The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, sponsored by WorthPoint this year, is the largest indoor antique show in the world, with many treasures from all over the globe. Visitors are sure to discover some of the finest things they’ve ever seen on exhibition here.

Take peek at this great show, attended by celebrities, royalty, museum representatives and collectors from all walks of life, and make plans to attend next year’s show, scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 4.

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Martin Willis is Worthologist and auctioneer who owns Seaboard Appraisal Service. You can hear his podcasts at the at Antique and Auction Forum, featuring interviews with key players in the antiques and collectibles trade.

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This R.J. Horner 12-piece figural carved dining set, complete and with excellent original finish— the best such set Fontaine’s has offered in its 40-year history—will be among the 500 lots at an “exceptional” auction to be hosted by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery on May 21.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – What is being billed as an “exceptional antique auction” has been planned for Saturday, May 21, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, Offered will be more than 500 lots of antique furniture, vintage lighting, fine art, decorative accessories, period furniture, clocks, estate jewelry, watches and more.

“We’re calling it an exceptional auction because the merchandise truly is exceptional,” said John Fontaine of Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. “These lots have been culled from better estates and collections in Massachusetts and beyond, resulting in a tremendous opportunity for people looking to redecorate, purchase investment-grade antiques or add to their collections.”

Folks unable to make it to the event may bid online through LiveAuctioneers (which they can access by logging on to the Fontaine’s web site. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Previews will be held on May 19 to the morning of the auction.

Period furniture pieces are certain to juice up the crowd, beginning with a 12-piece R.J. Horner figural carved dining set—the best such set Fontaine’s has offered in its 40-year history. The set is complete and has the excellent original finish. Next is a Wooten extra grade three-hinge cabinet secretary (76 inches tall, 44 inches wide). The piece boasts a highly carved gallery with burled panels, ebonized trim and incising. Also sold will be a large figural umbrella stand depicting an almost life-size carved dog seated beside a rustic carved tree stump (33 inches tall).

Several other pieces by Horner, a renowned craftsman, will be sold, including a winged griffin oak corner china cabinet with a mirrored-back and triple-curved glass front; an oak three-door Atlas bookcase with large figural carvings of muscular men on the sides; and a figural carved mahogany two-part hall tree with an open carved cherub crest over a beveled mirror.

The name Tiffany will be chanted frequently throughout the day. Tiffany lamps will include a dichroic swirling lemon leaf table lamp with 18-inch geometric shade and heavily mottled background glass; a turtleback desk lamp with a fine bronze base and leafy platform; and a nice student lamp with a fine bronze base and beaded and coiled rope twist embellishment.

Tiffany dichroic swirling lemon leaf table lamp with geometric shade (est. $15,000-$18,000).

Tiffany Studios turtleback desk lamp with fine bronze base (est. $8,000-$12,000).

Other Tiffany pieces will include a great bronze inkwell with the fine figure of a crab, its claws reaching forward, pinching the coiled handles of the inkwell pot mounted with an oyster shell; a six-arm chandelier with 88 Tiffany iridescent glass prisms hanging from the bronze fixture; a cypriote glass vase, 7 inches tall, with a textured surface; and a favrile quilted green and opalescent bowl with 12-inch rim.

From the vintage clocks category comes two examples of note: an E. Howard #81 oak grandfather clock boasting a silvered chapter ring with black movement and Graham’s dead-beat escapement; and a Gilbert #12 oak standing regulator with black open moon hands.

Wonderful vases will be served up in abundance, to include a Legras onion-form cameo vase, signed, 12 ½ inches tall, cut with deep green leaves and branches; a Moser hand-decorated smoke glass vase with a bulbous body, 8 ½ inches tall; a Galle cameo cut vase with a fiery red and orange pattern, 7 inches tall; a Webb enameled bulbous glass vase with butterfly and satin glass finish, 5 ¼ inches tall; and a Charles Schneider cameo glass vase with nice teardrop body.

Also sold will be a Steuben calcite and jadeite 15 inch round centerpiece with beautiful glass platform.

Large figural carved dog umbrella stand in excellent original finish (est. $20,000-$30,000).

