(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – Nearly 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise from prominent local estates will be sold at a Fine & Decorative Arts Cataloged Auction slated for Saturday, Mar. 20, at 9 a.m., by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The sale will be held at the firm’s state-of-the-art showroom, located at 620 Cornerstone Court in Hillsborough.

Online bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and the Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. website -- www.LLAuctions.com.

“This sale will complete our first year at the new gallery, and by all accounts it has been a very successful venture,” said Leland Little, owner of the firm. “It’s not only a better work facility for the team, it has provided easier access off the Interstate for customers and offers better presentation for the sellers.”

Mr. Little said the new gallery will be enhanced with a planned 50 percent expansion of the building in late 2010/early 2011. The added space will be used for more storage space, a professional photography studio, a larger gallery space for future auctions and a bigger kitchen. “The principles behind our decision to build the new gallery have proven to be successful for our company and both sellers and buyers,” Mr. Little remarked.

This spring, Christie's is honored to present Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection as a highlight of its major sales of Impressionist and Modern Art, American Paintings, and 20th Century Decorative Arts. Featuring over 175 exceptional items from the collections of fine art dealer Bernard Goldberg’s New York gallery, highlights of the sales will include paintings, sculpture and works on paper by Jacques Lipchitz, Edward Steichen, Elie Nadelman, Marsden Hartley, and Guy Pène du Bois, among others, as well as 20th century decorative items by George Washington Maher, Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Samuel Yellin.

A private collector of American art for over forty years, Mr. Goldberg established Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts after a successful career as an attorney and real estate developer. As one of the first boutique hoteliers in New York, he pioneered the practice of displaying museum-quality artworks in his hotels’ public spaces and private rooms. In 1998, using his personal collection as inspiration, he launched his retail gallery business, focusing on the leading artists of the Ashcan, Urban Realist, Abstract, Social Realist and Regionalist genres of American Art, as well as superb examples of 20th century design. More than 70 artists are represented, and the gallery has presented focused exhibitions on the work of Charles Burchfield, Oscar Bluemner, John Marin, the Stieglitz circle, and Marguerite and William Zorach, among others.

This spring, Sotheby’s will bring to the market a superb work by iconic French Academic painter William Bouguereau. L’Amour et Psyché, dated 1899, is estimated at $1.8/2.2 million* and will be featured in the 23 April sale of 19th Century European Art. Sold from a Distinguished Private Collection, the painting has been off the market for almost half a century. Its last known public exhibition was at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.

 

 

Artfact Live! Presents Important 2-Day Militaria & Firearms Auction from Poulin Antiques

 

On March 13 & 14, 2010, Poulin Antiques & Auctions, located in Fairfield, ME, will host its Important Two Day Militaria & Firearms Auction Auction live online with Artfact Live!. In this two day sale, Poulin Antiques & Auctions will offer more than 1500 lots of Militaria & Firearms . A Browning A5 Gold Classic Auto Shotgun is the top estimated lot, requiring a minimum bid of $1,700 and expected to sell between $3,500-$5500.

Matthews, N.C.) - An extremely rare American Ammunition Company Smokeless 12-gage empty shell box, one of only a few examples known and in nice condition, sold for a new world record price of $6,859 in an Internet and catalog auction that went online Sept. 1 and concluded the weekend of Sept. 27-28. The sale was conducted by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting collectibles auction site.

The box featured the American flag in the center, and was surrounded by American shields and red and blue banners. The integrity of the box was very sound, with a correct label on the bottom. It showed some light soiling and edge wear, but was otherwise in fine condition, with no fading. The end panel clearly read, “Long Brass, Smokeless Powder, 3-1/8 Drams – 1-1/4 Oz. - No. 7-1/2 Chilled.”flanged Red Hat Motor Oil sign, measuring 18 inches by 17-1/2 inches and showing only light wear to the flange, slight scratching and discoloration to the sides, minor paint loss to the edges and some minimal rusting, gaveled for $3,124. There was virtually no fading, and the sign would probably rate a 7 overall on a 1-10 scale. Even so, it would display well in anyone's collection.

