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(Auction)Geddesburg Cat Transcends into Folk Art and Purrs to $204,000
Crocker Farms, Sparks, Maryland
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A folky cat crock from Geddes, New York, was the top lot in Crocker Farm’s fall sale, which ran online from November 5 to 14, and culminated in a phone session on November 15, 2025. “It is remarkable decoration,” Luke Zipp stated about the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)So You Want to See the President! Brings $7.25 Million
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
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A tightly curated but extraordinary group of paintings by America’s most beloved artists, highlighted by a group of four paintings by Norman Rockwell that comprise his ambitious and famous work, So You Want to See the President!, led to sales of $14.76 million (includes ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Freeman's
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Name dropping is a useful tool often used by auctioneers. All sorts of things owned by prominent Americans were featured in Freeman’s American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts sale on November 12, 2025, most of them not made in America. Astor, Morgan, Pew, Montgomery, Stotesbury, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$40 Box Lot Contained $30,000 Rarity
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
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Exceptional examples of silver created by renowned American and international silversmiths crossed the auction block at Heritage Auction’s November 12, 2025, Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu signature auction. The auction drew 656 bidders from around the world, competing for 377 lots. The sale ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chest-on-Chest Tops Krouse Collection Auction
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
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Ever since it was one of the first homes on the Natchez Pilgrimage Tour in 1932, the 1795 late Federal period home Cottage Gardens, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, has been in the public eye. Soon after purchasing the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)No “Happy Little Accidents” As Three Bob Ross Works Total Nearly $662,000
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
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From 1983 to 1994, with his groovy afro, upbeat, soothing commentary, and paintbrush in hand, Bob Ross created entire landscape paintings in 30 minutes or less for the public television show The Joy of Painting.
Recently, Bob Ross Inc., an organization that cares for the hundreds ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pewter at Historic Trappe
For 60 years, Dr. Melvyn Wolf, an orthopedic surgeon in Flint, Michigan, and his wife, Bette, collected American pewter, always seeking the very best until theirs was the largest collection of American pewter of the highest quality and significance ever assembled.
They gained much of their knowledge and made important relationships ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Female Self-Taught Artists Shine at Slotin’s
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia
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It wasn’t intentional. Actually, the buyers set the tone for Slotin Auction’s fall Self-Taught Art Masterpieces sale held November 8 and 9, 2025. “It was definitely ‘Ladies Night,’” stated Steve Slotin. “The works by female self-taught artists are in high demand right now, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tattoo Flash Combined With Americana for a $333,000 Sale
Bray & Co. Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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Derin Bray’s sale on November 9, 2025, included a number of unusual items, including two framed displays of shivs confiscated from prisoners, and folk art that included an engraved silver platter presented to a warden of Rikers Island, a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art and Jewelry Bring $3 Million
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
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Boston’s Grogan & Company wrapped up the year and livened up the holiday season in the Beacon Hill gallery with two auctions realizing over $3 million (including buyers’ premium). Glittering jewelry on November 2 and fine art November 9, 2025, scored $1.5 ... (Read More)
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