JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – Brown and Thigpen Auctions LLC will sell a private museum owner’s lifetime collection on Saturday, Oct. 5. Featured in the auction are many pedal cars along with a variety of petroliana and automobilia from yesteryear as well as an extensive selection of vending machines and advertising signs. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
PHILADELPHIA – Freeman’s International Sale on Wednesday, Oct. 2, and Collector’s Sale on Thursday, Oct. 3, present more than a thousand lots from a number of private and institutional collections across a variety of collecting categories, including Chinese carved jades, Georgian and Regency furniture, early Chinese ceramics, German and Scandinavian snuffboxes and more. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
RENO, Nev. – A four-day Americana auction bursting with more than 3,l00 lots in an array of collecting categories – to include petroliana, aviation, World War II, art, railroadiana, Native Americana, stock certificates, mining, minerals and gold – will be held Oct. 4-7 by Holabird Western Americana Collections. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
NEWARK, N.J. – Newark Arts, a nonprofit arts council, has cultivated partnerships with real estate developers to convert seven vacant downtown spaces into temporary art exhibits that showcase local arts and culture during the Newark Arts Festival, October 10-13. The festival, voted New Jersey’s Favorite Visual Arts Festival by JerseyArts.com, is expected to attract more than 12,000 visitors.
NEW YORK – Seventy-one lots of outstanding Asian antiques are presented in an online auction to be conducted by Jasper52 on Wednesday, Oct. 2. Among this diverse offering are hand-painted Chinese ceramics, Ming Dynasty tomb figures, carved netsuke, Japanese weaponry, and more, creating a comprehensive representation of the Asian tradition. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Teco pottery is famous for the simple, matte green glazes that dominated over 90 percent of the line, which consisted of more than 500 designs by 1911, in the company’s heyday. The story of Teco dates back to 1881, when William Gates founded the American Terra Cotta Tile & Ceramic Co. in Terra Cotta, Illinois, not far from Chicago. The company produced terra-cotta bricks, drain tiles and pottery and was the country’s first manufacturer of architectural terra-cotta.