MOLINE, Ill. – Seeking to build on last year’s record results, Rock Island Auction Co. (RIA) added more than 2,700 lots to its Sep. 11-13 premiere firearms auction.

Bonhams New York will hold its 27th annual sale devoted to the art of dog paintings on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Several prominent lifetime collections of American Brilliant Cut Glass – known as ABCG and hugely popular with collectors – will be sold at auction on Sept. 5, beginning promptly at 9:30 a.m.

A 30-year odyssey started with a boyfriend trying to impress his girl. It was in the mid-1970s when Dennis LaMothe was walking with his then-girlfriend, Terri, past a Merle Norman window display. Inside was a shimmering gold top, sleek and sexy and fashioned from delicately bound metal mesh.

VINELAND, N.J. – The March 2009 auction debut of the Donald Kaufman Collection set a new house record for Bertoia’s at $4.2 million. Collectors who enjoyed the blue-chip offerings in the March sessions will find a similar second helping awaits at Kaufman Part II, slated for Sept. 25-26 at Bertoia Auctions’ gallery.

DUBLIN, Ohio – The National Milk Glass Collectors Society (NMGCS) met Sept. 17-19 at The Crown Plaza in Dublin, Ohio. More than 95 people attended the convention from across the nation.

An extremely rare Winchester New Rival 10-gage empty Christmas shell box, professionally restored and with all the labels intact, sold for $12,870 in an Internet and catalog auction held by SoldUSA.com

The Donald Kaufman collection is headed for the auction spotlight at Bertoia’s, Vineland, N.J., starting with a 1,500-lot offering on March 19-21, 2009.

Swann Galleries’ Feb. 17 auction of African-American Fine Art saw top-dollar results for works by major black artists. The top lot, a monumental charcoal and crayon drawing by Charles White, Move On Up a Little Higher, 1961, sold to a major American museum for $228,000

How much would you be willing to pay for an unopened Atari 2600 game? If your answer is $5,250, chances are good you’re either a little bit crazy or you’re a collector with money to burn.