Brilliant cut glass sparkles at Woody Auction, March 4-5

Bowl in the Wedding Ring pattern by J. Hoare, est. $2,000-$4,000
Bowl in the Wedding Ring pattern by J. Hoare, est. $2,000-$4,000
Bowl in the Wedding Ring pattern by J. Hoare, est. $2,000-$4,000

DOUGLASS, Kan. – An American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG) auction will be held Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5 by Woody Auction. The Friday session starts at 5 pm Central time and the Saturday session begins at 9:30 am Central time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Book from Mark Twain’s library enlivens Turner’s March 5 sale

Signed volume from the personal library of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, est. $1,000-$2,000
Signed volume from the personal library of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, est. $1,000-$2,000
Signed volume from the personal library of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, est. $1,000-$2,000

SAN FRANCISCO – Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Books & Manuscripts, Part 2 on Saturday, March 5. The sale features more than 205 lots of antique or vintage books, including first editions, documents, maps, engravings, lithographs, postcard albums and signed lots. Most are from the collection and estate of Holbrook T. Mitchell of Northern California. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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American-themed Chinese export porcelain served at Alex Cooper, March 5

Chinese export porcelain featuring images inspired by John Trumbull’s painting, ‘The Declaration of Independence,’ est. $5,000-$7,000
Chinese export porcelain featuring images inspired by John Trumbull’s painting, ‘The Declaration of Independence,’ est. $5,000-$7,000
Chinese export porcelain cup and saucer decorated with images inspired by John Trumbull’s famous patriotic painting, ‘The Declaration of Independence,’ est. $5,000-$7,000

TOWSON, Md. – The Alex Cooper auction house will hold a sale titled Fine Art, Furniture, Decorative Art & Rugs on Saturday, March 5, starting at 10 am Eastern time. Among the lots will be a selection of Chinese Export porcelain with patriotic American themes. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Workers spruce up Apollo 16 spaceship for 50th anniversary

The Apollo 16 command module on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., whose workers are sprucing up the spacecraft for the 50th anniversary of its April 1972 flight. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit James E. Scarborough, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Generic license.
The Apollo 16 command module on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. Workers are sprucing up the spacecraft for the 50th anniversary of its April 1972 flight. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit James E. Scarborough, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Generic license.
The Apollo 16 command module on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., whose workers are sprucing up the spacecraft for the 50th anniversary of its April 1972 flight. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit James E. Scarborough, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Generic license.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – The Apollo 16 capsule is dusty all these decades after it carried three astronauts to the moon. Cobwebs cling to the spacecraft. Business cards, a pencil, money, a spoon and even a tube of lip balm litter the floor of the giant case that protects the space antique in a museum. The COVID-19 pandemic meant a break in the normal routine of cleaning the ship’s display at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, located near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. But workers are sprucing up the spacecraft for the 50th anniversary of its April 1972 flight.

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