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Author Archives: Eric Bradley
Presley keeping doors to So Cal gallery open
Auctioneer Don Presley reports city officials have approved his Orange, Calif., gallery is fit to hold online auctions, reversing a call to relocate or close his business altogether. Read More +
New hours, exhibits at Oct. 5-6 WADA Show
A featured exhibit at the show Oct. 5-6, 2012 Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Show is hosted by Madison’s Wisconsin Pottery Association. Read More +
Free webcast: Risk and Reward of Investing in Art and Antiques
Ever wonder about the prices paid behind recent record-breaking auctions? This free webcast talks about how to invest in art, antiques, diamonds, wine, celebrity memorabilia and rare, historical objects. Read More +
San Antonio historian restores antique Pearl Beer delivery wagon
San Antonio historian Bob Dale restored an antique Pearl Beer keg delivery wagon and calls it the only wagon from Texas beer brewing heritage. This small beer wagon dropped kegs at the Menger Hotel of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough-Rider fame, the wild and woolly Ironfront, the legendary Buckhorn (still operating on Houston Street), and Billy Keilman’s infamous “Beauty Saloon” in the rip-roarin’ red-light district of old San Antonio. Read More +
Ashleigh tapped to grow Heritage’s collectible wine division
Heritage Auctions is adding Caroline Ashleigh, longtime Antiques Roadshow and HG-TV appraiser, as a consignment director. Read More +
Fine art auction features horse head prop from ‘The Godfather’
More than 3,000 lots of fine art and antiques are expected to change hands at James D. Julia’s Aug. 21-24, 2012 auction, the largest in the firm’s history. Among the highlights are 30 folk art weathervanes, 725 paintings and 1,200 lots of Asian art and artifacts. A historical item of an entirely different nature is the actual taxidermy horse’s head used during the rehearsals and filming of the 1970s Oscar winner, “The Godfather”. Acquired from a former employee of Paramount Studios, it now comes with an estimate you can’t refuse of $10,000-20,000. Read More +
With gallery in limbo, Don Presley Auctions moves online
Don Presley offers Middle East photos online after city officials force him to shutter his Orange, Calif., auction house or pay as much as $60,000 to retrofit his auction gallery. While he investigates a new headquarters, Presley is brining more than 650 lots of fresh to the market goods to auction including an album of Middle Eastern images. Dating to the second half of the 19th century, the album was reportedly given to an American sailor on duty in Constantinople from 1919 to 1921. Read More +
William Hart Hudson River painting stolen from Cincinnati antiques mall
An oil on canvas attributed to Hudson River School artist William Hart was reported stolen from the Duck Creek Antique Mall July 21-22 by dealer Mimi Morgan owner of Bryn Sion Antiques of Florence, Ken. The painting has a retail value between $600 and $800. Read More +
Philly auctioneer selling rare Revolutionary War flag
Freeman’s Auctioneers in Philadelphia is offering a rare battle flag from the Revolutionary War’s Eighth Virginia Regiment in November 2012. Read More +