MONROVIA, Calif. – Following John Moran Auctioneers’ nearly 350 lot fine jewelry auction on Dec. 6, approximately 150 decorative art lots spanning Native American, Western and Modern Design categories were offered to a large audience, including online buyers. While small, the decorative art auction fared well with buyers, with much of the attention going to modern paintings and prints, art glass and Western-genre lots. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
MALVERN, Pa. – Converse Auctions will bid farewell to 2016 with a new name, a new owner and a New Year’s online auction, planned for Friday, Dec. 30, packed with over 350 lots of fine Chinese antiques, including a rare and important Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) Jun Yao bowl. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) – R.J. Harrington started grooving on vinyl records as a teen in the late 1990s.
Albums at that time, nearly dead in the music industry, remained a niche of audiophiles and collectors. But new pressings by small and obscure bands hooked Harrington on the vinyl music medium and partly led to a stint working in a record store.
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – Based in the Cleveland suburb of Willoughby, Milestone Auctions is a company on the rise. Co-owners Miles King and Chris Sammet have become increasingly well known for their traditional business values and youthful passion for tracking down antiques – a combination that goes a long way in their chosen profession. The fruits of their labor, not to mention their incessant global travels and networking, are prominently showcased in their annual New Year’s Spectacular Auction, which in 2017 takes place on Saturday, Jan. 14. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
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NEW YORK – Twentieth century luxury watches by world-class Swiss, French and American manufacturers are featured in an online auction presented by Jasper52 on Jan. 1. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.
ASTI, Italy – An interesting design collection of decorative arts from the 20th century will be sold at a Nova Ars online auction Jan. 5. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Nearly a year after the death of Harper Lee, a group in south Alabama hopes to develop new attractions and bring more tourists to the novelist’s hometown of Monroeville, which helped inspire both To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman.
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. – For many who collect or sell antiques, the first tradition of each year is browsing the upscale goods and bidding online in Stephenson’s New Year’s Day Auction. Family-owned since 1962, Stephenson’s specializes in fresh-to-the-market estate goods and collections from the Mid-Atlantic states and beyond.
NEW YORK – Distinguished Russian religious icons and objets d’art, including exquisite enamelwork designs by Faberge, were auctioned online Dec. 17-18 exclusively by Jasper52 through LiveAuctioneers. Intense bidder interest was noted prior to the sales, with a total of 853 approved bidder sign-ups. The Dec. 17 session featuring 16th to 20th-century religious treasures drew 368 bids, while the Dec. 18 offering of art objects recorded a remarkable 1,152 absentee bids before the auction even began. Clear, enlargeable images showing multiple angles of each item undoubtedly contributed to the more than 40,000 online catalog page views.