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Insights on Auction Sales: A Corvette, Rare Titanic Postcard

WorthPoint

Painted in Monza Red and showing just over 58,000 miles, this car was one of only sixty-six made that year with this configuration, making it an incredibly rare find. It was painted around 1950–1955 and is catalogued in the Edouard Cortes Virtual Catalogue Raisonné. both exceptional values given the rarity and quality of the work.

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Office Hours Information from March 2025

International Society of Appraisers

There are different marketplaces depending on many factors, including: urgency to sell, quantity, condition of the property, and the quality of the items. What is the quality of diamond jewelry? It has similar qualities. Note that the definition of replacement cost comparable mentions age. You end up with a new ring.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Paintings, Hot Wheels, Vintage Photobooks

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Paintings Steal the Spotlight This Karl Hofer painting sold for $5,666.36 A surprising painting turned up again at CTBids —one that made me do a double-take and then a triple-check. It was a landscape entitled Swiss Lakes by none other than German expressionist Karl Hofer, painted in 1935 on hardboard. at CTBids.

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Victorian “Tear Catchers” Story a Myth, But the Bottles Are Highly Collectible

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This vibrant turquoise blue bottle with gold paint and white enamel details sold for $300 in March 2025. These bottles are presented sometimes as Victorian or Civil War tear catchers, used to hold the tears of lost love from a bygone and sentimental age. I’m sorry to say these are not romantic mourning keepsakes.

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In tough times for dealers, Art Basel debuts a section for new works

The Art Newspaper

Gypsum gallery from Cairo is showing two artists in dialogue at Premiere: paintings by the Swiss Greek artist Dimitra Charamandas depicting volcanic terrain, and photographs by the Egyptian-born, Basel-based artist Basim Magdy, also of volcanic debris. The validation of taking part in Art Basel is also important for a young gallery.

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What Makes a Work of Art Timeless in an Age Obsessed with Now?

Invaluable

In this digital age, trends come and go as AI-generated images and nostalgic pixel art briefly flirt with popularity, but amid this digital noise, certain works of art remain immune to the aging effects of trends and are rightly celebrated as timeless works of art. And that resistance is part of what makes it enduring.

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Knots, Spirals, and the Symbolic Power of Celtic Art

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Iron Age Celtic Ring with Wave Whorl. Older than the Celtic knot, it emerged in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe and has been found on Germanic coins and in megalithic tombs. Period metalwork will have been hand hammered in quality metals, with hand-chiselled motifs and no solder seams. The Book of Kells. A special facsimile.