Bronzes are surefire crowd-pleasers, and this sale’s got several worth mentioning: a fine figural bronze of a hoop dancer by Georges Morin (Ger., 1874-1928); a monumental bronze of a Kabyle hunter returning from his hunt, by Arthur Waagen, executed circa 1883-1898; and a 58” bronze after Giovanni Bologna of a flying Mercury figure with his helmet, staff and winged feet.

Returning to furniture, the name John Henry Belter in synonymous with fine American furniture, and this auction has several Belter examples. These include a Henry Clay pattern sofa, rosewood triple arched back with scroll carvings on the crest rail; and a cornucopia laminated rosewood side chair boasting a pierce carved scrolling back and a good, clean original finish.

Need a table? This sale’s got over a dozen to choose from, including a mahogany 60-inch round acanthus carved dining table with split pedestal base and four oversize legs; and an inlaid rosewood game table with octagonal rosewood top and checkerboard inlay. The table can be illuminated by an Anthony Hart 16-inch cherry blossom table lamp. The shade has an irregular bumpy form with clusters of flowers and berries. The lamp has a great matching light-up base.

Audiophiles will be intrigued by the Reginaphone Style 246 floor model disc player (including 50 discs), with mahogany case and two doors in front; and an oak Victor Model “V” phonograph, with an oak case and paneled horn, in excellent working condition. Again, for lighting purposes, a perfect complement would be an Andre Hunebelle art glass fish lamp with a deep amber glass shade with a nouveau border (13 inches by 9 inches).

For more information about this auction, call 413.448.8922, e-mail to info [at] fontaineauction [dot] com or visit the Fontaine’s web site.

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One lot consisting of three bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild wine (French, 2000 vintage), is one of the highlights of the fine wine auction, to be held Dec. 3 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales.

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – Nearly 650 mostly fresh-to-the-market lots in a dizzying array of categories—including a session dedicated specifically to fine wine—will be offered at a two-session weekend sale slated for Dec. 3-4 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales. The auction will be conducted in the firm’s new, state-of-the-art gallery at 620 Cornerstone Court. Online bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com.

“We have been fortunate to be concluding a terrific year in what has been an admittedly down economy,” said Leland Little of Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales. “In fact, we posted back-to-back record quarters, and for that we’re very proud. The team has worked hard all year, and this December sale is another reflection of our ability to attract quality consignments.”

The action will kick off Friday evening, Dec. 3, at 6 p.m. (with a preview lasting all day) with a session solely populated with bottles of fine wine—a category the firm has carefully nurtured along in recent sales. Expected top achievers will include two lots of three bottles each of Chateau Lafite Rothschild (French, 2000) and two case lots of 12 bottles of Chateau Haut-Brion (French, 1982).

Then, on Saturday morning, Dec. 4, close to 580 lots will come under the gavel. Period American furniture will feature a Federal mahogany drop-leaf library table from the shop of Duncan Phyfe (circa 1810-1830), a late 18th century Chippendale mahogany kneehole desk made in New York, a walnut Southern cellaret on frame made around 1800 and with a cataloging label from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), a North Carolina walnut and pine chest of drawers crafted circa 1820 in Orange County, a late 18th century walnut with cedar secondary Southern inlaid center table from eastern North Carolina, and a southern Hepplewhite cellaret made in Virginia circa 1800.

Continental furniture will be no less impressive. Offerings will include a diminutive inlaid marble-top French abattant made from mahogany and other light and dark woods in the early 19th century, a Louis XV-style bureau plat with a tooled black leather top over a concave skirt with three side-by-side drawers, a pair of Louis XVI-style screens with Fortuny cotton fabric in a printed yellow damask design, an important English Sheraton satinwood veneer Pembroke table from the 18th century accented with rosewood and oak, and a Continental carved gilt wood large wall panel in the Rococo form, 18th century or earlier, large at 9 feet, 6 inches by 5 feet, 3 inches.

