What you see: A Hand chair, covered in silver leaf and designed by Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg. Shown further along in this story is a second Hand chair in unadorned mahogany. Both chairs date to circa 1965, both will be offered at Rago in the same Jan. 19, 2020 auction. Each carries an estimate of $7,000 to $9,000.
The expert: Richard Wright, president of Wright auction house. [Rago and Wright merged in 2019.]
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – While the hard-fought lessons of war may fade from global memory over time, soldiers’ weaponry and equipment live on as reminders of the heavy toll inflicted by military conflict. The interest in historical firearms, war relics and militaria seems unabated, and the category remains one of the most popular specialties at Milestone Auctions, whose next Firearms and Militaria sale is slated for January 24-25. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Quinn’s Auction Galleries will ring in the new year and the new decade with a Thursday, Jan. 23 auction comprising 348 lots of rare books, antique maps and Americana. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) – For 25 years, the antique carousel entertained kids and families at St. Augustine’s Davenport Park with its painted horses and cheerful calliope music. Now the restored 1927 carousel has a new home at the Shell Factory & Nature Park in North Fort Myers, where it opened in December.
DETROIT (AP) – Conservators at the Detroit Institute of Arts have spent dozens of hours preparing to move an enormous three-dimensional painting into storage to create space for a new display.
BOSTON (AP) – One of the most comprehensive private collections of John F. Kennedy memorabilia, one that chronicles his life from childhood to the White House, is for sale. View the fully illustrated catalog on LiveAuctioneers.