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Pirate Ship Yields Its Treasure
Treasure recovered from the wreck of the Whydah Gally, the only fully authenticated Golden Age pirate shipwreck ever discovered. The ship sank in 1717 killing nearly all of its 150-person crew, including its captain Bellamy.

Gold Rush Auction Grosses Over $1 Million
Attached is a press release with accompanying images for the sale of historic artifacts that were a time capsule of Gold Rush life recovered from the sinking in 1857 of the legendary "Ship of Gold" --the S.S. Central America, which sank in a storm off the Carolina coast in 1857,taking with it hundreds of souls and a treasure trove of gold and other precious items. The auction, which grossed $1.1 million, comprised 422 lots of artifacts and was held in Reno, Nevada by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, which is also based in Reno.

Levine Folk Art Collection Carves Up Bonhams Skinner’s Block
Earning nearly $100,000, Bonhams Skinner offered “American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection” in an online-only sale. Offering a few lots short of 400, the sale was the bulk of the collection of Anne and Robert Levine after the couple donated more than 100 objects to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, in 2020. Decades in the making, the Levine’s collection of exclusively wood carved objects had a broad date span and depicted historical figures and events that ranged from Leif Erikson’s arrival in Newfoundland to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Hoard of Roman Coins Discovered Under Former Roman House
This spectacular treasure of 160 gold aureus coins was discovered in 1911 at Corbridge, Northumberland, under the floor of a Roman house, thought to be perhaps a timber building.

Menagerie Wagon Rolls in at Three Times Its Estimate
An extremely rare Märklin Hagenbeck’s Menagerie transport train wagon, in gauge 1, featured a lid that opened to reveal two associated composition lions in a single-compartment gondola car. Measuring 8½ inches in length, it sold fir $33,750.

Rosebud Sled Breaks Auction Record
The sled famously known as Rosebud, from Orson Welles’ Hollywood classic masterpiece Citizen Kane, sold for a remarkable $14.75 million. Gremlins director Joe Dante has owned the iconic prop since 1984. The previous auction records for any of the screen-used Rosebud versions—only a few were produced for the 1941 production—were $60,500 sold to producer-director Steven Spielberg in 1982, and $233,000 to an anonymous buyer in 1996.

Chinese blue and white in shipwreck
It sank in 1490 off the coast of what is now Busuanga Island in the Philippines. Discovered in 1997 at a depth of 48 meters, the Lena Shoal shipwreck had over 5,000 artifacts, primarily Asian ceramics. Among the most extraordinary was a Chinese blue and white porcelain plate depicting a flying elephant, one of only two known examples in the world.
 

AUCTION NEWS

Private Art Glass Collection Brings Top Dollars at Auction A 9 ¾-inch-tall blown mold French cameo glass vase signed Galle and a Fenton mosaic art glass pedestal vase each sold for $6,600 to share top lot honors at the sale of the private collection of Dr. Peter and Grace Jochimsen.

Sledge from Shackleton's Antarctic expedition takes nearly $150,000 at Bonhams A sledge from the first expedition to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton sold for $150,000 (£115,000) in Bonhams’ Travel and Exploration sale.

French Furniture and Decorative Arts Make a Strong Showing The Bruneau & Company auction showed strong results for French furniture and decorative arts when compared to years past. “Competitive bidding brought the French Neoclassical bronze figural group to a private collection in Egypt, followed by a pair of parquetry inlaid bombe chests to Canada. You never know where things are going to end up,” said Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Company specialist.

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1930s Watling Three-reel 5-cent Slot Machine Hits the Jackpot A mid-1930s Watling three-reel 5-cent slot machine sold for $3,250 and an 1871 general and business directory for the residents of four counties in Nevada realized $2,875 at an Americana, Railroad, Mining & More Auction held across four days, May 7th-10th, by Holabird Western Americana Collections in Reno, Nevada

New York Collector's Passion Auction Total Reaches Nearly $1 Million A Chinese green glazed oval footed porcelain bowl with an estimate of $1,000-$2,000 soars to $200,000 as the top item in a highly successful Nye & Company Auctioneers’ Collectors’ Passion Auction that grossed just under $1 million.

Rare Dorflinger Cranberry Cut-to-clear Ewer Soars to $75,000 An exceedingly rare, museum-quality Dorflinger cranberry cut to clear glass ewer, 17 inches tall, soared to $75,000 at a sale featuring two major collections of American Brilliant Cut Glass, held by Woody Auction, online and at the Hilton Kansas City Airport. It was the final major cut glass auction of the year for Woody Auction, which is based in Douglass, Kansas.

    
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