Asian objects will be served up in abundance. Sample lots include a Chinese Export orange Fitzhugh pattern platter made for the American market with an eagle and streamer depiction, a monumental 36-inch tall Imari covered temple jar from the Meiji period with ovoid tapered form, a Satsuma “Thousand Face” covered urn in hexagonal form and supported by three shaped feet, an amazing antique Chinese tester bed made in the late 19th century of mahogany with bone and lighter wood inlays, a bronze and gilt bronze Southeast Asian standing Buddha likely made in the 18th century, and a late 19th-century Burmese gilt lacquered Buddha from the Sakyamuni Mandalay period.

Other Asian lots worthy of mention include a group of three late 19th-century Chinese Export famille rose plaques, a Japanese ivory female Samurai warrior, a pair of 19th-century ivory cane handles, a Japanese ivory and wood figural group from the Meiji period (circa 1870), an antique Asian carved ivory hand fan of fourteen overlapping panels, a signed Japanese ivory skeleton Okimono, and a pair of early 20th-century Japanese polychrome Samurai figures.

This oil on canvas painting by Albert Dawant (Fr., 1852-1923) of Napoleon addressing his troops is just one piece of many Continental works of fine art available.

Continental works of fine art are certain to get paddles wagging. These include an oil on canvas by Albert Dawant (Fr., 1852-1923), signed lower right and depicting a stoic Napoleon addressing his troops before battle (and housed in a period frame of excellent quality), a shipwreck oil on canvas in the style of Joseph Vernet (Fr., 1714-1789), a signed and dated oil on canvas of birds in a landscape by Abraham Bisschop (1660-1731), and a pair of pictures by Abraham Hulk I (Br., 1813-1897), signed lower left and housed in fine period gilt wood frames.

Works by American artists will also be very much in evidence. Offerings include an oil on board lake scene by John Ross Key (Md./D.C., 1837-1920, the grandson of Francis Scott Key, who wrote The Star Spangled Banner), two lots comprising five North Carolina-themed etchings on wove paper by Louis Orr (Conn./Fr., 1879-1961), a pencil-signed Jugtown etching by Antoinette Rhett (S.C., 1884-1964), a numbered, titled and signed woodcut by Anna Heyward Taylor (S.C., 1879-1956), a Raritan sketchbook filled with 48 mostly pencil and ink sketches by Francis Speight (N.C., 1896-1989), a signed oil on board rendering of a meandering stream by Robert E. Owen (N.Y., 1878-1957), and works of note by David B. Walkley (Oh./Conn., 1849-1934), William Lester Stevens (Mass., 1888-1969) and Samuel Dyke (Pa., 1834-1870), who will have two paintings in the auction.

Statuary and bronzes will feature a large antique Italian blackamoor carving with polychrome decoration (circa 18th century or earlier), a patinated terracotta sculptural group titled “La Source,” signed and dated by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (Fr., 1824-1877), an Art Deco figural depiction of a serenade by Roland Paris (Ger., 1894-1915), a bronze statue titled Student Athlete by R. Tait McKenzie (Pa., 1867-1938), and a realistic lost wax method cast bronze rendering of three pigs reveling in a mud puddle by Andre Harvey (Del., b. 1941).

This Victorian diamond and pearl portrait bangle bracelet depicting female portraits on ivory leads the fine estate jewelry section of the auction.

Fine estate jewelry is always a crowd-pleaser, and this sale’s got a lot of it. Examples include a Victorian diamond and pearl portrait bangle bracelet with a wide-hinge oval shape showing two detailed painted female portraits on ivory under a clear glass frame, a custom-made diamond bypass solitaire ring signed by Thibodeau and centering on a round brilliant partial bezel set in the center, an 18kt gold gentleman’s Rolex perpetual date watch with 54 round and baguette diamonds, a very rare (only 100 made) Breitling SuperOcean Heritages chronograph watch (numbered 95/100), and a very fine diamond ring set with a gorgeous emerald cut diamond weighing about 1.68 carats.

Other jewelry by makers of note will include a set of gold and diamond earclips by Danken, a fine diamond line bracelet by J.B. Star, a diamond dome ring by Kurt Wayne, a gold motion ring by N. Teufel, a “Happy Diamonds” ring and a sapphire and diamond ring by Chopard, a Pave diamond ring and a pair of Infinity earclips by David Yurman, and three offerings from Henry Dunay: a pair of hammered gold earclips, a beautifully hammered gold ring and a gold and diamond bracelet.

