Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A pair of LePage percussion dueling pistols sold for $5,000 at a Horst Auctions sale. Crafted by one of France’s most celebrated gunsmithing firms, the pistols reflected the…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A marine painting titled A.G. Lawson by James Bard (American, 1815–1897) sold for $177,800 at Christie’s. Bard, one of America’s foremost 19th-century maritime artists, was celebrated for his…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A New York three-gallon stoneware merchant’s jug sold for $12,000 at a Pook & Pook Inc. auction. The impressive salt-glazed vessel, decorated in the classic style associated with…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A collection of United States plate block postage stamps housed in three albums and an accompanying bag sold for $6,500 at a Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates auction…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A manuscript document signed by John Hancock sold for $440,000 at a Freeman’s auction held in Philadelphia, PA. The extraordinary Revolutionary War-era document, bearing the signature of the…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A first-edition four-volume set of John Marshall’s Life of George Washington, published in 1804, sold for $1,025 at a Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books auction held in Columbia, MO.…
by Dwayne A. Magee, CGCM Michael Barnes, photographer In an age of pocket-sized, all-purpose, high-tech cameras with preview screens, instant images, and infinite retries, Michael Barnes chose to take a photograph the hard way. And not just anyphotograph, this was…
by Douglas R. Kelly January generally is a slow time of year for me on the antiques and vintage front, and that’s just fine as I get back to work and a more normal schedule (and some reading in front…
by Amanda Sheriff & J.C. Vaughn Superman & Batman Debuts Lead Heritage Auction to $22.38M TotalThe two biggest keys in comic book collecting sold for nearly $3 million in Heritage’s Comic Books Auction. That auction on May 7-9, 2026, realized…
by Shirley M. Mueller, M.D. Consider two porcelain pieces side by side. To the untrained eye, they appear indistinguishable. Yet, one is an original. The other is a copy. Ask anyone which they prefer, and, virtually without exception, they will…
