CRANSTON, R.I. â An original model of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watsonâs very first telephone from 1881 sold for $40,000 and a rare circa 1876 Bell Butter Stamp magneto telephone originally installed at a residence in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1891 brought $27,500 at an historical telephone auction held Aug. 4 by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. â As millennials take their first steps into the realm of home ownership, they face their next big challenge â creating an outdoor living space where they can relax or entertain. Enter Ragoâs Arts and Auction Center August Unreserved Auctions on Aug. 24-26, a three-day auction series of antique, vintage and modern art and design, including a bumper crop of garden furniture, planters, benches, and architectural elements from a local estate that run the gamut from French Deco to Egyptian Revival to modern designs. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CLEARWATER, Fla. â Blackwell Auctions has lined up nearly 450 lots of fine art, antiques and collectibles for their next sale on Saturday, Aug. 11, which will begin a noon Eastern Time. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – American photographer Chuck Fishman was just 21 when he began traveling behind the Iron Curtain in 1975 to document a Jewish community on the verge of dying out after centuries of existence in Poland. He couldn’t have foreseen a Jewish revival that came after the fall of communism in 1989.
DALLAS â The Dallas Museum of Art will present the first large-scale traveling exhibition in over 20 years to look at early 20th-century American cultureâs love affair with technology and mechanization that influenced architecture, design, and the visual arts. Hailed as âilluminatingâ upon its opening at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art âcaptures that other era when Americans were obsessed with new technology.â The DMA is the only other venue to present this exhibition that includes 14 superb examples of Precisionist painting, photography, and silver work from its permanent collection by such well-known masters as Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Gerald Murphy, Paul Strand, Walter Dorwin Teague, and William Waldo Dodge, Jr.
NEW YORK â Cabinets of curiosities were encyclopedic collections of macabre and bizarre objects gathered from around world. Many of these obscure curiosities are found in an online auction to be conducted by Jasper52 on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.