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Christie’s Spotlights Still Lifes and Portraits by Celebrated Family of American Painters
Christie’s upcoming sale of 19th-century American masterworks from the collection of Daniel A. Pollack features a constellation of still life and portraiture from the Peale family of artists. This includes a portrait of George Washington by Charles Peale Polk. The available example is one in a series of Washington portraits…
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Gilbert Stuart’s Exceptional Athenaeum-Type Portrait of George Washington Comes to Auction at Christie’s
Gilbert Stuart (1755 - 1828) is best known in art history for his incomplete portrait of America’s first President George Washington, known as the Athenaeum Portrait. Stuart began painting at the age of 14 and made over 1,000 portraits during his lifetime. The American painter rendered at least a hundred portraits…
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An 18th-Century George Washington and Nicolino Calyo Painting Headline Freeman’s Americana Auction
A portrait of George Washington in presidential costume will lead the upcoming Americana auction, presented by Freeman’s. It is an oil painting by Rembrandt Peale acquired from the estate of former Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton and First Lady Mary L. Scranton. Peale is one of the most recognized portrait artists…
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Amos Doolittle Prints to Star in Christie’s Upcoming Americana Sale
Amos Doolittle’s 1775 prints will be crossing the auction block this month during Christie’s Important Americana sale. Doolittle visited Lexington and Concord shortly after a conflict took place between the colonial militia and the British troops. He then interviewed several eyewitnesses to create a series depicting the moments of April…
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Bonhams Presents History Written and Made by Benjamin Franklin, George S. Patton, and Sir Isaac Newton
In spring of 1782, when preliminary negotiations of the terms of American independence stalled, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to Benjamin Vaughan. The latter was friends with the incoming British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne. In this diplomatic document, which is currently up for bid in Bonhams’ Fine Books and Manuscripts…
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Items Signed By Albert Einstein, George Washington, Lou Gehrig And Others Will Be Offered Wednesday, June 30th By University Archives
Other names in the sale include such luminaries as Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Kim Il Sung, Barack Obama, the Kennedy brothers, Theodore Roosevelt, Harriet Beecher Stowe and MLK Jr. Typed letter written in German and signed by Albert Einstein to President Herbert Hoover in 1929 after receiving Hoover’s congratulatory 50th…
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Hake’s June 29-30 auction led by original comic art, Pokemon uncut sheet, Star Wars rocket-firing Boba Fett prototype, 1915 Babe Ruth/Red Sox rookie button
Historical Highlight: George Washington-signed promissory note for purchase of slaves, including young Revolutionary War hero William Lee 1767 George Washington-signed slave sale promissory note for his trusted personal valet William ‘Billy’ Lee, who went to war with Washington, including at Valley Forge and Yorktown. Never before seen at auction. Accompanied…
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Skinner Offers Rare Books and One-of-a-Kind Documents
The Bulaq printing of Kitab Alf Layla wa-Layla was the first Arabic edition of Thousand and One Nights and served as the basis for almost all of its many translations and versions. The Bulaq was made between 1834 and 1835. A copy from this printing leads the upcoming Historic Manuscripts…
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George Washington’s Autograph Letter Signed Manuscript & Jorge González Camarena’s Painting Highlight Simpson Galleries Auction
A letter signed by George Washington is one of the key highlights of the upcoming Fine Art & Antiques auction, presented by Simpson Galleries. Washington signed the letter while serving as Commander-in-Chief of the continental army at New Windsor. It was likely handwritten by Washington’s aide-de-camp, Tench Tilghman. The manuscript…
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Jane Austen Leads Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann
Americana captivates buyers with autographs by Washington, Hamilton & Hancock delivering top prices Featuring Major Works by Jane Austen & Charles Dickens, Autographs & Manuscript Items from John Hancock, Igor Stravinsky & more FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS Sale 2551; November 17, 2020 Sale total: $675,481 Estimates for sale as a whole:…
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Items signed by Washington, Napoleon, Marilyn Monroe, many others are in University Archives' online auction, Nov. 11th
The full catalog, showing all 289 lots, is up for bidding and viewing now, at the newly revamped University Archives website (www.UniversityArchives.com). Black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe signed and inscribed “to Joe” (possibly Joe DiMaggio), unusually large at 11 inches by 14 inches (est. $20,000-$25,000). WESTPORT, CT, UNITED…
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Timepieces
Marquis de Lafayette was an important figure in the American Revolutionary War. The French aristocrat served alongside George Washington in several battles. The two became such good friends that Lafayette named his only son after America’s first president. The upcoming auction of timepieces, presented by Hindman, offers a Jacquemart automation…
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1819 Copy of Declaration of Independence Leads Heritage’s $1.1 Million-plus Americana Auction
Clyde Barrow’s tackle box, FDR wheelchair among treasures to soar past estimates Declaration of Independence: John Binns Version Published in 1819. DALLAS, Texas (September 18, 2020) – A copy of the Declaration of Independence that was published by The Democratic Press publisher John Binns and a daguerreotype of one of the partners whose…
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Soulis announces Sept. 19 no-reserve auction of exceptional 30-year Jerry and Cathy Mueller Americana collection
Featured: 65 weathervanes, painted American furniture and accessories, figural trade signs, patriotic antiques LONE JACK, Mo. – A premier collection of Americana amassed over a 30-year period by Jerry and Cathy Mueller of Sioux City, Iowa, will be offered without reserve on Saturday, September 19 in an outdoor country-style live…
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Printed & Manuscript Americana at Swann September 24
“Unfinished Portrait” of Franklin D. Roosevelt Leads Sale Elizabeth Shoumatoff, “Unfinished Portrait” of Franklin D. Roosevelt, three watercolor studies, 1945. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. New York—Printed & Manuscript Americana is set to come across the block at Swann Galleries on Thursday, September 24. Covering a period of nearly five centuries and two continents, this…
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CEO's historic $10 million silver dollar in Vegas auction
Believed by experts to be the first silver dollar ever made by U.S. Mint in 1794. LAS VEGAS, NV.- A Las Vegas, Nevada resident who owns the most valuable rare coin ever purchased at auction now is selling his prized possession, a superb condition silver dollar made in 1794 and believed…
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Firearms, Militaria, & Ephemera
18th-century powder horns served as both utilitarian items and canvases for art and political dissent. One of the leading American powder horn carvers of the time was Jacob Gay, a craftsman who signed many of his pieces with his initials. A powder horn from 1758 attributed to Gay will be…
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Fine Books and Manuscripts including Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection
Originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1893, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story was written to introduce Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older and smarter brother in the series. Doyle would later place it on a…
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10-generation archive of Philadelphia's prominent Hopkinson family to be auctioned June 23
Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860), portraits of Richard Colgate Dale Jr (1810-1876) and Elizabeth Woodruff Dale, oils-on-canvas, signed ‘Rembrandt Peale 1857,’ each 30¾ x 25in (sight), exhibition labels from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, carved and gilded frames. Hopkinson Family Archive. Estimate $10,000-$20,000. CHADDS FORD, PA.- Philadelphia, America’s first capital and home…
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Founders & Patriots
The upcoming Founders & Patriots auction, presented by Morphy Auctions, offers a variety of arms, militaria, documents, and other items from the era of the American Revolutionary War as well as the War of 1812. Included in the sale is a historic silver-mounted tomahawk. The piece was presented as part…
