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Seventy-three dealers will participate in the 60th Winter Antiques Show, including R & Company, which is offering an unusual work by Wendell Castle....

Are they Bostonians or New Yorkers? Cherished chairs from colonial days go on display at the Bernard & S. Dean Levy gallery in New York, but their history is anything but clear....

Documents and artifacts from Luis F. Emilio, a white officer from Massachusetts who led a black regiment during the Civil War, are going on sale....

The police said the thief, Blane Nordahl, 51, might also be linked to more than a hundred burglaries throughout the South....

An exhibition at the Newark Museum focuses on objects manufactured when Newark was a precious-metals epicenter....

Several auctions this year sold objects and documents that unexpectedly divulged intriguing, even secret, histories....

WESTHAMPTON, N.Y. – Grey Flannel Auctions announced today that it has been commissioned to sell the “Little” Johnny Sylvester collection, a unique family-owned archive related to one of the most famous stories in baseball history. Sylvester was a gravely ill 11-year-old boy who rallied after receiving a baseball signed by Babe Ruth together with a […]...

NEW MARKET, Tenn. – An old Tennessee estate that includes collections of important antique Indian baskets and Southern folk art serves as the centerpiece of John W. Coker’s Jan. 4, 2014 New Year’s Auction. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. “As we delved into the contents of […]...

James D. Julia’s February, 2014 Winter Antiques, Asian, And Fine Art Auction To Feature A Truly Remarkable Archive Of Civil War Materials From Luis Fenollosa Emilio, A Captain Of The African American 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This treasure trove of letters and memorabilia details the day-to-day experiences and observations of a heroic leader of […]...

The Higgins Armory Museum in Massachusetts closes at the end of the month, and some of its finer pieces are headed for the nearby Worcester Art Museum....

(LYNBROOK, N.Y.) -  Philip Weiss Auctions – which took such a fierce pounding from Hurricane Sandy last year it was forced to move from its decimated facility in Oceanside – is still rebuilding from the storm but has a full slate of big auctions planned for the first three months of 2014. All the sales […]...

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Exactly 300 lots of quality fresh-to-the-market items will be sold in a catalogued auction on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. Headlining the auction will be items from the home, shop and personal collection of Randy Gottesfeld of Gaslight Time in Brooklyn, N.Y., […]...

Items from shuttered or renovated churches in the Archdiocese of New York were once sold, lost or given away, but now they are kept in hopes of using them elsewhere....

Jules Gustave Leroy Holiday Painting Brings $16,000 & a Tiffany Tall Case Clock Realizes $17,000 at Cordier’s Fall Catalog Auction A Jules Gustave Leroy painting entitled “The Christmas Present” sold for $16,000 while a Tiffany tall case clock realized $17,000 at Cordier Auctions’ Fall Two Day Antique & Fine Art Auction on November 9 and […]...

The author and scholar Elizabeth P. Baughan has been researching klinai, or banquet couches, that have been found in many ancient tombs in Turkey....

(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) – More than 200 lots of dazzling diamonds, jewelry and fine timepieces – pulled from prominent local estates and collections and spanning a broad range of price points, from a few hundred dollars to $100,000 or more – will be sold at auction Sunday, Dec. 15, at A.B. Levy’s, in the […]...

(WINDSOR, Conn.) – Nine large James J. Audubon bird prints from the 1820s and ‘30s, a 1620 manuscript of the Persian Shah Nemeh (or Book of Kings), two important etchings by the renowned artist and printmaker Martin Lewis (1881-1962), and a rare first-edition 1851 copy of Melville’s Moby Dick The Whale are just a few […]...

Vanishing antiques shops, reappearing Frank Lloyd Wright stained-glass windows, and newly digitized in-house publications from the archives of decorative arts institutions....

This new show will feature nationally known exhibitors and international vendors. MIAMI, FL Puchstein Promotions, long recognized as Florida’s leading producer of outstanding Antique Events, is proud to announce the latest addition to their list of highly successful shows.  The Miami Antiques Extravaganza will be debuting January 24, 25, 26, 2014.  The Miami show will […]...

(BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – About 300 lots of fine decorative arts and Chinese works will be sold at a year-end auction planned for Saturday, Dec. 21, by Elite Decorative Arts, in the firm’s gallery in the Quantum Town Center at 1034 Gateway Boulevard in Boynton Beach. The first gavel will fall promptly at 1 p.m. […]...