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Brunk Auctions
PO Box 2135
Asheville, NC 28802
United States
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Spring Emporium featuring Sports Memorabilia and Cards | March 27, 2025 | Online Only
It's Spring and to honor our National Pastime, we offer a wholesome group of cards and memorabilia to include: signed baseballs of Ruth, Aaron, Mays, and Sadaharu Oh; early high grade tobacco cards of Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and Cy Young; and a nice assortment of 1950s and 60s stars and partial sets. Decorative Arts, Silver, Furniture, Rugs, and Fine Art from private estates and collections.
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American & Southern | March 13, 2025
Fine art includes four works by Winfred Rembert, Abundant Still Life by Severin Roesen, a portrait by Thomas Sully, a steam and sail ship painting by James Buttersworth, and a character study by Frederic Remington. Additional items include a Mouzon map of North and South Carolina, a collection of miniature boxes by Jonas Weber and the Compass artist, and a Simon Willard tall case clock. Furniture examples include a Peabody family high chest from Boston and a Virginia secretary.
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Vander Sande Collection | Session I | March 12, 2025
Featuring fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including a paneled oak valuables cabinet from the Mason-Messinger shop; works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as James Symonds of Salem, Thomas Chase of Newbury, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich; Boston furniture including a Japanned Queen Anne high chest; decorative arts including 17th-century British ceramics, Nottingham carved mugs, Wrotham, Elers, Ralph Simpson, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, needlework jewelry caskets, mezzotints, and a rare Boston shell-framed coat of arms.
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British & Continental | March 11, 2025
Featuring a collection of 17 rare and important tapestries from the Brooklyn Museum, including a 15th-century millefleur and animal example, as well as two series with William Randolph Hearst provenance. Fine art highlights include four works by Bruno Zupan, Spring Landscape by Raymond Thibesart, and a lifetime collection of early René Lalique glass. The collection also features fine examples of period British furniture, early English silver from a Charlottesville, VA estate (including epergnes, tankards, goblets, and loving cups), and a fine selection of carpets, including Serapi and Oushak.
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The Tatti Family Collection | February 19, 2025
The Tatti Family has been at the center of the art world for three generations, casting, conserving, creating, and collecting. They have been artists, art historians, fabricators, and foundrymen, and have helped create and conserve diverse masterworks throughout much of the 20th century. This auction includes over 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures, unique terracotta and plaster works by many of the most important artists of the 20th century, including Isamu Noguchi, Harry Bertoia, Joseph Stella, Anton Basky, Emil Carlsen, Frederick MacMonnies, Richard Hayley Lever, and many others.
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Mountains, Plains, and Pueblos | February 18, 2025
Our Mountains, Plains, and Pueblos auction opens with Black Forest, Lodge, and Adirondack furniture and decorative arts from a unique mountain home in Linville, North Carolina. Pueblo pottery follows, featuring an important monumental Zia Dough Bowl; Native American highlights include painted parfleches, beadwork, a Lakota Ledger Drawing, Cherokee Double Weave and other baskets, trading post textiles, a monumental Kwakiutl carving; fine art by E. I. Couse, Jack Swanson and others; a significant group of Western bronzes by Harry Jackson and others; silver and turquoise jewelry, and much more.
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Jewelry & Coin Auction | February 12, 2025
This sale includes an array of fine jewelry and timepieces from well known makers David Webb, Henry Dunay, Tiffany, Breitling, Rolex, and Jacob & Company. You can also find a gentleman's diamond ring, over 7.0 carat, accompanied by a GIA report as well as an elegant Colombian emerald pendant on a herringbone chain. The numismatic offering is solid with a broad offering of coins, including gold specimens from Southern mints Charlotte, Dahlonega, and the Bechtler family of Rutherfordton, North Carolina. A scarce date, 1858, ten dollar gold coin also makes an appearance.
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Wine & Spirits Auction | January 30, 2025 | Online Only
Our Wine & Spirits Auction will offer a variety of Fine Wine and Rare Spirits, among the selection are choice reds from the Bordeaux and Burgundy regions of France, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons, Champagnes, Ports, and aged Whiskies and Liquors.
