KEY WEST, Fla. – Dale Earnhardt Jr’s pirate-themed conch house in the laid-back tropical paradise of Key West, Florida is for sale and featured this week at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.
DALLAS – A collection of John F. Kennedy’s personal campaign notes and a selection of letters signed by assorted U.S. presidents led the total result for Heritage Auctions’ Historical Manuscripts Auction to $1,164,278 on April 22. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa. – Jason Harris, who launched his Keystone Homebrew Supply on Thanksgiving of 1992, is seeing a major boom in homebrewing supplies and equipment, as well as wine fermenting kits. It’s all due to the Covid-19 socialization restrictions that were implemented in Pennsylvania in March.
NEW YORK – Guernsey’s will bring the collection of accomplished art collector Nicholas Zoullas to unreserved auction in an exceptional 300-lot event. The sale will be taking place on Tuesday, May 12. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Researchers using a battery of modern imaging techniques have gotten under the skin of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, but tests haven’t answered the key question about the world famous painting’s enigmatic subject.
NEW YORK – Robert J. Horner was a clerk in a curtain store in New York City with a keen business sense and knowledge of trends in the furniture industry, and that prompted him to establish R.J. Horner & Co. in 1886, at 61-65 W. 23rd Street in lower Manhattan. Horner’s marketing strategy was to target the wealthy as well as those of modest means. It paid off handsomely. Much of what came out of his shop was heavily carved, but it could also be formal and less embellished.