A pair of George III entree dishes and covers bearing the mark of Paul Storr (London, 1799).

Continental sterling silver will also glimmer and shine throughout the day. Anticipated top earners include a pair of George III entrée dishes and covers bearing the sponsor’s mark for Paul Storr (London, 1799), a George III sterling silver waiter with the sponsor’s mark for Thomas Hannom and John Crouch (London, 1798), a George IV sterling silver tray with armorial crest (London, 1814), a five-piece George IV sterling silver tea and coffee service (London, 1820s), and a Danish silver tea urn in the Regency style, dated 1908 and marked Michelsen, Copenhagen. American silver pieces and sets will be sold by manufacturers such as Towle, Gorham, Tiffany, Alvin, Reed & Barton and Durgin.

From the china and porcelains group, two pieces stand out. One is a Meissen porcelain figural group with a large pagoda figure shown seated on a floral strewn base, with a parrot perched on a stump by his knee. It’s unusual because it combines Meissen with Asian, two elements desired by collectors. The other piece is a 20th-century porcelain amphora bust of a lady. The Teplitz Austrian Art Nouveau, in overall remarkable condition for such a delicate piece, is marked “Rstk Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel.”

Historical items will feature a signed photograph of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd president of the United States (1885-89) in overall very good condition, a one-page document signed by John Hay, the Secretary of State, dated Jan. 5, 1905, a Republican Party campaign circular for Ulysses S. Grant titled “The Party of Freedom and Its Candidates – The Duty of the Colored Voter,” and a rare set of North Carolina election tickets for 1868, providing Republican and Democratic Party listings of all state and local candidates for the time.

Militaria items will include a North Carolina Confederate’s archive with images and another one with Manassas (Va.) letters, a pair of Arkansas-to-North Carolina Civil War letters, one lot of three North Carolina Confederate documents, a North Carolina Confederate officer tintype with 1864 letter, and two lengthy North Carolina Confederate soldiers’ letters, as one lot.

This monumental 8-gallon jar was thrown by the renowned 19th century potter Dave the Slave, dated 1857.

Fans of Southern pottery will not be disappointed, beginning with the monumental Dave the Slave 8-gallon jar (Edgefield, S.C., 1857), ovoid form with applied wide ear handles and with a direct line of descent to the original owner. Other pottery pieces of note will include a salt glazed stoneware storage jar by Nicholas Fox (Chatham City., N.C., 1797-1858), and a Chinese blue Han earthenware vase crafted by Ben Owen, master potter, circa 1960. Also offered will be glazed Auman Pottery bowls and vases by C.B. Masten (N.C., circa 1928-1930).

Vintage lighting will illuminate the crowd, as well as the room. The brightest star in the constellation promises to be a fine Continental Georgian-style crystal chandelier from the 19th century with ten lights draped with cut crystal swags and five upper bell form cut crystal arms with ornate prism mounts. Other lots will feature a 19th-century bell form Empire-style crystal chandelier with multiple strands of crystals and twelve scrolled candle arms, and a pair of late 19th-century blown glass English three-light glass candelabra.

Art glass will feature a signed Quezal pulled feather trumpet vase from the early 20th century, plus examples by makers like Baccarat, Clark, Salviati, Lobmeyer, Steuben and Loetz. Persian rugs will include a very fine and large antique Indian-Agra wool carpet, Amristar style with an overall pattern and floral center design (17 feet, 9 inches by 11 feet, 7 inches). And fans of vintage toys and mechanical banks will be excited to see pieces by J. & E. Stevens, Kenton, Henry Chart and others.

Rounding out the day’s list of expected top lots is a 1929-30 Notre Dame champions rectangular pennant made of felt, a Mariano Fortuny (Italian) pleated silk Delphos tea gown made in the 1920s, weighted and edged with white Murano glass beads over a tunic forming points at the sided and center, and a small rectangular form North Carolina leather key basket with provenance and of tooled line decoration and rolled handle with decorative metal fixtures at the base.

