DES MOINES, Iowa – For over 30 years the Iowa Gas Swap Meet has been the premier gas and oil show in the country. The 2018 Iowa Gas Swap Meet will be held Wednesday, Aug. 1, through Friday, Aug. 3. Along with the swap meet, Iowa Gas also hosts an auction onsite at the venue. Route 32 Auctions of Crawfordsville, Indiana, will conduct the 2018 Iowa Gas Auction on Aug. 2-3. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Legendary music promoter Dick Clark once said, “Music is the soundtrack of your life.” Music has the power to key into significant moments of our lives, from concerts we attended to the songs playing on a first date or to console us after a breakup. Music has the power to inspire emotions and take us back to a precious memory. Perhaps it’s the emotional connection to a particular band or style of music that inspires collectors to seek out music memorabilia from a favorite singer or band.
NEW YORK – Rings, amulets and pendants dating back to the 8th through the 15th centuries – many of them made and worn by Vikings – will be sold in a Jasper52 auction on Wednesday, Aug. 1. The symbolic meaning in their shapes often embodies the great strength of Viking warriors who bore them. Also offered will be jewelry items worn by ancient Romans as well as early Christians. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CLEVELAND – A pair of dazzling, GIA-certified diamond rings and oil paintings by Charles Sprague Pearce (American/French, 1851-1914) and Balthazar Paul Ommeganck (Flemish, 1755-1826) are just a few of the expected top lots at Gray’s Auctioneers’ Sizzling Summer Auction scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 8. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Sotheby’s will offer works from the collection of beloved entertainer Robin Williams and his wife of over 20 years, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces Williams, in a dedicated auction on Oct. 4.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The auctioneer selling the house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South amid death threats said after the auction on Thursday there are buyers interested, but it will take a few days to work out the details.
NEW YORK – Relics of the Old West conjure up the dreams and visions of America in the second half of the 19th century. A Jasper52 auction on Wednesday, Aug. 1, is loaded with artifacts used by ranchers, miners, lawmen, outlaws and Native Americans of that era. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CLINTONDALE, N.Y. – From the ancient temples of Nepal, the hunt of the English landscape, and Rudyard Kipling’s world of children’s illustrations, the psychedelic head shop of the streets and the pendulum of time will swing through Kensington Estate Auctions’ Aug. 6 on-line estates auction. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – Jane Peterson (1876-1965) was born to Scandinavian immigrants in a Midwestern town just a decade after the Civil War. Ideas of women pursuing higher education and even careers were just gaining traction when the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago featured The Woman’s Building.
CRANSTON, R.I. – An antique telephone auction featuring items from two regional chapters of Verizon’s Telephone Pioneers of America Museum – one the William J. Denver Chapter no. 20 museum in Providence, R.I., the other the Excelsior Chapter no. 98 in Buffalo, N.Y. – will be held on Saturday, August 4, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.