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• Marion Bidders Pull The Strings For Fuller

  14-04-2025 20:57 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  MARION, MASS. — On April 12, Marion Antique Auctions conducted its April Adventure Sale with nearly 600 lots featuring the estate of Newport, R.I., collector and dealer Alan Gaines. Achieving the sale-high price was a string and Lucite composition, “#210,” by American artist Sue Fuller (1914-2006). Dated “1962,” the black and white string art was hung in a metal and plexiglass frame measuring 36¼ by 36¼ inches. The piece had provenance to a private co
  
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• Q&A: Tylee Abbott

  24-12-2025 18:50 via antiquesandthearts.com
  When a Christie’s press release advertising “the most valuable Western American art auction in history” crossed our desk, our interest was piqued. Tylee Abbott, Christie’s head of the American art department, was kind enough to give us a few insights into this superlative-worthy collection of William I. Koch, who is, among other things, an industrialist, scientist and winner of the America’s Cup. Titled Visions of the West, the sale will be crossing the block in the
  
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• Butterscotch’s Silver Reflects A Solid Market

  24-12-2025 18:46 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BEDFORD, N.Y. — “It was a great sale. We had the highest number of registered bidders than for any of our other sales this year. We also had an enormous amount of silver with many people wanting to consign silver — probably because the price of silver is so high now — and we had 15 flatware services, which is the most we’ve ever had in a sale, but the silver didn’t disappoint.”The post Butterscotch’s Silver Reflects A Solid Market first appeared on
  
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• Diverse Tastes Drive Pook’s December Decorative Arts Event

  24-12-2025 18:44 via antiquesandthearts.com
  DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Pook & Pook’s Online Only Decorative Arts auction on December 3 presented nearly 824 lots in a wide range of collecting categories, including timepieces, Native American and ethnographic artifacts, textiles, furniture, books, folk art, militaria, material history and more. Deirdre Pook Magarelli, the firm’s president, reported 1,108 bidders on the company’s platform with an additional 225 signed up on Bidsquare. Having a 96 percent sell-through ra
  
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• In Time For The Holidays, Glass & Gold Glisten At Morphy’s

  24-12-2025 18:39 via antiquesandthearts.com
  DENVER, PENN. — Morphy Auctions’ 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. When the two-day sale closed, it had amassed more than $1.8 million in total. President Dan Morphy noted, “Interest remained steady throughout, and online participation contributed to stro
  
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• At Doyle Boston’s Vendome — Sinskey Estate Inaugurates Single-Owner Sales

  24-12-2025 18:37 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BOSTON — Live from The Vendrome, Doyle’s new Boston location, the firm’s 281-lot Property from a Commonwealth Avenue Mansion: The Estate of Anthony J. Sinskey sale was conducted on December 12 — the first single-owner sale presented at The Vendrome since its opening in early September.The post At Doyle Boston’s Vendome — Sinskey Estate Inaugurates Single-Owner Sales first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Marion Doubles Online Bidders For Holiday Classic

  24-12-2025 18:35 via antiquesandthearts.com
  MARION, MASS. — “The sale started at 10 am and we didn’t finish until around 6:30 pm. We had a very nice group of new bidders: more than 50 percent of our online bidders were new,” Nick Taradash reported following Marion Antique Auctions’ Holiday Classic Sale II on December 6. “I think it was because we had a very diverse group of quality things that attracted a broad range.” He confirmed the auction tallied $705,000, with more than 95 percent of lots fi
  
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• BOOK REVIEW: American Furniture 2024

  24-12-2025 18:21 via antiquesandthearts.com
  The 2024 issue of the Chipstone Foundation’s American Furniture journal is hot off the press; it’s the first issue solely edited by Martha Willoughby, who assumed the editorial torch from emeritus editor Luke Beckerdite in 2024. The end papers to the 2024 issue feature the covers of all 30 issues Beckerdite edited himself, and Willoughby pays tribute to his decades-long contributions in her introduction, noting, among other things, 17 articles he authored or co-authored.
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• Fortuny Is Fortuitous At Augusta Auctions

  24-12-2025 18:17 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BELLOWS FALLS, VT. — Augusta Auctions closed out the calendar year with a bang, conducting its Holiday Vintage Spectacular sale with 250 lots of garments and textiles. The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City and the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection in Northampton, Mass., joined Augusta’s roster of prominent institutional consignors and select private collectors.The post Fortuny Is Fortuitous At Augusta Auctions first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Week
  
