Porcelain Cigar & Smoking Signs

MORETON-IN-MARSH, UK — A pair of mid-18th-century Vincennes porcelain candleholders of distinctive conical form that were discovered in a Warwickshire, England property during the course of a routine valuation sold for a total of $170,560 at auction on May 24. Offered at a sale held by Kinghams, the 4.25in-tall soft paste candleholders (here and here) […]

1950s Chevrolet ‘OK’ Used Cars Single-sided Porcelain Neon Sign MASSILON, OH – Beginning in the 1920s, the Chevrolet division of General Motors began using a stylized ‘OK’ script sign to market dealers’ used car inventories. The ‘OK’ branding ensured all used cars were ‘six ways better’: Thoroughly Inspected Reconditioned for Safety Reconditioned for Performance Reconditioned […]

LONDON, UK — At the third time of asking, an enigmatic Elizabethan style silver and porcelain goblet carries an estimate of £6,000-£8,000 ($7,700-$10,000) at Chiswick Auctions on June 11. The so-called de Pinna cup, cataloged as dating from circa 1580-1600, appears at auction following an examination by a committee of experts and two episodes of […]