Pull These Over
by Jessica Kosinski If you love the look and feel of old-fashioned barns, you are not alone. Many people love barn-related collectibles. Antique barn pulleys are near the top of the list of popular barn items. The largest…
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Dr. Renz’s Herb Bitters bottle, $24,250, American Bottle Auctions
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, one of maybe four known with the uniquely styled applied…
Custer’s Civil War gun holster rig, $37,500, Holabird Western Americana
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 buckle from the Civil War sold for $37,500 at a…
Thomas Jennings: “Dry Scouring,” U.S. Patent No. 3306x
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 New York City. He used the finest cloth and decorative…
Barns: A Disappearing Icon on the American Landscape
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 homestead, built to protect animals and crops, assets central to…
1980 Nobel Prize, $275,000, Nate D. Sanders
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, sold for $275,000 at an auction held October 30th by…
Paul Revere engraving, $429,000, Doyle
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, 1770, titled The Bloody Massacre (1770), sold for $429,000 (a…
A Look at Decorative Arts & Antiques Market Trends for 2021
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 staff at the Asheford Institute, the survey results consist of…
America’s National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
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 America’s great pastime – baseball. Records exist of an abbreviated…
Behind the Seams: Enslaved Labor in the 18th century Boston Tailoring Trade
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 of a runaway enslaved man known only as Exeter.1 Labeled…