OAKLAND, Calif. – Clars Auction Gallery set a new world record on Sept. 13 for Raimonds Staprans’ 1987 painting titled Still Life with Red Piano Stool, which realized $147,600. On Sunday, Nov. 15, Clars will present an earlier Staprans work, Pale Moon, estimated at $30,000-$50,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW ORLEANS – A rare New Orleans .900 silver fireman’s speaking trumpet from 1891, plus original paintings by Clementine Hunter, Sarah Ashley Longshore, Hovsep Pushman and Jose Puyet are just a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s Important Fall Estates Auction slated for the weekend of Nov. 14-15. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW HAMBURG, Ontario – A French Atmos perpetual time clock sold for $6,490, a Wettlaufer child’s wagon rolled away for $5,900 and a cased pair of English dueling pistols hit its mark for $4,720 in an online-only Canadiana & Historic Objects auction held Oct. 24 by Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Fontaine’s Auction Gallery will offer an auction composed of fine items from estates throughout New England on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
CLEWISTON, Fla. (AP) – For decades, Florida’s Seminole Tribe has been fighting to reclaim their ancestors who were stolen from burial sites across the state during the height of colonialism in North America.