NEW YORK – Carved tribal art from Africa and around the globe is the focus of a Jasper52 online auction on Wednesday, March 14. A collection of nearly 100 vintage masks, sculptures and similar articles will be sold. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Birger Sandzen paintings wow Woody Auction: $371,000
DOUGLASS, Kan. – Woody Auction celebrated the grand opening of their new Douglass auction hall with a major antique and fine art auction on Saturday, Feb. 24, one that featured four oil paintings by renowned Swedish-born Kansas painter Birger Sandzén (1871-1946), plus outstanding collections of Royal Bayreuth, Daum Nancy, Galle, Tiffany, Pairpoint, art glass and period American furniture. Absentee and Internet bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
Identifying and dating collectible postcards
IOLA, Wis. – Deltiology, numismatics and philately are reportedly the three most popular interests in the field of collecting. In just the first line of this article, I have managed to make it sound confusing, pretentious and even strange (especially that last one, which seems like something you’d read in the police blotter). “In a raid early this morning police captured three philatelists.” Nevertheless, these are the actual names for postcard, coin, and stamp collecting, respectively.