NEW YORK — Comic books aren’t just for kids. Adults seek out comic books, paying five-, even six-figure amounts for a book that originally retailed for about 10 cents. Collectors are drawn to comic books for various reasons. It could be a nostalgic trip down memory lane, recalling “tradesies” with your best friend after school; or the appreciation of the art and storylines that brought each superhero to life.
CHICAGO – On Saturday, June 16, Potter & Potter Auctions will present the second offering from David Baldwin’s collection, which features automatons, magic apparatus, ephemera, Houdiniana, stone lithographs, broadsides and mystery clocks. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – It’s little surprise that of the top five selling lots at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery’s May 19 auction, three of them were clocks, by E. Howard & Co., Seth Thomas and R.J. Horner. Fontaine’s sells antiques in most collecting categories but has carved out a niche with choice clocks, especially E. Howard models, setting a few auction records along the way. In this sale, which totaled over $1 million, the leader of the pack was an E. Howard No. 57 regulator clock that set a new world record auction price at $145,200. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Carstens Galleries is presenting an encore of original French Art Deco sculptures in its auction on June 14. 7:00 p.m. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – A 16th-century bird’s-eye view of Venice is one of many fascinating offerings in an online auction of Antiquarian Pictorial Maps & City Views to be held by Jasper52 on Tuesday, June 12. The more than 250 maps in the auction range from the 1500s into the 20th century. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.