Gilded Age Books, Magazines & Papers

DALLAS – Historians have long considered the significance of the Gilded Age era and the artistic legacy of New York City in American life. Helena de Kay and Richard Watson Gilder, a married couple who cultivated an expansive creative circle, were at the very center of it. Heritage Auctions is pleased to present the first and […]

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – It didn’t come with a sushi roll, ginger salad and miso soup, but a  cinnabar bento box, offered together with a cloisonné teapot and dish, gaveled for $23,750 to take top lot honors at a two-day weekday auction held July 25 and 26 by Nye & Company Auctioneers. Absentee and Internet live […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A dilapidated 110-room, 70,000-square-foot estate is back on the market, but an architect says the $20 million price tag doesn’t include the tens of millions more it needs in repairs. The 34-acre Lynnewood Hall estate in the Elkins Park neighborhood has been in decline since the original heirs sold it in 1944, […]