Swann Galleries’ auction of African-American Fine Art on Tuesday, Oct. 7 offers important works of art by significant artists from prestigious collections.

The weather gods smiled upon Americana Week in New York City, lavishing event sponsors with unseasonably mild conditions for the third week of January, and encouraging buyer traffic.

An important Tiffany Studios table lamp in the Peony pattern is expected to bring $100,000-$150,000 at an Arts & Crafts, Modern and Fine Art Sale slated for Sunday, Dec. 7, at the John Toomey Gallery.

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Rich history and style, American, European and Asian, will come together to create the highly anticipated Morristown Armory Antiques Show which will be held Nov. 7-8, 2009.

The Wisconsin Pottery Association will hold its 13th annual Pottery Show and Sale on Aug. 23, 2008. All types of antique and collectible pottery will be on sale and some 50 pottery dealers from across the nation will participate, as well as noted studio potters.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A massive three-session cataloged auction boasting nearly 525 lots of vintage clocks and watches, lighting (by Tiffany, Handel, Duffner & Kimberly, Pairpoint and others), Arts & Crafts furniture and accessories, bronzes, coins, paintings, porcelains and more will be held Nov. 21 by Fontaine's Auction Gallery

The Aug. 23-24 sale at Burchard Galleries, Inc., in St. Petersburg will feature artwork and artifacts from the estate of portrait, surrealist and neomanneristic painter Raymond A. Whyte.

Sunny skies greeted shoppers spilling onto the St. Joseph County Fairgrounds at the Centreville, Mich., Antique Market on June 14.

The mighty mortgage mess that has forced more than 400,000 U.S. homeowners into bankruptcy created some tall discounts for miniature dollhouse collectors at a recent Dargate Auction Gallery sale of antique toys.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Skinner’s July 25 science technology and clocks auction features several important pairs of globes by Newton, a sextant by Ramsden, an octant by George Jones, equinoctial dials, astrolabes, chronometers, microscopes and nautical antiques.