Ken Hall Press Releases

Quality consignments are currently being accepted for a fine art auction slated for Thursday, April 23rd, at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery located at 354 Woodmont Road in Milford, Conn. About 250 works of art will be sold.

An unrestored copy of Batman #1 (DC Comics, spring 1940), graded 7.5 out of 10 for condition, soared to $237,300 at a sale of comics, comic art and sports items held Feb. 15th by Philip Weiss Auctions in Lynbrook, New York.

Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery will usher in the spring with a two-day estates auction on March 21 & 22 that’s filled with more than 1,000 premier lots ranging from Asian objects to original works of art to fine estate jewelry to antique clocks.

The living estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hudson of Birmingham, Ala. – a couple that was renowned nationwide for operating Hudson’s Antiques & Auctions for over 33 years in the building next to their mansion-style home – will be sold March 6-7.

A large, beautiful and prehistoric Anasazi pottery jar and a circa 1900 Sioux dentalium and tradecloth dress are expected top lots at this year’s Big Spring Phoenix auction, an annual event held by Allard Auctions at the Holiday Inn in Mesa, Ariz.

A 1918 collage by the French artist Henri Laurens, a 19th century French bronze figural mantel clock by Vincenti & Cie., and a pair of 19th century Venetian parcel gilt polychrome carved wood blackamoors will all be sold March 7-8 in New Orleans.

Around 600 lots of antiques and collectibles, pulled from local estates, attics and barns, plus other consignments, in categories ranging from Civil War items to period American furniture to stoneware to old rifles and guns will be sold March 14.

George Cuhaj has been named Vice President of Cataloging and Consignor Relations at Archives International Auctions. LLC, which specializes in buying, selling, appraising and auctioning U.S. and worldwide banknotes, scripophily and related items.

Three contiguous tracts of land totaling around 24 acres in Sandy Springs, with over 2,000 linear feet of frontage along the Chattahoochee River and surrounded by lovely government-owned parklands, will be sold at auction on Sunday, March 22.

Pop culture and baby boomer collectibles took center stage at Ahlers & Ogletree’s Feb. 8th Winter Estates Auction, as items connected to such iconic names as Elvis Presley and Ty Cobb attracted hordes of bidders both in-person and online.