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Collection of Carole Wahler | January 29, 2025
As a singular figure in the world of American pottery and early textiles, Dr. Wahler was a celebrated curator, collector, and scholar. Early Southern furniture including four MESDA documented items: VA William and Mary paneled trunk, VA Chippendale Cupboard, TN inlaid cherry chest of drawers and a TN cherry high chest, many early Southern painted furniture examples, Ten Ulysses Davis folk art carvings, textiles to include a rare Asheville sampler dated 1824, quilt dated1861, rare Southern salt glaze and redware pottery examples to include TN, AL and NC.
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Emporium Auction | January 23, 2025 | Online Only
Showcasing deaccessioned textiles from the Brooklyn Museum: 18th-century crewel work bed hangings, lace, velvet, silk, and early Chinese Export examples. From a local collection: Brilliant Period Cut Glass by Sinclaire, Hawkes, Libbey, Hoare, and more. Antiquities include Egyptian, African, Colima, Peruvian, and other pre-Columbian artifacts, alongside Continental European items dating to the Byzantine period and the 16th-18th centuries. Also featuring a remarkable selection of fossils. Fine art paintings, furniture and decorative art objects.
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British & Continental Auction | December 6, 2024
This sale features fifteen exceptional 16th-18th century tapestries from the Brooklyn Museum, including a striking series of six depicting a stag hunt. The collection highlights the grandeur of French, Flemish, and Dutch weaving traditions. Additional highlights include a Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica porcelain dinner service, paintings, and sculptures by artists such as Reuven Rubin and Edouard Drouot, along with fine furnishings and other notable items.
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American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison: includes early Southern Pottery from Edgefield, Georgia, Alabama, Lanier Meaders face jug, folk art, textiles, baskets and handmade tools; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Krafft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples
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Jewelry & Timepieces | December 4, 2024
Our estate jewelry collection this season brings the sparkle. Highlighting a 6.05ct. GIA diamond ring, a 4.30ct. diamond ring with half-moon diamonds, and an Oscar Heyman diamond and sapphire ring, Lazare Kaplan solitaire diamond earrings, and an exquisite Riviere necklace featuring over 20.0ct. of diamonds and a stunning over 38.0cts. diamond bracelet. Complete your look with a unique Frascarola 18kt diamond and enameled zebra bracelet. Featuring designers like David Webb, Buccellati, Tiffany & Co., Bulgari, Rolex, and Patek Philippe, over 250 lots to inspire your holiday gift giving.
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Curated Elegance: Designer Luxury Goods, Pens, and Literature | December 3, 2024
Just in time for the holidays, Brunk is pleased to present a lavish and sweeping collection of Luxury items, including Designer Handbags, Clothing, and Accessories, a Lifetime Collection of lovingly cared for Fountain and Ballpoint Pens, and a fine collection of rare Fashion and Art photography books, Visionaire Publishing titles, and Fashion magazines. Highlights include an Hermes Veau Swift Mini Berline 21, two 18kt. Chanel "Ultra" Ceramic Diamond Bands, a Pilot Namiki Yukari 'Owl Maki-E' Fountain Pen Set, and Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, Paul Smith Design.
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Photography/Faces and Places Auction | December 3, 2024
Faces and Places. Our December 3 Photography auction includes 73 lots by important masters Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Peter Henry Emerson, and Alfred Eisenstaedt, among many others. Beginning with pictorialist works by Emerson and Frederick Henry Evans, the images progress through twentieth century masters Lartigue, D'Oisneau, Orkin, Abbott, Karsh, Erwitt, Siskind, Bill and Nick Brandt, Brett Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, and others; to more recent works by Jan Saudek, Joan Myers, and Wolf von dem Bussche.
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Asian Art | October 30, 2024
Featuring items from a family collection of objects acquired in China in the early 1900s from Dr. Stanley Burns. Dr. Burns provided much needed medical care to the local population and helped combat infectious disease. Other Chinese and Japanese items from private collections include Qing dynasty enamel porcelains, bronze and porcelain water droppers, a fine selection of snuff bottles, along with a group of jade figures, bronze Buddhas, furniture and jewelry.
