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May 4, 2018 / Broadway, Broadway Cares, Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, Costumes, Equity Fights AIDS, Features, Fiddler on the Roof, Lane Beauchamp, New York City, NYC, props, Shubert Alley, swag, Theatre District, Tony Award

Broadway Cares

Theater Collectibles from the Source By Lane Beauchamp, Director of Communications for Broadway Cares For one Sunday each September, the ...

May 4, 2018 / Andy Warhol, Antique Marketplace News, Appomattox Surrender, artifact, asian art, Civil War, Civil War Era, collectors, decorative arts, Fine Art, Gold Mounted, Historical, Jewelry, Michaan's Gallery, Richard Polsky, tobacco pipe

Civil War Era Tobacco Pipe Highlights Machaan's May 12 Gallery Auction

Civil War collectors take note: a gold mounted Civil War era Tobacco Pipe carved with scenes of Appomattox Surrender is ...

April 30, 2018 / Art, artist, Circle of Domenico Feti, Clars Auction Gallery, Columns, Gavels n Paddles, Ken Hall, Modern Art, Painting, Paul Sawyier, Tiffany Studios, Venetian Lamp, Walt Kuhn, Watercolor

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Tiffany Studios Venetian lamp, $102,850, Clars Auction Gallery

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A Tiffany Studios (N.Y.) Venetian desk lamp, circa 1910, ...

April 27, 2018 / Backstage, Broadway, Columns, Costumes, Hamilton, Maxine Carter-Lome, Musicals, NYC, Off Broadway, Playbill, Playbills, posters, props, Script, Sheet Music, Talk of the Trade, The Broadway League, Theater, Theatre

Publisher's Corner: May 2018

Backstage Collectibles by Maxine Carter-Lome Growing up in and around New York City in a family that loved the theater ...

What's Selling on eBay: April 2018

by Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod $787.77 (50 bids, 12 bidders): Vintage 10-piece, Cold-painted, Miniature Austrian Bronze Pigs Orchestra Band ...

April 26, 2018 / Batman, Boba Fett, Captain America, Columns, Comic Book, comics, DC Comics, Detective Comics, Hake's Americana & Collectibles, J.C. Vaughn, More Fun Comics, Pop Culture Collecting, record-setter, record-setting, Spectre, Star Wars, Superman

Hake's Sets New Single-Week Record

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn After setting records with their previous auction, Hake's Americana & Collectibles looks well on ...

April 26, 2018 / Antique Marketplace News

Harrison Ford's "Han Solo" Blaster Headlines Julien's Hollywood Legends Auction June 23

One of the Most Iconic Weapons in Film History Highlights Return of the Jedi’s U.S. Art Director’s Historic Production Archive Los ...

April 25, 2018 / Allegiance, American, Daniel Jay Grimminger PHD, Features, Memorabilia, Nationalism, Patriot, patriotism, President, Presidents, Pressed glass, United States of America

Seeing The Presidents Through Glass

Pressed Glass as Patriotism Daniel Jay Grimminger, Ph.D. Since at least the 1820s, North American memorabilia has appealed to the ...

April 25, 2018 / Columns, comics, Gavels n Paddles, Hake's Americana

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Copy of Detective Comics #27, $569,275, Hake’s Americana

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A copy of Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), featuring ...

April 20, 2018 / Any Warhol, Columns, Edvard Munch, Gavels n Paddles, Georges Remi Herge, gouache, Ink, Ken Hall, Paper, Private Art, Private Art Collections & Estates Discoveries, Watercolor

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Andy Warhol attribution, $32,400, Woodshed Art Auctions

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A gouache, watercolor and ink on paper attributed to ...

April 18, 2018 / bohemian, Contemporary Art, Crown Jewels, Features, flamework, Glass, Glass art, Glass Paperweights, glassworks, lampwork, millefiori, Modern Art, Paperweights, Paul Hollister, Retro, sulphides, vintage

The Crown Jewels

Glass Paperweights By Art Elder "The Crown Jewels for Collectors" - that's what Paul Hollister wrote about fine glass paperweights ...

April 17, 2018 / Crackle Glass, Dazzling, Donald-Brian Johnson, E.Y. Yip Harburg, Features, Finian's Rainbow, Glass treatment, Home Decorating, Leslie Piña, Mad Men, Magic, Modern Art, Style

Cracklin' Good

Captivated by Crackle Glass Story by Donald-Brian Johnson; Photos by Leslie Pina "Look, look, look to the rainbow- Follow it ...