For more information about this auction, call 919.644.1243, e-mail to info [at] LLAuctions [dot] com or visit the Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales Web site.

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WorthPoint is pleased to partner with our sister company, GoAntiques, to inform and educate people about the diverse world of antiques and collectibles. In this video, Jim Kamnikar talks with Dave Crockett of Artifacts Antiques about what sets a painting apart and what to look for to determine its value.

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Imagine yourself comfortably wiggling your toes near the fireplace or sipping java on an overstuffed couch at the local café or entertaining good friends at your home . . . while simultaneously attending the world-renowned Pilchuck Glass School black-tie gala auction at the luxurious Westin Hotel in Seattle. You could watch the gala, bid on investment-quality art glass, experience the excitement of live competition, hear the hammer fall and bask in the glow of winning . . . all in real time from anywhere in the world you happen to be.

On October 30, 2008, the Pilchuck Glass School’s 30th-annual, contemporary art-glass auction will be presented live in streaming high-definition on the Internet by Auction Network. WorthPoint Worthologist Lisa Huff will be part of the Auction Network team in Seattle.

Featuring hundreds of beautiful works from students and masters of the school founded by Dale Chihuly in 1970, this fundraiser is the art-glass event of the year. Proceeds go for student scholarships and support of the school.

The Pilchuck Glass School hosts famous resident artists and teachers from around the world. Glass masters such as Bertil Vallien (Sweden), Lino Tagliapietra (Italy), Fritz Dreisbach (U.S.), Benjamin Moore (U.S.), Dale Chihuly himself and more will have objects of art available at this auction. Pilchuck’s talented students, the masters of the future, will offer hundreds of one-of-a-kind works. This is your chance to own one of these renowned pieces that celebrities have collected for years. This auction presents your finest opportunity to invest in stunning glass art at a fraction of its near-future value.

Participating in Auction Network live bidding, or just watching the action, is free and easy. Anonymous bids placed through the site will be conveyed to the auctioneer via an Auction Network representative. Competitors on the floor and phone will compete with you.

Auction Network is the first 24/7, multimedia network solely dedicated to auctions. It celebrates the sport and competitive spirit of auctions with a fast-paced, interactive programming environment where buyers meet sellers. A preview of the 350-plus art-glass forms created by current and future masters of the craft with accompanying short biographies is available on the site. Your winning art-glass treasure(s) will be wrapped and shipped via a professional concierge service directly to your door. Be sure to register early, study the catalog, and plan your strategy.

The Pilchuck 30th-Annual Auction will be held Thursday, October 30, with auction highlights beginning at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time and auction bidding beginning 7:25 p.m.. Internet users can access and participate in the auction through Auction Network. Register now. It’s free and easy to Watch, Bid. and Win.

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When you’re considering buying an item or a painting that needs repair, as an antique dealer, you might ask yourself what the increase in value will be after its restoration. While I usually recommend the members of my antique business club, the 31 Club, to allow the purchaser do the restoration, there is that rare time it makes sense for you to have a piece restored.

One of our 31 Club members sent me a photo of a painting from a sales bulletin. It caught my eye, all right, and she planned to buy it. Before the sale, she contacted me again, saying the painting had some damage, but not too much. We agreed she’d bid on the piece without getting too carried away on the price. This painting soon became hers. She sent it to a restoration expert I recommended here in Chicago – Baumgartners, and yesterday I got to see it. Boy, is it a beauty!

The artist, Jean Dominique Van Caulaert (French 1877-1979) had a listing in Davensport of $9,000. While I don’t expect this one to do that well, at under $750 restored, I believe this is a real treasure. In fact, I like it so much I was thinking it would make a great addition to my own collection. But, I’m not going to do that this time. I’ve got enough for now, so look for this soon in the 31 Gallery.

While I don’t recommend you go out looking for damaged pieces, it you find a real quality piece, it might make sense if it is discounted enough. You see, when the restoration increases the value of a piece, by perhaps 5 to 7 times, that’s when you step forward and get the repairs done.