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• Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas

  23-12-2025 19:51 via antiquetrader.com
  It’s no coincidence that Christmas is close to the winter solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. For many of us, it’s the time we need light, joy, and celebration the most. But some might like to lean into the darkness. Here are a few antique and vintage decorations for those who think ghosts and ghouls aren’t just for Halloween.Automated doll of “The Second Ghost” from A Christmas Carol, composition, used in a department store window di
  
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• Last US Cents Sold At Auction For $16.76 Million Were Worth A Pretty Penny

  22-12-2025 23:09 via antiquesandthearts.com
  By Olivia Diaz
  NEW YORK CITY (AP) — To those who argue that the US penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ.
  In fact, they doled out millions for the final pennies circulated in the US before the government ended the cent’s production back in November.
  The US Mint sold 232 three-cent sets for a whopping sum of $16.76 million at an auction last Thursday, December 11, hosted by Stack’s Bowers Galleries.
  The 232nd set — containing the last three pennies ever ma
  
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• Rococo Steinway Piano Was Music To Roland Bidders’ Ears

  22-12-2025 22:53 via antiquesandthearts.com
  GLEN COVE, N.Y. — Of the 651 lots offered at Roland NY’s December 2025 Holiday Estates Sale conducted on the 13th, a Steinway & Sons Dutch Rococo parquetry inlaid and carved piano with bench took the highest price at $19,500, including premium. Made circa 1948, the piano was a Model O and, despite some small condition issues, sold well above its $10/15,000 estimate. Additional highlights from this sale will be featured in an upcoming issue.
  
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• Life Ring, Lifeboat Piece From Edmund Fitzgerald Shipwreck Sell At Auction For $150,000

  22-12-2025 22:47 via antiquesandthearts.com
  DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday, December 19, for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men aboard.
  The relics were discovered by a carpenter in 1975 along the shore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. There were no survivors when the ore carrier perished in a tremendous storm and plunged 535 feet (163 meters) to the lake bottom.
  “I’m d
  
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• Grigoriev Dominates Heritage’s Superlative Russian Objects Sales

  22-12-2025 22:20 via antiquesandthearts.com
  DALLAS — Russia was the center of the world at Heritage Auctions on December 16 and 17, with 165 lots from the collection of A La Vieille Russie, the landmark New York City-based Russian antiques firm proving to be just the warm up for nearly 200 lots of Imperial Fabergé & Russian Works of Art on the second day. With nearly 84 percent of all lots offered lots gaveling down successfully, the sale totaled just over $4 million. Three paintings by Boris Grigoriev (Russian, 1886-1939
  
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• Haring Sculpture Dances To $80K At Winter Associates

  22-12-2025 22:07 via antiquesandthearts.com
  PLAINVILLE, CONN. — December 15 saw 288 lots cross the block in Winter Associates’ Chihuly & Other Important Glass auction. Dancing its way to top-lot status at $80,640 with premium, more than eight times its $5/10,000 estimate, was “Dancing Red Dog,” a white metal Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) sculpture. The work was made in the 1990s by Upscale Welding and has provenance to the owner of the business, Bob Giza, who worked with artist Andre Emmerich to create Har
  
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• ‘Exceptional’ Auction Brings Exceptional Results For WAG

  22-12-2025 21:54 via antiquesandthearts.com
  EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — On December 3, World Auction Gallery conducted their Exceptional Fine Art & Antiques Auction. With just more than 350 lots of art and antiques, including a substantial collection of French art nouveau glass vases, high quality paintings, a large collection of rare silver items, bronzes, assorted antiques from various countries and more, the auction was packed with items that attracted all types of bidders — from established collectors to first-time auction buy
  
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• Yes, Virginia, This Letter Is Worth a Small Fortune

  22-12-2025 21:45 via antiquetrader.com
  An Antiques Roadshow guest’s Santa Claus letter inspired a famous editorial. Image courtesy: PBS/Holiday magic met American history on a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow, when a guest presented an unassuming handwritten letter that turned out to be one of the most beloved documents in Christmas lore.The letter was written in 1897 by eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who asked a simple but profound question: Is there a Santa Claus? Addressed to the editors of the New York Sun, the
  
