Ken Hall Press Releases

About 300 lots of fine decorative arts and Chinese works will be sold at a year-end auction planned for Saturday, Dec. 21, by Elite Decorative Arts, in the firm’s gallery in the Quantum Town Center at 1034 Gateway Boulevard in Boynton Beach, Fla.

About 1,200 quality lots from prominent local estates and collections will come up for bid in a two-day New Year’s Extravaganza Auction slated for the weekend of Jan. 4-5 by Ahlers & Ogletree. The event will be held in the firm's Atlanta gallery.

An E. Howard & Company No. 68 floor standing astronomical regulator clock descending over the course of many decades from the original family sold for $277,300 at an antique clock auction held by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery in Pittsfield, Mass.

The only known example of a Henry Sadler label under glass flask and a quarter-sawn oak advertising chair for the Shea Bocqueraz Company are two of the expected top lots in American Bottle Auctions’ internet and catalog auction #59, Jan. 10-19.

Newcomb and George Ohr pottery, Russian icons and Part 2 of the John Scheffler collection of Mardi Gras items are just a few of the items that will come up for bid at an auction slated for Dec. 7-8 by Crescent City Auction Gallery.

A rare and historic U.S. federal bond, issued to and signed by then-President George Washington in 1792, soared to $265,500, the most ever paid at auction for a single U.S. stock or bond, at Archives International Auctions, Oct. 19th and 22nd.

A trove of German Third Reich military relics acquired by an American G.I. in World War II, a Nazi Luftwaffe regiment standard and an Imperial Russian Garde du Corps officer’s helmet will be sold at auction Dec. 6th-7th by Mohawk Arms.

Choice items from the estate of Dr. Ray Gregory from Corinth, Miss. – to include 200 pieces of Roseville pottery, 50 pieces of brilliant cut glass, pre-1900 copper kettles and more – will headline a Nov. 23 estate auction in Aberdeen, Miss.

A Chinese hand-carved red coral sculpture of four Guan Yin from the Qing Dynasty and a Chinese hand-carved red coral group figure depicting two Guan Yin both sold for $66,550 to share top lot honors at Elite Decorative Arts’ Nov. 2nd auction.

A rare antique Pepsin Gum (“And Your Fortune – One Cent”) embossed tin dispenser, coin-operated to accept one cent for both gum and fortune, sold for $57,000 at an auction held Oct. 4-6 by Showtime Auction Services in Ann Arbor, Michigan.