The Frederick Morgan painting I wrote about in my book was a painting I had relined. I bought it for $16,000 and this restoration didn’t reduce its value. It sold for $115,000 at auction at Christie’s New York. It would have been very easy to have walked away thinking it was no good because it had been “fooled with”. There are times you can be proud of the decisions you make and that was one of those decisions for me.

Usually, items should be left alone. I wouldn’t want to be looking for damaged pieces and get to be known as a dealer of repaired pieces. But if the discount is sufficient and the restored article will bring many times its cost plus repair, then jump on it.

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Hirst gambles, wins big payoff so far

The results of the first day of Sotheby London’s two-day auction of 223 Damien Hirst works is in. Despite the world’s markets reeling as America’s fourth-largest investment bank, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy, Monday’s take exceeded expectations.

Hirst, in a move as audacious as his art, said adios to his dealers—London’s White Cube and the Gagosian Gallery of New York and Beverly Hills—and went straight to auction. According to the Independent of London, “it is the first time an artist of Hirst’s stature has bypassed his usual dealer and gallery and sold his works directly to the public.”

So how did it go? Fifty-four works went for $127 million, topping the estimate of $112 million.

And what was sold? Some animals preserved in formaldehyde, such as the bull embellished with gold-cast hooves and horns that gaveled in at $18.6 million, The New York Times reports, and a tiger shark that brought in $17.2 million.

With the world economy looking more than a little shaky, why are buyers coughing up this amount of money for Damien Hirst? Sotheby’s head of contemporary art worldwide feels it’s because he is “a global artist that can defy local economies.”

For those who wonder why anyone would want to own a strange, to say the least, Hirst creation, take heart. His “Devil Worshiper,” a canvas covered with dead flies, found no buyer.

So, what’s in your storage room?

In the case of the Solihull Council—Solihull being a little bit south of Birmingham, England— we’re talking about a John Constable sketch, reports the Daily Telegraph of London.

Picture this. We have the council drowning in millions of dollars (okay, pounds) of debt finding a very pricey, maybe even priceless, Constable sketch of Malvern Hall, a grand English estate. The Tate museum has the oil based on the drawing.

Under the dire-economic circumstances, the council officials decided to auction it. And the auction house, Bonhams London, was more than happy to oblige. “It’s very exciting this has come up,” Bonhams’ Alexandra Ault told the Daily Telegraph. “There are a number of very serious Constable collectors both here and abroad, and we are expecting the piece to attract a lot of attention.”

Takin’ it to the Net

Local thrift stores get all manner of collectibles among their donations. PhillyBurbs.com checked out Care & Share Shoppes in Souderton, Pa. It was given a nice little toy car. The asking price, if sold in the store, would have been maybe three or four dollars.

But instead of putting the car up on one of its shelves, Care & Share, went online where the toy sold for $2,025. The money goes to help the Mennonite Central Committee, which provides disaster relief to communities hit hard by wars and Mother Nature.

Adele Meyer of the National Association of Resale & Thrift Shops says that a store will “get something they don’t have the right customer for, but they’ll sell” online.

Goodwill Industries has sold more than $50-million worth of items since starting up its shopgoodwill.com in 1999. An American Impressionist Frank Weston Benson watercolor brought in $165,000.

If you’re looking for collectibles, antiques and art, you might want to stroll the aisles of online thrift stores.

Reston, VA (PRWEB) January 24, 2008 — WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, today announced that Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers has selected WorthPoint as its data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Shannon’s will provide WorthPoint with upcoming and historical auction data to be published on the WorthPoint web site. With data provided by Shannon’s, WorthPoint is now able to provide more comprehensive data than ever.

“We are very excited about our partnership with Shannon’s,” said Will Seippel, CEO and Chairman of WorthPoint. “With this new relationship, we enter a new realm of fine art collecting particularly with the 19th and 20th century paintings.”

Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers hold auctions twice a year in Greenwich, CT. Shannon’s handles premier artists and is held in high esteem in the New York City art community. Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers is Connecticut’s Premier Fine Art Auction house. Specializing in American and European 19th and early 20th century paintings, Shannon’s holds auctions twice annually in Greenwich, CT – an easy drive from Manhattan. The auctions are composed of paintings, watercolors, drawings, bronzes and fine prints.
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