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Mark Catesby’s Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving leads our five auction highlights
Mark Catesby, Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving, $5,555 FRANKLIN, TN – Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was born in England, but after traveling to South Carolina, he became America’s first naturalist and illustrator. A century before Audubon, he published the seminal Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of […]
Original Salvador Dali engraving turns up at thrift shop
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) – An original Salvador Dali wood engraving hangs on the wall of Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head after being discovered among the donated items of an Outer Banks thrift shop.
Museum reveals engraving hidden in Lincoln watch
WASHINGTON (AP) – For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch. On Tuesday, museum curators confirmed it was true. A watchmaker used tiny tools to carefully pry open the antique watch at the National Museum of American History, and a descendant of the […]
15th-century astrolabe charts an astounding $638K at Bonhams
LONDON – A 15th-century astrolabe hammered for £400,000 ($638,645 with buyer’s premium), more than twice its estimate at Bonhams’ Important Instruments of Science and Technology Sale on April 24. The 69-lot sale made £1 million ($1.2 million) against a collective estimate of £250,000-£350,000 ($314,380-$440,110), with 90% sold by lot. Jon Baddeley, Bonhams specialist, said “This is […]
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