Two military planes carrying 17 tons of silver and gold coins scooped up from a sunken Spanish warship landed in Madrid on Saturday, ending a more than 200-year odyssey that took the treasure from an…
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TAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge on Friday signed off on a Spanish government plan to begin moving a vast shipwreck treasure from Florida to Spain next week, culminating a five-year legal battle with…
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Proving once again that global demand for the best and most unique property is as strong as ever, the sale of property from O’Hara’s Gallery realized ,539,060 at Leslie Hindman.
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COLORADO SPRINGS – Former ANA collections manager Wyatt Yeager entered a guilty plea today in Federal District Court in Wilmington, DE, to the theft of approximately 300 historically significant…
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Talk about a lucky penny. It was actually worth million.
That was the final bid by an unknown buyer for the one-cent copper coin minted in 1793, the…
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Sotheby’s the Contemporary Art Evening Sale brought an outstanding
total of 5,837,000, well above the 2/270.8 million pre-sale estimate and nearly 85% sold-by-lot. The total is the
highest for a Contemporary Art Evening sale at Sotheby’s since May 2008 and the Company’s third highest ever,
virtually matching the 5,907,000 set at Sotheby’s in November 2007.
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September 20, 2011 – An audience eager for antique jewels helped make the September Fine Jewelry and Timepieces auction a resounding success, realizing over million. Fine jade jewelry, in particular, was in high demand from an international group of collectors. A pair of platinum, sapphire, diamond and carved jade pendant earrings sold for ,980, quadrupling the pre-sale high estimate, while a fine “glassy” jade bead strand sold for ,200. According to jewelry specialist Alexander Eblen, “Demand from the Asian market for fine quality was evident in the strong prices realized for jade jewelry.”
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Charities Recycle 60 Million Books a Year
Book Sale Finder surveyed Book Sellers, Book Lovers who attend charity sales and Book Sale Organizers. There were 2800 responses which provided insight into aspects of the book world.
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News-Antique.com – Jul 20,2011 – HUDSON, Massachusetts – People donate over 60 million books a year to charity groups such as Friends of Libraries, and those groups in turn sell them at book sales. A recent survey reveals that not only are book collectors buying millions of those books, but fledgling entrepreneurs are building small businesses re-selling those books online. |
Lynd Ward. Prelude To A Million Years. A book of original wood engravings by Lynd Ward. NY: Equinox Press, 1933, limited edition, numbered and signed by Ward, 9 x 5 1/2. Hand bound original decorative boards with a separate copper-like, black string tied, spine. The title is blind stamped on the spine. The thirty original wood engravings are printed directly from the wood-blocks on a special rag paper. One of the scarcest of Ward’s woodcut novels. A bookplate on the first blank page. The pages are uncut and the book covers are in vg/fine condition.
“Prelude was the third publication of the Equinox Cooperative Press, a group of young people, including myself (Lynd Ward), working in printing, publishing, and the book arts, who wanted to do non-commercial books, just for the love of doing it. Each copy of Prelude was bound by hand and made with loving care.”
US deep-sea explorer firm Odyssey has told a US court it refuses to recognise Spain as the owner of a massive treasure haul recovered from a shipwreck in the Atlantic, a company source says….
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