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Whitley Collection, Featuring Chinese Export, Furniture, and Fine Art | October 29, 2024
An impressive lifetime collection with over 400 pieces of Chinese Export porcelain including 50 armorials, a rare figure of a Jewish Lady with Christie’s provenance, 100+ blue & white pieces including Kangxi, Qianlong, Kraak, & Ming transitional pieces, purchased from reputable dealers in the UK & US; period furniture from North Carolina, Virginia, Philadelphia, & New England; over 40 tea caddies; Fine Art including 18th & 19th century British portraits; silver flatware; Tiffany kettle on stand; Oriental rugs
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SCNA Convention Coin & Currency Auction | October 26, 2024
Brunk Auctions, partnered with the South Carolina Numismatic Association, is pleased to announce our inaugural coin auction taking place on Saturday, October 26th at the Greenville Convention Center. This is being held in conjunction with the 52nd annual SCNA coin convention taking place that same week. The bidding will be both live as well as via internet.
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The United States Constitution and Related Documents | October 17, 2024
We are pleased to offer for auction the only located privately held Official Signed Ratification Copy of the United States Constitution. Among the most important documents ever offered at auction, this humble looking document is the very cornerstone of our democracy. This nine lot auction also includes an important 1776 first draft of the Articles of Confederation; a Charles Thomson Signed Congressional Ordinance Defining His Own Duties; a period copy of Emanuel Leutze’s iconic Washington Crossing the Delaware; and five other important early American documents.
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Important Historic Americana | October 17, 2024
Features a remarkable selection of historic Americana, including important 18th-century American furniture and Delft from the collection of Constance & Dudley Godfrey; an exceptionally rare North Carolina survey map; New England & Philadelphia furniture, including an exceptional Philadelphia easy chair & a rare Connecticut Chippendale carved cherry chest in undisturbed surface; from a Revolutionary & patriotic-focused New England collection are rare prints & documents, early brass, ceramics, furniture, & accessories; a group of early portraits features Sully, Stuart, & Sharples; & much more
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American & Southern Auction | October 16, 2024
Including fine art, furniture, silver, maritime art, Native American art, & decorative arts including early ceramics and folk art; a rare Angel Gabriel weathervane; important Kentucky and North Carolina silver; Southern fine art by Hutty, Verner, and a Tennessee scene by James Hope; Charleston and other Southern furniture; American art including works by Sanford Gifford, George de Forest Brush, Theodore Butler, Ernest Lawson, two works by Andrew Wyeth, and others from the collection of Barbara Novak; and important Native American art featuring a Blackfoot war shirt and a Santo Domingo shield.
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Modern Art, Design + Craft | October 10, 2024
Private and Institutional collections including property from the Birmingham Museum of Art. Everything for incoming trends in Organic Modern to the Postmodern environment. Featuring Native American, Southwestern and Latino Modernists, Quick-To-See Smith, Hammersley, Botello, Rivera | Modern works by Alice Baber, Rochelle Blumenfeld, Mary Bauermeister, Louise Nevelson, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Chagall, Picasso, Leger, Calder, Bolotowsky, Vasarely, Grooms | Glass artists, Preston Singletary, Rick Beck, Jon Kuhn, Dan Dailey, Dale Chihuly, Tim Tate | modern jewelry | Harry Partch Instruments, books.
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British & Continental Auction | September 26, 2024
Featuring furniture, decorative arts, and fine art, including an impressive Victorian English Silver Charles Hancock Presentation Urn among other silver; portraiture including an important Allan Ramsay portrait; other artworks by Rubens Santoro, Daniel Gardner, Raymond Thibesart, and others; a rare Joseph Charles de Blezer bronze bust of a free man; furniture including a fine Pietra Dura Inlaid Marble Top Table with Christie's Provenance; decorative pieces including a Sevres style gilt bronze mounted cobalt porcelain floor urn, a pair of Newton’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes; and much more
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Emporium Auction | September 12, 2024 | Online Only
We will be offering online and absentee bidding for this auction. The auction features over 350 lots of Decorative Arts, Silver, Furniture, Rugs, and Fine Art from private estates and collections. Highlights include over 40 lots of Arts & Crafts including Gustav Stickley, Rookwood, Teco Art Pottery, Weller, William Morris Studio, and modern Stickley; 40 pieces of Southern pottery, including works by Burlon Craig, Meaders, Kim Ellington, and more; Outsider and Self-Taught works of art; over 30 pieces of Dutch Delft; cut glass; 45 lots of jewelry; textiles; bronzes; baskets, and more.
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