Recent Auction Results from Near & Far By Ken Hall All prices include the buyer’s premium A Dr. Renz’s Herb Bitters bottle (San Francisco, circa 1868-1881), 9 ¾ inches tall, […]
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Recent Auction Results from Near & Far By Ken Hall All prices include the buyer’s premium U.S. Army Captain George Armstrong Custer’s gun holster, dispatch case, belt, and brass […]
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By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher In 1820, Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1856) was a well-known tailor among gentlemen of wealth and taste, with a successful clothing shop in Lower Manhattan in […]
Travel our country’s backroads and no doubt your view will include time-forgotten, weathered-worn barns, enduring symbols of America’s earliest settlement history. Once one of the most important structures on a […]
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Recent Auction Results from Near & Far By Ken Hall All prices include the buyer’s premium The 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to George D. Snell, […]
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Recent Auction Results from Near & Far By Ken Hall All prices include the buyer’s premium Paul Revere’s iconic, hand-colored engraving of the famous Boston Massacre of March 5, […]
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A barometer of what’s hot and what’s not in the antiques trade is Asheford Institute’s annual Decorative Arts Trend survey. Conducted from January 2021 to December 2021 by the research […]
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Negro League Baseball got its start thanks to the increasing popularity of two things after the Civil War: baseball and segregation. Even before the Civil War, African Americans were playing […]
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by Jessica Kosinski For over 200 years, the area near Edgefield, South Carolina has been known for a unique style of pottery, appropriately named Edgefield pottery. Edgefield pottery has a […]
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By David E. Lazaro, Curator of Textiles, Historic Deerfield In late summer of 1741, Boston tailor Richard Billings (1699-1776) announced in a local paper a reward for the return […]
