I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate all that you have done to help me sort out the art works, antiques and collectables in my mothers’ estate. You have made sense by helping me sorting through what she had and explaining to me what things were of value and what weren’t. Your handling the sale of the less valuable or collectable items on eBay to which pieces might be better at one of the major auction houses has taken such a load off my shoulders. I will be forever grateful. You have saved my sanity and a lot of grey hairs.
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Rare firefighting memorabilia goes on auction block
Chicago Tribune
“Fire’s a big collecting field people don’t know about,” says George Glastris, director of Skinner Auctioneers’ Science & Technology department. Glastris is the specialist in charge of the first auction of firefighting memorabilia this house had conducted in 15 years, and likely the biggest one ever, both by numbers and quality, he says.
The Rare Fightfighting Memorabilia auction starts at 10 a.m. Nov. 10 at the Skinner Gallery in Bolton, Mass. Rare and one-of-a-kind items of memorabilia will go on the block. Most of the material comes from private collections.
ANTIQUES; Dalmatians Not for Sale
The New York Times
A bright red 1926 Ford Model T fire chief’s truck with the chief’s white helmet still on the seat, a collection of antique toy firetrucks, an 1890’s hose cart that required the brawn of 14 male pullers — these are just a few of the holdings in the Sag Harbor Firemen’s Museum on Long Island.
They were assembled by Thomas W. Horn Sr., a former fire chief who this year celebrated his 50th anniversary on the 165-member Sag Harbor Fire Department. Chartered by the state Legislature in 1803, it is the oldest volunteer squad in New York.
Auctioning Off Digital History For Sale: A Key Element Of The First Computer.
Philly.com
A nearly four-foot-long gizmo bristling with vacuum tubes, wires and connectors that was the key element in the first digital electronic computer is up for auction tomorrow.
It is one of the “decade ring counters” that were placed in the innards of the 30-ton monster called ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, that a team led by two men at the University of Pennsylvania built during World War II for the U.S. Army.
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington has several in its ENIAC display in the National Museum of American History, but this one is believed to be the only one in private hands.
ANTIQUES; Child’s Play The Way It Used to Be
The New York Times
R2D2, meet Barbie. Vintage toys and dolls are in, not that they ever went out. There are specialty auctions, Web sites, collector clubs, swap meets. There are sales four times a year in Gaithersburg, Md., as well as the twice yearly Atlantique Fairs, sales that attract tens of thousands to Atlantic City.
There are more than 80 dealers on nadda.org, the Web site of the National Antique Doll Dealers Association.
ARTS/ARTIFACTS; Prehistoric Relics Ride a Roller Coaster
The New York Times
SPURRED BY THE HOOPLA OVER “Jurassic Park,” the top grossing film of all time, fossil frenzy escalated to record levels last year. At trade shows and auctions here and abroad, exotica of all sorts, from dinosaur eggs to prehistoric skeletons, starred as the collectibles of the 1990’s. Then, suddenly, supplies exceeded demands for even the most spectacular of ancient remains and the market fizzled.
Two weeks ago, the majority of the costliest items offered at Bonham’s, the London house that has become the most aggressive in organizing such auctions, went unsold during the largest sale of natural history material in memory. Now the experts are wondering whether the phenomenal interest in some of Earth’s oldest and most esoteric objects was a fluke.
Baltimore dental museum acquires instruments fit for a queen’s cuspids
The Baltimore Sun
LONDON — “They’re cheering in Baltimore,” said Christie’s specialist when the auctioneer knocked down Queen Victoria’s personal dental tools to Baltimore’s National Museum of Dentistry for 14,000 pounds.
They sure were. The dental museum in Baltimore had long coveted these royal picks, mirrors, scrapers and scalers.
“They rank in importance with George Washington’s teeth,” museum director Ben Z. Swanson said in Baltimore, where he and others participated in the bidding by telephone.
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