(
Oceanside, N.Y.) - A coveted T206 Honus Wagner baseball card – often called the Holy Grail or Mona Lisa of sports collectibles – will be sold as part of a huge weekend multi-estate sale planned for Nov. 22-23 by Philip Weiss Auctions. Nov. 22 will be dedicated mainly to sports memorabilia; Nov. 23 will feature comic collectibles and original comic art. In all, nearly 1,000 lots will change hands.

“This will be our greatest sports sale ever,” Philip Weiss said of the first day of the sale. “The Honus Wagner card, which we expect will bring $500,000-$800,000, comes from the original owner's family and has never before been offered on the market. It is SGC graded 3, and that's the only thing keeping it from being worth much more.” A similar card graded SGC 8 sold for $2.8 million last year.

Goebel of North America Latest News from the M.I. Hummel Club

Pennington, N.J. Oct. 2008 - Goebel Germany has recently announced that it will discontinue production of M.I. Hummel figurines on October 31, 2008 and focus its resources on the company's home accessory brands. Current details concerning Goebel Porzellanmanufaktur's
M.I. Hummel business division are as follows:

1. The Goebel Information Center in Rodental, Germany closes at the end of August 2008.

Sotheby’s Fall Photographs sale in New York on October 14-15th will feature seminal photographs from both the 19th
and 20th centuries, many extremely rare, from masters of classical photography such as Man Ray, Carleton E. Watkins,
Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange, to contemporary artists such as Cindy
Sherman, Richard Prince, Lee Friedlander and Irving Penn, among many others. The auction will feature 249 lots over
two days, beginning with an Evening Sale on October 14th, and is estimated to bring $6/10 million.
The sale includes a scarce surviving print from a series of nude studies of Tina Modotti, made by Edward Weston on the
terrace roof of their house near Mexico City in the summer of 1924. Featured on the cover of the sale catalogue,
Tina on the Azotea (pictured, est. $250/350,000) has remained out of the public eye, in a private collection, since
the 1970s, and may be unique. No other prints of the image have been located
as of this writing. The photographs from this series, each of them frankly sensual,
constitute a break from the nudes Weston had executed before: the clarity of
the images represent yet another step away from the romantic style in which he
had photographed Modotti earlier in the decade. Although the image is
reproduced in the Weston/Modotti literature, each of these illustrations traces
back to the present print. The reappearance of this single print underscores the
rarity of much of Weston’s work, and demonstrates the extent to which the
photographer’s more erotically-charged nudes were printed in small numbers—
likely only for his models—and were not part of his regularly exhibited work.

Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, today announced that its semi-annual Fine Musical Instruments auction will be held on October 12th at noon in the Boston gallery. As in past sales, this auction proves Skinner as a reliable source of fine quality musical instruments for the trade, private musicians, and collectors alike.

Of significant note is a collection of vintage and rare American guitars. Expected to draw great interest is a 1951-52 Fender Telecaster (lot 29; est. $22/30,000), signed by Tadeo Gomez on Oct 28, 1951 – his 49th birthday. Gomez was a legendary craftsman and neck carver in the early years of Fender Electric Instruments, and his work is the most highly sought after of all in the Fender line. Featuring its original “poodle case”, it bears the serial number stamp 1040.

SILVER SPOONS, ROGERS GROUPS, CLOCKS, ART GLASS, WAVE CREST AND
MORE TO BE SOLD OCTOBER 25 IN ST. CHARLES, MO., BY WOODY AUCTION

(St. Charles, Mo.) - Hundreds of high-end items in a broad array of categories will be offered at a multi-estate auction slated for Saturday, October 25, at the St. Charles Convention Center. Lots will include over 2,000 silver spoons from a lifetime single-owner collection; about seven Rogers Groups; 26 vintage clocks; art glass; R.S. Prussia; Moser; Wave Crest; five decorated Tiffany vases; and more.