c1890s Cabinet Card Portrait of Hauntingly Beautiful Actress Anna Held (Sold for $40)
This antique cabinet card sold at auction for $40 in June, 2016 If you’ve ever seen the 1980 film “Somewhere in Time” starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, you’ll immediately understand the concept of someone falling in love with a...
1784 Revolutionary War Land Deed Document (Sold for $43)
This antique document sold at auction for $43 in July, 2015 This Revolutionary War era land deed from Pennsylvania details a land purchase by a local Quaker family headed by a Philadelphia merchant, Benjamin Horner. Dated 1784, the legal document discusses a tract of...
Discovering History in WWI Letters from a Soldier on the Western Front
I love uncovering antique ephemera. One of the most fascinating insights into history which really makes the past personal are old letters and postcards from years gone by. “Somewhere in France” This fascinating letter home to New York from a US soldier...
1607 Cardinal Jacques Davy DuPerron Signed Manuscript (Sold for $400)
This antique manuscript sold at auction for $400 in June, 2014 This is a very important piece of correspondence between Catholic Cardinal Jacques Davy du Perron (1556 – 1618) and Henry IV of France (1553 – 1610). The handwritten letter relates information...
c1890 Crest Album Owned & Signed by Illustrator Pauline Baynes (Sold for $60)
This signed book sold at auction for $60 in May, 2014 This little gem was picked up in England and is an unusually personal piece tied to the works of famed authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. A vintage red crest and monogram album / scrapbook was once personally...Articles & Tips
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Prices realized at our auctions.
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”, 1926 First Edition (Sold for $12,000)
1875 Werner Nile Sketches Folio (Sold for $1,200)
Works of Shakespeare with Double Fore-Edge Paintings (Sold for $1,800)
Bell’s Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Collection (Sold for $1,000)
Rare 1950’s Oversize Marilyn Monroe Photographs, Signed by Photographer (Sold for $4,000)
