Auctioneers Press Release

New York, NY – Auctions at Showplace is excited to announce that we have acquired the Estate of Peter Knoll, who was raised by Florence Knoll, the celebrated designer who passed away on January 25th 2019, and Hans Knoll, founder of Knoll Associates, a company whose reputation for combining design ex...View Full Article

Lambertville, NJ: Rago Auction’s January 19 -20 Design Sales brought in a total of $4,826,775 over the weekend. The two-day, 1,164-lot auction series brought impressive results from a wide range of property across five segments: Early 20th Century Design, Mid-Mod, Modern Design, Modern Ceramics and ...View Full Article

The first sale of 2019 was a dazzling success for Downingtown auction house Pook & Pook. Pook’s Americana & International auction drew its strength from a number of single-owner collections, achieving a total of $1.77 million (including buyer’s premium) with a 95% sell through rate over 750 lots. Th...View Full Article

Did you get your fill of toys during the holiday season, or are you always looking for another reason to add to your collection? Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett are happy to help, with their upcoming Online Only Toy Auction on February 9th, 2019. This special Saturday sale will see over 550 items cross...View Full Article

TOWSON, MD - January 6th, 2019 – Baltimore-based Auctioneer Alex Cooper will host a two-day Gallery Auction on Tuesday, January 22nd  and Thursday, January 24th, featuring an expansive collection of fine jewelry, sterling silver, currency, fine rugs, period, mid-century modern, quality reproduction ...View Full Article

Downingtown, PA -Pook & Pook’s first auction of the New Year will be an important, two-day Americana & International auction with a spotlight on significant pieces of early American furniture. Bidding for day one of the sale will begin at 6pm on Friday, January 11th and day two will commence at 9am ...View Full Article

ATLANTA, Ga. – A 93-piece Royal Copenhagen porcelain dinner service for twelve in the Flora Danica pattern, two figural watercolor paintings by the renowned French painter Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), and a 38-carat aquamarine necklace from the collection of the late Lily Langtree are a few expected top ...View Full Article

New York, NY - Todd Merrill Studio and Bidsquare to present a curated online auction of 20th century studio design in conjunction with the publication of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Modern Americana: From High Craft to High Glam. The Timed Auction, Modern Americana - Iconic American Studio Furni...View Full Article

It is with great pleasure that we at Pook & Pook, Inc. have the privilege to represent Paul and Rita Flack in the sale of their outstanding collection of Pennsylvania folk art and antiques from their personal collection. With Paul's impeccable eye, knowledge, and patience, not one but several collec...View Full Article

Lambertville, NJ - Saturday, January 19 and Sunday, January 20 Rago Auctions will hold its first 2019 sale of Early 20th Century and Modern Design. David Rago, Partner + Co-Director 20th-21st C. Design Dept: “Our best auctions usually have a large component of fresh material from private collections...View Full Article

Until now, only twenty-two icons were known to have been signed by the artist, Angelos, the late Byzantine Master working in Crete in the first half of the 15th century. The inscription ‘angelus pinxit’, which we read on this icon, is very rare. There is only one other icon, Christ Man of Sorrows he...View Full Article

BOSTON, MA – December 10, 2018 – December Important and Fine Jewelry auctions were led by exceptional colored stones, large diamonds, and a strong collection of antique and period jewelry featuring the Edith Weber Jewelry collection. The top lots in the auction were a rare Colombian emerald with no ...View Full Article

Lambertville, NJ: Rago Auctions’ November 30 and December 2 jewelry auctions brought in a total of $2,418,551 in sales for 147 consignors, increasing Rago’s 2018 jewelry sales by 24% over 2017 while retaining a stellar sell-through rate above 90%. This 1103 lot, two-day sale included 636 lots of res...View Full Article

Pook & Pook’s final in-house auction of the 2018 calendar year, and their latest in partnership with acclaimed antique toy expert Noel Barrett, was a great success. The Antique Toy Auction was a two-day event, held Friday December 7th and Saturday December 8th  and was marked with high interest in t...View Full Article

Lambertville, NJ - Rago’s December 1 Curiouser and Curiouser auction is filled with beautiful, intriguing and remarkable objects, as well as significant discoveries. The most important of these discoveries is a major find in the American folk art field: a forty-three inch high figure of a young boy,...View Full Article

BOSTON, MA – November 18, 2018  – An attic discovery of the rare 1845 first edition of Poe’s Tales (Lot 224, Estimate: $60,000-80,000) in paper wrappers surpassed all expectations to sell for $315,000 after fierce competition from internet and telephone bidders. Based on the context of the discovery...View Full Article

Lambertville, NJ: Rago Auctions November Fine Art Auctions realized $3,087,478 in sales on Saturday, November 10. The highest price achieved by a single lot went to lot 121, Winter Night (Artist’s Studio) by Pennsylvania Impressionist George William Sotter, which sold for $200,000 against an estimat...View Full Article

On Thursday November 8th & Friday November 9th Pook & Pook, Inc. is pleased to host another one of their ever-popular Online Only Decorative Arts Auction, with bidding available exclusively on Bidsquare.com. The auction will begin at 9am on Thursday November 8th with 800 lots selling throughout the ...View Full Article

Pook & Pook, Inc. is proud to present their Online Only Coins & Jewelry auction on Wednesday, November 7th. Beginning at 9 am, this sale will span over 500 lots and includes hundreds of collectible coins and numerous distinctive pieces of jewelry. The sale draws from various local estates and collec...View Full Article

Lambertville, NJ: Rago Auction’s October 19-21 auction series brought in a total of $2,324,975 across three segments. While each segment saw spirited bidding, the series’ opening segment, Tribal Art from the Collection of Allan Stone and Other Owners, met or exceeded all expectations with strong int...View Full Article

With old friends and fellow collectors filling their Downingtown auction gallery, Pook & Pook, Inc. was buzzing on Friday night as they hosted a cocktail party reception and symposium for the sixth sale of the Collection of Paul and Rita Flack. The Flack Collection is the result of a lifelong passio...View Full Article

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ October 2 Post War and Contemporary Art auction featured Untitled (Pastel), 1991, by Joan Mitchell, the largest and only double sheet drawing from her last important body of work. Selling for $1,212,500, the drawing set a global record for the artist, being the highest pr...View Full Article

Lambertville, NJ: Rago Auction’s September 22-23 Design Sales brought in a total of $5,184,344 across four segments. The two-day auction series, consisting of segments of Early 20th Century Design, Mid-Mod, Modern Design, and Modern Ceramics and Glass, saw 1,106 lots cross the Rago auction block, in...View Full Article

On September 21, the auction event The Genius of Gianni Versace: A Collection of His Iconic 90s Designs will be conducted by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and include over 350 vintage items from some of the designer’s most recognized work. This single-owner collection was carefully curated in the 1990s...View Full Article