LOS ANGELES – Julien’s Auctions will present Joseff of Hollywood: Treasures from the Vault, an exquisite collection of over 600 unique pieces of costume jewelry and accessories, which will be sold on Saturday, Nov. 18. These exquisitely crafted pieces have appeared on film and at red carpet events, worn by Hollywood’s most glamorous stars of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will present their 33rd semiannual Americana and Fine Antiques Auction on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10 and 11. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOONTON, N.J. – Halloween may have come and gone, but Millea Bros. is cracking open its coffers and has scared up over 400 lots for a unique set of offerings at its annual fall auction. Titled “Fringe,” the sale on Monday, Nov. 13, at 10 a.m., Eastern brings together a collection of objects that will shock, delight or disturb. Absentee and Internet Live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS, Texas – A Crow beaded hide war shirt once belonging to Chief Bell Rock is expected to sell for more than $40,000 in Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian & Tribal Jewelry, a specialty auction conducted by Heritage Auctions on Nov. 18. The rare war shirt is the pinnacle of the private collection of Houston businessman Kenneth S. “Bud” Adams Jr., whose more than 100 lots make up the cornerstone of the sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Adams, a founder of the American Football League and owner of one of its charter teams, the Oilers/Titans franchise, remained close to his heritage as an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. Entranced by the rich color and stunning visuals of the Southwest, his collection of American Indian art was just one expression of his enthusiasm for the material culture of his heritage.
Chief Bell Rock’s shirt dates to about 1900 and is lavishly decorated with metallic and glass seed beads, red wool trade cloth, horsehair and sinew.
Also included in Adams’ collection is an early and rare Otoe beaded hide tobacco bag (below; est. $18,000-$22,000) dated to the 1870s, as well as two attractive items from the Cheyenne tribe: a circa 1870s painted buffalo hide medicine case (est. $10,000-$15,000) made of buffalo rawhide dates to the 1870s and a Cheyenne beaded hide baby carrier (est. $10,000-$15,000), decorated with glass seed beads, wood, canvas, cotton cloth, brass bells and thimble, globular and tubular glass beads, which dates to the early 20th century.
The more than 400 additional historic lots span millennia and several cultures across North and Central America.
A rare Chumash polychrome coiled tray (est. $18,000-$20,000), circa 18th century, is crafted in a style well known to academics. The visual anthropologist J.C.H. King, who spent 40 years as a curator at the British Museum, illustrates a similar Chumash basket – probably by the same hand – in two of his books. Also on offer is an extraordinary Chumash coiled jar (est. $20,000-$25,000), made of natural and dyed juncas and sumac.
A diverse selection of ethnographic art includes a Chupicuaro standing female (est. $7,000-$10,000), circa 400 – 200 B.C., a Teotihuacan stone mask (est. $20,000-$30,000) circa 450-650 A.D. and an Olmec jade maskette pendant (est. $10,000-$15,000), a superb, utterly classic example in rich, deep green jade.
Important pre-Columbian ceramics features a Veracruz standing priest or orator (est. $3,000-$4,000) dated to about A.D. 450 – 650.
The sale also has about two dozen Jalisco figures including a seated male measuring 18 3/4 inches tall (est. $10,000-$15,000) and dating between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200.
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WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – When antique toy collectors gather and talk about the truly great comic character collections of the past, the names of a certain few trailblazers in the hobby invariably come up. However, it has been many years since a virtually unknown collection of fine, early comic character toys has appeared at auction, which is exactly what will happen on November 18th at Milestone’s gallery in suburban Cleveland. Absentee and Internet live bidding are available through LiveAuctioneers.
SAN FRANCISCO – On Sunday, Nov. 12, PBA will go on the road and hold their fall golf sale, Fine Golf Books, Hickory Clubs, & Golf Memorabilia, including the Golf Library of Ron Muszalski, Part I, in the cradle of American Golf, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Chip-carved tramp art items, weather vanes and folk art paintings are several of the more than 125 lots being offered in a Jasper52 online auction of Americana on Tuesday, Nov. 14. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
BOULDER, Colo. – Just as millions turned back their clocks last weekend, Artemis Gallery will take it a step further on November 9, turning back time with a 384–lot auction of fine antiquities and ethnographic art. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. – Quality items pulled from a pair of prominent living estates, around 20 pieces of original Native American, American and Southwestern art by noted, listed artists, and Part 3 of property from the estate of Holocaust survivor Edith Alexander (1922-2016) will come up for bid on Sunday, Nov. 12, by Auction Life. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CHICAGO – Over 500 bidders from 17 countries competed for the furnishings, tableware and decorative objects from the original interior of noma, the pioneering Copenhagen restaurant noma. The sale brought in nearly double the initial estimate for an impressive total of $610,431. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.