DALLAS – More than three-quarters of a century after George Nakashima opened his studio, the works it produces remain in high demand among collectors who prize the merging of artistic designs with elite craftsmanship.
Three works from the studio that still custom-mills sustainably harvested hardwoods will land in new collections when they are sold in Heritage Auctions’ Design Auction July 15. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Beginning June 1, Heritage Auctions is launching a special auction for packs from a coveted 1999 Pokemon Unlimited Base Set Booster Box, which will be opened during a live event at 1 pm Central time on June 27. The box break of the fresh-to-market sealed card packs will take place and be streamed live during the highly anticipated collectors’ convention known as Collect-A-Con, an event dedicated to trading cards, pop culture collectibles, and comics.
DALLAS – A magnificent Rolex Submariner sold for $125,000, and two extraordinary Patek Philippe models broke records, leading Heritage Auctions’ Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction to $1,365,243 in total sales June 1. The event generated massive interest from 837 bidders, with sell-through rates of 99.8% by value and 99.3% by lots sold.
DALLAS – Adrenaline remained high throughout Heritage Auctions’ eight-hour Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu Auction May 20, as one great collection followed the last. The room was electrified from the onset of the sale as an auction record was set for a single American silver spoon by America’s most famous silversmith, Paul Revere, Jr., and this momentum continued to the end. Interest was staggering, selling 99% by volume, and the value incredible, with the auction flying past its high estimate to reach $2,433,894.
DALLAS – A strong selection of coveted 19th and 20th century paintings headlines the European Art Auction June 4 at Heritage Auctions. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – A Confederate revolver, one of only about 1,000 of its kind, will find a new home when it is sold in Heritage Auctions’ Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Signature Auction June 6. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Kenneth Hill, Sr. turned his love of the water into a lifetime of collecting. The Fort Worth, Texas resident and retired pharmaceutical pioneer sought only the finest examples of maritime fine art and antiques to complete a truly outstanding collection ranging from ship models, including a coveted Napoleonic prisoner-of-war ship carved from bone, to masterpiece paintings by Montague Dawson and Franz Richard Unterberger.
DALLAS – One of the most infamous forgeries in United States history heads to auction for the first time in June. The Oath of a Freeman, a pledge of loyalty and duty demanded of all new members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, is said to be the oldest printed document in English North America, produced in Cambridge, Mass., around 1638 or 1639. But the only known copy of this diminutive broadsheet was made in 1985 by a master forger and convicted murderer who has spent the last 34 years in a Utah prison.
That man is Mark Hofmann, subject of the 2021 Netflix true-crime mini-series Murder Among the Mormons.
DALLAS – A Columbia Law School textbook once owned by, and full of notes from, one of the unquestioned giants of the U.S. legal system will occupy a new shelf after it is sold in Heritage Auctions’ Manuscripts Auction May 19. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DALLAS – Nine lots from the Donald G. Partrick Collection by the famed American Silversmith Paul Revere Jr., highlight Heritage Auctions’ Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu auction on May 20. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.