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Becca’s Blog: Vintage Make-Up Compacts & Lipstick Tubes
Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog! Doing this for so long you’d think I’d run out of random things to write about but here I am, a well of knowledge and strange bar trivia. So, this week, [...]
Lieutenant John M. Brooke’s Naval Coatee
Back in March we picked up a collection of uniforms deaccessioned from a museum. The uniforms had been donated over the years but didn’t meet the mission of the museum, so we brought them to the gallery to be [...]
Press from Kotaku – Binder Of Extremely Rare Pokémon Cards Showed Up On Antiques Roadshow
Recently, a guest on the popular TV series Antiques Roadshow brought on something quite different from the types of things folks usually have appraised by the show’s experts: a binder containing all 102 original, base-set Pokémon cards. What makes the segment so interesting [...]
Hasbro and Mattel: a Tale of Two Toy Titans
For nearly a century, two giants have fought to dominate the American toy industry in a never ending battle of creativity and innovation. Those two giants are none other than Hasbro and Mattel. Both hold an incredible amount of [...]
Becca’s Blog: Religious Relics
Hey everyone! We had some Catholic religious relics hammer with high prices in our last Fine & Decorative Art Auction, so it really got me thinking about why people collect them and how they would’ve traditionally gone about doing [...]
Identifying Stolen Guns with the FBI
Last month you may remember a story hit the news about an individual who stole a large group of antique arms from museums and historical societies during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had taken at least fifty [...]
Press from Auction Publicity – Soviet-era Russian Fialka M-125 cipher machine from the 1960s will headline Bruneau & Co.’s May 10 online-only auction
CRANSTON, R.I. – An actual Soviet-era Russian Fialka M-125 cipher machine from the 1960s, in good condition and with a reference manual in English, is an expected headliner in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers’ 295-lot timed online Historic Arms & [...]
Press from ArtFix Daily – Bruneau & Co.’s Comics, Toys & Video Games auction, May 6th, is packed with Pop Culture collectibles
CRANSTON, R.I. – CRANSTON, R.I. – Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will present an auction titled Graded Showcase: Comics, Toys & Video Games on Saturday, May 6th, online and live in the Cranston gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue. “This will [...]