DANIA BEACH, Fla. – On July 29, leading regional auction house Akiba Antiques will bring one of the world’s largest collections of rare Steuben glass items to auction, together with a wide selection of fine art, collectibles, and decorative art. The sale will begin at noon Eastern time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – In a 1970 Beetle Bailey comic strip, the character known as Sarge berates his uniform-wearing dog, Otto, for a paperwork mistake.
“Think, Otto, think!!” Sarge says.
“We can’t all be Snoopy,” a dejected Otto replies.
NEW ORLEANS – It’ll be Christmas in July in New Orleans when Crescent City Auction Gallery holds a big, two-day Important Summer Estates Auction the weekend of July 17 and 18. The sale features more than 800 quality lots of fine French, English and American furniture, over-mantel mirrors, original paintings by local and regional artists, fine jewelry and couture pieces, a piano, sterling silver, nativity sets, model boats and more. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOSTON – With the Olympic season finally upon us again, RR Auction is pleased to host another auction honoring the worldwide Games. The Olympic Memorabilia Sale features nearly 200 lots; online bidding is scheduled to begin July 15 and conclude July 22. The catalog chronicles Olympics past and present, with a wide selection of relay torches, winner’s medals, participation medals, and Olympic ephemera. View the fully illustrated catalog on LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – On July 11, Heritage Auctions sold a 1996 copy of the beloved Nintendo video game Super Mario 64 for $1.56 million – a new world auction record for any video game cartridge.
NEW YORK — Auto racing has riveted the public’s attention since the first auto races took place in the late 1880s. Closed tracks didn’t exist then, so drivers raced on regular roads from one town to another. An 1895 round-trip trek from Paris to Bordeaux and back, credited as the first true auto race, covered more than 1,100 kilometers (roughly 683 miles) with the winner notching an average speed of 24 kph. Modern speeds, of course, are much higher. In 2013, the Indy 500 witnessed a record average race speed of 187 mph. While most of us will never get behind the wheel of a competitive race car, we can vicariously experience the thrill by collecting automotive racing posters.