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Haviland collectors to converge on Chicago June 16-19
CHICAGO – Haviland Collectors International Foundation (HCIF) will hold its 20th annual conference at the Embassy Suites, Rosemont, Ill., June 16-19, 2011. Highlights of the conference include special exhibitions, lectures, workshops, Show and Tell, an auction and an all-Haviland Show and Sale open to the public with free admission Sunday, June 19. Haviland Limoges...
Red Wing Stoneware Collectors Society teaming up with Antique Trader
The Red Wing Collectors Society (RWCS) is partnering with Antique Trader to promote its 35th annual National Convention in Red Wing, Minn., July 7-9, 2011. Starting June 1, contestants may enter the Antique Trader Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes for a chance to win a Red Wing collectors prize package: a 2011-2012 annual membership in the...
Bidders go batty for butter crocks at auction; 500+ sold in one day
Did you know the modern, water-submerged butter crock is thought to have first appeared in France in the Middle Ages? Collectors turned out in force April 30, 2011 to buy an important collection of more than 500 butter crocks at a sale held by W. Yoder Auctions. Learn more facts and see pictures and...
John Bell covered butter crock, circa 1850, sells for $1,700
This John Bell covered butter crock sold for $1,700 at the Horst Auction Center of Ephrata, Pa., Jan 22, 2011. The circa 1850 antique stoneware crock is signed “John Bell / Waynesboro” and measures 8 inches in diameter by 5 inches high. Its lid measures 9-1/4 inches in diameter by 1-3/4 inches high. The...
Rare decorated schrank among lots of highly anticipated Ohio Americana, May 20-21, 2011
Among the hotly anticipated Ohio items to sell in a May 20-21, 2011 Americana auction is a decorated wardrobe (or schrank), which comes from Bluffton, Allen and Hancock Counties, Ohio and dates to circa 1860. The one-piece, estimated at $2,500-5,000, has a lift-off cornice, a raised-panel door set on pintel hinges, and its original...
Ohio bidders drive price for monumental Cochiti effigy figure to $17,625
Ceramics buyers invested heavily in a variety of vessels at a March 11-12 Ohio auction. With more than 800 lots offered in two sessions, the top lot of the sale was a $17,625 Cochiti effigy figure dating to the late 19th – early 20th century. The figure came from the collection of Charles Shanafelt,...
‘Antique City’ Fun Fair becomes new major show in Philly’s Antiques Week
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The 27th edition of the world’s largest collectors show, produced by Norman Schaut, has left Atlantic City to become the third major event of Antiques Week in Philadelphia.
American Indian artifacts hoard up for auction
I just got an Antique Trader auction alert from ProxiBid and Iron Horse Auctions this morning. Of course I had to go check out what was available in this online sale. (Iron Horse Auctions is AuctionZip auctioneer #8405.) (I just love online auction catalogs, don’t you?! They make antiques and collectibles around the world...
Important stoneware memorial jug brings $138,000
An incised small-sized stoneware masterpiece memorial jug brought a final price of $138,000 (inclusive of 15 percent buyer's premium) at Crocker Farm's March 5 pottery sale. The firm uses ArtFact Live! to facilitate bidding worldwide.