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Insights on Auction Sales: A Terracotta Sculpture, a Hobby Race Car Model

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Estimated at just $5,000–$20,000, it shocked the room by selling for a remarkable $184,500, likely a record for the artist. The sale totaled $72,275 across 443 items, proving that even small-scale machinery can drive big results when rarity and provenance align.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Rare Nambu Pistol, Baseball Greatness

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Collectors familiar with early Japanese military firearms will appreciate how seldom these appear, especially with such clean provenance and in this condition. The sale was a reminder of how serial numbers, scarcity, and condition come together to drive premium pricing in the military collectibles market. at Chrystals Auction.

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Insights on Auction Sales: WWII Memorabilia, a Film Strip

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CT Bids set a record for an original oil painting by Roy Gonzalez Tabora, an artist known for his luminous tropical paradise scenes. Based in Hawaii, the artist is still active, and his original paintings can retail for over $10,000. Julien’s held a sale that celebrated the enduring collectibility of Marilyn Monroe.

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Insights on Auction Sales: David Hockney Lithograph, Bobby Orr Jersey

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This cheerful color lithograph, numbered 101/1000 and signed by the artist, came bound as a single-page book complete with its original slipcase. Buyorbidonit hosted a charming estate sale in Hardeeville, SC, featuring 334 lots from the estate of Geoffrey Bennison, the renowned British-American artist and interior designer.

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Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

The Art Newspaper

A fund in a work’s provenance can undermine its value, Glauber says, and his clients are often reluctant to buy works being sold off: “It signals to a prospective buyer that if a fund owned this purely for investment potential and is now selling, am I to assume that they’ve decided that there’s no more value or utility in owning this thing?

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Can You Believe What You Read in Vintage Jewelry Advertising?

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Who Designed McClelland Barclay Jewelry When I received a copy of Patricia Gostick’s book, McClelland Barclay: Painter of Beautiful Women and More , it revealed some things I’d never thought to question about the jewelry bearing the mark of this distinguished artist. Naval Reserve during World War II.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting thought to be lost for decades goes on display in Basel

The Art Newspaper

The foundation’s collection—drawn from the acquisitions of the Swiss father and son collectors Karl and Jürg Im Obersteg—is on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel. Only now, with the family having brought the work to the auction house in Munich, has it been possible to trace the entire provenance history of this work.”

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