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Motown Legend’s Bass Sets World Record in $1.2 million Entertainment & Music Event at Heritage Auctions

Motown Legend’s Bass Sets World Record in $1.2 million Entertainment & Music Event at Heritage Auctions

Beatles memorabilia claims five of auction’s top 10 lots DALLAS, Texas (June 21, 2017) – A bass owned and played ...
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/ Agricultural Society, Bill Thornbrook, carnivals, Cattle Show, Celebrations, community, craft fairs, Essex County Agricultural Society, Exhibition, Fair, fall foliage, Features, festivals, gala, ice carnivals, New England, party, Strawberry Day, summer fests, Topsfield Fair, World’s Columbian Exposition
Let’s Go To The Fair!

Let’s Go To The Fair!

By Bill Thornbrook It seems people can find almost any excuse to throw a party. And a party is even ...
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/ Colt Python, Columns, double-action revolver, Elvis Presley, Firearms, Gavels n Paddles, lever action rifle, Premiere Firearms Auction, revolver, Richard Grob, rifle, Rock Island Auction Company, Smith & Wesson, Spiro Agnew, Vice President, Winchester
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Elvis Presley’s revolver, $195,500, Rock Island

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Elvis Presley’s revolver, $195,500, Rock Island

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall Elvis Presley’s engraved, inlaid and carved Smith & Wesson ...
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/ Columns, Deborah Abernethy, Glass, Japan, KPM, lampshade, Lithophane, Micro-mosaic, Mike McLeod, Monocular Spyglass, Outboard Motor, Perfume, Porcelain, Porphyry, silver, Snuff Box, Telescope, Toy Boat, Trinket Box, Victorian, What's Selling on eBay
What’s Selling on eBay: June 2017

What’s Selling on eBay: June 2017

By Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod $355 (30 bids, 14 bidders): Victorian 6-Panel KPM Porcelain Lithophane Lampshade. Five of the ...
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/ Battle of Little Big Horn, Battle of Trafalgar, Capt. William Rutherford, Colt, Columns, Extraordinary Firearms Auction, Gavels n Paddles, General Custer, Guinea Lloyd, James D. Julia Inc., Sword
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Little Big Horn Colt pistol, $460,000, James D. Julia, Inc.

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Little Big Horn Colt pistol, $460,000, James D. Julia, Inc.

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A Colt single-action Army pistol (SN 5773), used by ...
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/ Boy Scouts, Brooks Bank Note Company, David Cecchi, Eastern States Exposition, Expo, Features, Girl Scouts, Horace A. Moses, Junior Achievement, New England agriculture, Russell Massachusetts, Springfield Board of Trade, Strathmore Paper Company, The Big E, The Dairy Show, the fair, Woronoco Massachusetts
The Big E: The Creation of a New England Tradition

The Big E: The Creation of a New England Tradition

by David Cecchi No matter what you call it – The Big E, Expo, the fair – the Eastern States ...
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/ American history, Babe Ruth, baseball cards, Christie's, Christie’s Books & Manuscripts, coins, Columns, Computer Age, Emperor Maximilian, Eric C. Caren, Errol Flynn, fossils, General Custer, Gettysburg, Jack the Ripper, Margaret Scott, Paper Americana, Robert E. Lee, Salem Witch Trials, Sitting Bull, stamps, The Caren Archive, Whitechapel, world history
Great Collections: June 2017

Great Collections: June 2017

The Eric C. Caren Collection Photos: Christie’s Images Ltd. 2017 Eric C. Caren has been called the “Babe Ruth of ...
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/ Alexander Calder, Art, Canvas, Columns, Gavels n Paddles, Henri-Jean Guillaume, mobiles, modern & contemporary works, Oil on Canvas, Painting, Robert Rauschenberg, Screen print, Skinner Inc., standing mobile
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Alexander Calder mobile, $471,000, Skinner, Inc.

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Alexander Calder mobile, $471,000, Skinner, Inc.

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall An untitled standing mobile from around 1965 by Alexander ...
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/ Berknie Worell, Bonhams, Columns, Dark Side of the Moon, Eminem, Gavels n Paddles, New York City, Pink Floyd, Rock Memorabilia Sale, Tupac Shakur
Gavels 'n' Paddles: Abbey Road studio console, $1.8 million, Bonhams

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Abbey Road studio console, $1.8 million, Bonhams

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall An Abbey Road Studios recording console, the very one ...
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/ Batman, Boy Scout Pavilion, Boy Scout Service Corps, Donald-Brian Johnson, Features, Flintstones, Flushing Meadows Park, Michelangelo, New York City, New York Worlds Fair, official Fair Guidebook, The Riddler, World Fair
What A Wonderful World: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair

What A Wonderful World: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair

By Donald-Brian Johnson Abe Lincoln was there. So were the “Flintstones.” Michelangelo’s Pieta paid an exclusive visit. The enormous inhabitants ...
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/ Articles, Columns, Editorial, Flushing Meadows Park, Ice Theater, Maxine Carter-Lome, New York City, New York City Pavillion, New York Worlds Fair, Newsletter, Publisher, Talk of the Trade, The Unisphere, World's Fair
Publisher’s Corner: June 2017

Publisher’s Corner: June 2017

A Fair to Remember By Maxine Carter-Lome My first World’s Fair was the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair at Flushing ...
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/ Antique Marketplace News, artist, collaboration, Contemporary Art, Heritage Auctions, international auction house, Modern Art, skateboard decks, skateboards, sneakers, Street Art, surfboards, The Future is Now
The Future is Now at Heritage Auctions

The Future is Now at Heritage Auctions

Collectible sneakers and artist collaboration surfboards and skateboards lead groundbreaking June 11 auction LOS ANGELES, California (May 25, 2017) – ...
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