MONROVIA, Calif. – Moran’s July 19 ReDesigned auction achieved a high sell-through rate, bolstered by strong selections of fine art, décor, furnishings and more. The most popular lots in the auction were examples of good design and postwar art, showing the market for quality pieces is unwavering. With all lots and condition reports online, buyers found that browsing from the comfort of home has never been easier. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Jasper52 will conduct another online auction of tribal art on Tuesday, July 28, that includes rare masks and figures from tribes around the world. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Christie’s global July Watches sales conclude with New York’s Watches Online: The Collector’s Edition (closing Aug. 5), presenting a fine selection of over 180 lots comprising of vintage and modern timepieces, pocket watches and clocks. With timepieces to suit both the emerging collector as well as the aficionado, this sale offers exceptional watches from multiple brands with varying design, style and complication. View the fully illustrated catalog on LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – To list the players of this piano is to enumerate some of the last century’s most vital writers of songs and essential makers of music.
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RENO, Nev. – A late 1950s Frontier Gasoline “Rarin’-to-Go” single-sided porcelain gas station sign, 6 feet in diameter, sold for $5,375, and an Antique Apparatus reproduction jukebox of a 1940s Wurlitzer Model 1015 finished at $2,875 in a seven-day Summer 2020 Extravaganza Auction held June 25-28/July 10-12 by Holabird Western Americana Collections. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
BATTLE CREEK, Neb. (AP) – Arvid Warneke fielded a lot of questions when it came time to find a new home for his toy tractor collection.
DENVER, Pa. – The spotlight may have been shining on a stellar array of art glass, jewelry and watches at Morphy’s July 14-15 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction, but it was an unlikely “dark horse” – a circa-1840 Shaker sewing table – that stitched up the top price at the $3.2 million sale in central Pennsylvania. Absentee and Internet live bidding was facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Twenty years and almost 400,000 movie posters later, Heritage Auctions’ Grey Smith thought he’d seen – and sold – them all. Then it came time to compile the almost 700 lots for the July 25-26 Movie Posters event. And there they were: the rarities once thought lost or out of reach, some of movie-poster collecting’s crowning achievements. The never-before-seens. The never-before-solds. View the fully illustrated catalogs on LiveAuctioneers.
BIRMINGHAM, UK – A magic kit owned by an esteemed Birmingham magician is up for bid at Fellows. E. Ray Griffiths was president of the British Magical Society in 1947 and performed as “Fabian The Magician.” Fabian was widely renowned as a conjurer in the mid-20th century. His magic box of tricks features as Lot 427 in Fellows’ Antiques, Silver & Collectibles auction, closing on Monday, July 27. The kit has an estimate of £200 – £300.
NEW LONDON, Conn. – Cue the cameras: The Mayflower II is ready for its closeup and its journey home. The replica of the original Mayflower ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 is preparing to embark from Connecticut after three years’ and $11.2 million worth of renovations – and several months of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.