MONROE, Conn. – The Jean Stauffer collection of Moorcroft Pottery will be sold without reserve May 23 at Fairfield Auction. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
LAS VEGAS – Richard Petty’s No. 43 1974 Dodge Charger, considered one of the most historically important cars in NASCAR history, sold for $490,000 on Saturday at Julien’s Auctions. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
ABERDEEN, Miss. – A gorgeous Prudence Mallard five-piece bedroom suite and a fully restored 1933 V-8 Cadillac are among the top lots in a massive antique estate auction slated for Friday and Saturday, May 18 (at 5 p.m. Central) and 19 (10 a.m.), by Stevens Auction Co. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
SAN FRANCISCO – On Thursday, May 17, PBA Galleries will offer A Spring Miscellany of books in all fields, from literature, Americana, and children’s books to fine examples of illustration and press books, books about books, early printing, fine bindings, concert posters from San Francisco’s Summer of Love, and much more. Many of the books are offered without reserve, as are shelf lots of uncatalogued books. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – The Memphis Belle took off from England on the morning of May 17, 1943, with a wave of 159 B-17s to drop bombs on the concrete Nazi submarine shelters at Lorient, France. When it landed unscathed that afternoon, the 10 men aboard already were celebrating; they had just become one of the first bomber crews of the war to survive 25 missions at a time when most weren’t making a dozen.
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) – Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday in a New Jersey memorabilia dealer’s lawsuit that accuses New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning of conspiring with the team’s equipment staff to sell bogus “game-used” helmets to unsuspecting collectors as part of a long-running scam.