CRANSTON, R.I. – A pair of outstanding Rhode Island collections – one of gorgeous Tiffany pieces pulled from a home in Providence and the other the modern prints collection of Lucille Comes out of Warwick, all purchased from Multiple Impressions in New York – will be just part of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers’ next big sale, planned for Saturday, June 23, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CINCINNATI – Cowan’s American History Premier Auction, scheduled for June 22, is composed of early photographs, documents, manuscripts, broadsides, flags and more dating from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, late Indian Wars, World War I and II and beyond. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – The rich look and feel of authentic hand-knotted Oriental rugs are at hand in a Jasper52 online auction to be held Wednesday, June 20, beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Fifty premium quality rugs – Sarouks, Mahals, Kermans, Isfahans – comprise the catalog. Many of the rugs are true antiques – more than a century old. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) – Those who were born in the early 1990s or before might remember the purple-and-green Reptar Crunch cereal that was released for just a couple months in 1999. It was a Post Consumer Brands cereal released as a tie-in to the popular cartoon series “Rugrats.”
NEW YORK – Guernsey’s will offer a remarkable “source collection” of 60,000 original wooden printer’s blocks and metal plates created to advertise motion pictures. From the 1920s through the 1980s, movie fans looked to their local newspapers to learn what films were coming to town. Guernsey’s is offering this unique museum collection, billed as “Bringing Movies to Main Street,” as a single auction lot on Wednesday, June 27. The live auction will begin at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
FRANKLIN, Mass. – A mixed media on paper of Andy Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe image that’s attributed to the Pop Art master, and a lovely tempera and watercolor on paper landscape attributed to French artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), are just two expected headliners in a fine art auction on Thursday, June 28, by In the Manner Of. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.