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(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – E. Howard & Company has been producing high-grade watches, regulators and marine clocks since its inception in 1842, and today E. Howard & Company clocks have evolved into the Holy Grail of manufacturers among the rapidly burgeoning genre of vintage clock and watch collecting. The firm still exists today, but most of […]

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Interesting books and manuscripts offered by Bloomsbury Auctions in their Important Books and Manuscripts sale on 19th November
The first part of the sale is devoted to a collection of maritime and naval books (1-122), one of the most noteworthy and very rare items being The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirror, Containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, […]

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Bloomsbury Important Books and Manuscripts Auction

Offered for Auction for the First Time at Bonhams and Goodman in Melbourne
‘As one might expect, this chess game of a painting can be played and understood on many levels: firstly, the immemorial chess structure that underlies the conception of the Through the Looking-glass game; secondly, in a mirror of the game of chess, its […]

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Map collectors with an interest in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will be offered the first collection of maps focused on Scilly, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, ever to come to auction, in a Bonhams sale at Oxford on 1st December.
The 40 items in this group include the earliest map by […]

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Collection of Early Maps of Scilly and Cornwall for Bonhams Oxford Auction

Christie’s announced the sale of 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe on November 24, which will include over 450 treasures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. With a range of estimates, the sale offers superb private and institutional collections such as carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art and one-of-a-kind examples of European and English […]

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