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As early details about this year’s Frieze Masters have been released, dealers have also started sharing some key pieces of stock they will have on show.

Cross collecting helps plate from Washington’s Order of the Cincinatti service to take a six-figure price

A letter by Carl Linnaeus (1707-78), father of modern botany and taxonomy, has set an auction record in his native Sweden.

Bertoia Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) did not hold back when discussing a Bing gauge 4 live steam toy locomotive with tender.

Before the start of a recent sale at Quinn’s Auction Galleries (27% buyer’s premium), staff members of the Falls Church, Virginia, auction house speculated on which lot would outsell the rest.

A sale of Meissen at Revere Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) held in St Paul, Minnesota, included some prized pieces.

Not a first edition of the horror classic but the version printed five years later is also sought after

The He-Man film out now has struggled at the box office but the character in a smaller form amazed saleroom bidders.

Original copper printing plates for works by famous artists do not appear often at auction, and rarely does a private collection come for sale.

When a Philadelphia family consigned Europa, a 1927 painting by Czech Modernist Josef Šíma (1891-1971), to Freeman’s (28/21% buyer’s premium) last year, it prompted scholars and art historians to do a double take.

The treasures presented on Day One of the auction of the estate of Dr Goodman Basil Espy III (1935-2024) at Ahlers & Ogletree (24% buyer’s premium) in Atlanta included a trove of 37 vintage radios.

Two of the most desirable of all W Britains toy soldier sets were offered in Morphy’s (23% buyer’s premium) Toys & General Collectibles auction on June 2-3.

Ever heard of scripophily? It is fair to say that Tim Welo is a bit of an enthusiast.

The 18th annual sale presented by Perfume Bottles Auction (20/25% buyer’s premium) took place on May 2. The online auction, conducted in New York by Ken Leach, served as the finale of the 2026 convention of the International Perfume Bottle Association (IFBA).

New England Auctions – Fred Giampietro (26% buyer’s premium) of Branford, Connecticut, continues to win big with leech jars from the collection of the late Dr Jerry Phelps (1935-2025), an anesthesiologist from Kentucky.

What does it take to run a vintage or antiques business in the US selling European interiors items to American buyers?

Raised in Miami Beach, Stephen Farber’s distinguished medical career took him to New York, St Louis, Ann Arbor, Charlottesville, and Toledo. And along the way, he bought books.

Robert Sterling Brunk passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2026, at age 84.