DOUGLASS, Kan. – The lifetime collection of Don and the late Carrol Lyle – dedicated collectors of Wave Crest, Nakara, Kelva and American Brilliant Cut Glass whose items have been featured in books, trade publications and museum exhibits – will be sold without reserve in a two-day auction slated for Sept. 7-8 by Woody Auction. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
LONDON – Britain’s National Portrait Gallery has acquired a portrait of Dylan Thomas by his close friend Augustus John, it was announced today, August 16, 2018. The portrait, which links two of the most significant cultural figures in 20th-century Britain, has been purchased with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and The Thompson Family Foundation.
PHILADELPHIA- Numismatic auction powerhouse Stack’s Bowers Galleries sold the rarest and most valuable U.S. nickel in existence for $4,560,000 million at their August 15 auction held at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center. At this price it becomes one of the five most valuable coins ever sold at auction as well as the most valuable non-precious metal coin ever.
NEW YORK – First editions penned by the 20th-century’s greatest authors, including George Orwell’s 1934 Burmese Days, Ernest Hemingway’s Men Without Women and Jack London’s Call of the Wild – all with dust jackets – are featured in a book auction that will be conducted by Jasper52 on Wednesday, Aug. 22. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEWARK, N.J. –The Newark Museum has announced the bequest of two American bronze sculptures from the collection of Justice Marie L. Garibaldi of Weehawken. Garibaldi, who died in 2016, was the first woman appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court, and also the first woman to serve as President of the New Jersey Bar Association.