Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A vinyl-caped Jawa 12-back-A figure graded AFA 85 sold for $20,964 at Hake’s July 29 Premier Auction. Produced before the character’s cloth cape was substituted, the vinyl-cape variety…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A carded Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi 12-back-A figure graded AFA 85, featuring the early double-telescoping lightsaber variant, sold for $70,332 at Hake’s July Premier Auction on July 29. It…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A watercolor by Ogden Pleissner depicting a rail-shooting scene on the Delaware River sold for $51,000 at Guyette & Deeter’s July 24-25 sale. The composition, originally published in…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium A wood duck decoy by A. Elmer Crowell sold for $570,000 at a Guyette & Deeter sale held July 24-25, with provenance to the Tony Waring and Jim/Diane…
Recent Auction Results from Near & FarAll prices include the buyer’s premium An 1888 $20 Liberty Head proof gold coin, graded PR64 Deep Cameo by PCGS, sold for $170,800 at Heritage’s Summer FUN U.S. Coins auction in Dallas, TX, July…
Text & photos by Donald-Brian Johnson You probably have a “how-to” book or two in your I’ll-read-it-when-I-get-around-to-it library. From “How To Build A Better Birdhouse” to “How To Grow Gigantic Geraniums,” the list goes on and on, and they all…
by John Sexton Q: I came across your profile and noted your specialized interest in collecting and dealing in Civil War flags and artifacts. I recently acquired two historic pieces that I believe will interest you: John Sexton is an…
AUBURN, Indiana — August 2026 — Kruse Auctions will hold its 56th Annual Auburn Auction and Show September 2-5 in Auburn, Indiana, bringing hundreds of memorabilia and automobilia lots to the block in one of the Midwest’s longest-running collector events.…
WILMINGTON, Delaware — July 1, 2025 — Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library will open a major new exhibition this fall that questions one of the most fundamental assumptions in American antique collecting: what makes a work a masterpiece, and who…
CHICAGO, Illinois — August 20, 2026 — Potter & Potter Auctions concluded its 661-lot Skaters, Punks & Rebels: A Countercultural Cross-Section Sale on August 20, 2026, realizing a total of $186,000. The sale drew strong collector interest across a broad…