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• Robert Mnuchin, NYC Art Dealer, 92

  22-12-2025 21:04 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BRIDGEWATER, CONN. — Investment banker turned Modern and Postwar art dealer Robert Mnuchin died Friday, December 19; his death was confirmed by Michael McGinnis, a partner at Mnuchin Gallery in New York City.
  Mnuchin was a major force at the top tier of the art market, exhibiting works by Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. He was also known as an advisor to billionaires like Steve A. Cohen and Mitchell Rales.
  Born in 1933 in Manhattan, Mnuchin grew up in a Jewish
  
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• Folksy and Festive Christmas Trees

  20-12-2025 16:56 via antiquetrader.com
  For many of us, holidays and folk art go hand in hand. Handmade decorations (or at least a handmade look) evoke nostalgia, cherished memories, and beloved traditions. But “traditional” doesn’t have to mean “conventional,” and a look at a few folk art Christmas trees confirms that.American folk art “Twelve Days of Christmas” candle tree, rotating tiers, painted figures, iron, 20th century, 81 in. h, $4,445An enormous 81-inch-tall iron candelabra shaped li
  
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• Friday Favorite Flea Finds: Mercury Glass Memories

  19-12-2025 21:36 via antiquetrader.com
  This bowl of mercury glass ornaments represents years of small, joyful finds, picked up one by one at flea markets, estate sales, and thrift stores across the country. Each ornament has its own personality, from bright mid-century colors to softly silvered spheres that show their age in their best possible speckled way. While I still have more tucked away, downsizing to an apartment and a MUCH smaller tree means not every piece can come out to play these days.For this photo, I used a fabulous mi
  
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• Popular 1969 Milton Bradley Baseball board game gives vintage card collectors neat options, fond memories

  18-12-2025 09:01 via antiquetrader.com
  This article originally appeared on the Sports Collectors Digest website and is reposted here with permission.If you painted the 1969 Major League Baseball season with a one-word brush, it would be: “color.”Examples include: MLB expanding by four teams; the first season with four divisions, two each in the American and National Leagues; the lowering of the height of the pitcher’s mound to promote more offense; and the usually lowly New York Mets shocking the baseball world by w
  
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• Q&A: Dr. Lisa Brody

  17-12-2025 21:35 via antiquesandthearts.com
  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.The post Q&A: Dr. Lisa Brody first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Tiffany Leaded Lamp Lights Up Auction with New Record

  17-12-2025 14:14 via antiquetrader.com
  With the winter solstice approaching, days in the Northern Hemisphere grow shorter and colder, and nights get longer and darker. We could all use a little more light in our lives. This time of the year, a lot of that light comes in the form of Hanukkah menorahs, Christmas light displays, and Kwanzaa candles. But holiday lights don’t entirely replace electric lamps, especially when those lamps have the beauty and craftsmanship that comes from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s workshop.One of Ti
  
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• Modern Menorahs at Uniques and Antiques

  17-12-2025 09:01 via antiquetrader.com
  Small DAVID PALUMBO Wrought Iron Octopus Menorah. Twisted wrought metal arms support natural Jerusalem Stone bobeche and iron candle spikes. Image: Uniques and AntiquesJust in time for Hanukkah, which begins at sundown on December 14 this year, a selection of mid-century modern menorahs sold at Uniques and Antiques Auction Sales. Their 3 Day Modern and Decorative Auction, held from December 2 to 4, featured 20th-century decorative arts sourced from local estates and consigners. Menorahs in the B
  
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• Sports Memorabilia Scores Big At Lelands

  17-12-2025 03:56 via antiquesandthearts.com
  The top lot in the sale was this 2000 Playoff Contenders Rookie Ticket #144 Tom Brady Autograph card, #70/100, BGS EX-MT+ 6.5, Auto 10, which scored $163,593.
  NEW YORK CITY — NFL Hall of Famer and Packers great Forrest Gregg’s Super Bowl I ring sold for $160,225 and a 2000 Playoff Contenders Rookie Ticket #144 Tom Brady Autograph card netted $163,593 in the Lelands Fall Classic Auction, which ended December 6.
  Gregg’s Super Bowl I ring headlined a trove of 19 items from the per
  
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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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