2 days LeftMaterial CulturePalace Size Octagonal Carpet, Agra, India, Ca. 1880, 21'4'' x 21'2''$7,500
2 days LeftMaterial CultureDorokhsh Rug, Persia, Late 19th C., Inscribed "By Order of Governor..." 10'5'' x 11'3''$1,000(1 bid)
2 days LeftMaterial CultureMansion Size Hadji Jalili Tabriz Rug, Persia, Ca. 1900, 14'2'' x 21'9''$2,000
Model of cotton gin reigns king of Heritage auction Nov. 8DALLAS – A rare and early working model of Eli Whitney’s revolutionary cotton gin, a cornerstone of museum exhibits from Michigan to Georgia, is expected to sell for $10,000 or more in Heritage Auctions’ Americana & Political Signature® Auction on Saturday, Nov. 8, in Dallas. From a direct rice paper printing of the Declaration of […]
Schwinn Sting-Ray youth bicycle collection rolls into Kraft September 21VALPARAISO, IN — Nineteen vintage Schwinn Sting-Ray bicycles, and one lot of associated parts, are a featured group of lots in Kraft Auction Services‘ Annual Fall Antique and Vintage Toy sale scheduled for Saturday, September 21. The 659-lot sale is now open for bidding at LiveAuctioneers. ‘Kustom’ was the word for the 1960s customization culture […]
Yonezawa Atom Jet Friction Race Car leads our five lots to watchYonezawa Atom Jet Friction Race Car WILLOUGHBY, OH – Released in 1954, Yonezawa’s Atom Jet friction race car is one of the largest lithographed-tin toys made in postwar Japan for the export market. Measuring nearly 30in in length, the toy rides on rubber tires and has a noise generator when pushed along the floor. It […]
Clementine Hunter, an artist pure and trueNEW YORK – Sometimes described as the Deep South’s version of Grandma Moses, Clementine Hunter (1886 or 1887-1988) took up painting late in life, in the 1940s, when she was a grandmother. By then, she had seen many changes, living under Jim Crow laws and with the prolonged aftermath of slavery in the South. Hunter […]