NEW YORK – The woven artistry of Persian rugs – a collection of 46 fine examples – will be sold in an online auction by Jasper52 on Aug. 7. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Bidding on each lot begins at $1 and the rugs will sell to the highest bidders, as all Jasper52 auctions have no reserve.
SEATTLE – A 106-year-old baseball card – one of perhaps a dozen of its type known to exist – is expected to sell for as much as $200,000 in a sports and historical memorabilia auction slated for Aug. 18 at MBA Seattle Auction House.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – A northern Indiana museum that pays homage to the Studebaker Corp. is putting a spotlight on the outdoor laboratory where the one-time automaker tested its vehicles.
MONTEREY, Calif. – The late artist Salvador Dali has a new museum devoted to his works in Monterey. The Dali17 museum opened in July in the building where the Museum of Monterey was formerly located.
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) – A small upstate New York museum known for its extensive collection of Old Masters and Renaissance art is receiving artworks valued at $10 million from a local collector.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions kicked off their summer season with one of their most successful auctions of the year. The estate of the late Baroness Mary McFall de Gunzburg of New York City and Miami Beach, Florida, at their July 24 auction brought surprising results at what is normally a quiet time in the auction season.
DALLAS – A one sheet poster for D.W. Griffith’s 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation sold for $74,687 for more than three times expectations in Heritage Auctions’ summer Vintage Movie Posters Auction. The July 30-31 auction realized more than $1.7 million, with top prices paid for prewar horror posters and uncommon discoveries for classic American films.
“Despite being one of the most influential motion pictures of all time, posters from The Birth of a Nation movie are almost never seen at auction,” said Grey Smith, director of Vintage Posters at Heritage. “I’m not surprised it did well, but I was pleased to see it surpass expectations three times over.”
Posters from horror films proved popular as a rare one sheet for 1939’s sequel Son of Frankenstein, starring A-listers Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Basil Rathbone, sold for $43,020 and a one sheet for Universal’s 1939 classic Dracula’s Daughter sold for $35,850. A one sheet for The Mummy’s Hand brought $14,937.
Multiple bidders vied for rare paper from Hollywood classics, including one of just a handful of one sheets known to exist from the 1930 film Morocco, starting Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich. The bright stone lithographed copy – which marked Dietrich’s America movie debut – sold for $40,630. A one sheet for The Bell Boy, the 1918 film starring cinematic comedy giants Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, sparked a bidding war among 10 people to blow past its $3,000 estimate to sell for $35,850.
Unusual discoveries sparked intense bidder interest as a scarce insert format poster for the iconic Casablanca sold for $33,460 and a set of three Italian premier display posters for 1966’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – measuring an amazing 39-inches by 110-inches – sold for an astounding $31,070 against an $18,000 estimate.
DETROIT (AP) – Detroit’s skyline, streets and scenes at the city’s bars and clubs are the subject of a photography exhibition opening this fall at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
MATTOON, Ill. (AP) – Greg and Lisa Patterson of Mattoon were at Antique Week in Texas four years ago when vintage camper trailers first caught their attention.
They noticed that vendors were using the campers as mobile shops, clothes changing rooms, and homes away from home. Greg Patterson said his wife wanted one of her own, so he found a vintage Shasta camper back in Illinois and fixed it up for her.
NEW YORK – The fusion of art, engraving, science and nature is represented and celebrated in an Aug. 7 online-only auction offered by Jasper52. Each of the 52 lots in this fully curated Maritime & Aquatic Prints auction opens for bidding at $1, with no reserve.