Steven | December 14, 2009
An emotional letter from George Washington to his nephew Bushrod, written soon after the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 has sold at Christie’s for a record $3.2 million dollars (including buyer’s premium.) This smashes the previous record of $834,500 set in 2002 for a Revolutionary War military report in his hand. In the letter, [...]
Steven | December 10, 2009
Spectroscopic analysis of a painting long thought to be from an anonymous 19th Century artist has produced a fingerprint image from the painting matching that of Leonardo Da Vinci. Work done at Lumiere Technology of Paris for the anonymous Swiss owner, as well as analysis of the canvas and pigments, has convinced art experts that [...]
Steven | July 29, 2009
I of course had to share this! (image removed by host)
Steven | March 11, 2009
National Public Radio reports on a family legend about Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War that turns out to be true! Watchmaker Jonathan Dillon as an old man told his family that he had been employed at a Washington DC jewelry store in 1861, when the recently-elected President sent his favorite pocket [...]
Steven | September 14, 2008
Edward Hicks’ Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopard of Serenity” set a world record for Americana folk art as well as a record for the artist’s works when it sold this May in a Sotheby’s auction for $9.6 million. Now, the buyer of this and two other paintings in the same sale, Internet millionaire and CNet [...]
Steven | September 3, 2008
Reuters reports on the upcoming Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong of the treasures of a Chinese Emperor: A singular collection of imperial treasures once owned by China’s powerful Qianlong emperor including jade dragon seals, military scrolls and a sword will be offered by Sotheby’s this autumn in its Hong Kong sale. Sotheby’s “Legacies of Imperial [...]
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