Gorham .9584 silver Martele six piece hot beverage service, 1917, 404.60 ozt, ex collection of Trotter’s Antiques, Pacific Grove, Calif. Estimate: $50,000-$70,000. Image courtesy of Clars
OAKLAND, Calif. – On Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20, 2015, Clars Auction Gallery will wrap up their 2014-2015 fiscal year with a major Fine Art, Decorative, Jewelry and Asian Art sale. Once again, Clars will be offering significant property from major collections including the Richard Mellon Scaife Estate, The Hirschhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.), The Art Institute of Chicago, the Lizabeth Virginia Scott Estate of Los Angeles, and Trotter’s Antiques of Pacific Grove, Calif., among others. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Both sides of oversize Magna Graecia (southern Italy) Apulian skyphos with Eros and female images, circa 5th to 4th centuries BCE, 12¼ in. high, 11½ in. diameter, est. $7,000-$9,000
BOULDER, Colo. – Artemis Gallery will launch its busy fall auction season with a Thursday, Sept. 24 online auction led by Part II of the late James Caswell’s collection. Caswell was an artist, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and respected owner of Historia Antiques in Santa Monica, California. The entire Caswell estate consignment, which comprises approximately 40 to 50 percent of Artemis Gallery’s Ancient, Ethnographic and Spanish Colonial Auction inventory, is cataloged with estimates at or below cost. Absentee and live online bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.
Paul Shull (shown at forefront), host of Smithsonian Channel’s new TV series ‘The Weapon Hunter.’ Image courtesy of Smithsonian Channel
NEW YORK – History buff and restoration expert Paul Shull goes on a quest to get his hands on some of the world’s rarest and most remarkable pieces of military history in the new Smithsonian Channel original series, THE WEAPON HUNTER. The six episode series chronicles Shull’s adventures as he finds, fixes, and fires the antique weapons that have been used throughout history. THE WEAPON HUNTER premieres Monday, October 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
The transfer of 16.3 acres of riverfront land is now complete, and construction can begin on the 50,000-square-foot US Marshals Museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Image courtesy of US Marshals Museum
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) – The transfer of 16.3 acres of riverfront property to the U.S. Marshals Museum has been completed.
Museum officials said Monday that the Robbie Westphal family had completed the land transfer. The property is nearly 10 acres more than the original riverfront tract that was donated several years ago to better accommodate parking and additional amenities at the museum.
The president and CEO of the museum, Jim Dunn, said organizers could not have picked a more fitting spot for the future museum. The site sits across from where deputy marshals crossed the Arkansas River into old Indian Territory to enforce the law.
The property is subject to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers navigation easement for channel alignment. The museum is working with the Corps to allow construction on the site.
One of the many ways in which funds are being raised to underwrite the museum is through the sale of commemorative coins struck at US Mints. They include a $5 gold coin minted at West Point, a silver dollar minted at Philadelphia, and a clad half-dollar minted at San Francisco.
(Left to right) The $5 gold coin honors the more than 250 US Marshals who have lost their lives in the line of duty, the silver dollar represents the legendary role the US Marshals Service played in keeping law and order in the American West, and the clad half-dollar shows the contrast between the Old West and modern-day deputy US Marshal. Image courtesy of US Marshals Museum
Learn more about the project and order coins online at the US Marshals Museum website.
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Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Photo by Maureen from Buffalo, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – A former volunteer at the Buffalo History Museum has been indicted on new federal charges accusing him of stealing documents pertaining to a prominent 20th-century philanthropist and offering to sell them to autograph dealers.
