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(Auction)Fall Toy Sale
This Märklin Rocket engine with train cars is a toy version of Stephenson’s Rocket, which was not the first steam locomotive but was the most advanced of its day. It was in service through 1840 and influenced steam locomotive construction for 150 years. Märklin’s Rocket is the only commercially produced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Absentee Advertising Auction
Dr. A.C. Daniels veterinary cabinet for dog and cat remedies, lithographed tin, 20" x 13 1/8" x 5 3/8", well-done restoration to side panels and back, $7015.
Beacon Oil sign, double-sided porcelain, 30" diameter, scattered chips on the back, $6440.
Pe-Ru-Na catarrh cure pocket mirror, celluloid, depicting a woman in a low-cut ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Second to Isaac Newton, First at Christie’s
Title page of the 1673 Horologium Oscillatorium… by Christiaan Huygens. Photo courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd. 2014.
We do not know if the anonymous high-bidder loves early books, clocks, physics, annotated authors’ copies, Latin texts, or history of science artifacts, but he or she now owns one of the most important objects ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Richard Scaife American Art Collection Divvied Up
Christmas came early to two Pennsylvania museums. On December 3, 2014, the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg announced that they had begun the process of dividing up the art collection of Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Holiday Antiques Show
Here is a nice 18th-century New England shoe-foot cupboard. It was prominent in the booth of Chris and Karen Doscher. The Doschers are from Wallkill, New York, and trade as Witt’s End Antiques. The piece is constructed of white pine, with a red-washed surface. The storage unit features two paneled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)54th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Landscape of the Mather farm near Lebanon, Ohio, attributed to Marcus Mote (1817-1898), oil on canvas, unsigned, 30" x 40", plus its original frame, minor repairs, $12,500.
Inlaid Chippendale blanket chest, Pennsylvania, dated 1818, walnut with tulip, star, and fylfot inlay, 29½" high x 49½" wide, period brasses, old finish, small ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Gold Rush" at Printed Manuscript and Americana Sale
A patriotic letterpress broadside stating the articles of agreement for the Continental Navy’s U.S.S. Columbus, with attached manuscript signature lists, sold for $62,500. The broadside proper, printed in Philadelphia on November 15, 1775, is 18" x 14". With the list attachments, dating through January 19, 1776, the whole measures 36½" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings and Sculpture
E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), Sunny Morning, St. Tropez, oil on panel, 13" x 16¼", sold to a private collector in southern California for $281,000, far above its $60,000/80,000 estimate.
Granville Redmond’s Fishermen and Fishing Boats on the Shore, oil on canvas, 12" x 16", sold for $75,000 (est. $40,000/60,000) to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hollywood at Auction
This studio 58-key piano on wheels with wood and plastic keys was likely manufactured by Kohler & Campbell (1927) and was pulled from the Warner Bros. prop room for Casablanca. It realized the highest price of the “There’s No Place like Hollywood” auction. It sold on the phone for $3,413,000. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Movie Poster: $478,000
$478,000. Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions.
The only known copy of the United States release one-sheet from the 1927 lost cinema classic London After Midnight (MGM) sold for $478,000 (includes buyer’s premium) in Heritage Auctions’ November 22, 2014, vintage movie posters auction in Dallas. That price establishes a new record for a ... (Read More)
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