundred years, proves that the house was an Underground Railroad site. This is the first such discovery in Manhattan in over a century.Workers remove the drawers from the lower section of the built-in dresser, showing the space where the entrance to the passage was hidden. Screens
  
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• Birger Sandzén Commands $76,700 In Soulis’ Art Auction

  24-02-2026 20:18 via antiquesandthearts.com
  LONE JACK, MO. — A 1923 Birger Sandzén painting titled “Pines by the Lake, Estes Park” soared past its $35/$50,000 estimate to attain $76,700, including buyer’s premium, at Soulis Auctions’ 20th annual Winter Art Auction on February 22. The Rocky Mountain landscape set among wind-worn pines beside a sub-alpine lake in Estes Park was signed twice by the artist. “The present painting, a handsome Colorado view from 1923, fits very neatly within this golde
  
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• Four New Exhibitors Announced for The 69th Annual NH Antiques Show to be Held August 6-8, 2026

  20-02-2026 22:16 via antiquetrader.com
  MANCHESTER, NH – For sixty-nine years, The New Hampshire Antiques Show has upheld the tradition of bringing fine quality antiques to New England. Four new exhibitors will join the show this year alongside our returning fine exhibitors from all over the country with a wide range of fresh-to-market items that include folk art to fine porcelain, country and formal furniture, paintings and prints, glassware, metalware, pottery, and so much more. The show attracts thousands of buyers and e
  
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• America at 250: Colorado’s Land and Living Traditions

  20-02-2026 21:38 via antiquetrader.com
  Rocky Mountain National Park. Image: P. Hughes via WikiCommonsEach Friday, we celebrate America’s 250th by exploring one state or territory at a time, uncovering the history, crafts, and Semiquincentennial events that help tell the nation’s story.A Brief History of the Rocky Mountain StateLong before Colorado became a U.S. territory and later a state, its mountains, plains, and high desert regions were home to Indigenous peoples, including the Ute, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and ancestral Pu
  
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• Institutional investors tilt to financials; capex sectors in focus: Antique - Business Standard

  20-02-2026 06:09
  Institutional investors tilt to financials; capex sectors in focus: Antique  Business Standard
  
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• Antiques, Southern Style

  19-02-2026 21:08 via antiquetrader.com
  Cover of Embracing Southern Homes. Image: Eric Ross.Antiques with Southern and worldly charm will be on offer at the Madison Antiques & Fine Things show from March 19–21. Held at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center in Madison, Georgia, the event will feature a selection of antiques that span furniture, porcelain, rugs, and more, presented by dealers from Georgia and beyond.Also on the event schedule are a series of lectures by antique experts. A featured speaker on this roster is Eric R
  
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• The ESA Ephemera Fair Returns for its 46th Edition this Spring

  19-02-2026 16:31 via antiquetrader.com
  For four days this spring, thousands of fragments of history – once fleeting, now collectible – will gather under one roof. The Ephemera Society of America (ESA) announces the return of its flagship ESA Ephemera Fair, the largest event of its kind in the United States, taking place March 20–22, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The annual ESA Conference will take place March 19-22. Now in its 46th year and produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates, the f
  
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• Wayne PAL Antique and Collectibles Show Fundraiser - TAPinto

  19-02-2026 04:56
  Wayne PAL Antique and Collectibles Show Fundraiser  TAPinto
  
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• Q&A: Ethan Lasser

  18-02-2026 23:15 via antiquesandthearts.com
  In December of last year, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) announced that Ethan Lasser was appointed as chief of curatorial affairs. Previously serving as both the John Moors Cabot chair, art of the Americas and head of exhibitions strategy at the MFA, Lasser just recently began the transition into this new role on January 5. Hearing this, Antiques and The Arts Weekly jumped at the chance to speak with Lasser about his first month on the job.The post Q&A: Ethan Lasser first appeared on
  
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• Native Arts Continue To Rise At Santa Fe

  18-02-2026 23:14 via antiquesandthearts.com
  SANTA FE, N.M. — More than 6,000 registered bidders spanning 40 countries showed up to the action for Santa Fe Art Auction’s Native Arts sale on February 4-5. The auction, featuring 475 lots by both traditional and contemporary indigenous artists, had a 93 percent sell-through rate and realized nearly $600,000. The selection highlighted a breadth of styles, techniques and subject matter with robust bidding on paintings, pottery, sculpture, beadwork, rugs and blankets, jewelry and wor
  
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• Gurley Show Stands Fast In Boxborough

  18-02-2026 23:13 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BOXBOROUGH, MASS. — Amid threats of yet another snowstorm, the Gurley Antiques Show opened its second event of this year’s season at the Boxborough Regency Hotel on February 1. Eager customers braved what turned out to be a light dusting, lining up indoors over an hour before the show’s opening, empty totes in hand. They, and the majority of vendors, were rewarded for their bravery. “[It was a] good crowd and lots of sales,” said show manager Rachel Gurley the follo
  
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• Tiffany Lights Fontaine’s To $4.6 Million

  18-02-2026 23:12 via antiquesandthearts.com
  PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Fontaine’s Auction Gallery realized a total of $4.6 million from its Fine and Decorative Arts Auction on February 7, driven by a wealth of fine examples from Tiffany Studios, mostly lighting, with Tiffany lots as a category accounting for $3 million of the sale results. More than 9,500 bidders registered for the sale, representing 67 countries.The post Tiffany Lights Fontaine’s To $4.6 Million first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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