Archive for March, 2008

REED & BARTON STERLING TEA AND COFFEE SET WITH MATCHING TRAY SOARS TO $11,000 AT RICHARD D. HATCH & ASSOCIATES’ MULTI-ESTATE SALE HELD FEB. 21-23

Monday, March 31st, 2008

(Flat Rock, N.C.) - A Reed & Barton “Francis I” sterling tea and coffee set with matching tray, totaling over 270 troy ounces, sold for $11,000 at a massive three-day multi-estate sale held February 21-23 by Richard D. Hatch & Associates.

Reed & Barton “Francis I” sterling tea and coffee set with matching tray.
The set included […]

FONTAINE’S AUCTION GALLERY’S EXCEPTIONAL ANTIQUE AUCTION HELD FEB. 23rd REALIZES $2.2 MILLION AT THE FIRM’S SHOWROOM GALLERY IN PITTSFIELD, MASS.

Monday, March 31st, 2008

(Pittsfield, Mass.) - A gorgeous rosewood laminated marble-top center table by J. & J.W. Meeks, in untouched all-original condition, sold for $48,875 at an Exceptional Antique Auction held February 23 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. The sale was held in the firm’s spacious gallery, located at 1485 W. Housatonic Street in Pittsfield.
The Meeks table was […]

Picasso to be sold at Dorchester auction

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A watercolour by Picasso depicting the artist and one of his first girlfriends, goes on sale at auction next week, along with works by the British painters George Stubbs and Alfred Munnings, on on April 10.
The paintings were discovered stacked up against a wall in the bedroom of a house in the West of England.
Guy […]

EARLY PRINTED BOOKS - GASTRONOMIC LITERATURE AUCTION - APRIL 7

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Swann’s April 7 auction features The Fillin and Yeh Collection of Gastronomic Literature. The collection was started in the early 1980s and focuses primarily on 18th- and 19th-century English and American culinary classics, with some important international items. There are 114 lots ranging from pre-1800 works to inscribed first editions by M.F.K. Fisher.
Highlights include […]

Litchfield County Auctions holds highly anticipated Modern Art and Design Auction

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Litchfield County Auction’s kicked off its Modern Art and Design Auction Wednesday on iGavel.com, the online fine art and antiques auction house. With works by important artists, from Marc Chagall to Paul Jenkins, and art owned by ABC News journalist Diane Sawyer and her husband, film director, Mike Nichols, the auction promises to be one […]