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Becca’s Blog: Outsider Art
Hello everyone, it’s me! Back again to tell you all about the exciting items in our upcoming Spring Fine Arts auction! To be honest, we do get folk art from time to time, but nothing is more exciting than [...]
Press from NBC 10 NEWS: McCoy Stadium baseball player murals will be sold at auction
Dozens of hand-painted murals of baseball players that were once on display at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket will be sold at auction. The murals were commissioned in 1977 and painted by Rhode Island School of Design graduate Carol "Tayo" [...]
Two Pickups and a Museum Visit in Virginia
A few weeks ago, Jonathan and I had a house call to pick up a collection near Richmond, Virginia. We decided after we drove through Washington, DC., we would stop at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in [...]
Interview with Carol ‘Tayo’ Heuser Artist of the McCoy Murals
Join Kevin Bruneau in a chat with the original McCoy stadium PawSox mural artist Carol "Tayo" Heuser! She is the woman behind the iconic and monumental murals of Pawtucket Red Sox baseball players which once graced the halls [...]
Press from Auction Central News: Revolutionary War-era Wooden Canteen Inscribed ‘U States’, $42,300
CRANSTON, R.I. – Given that the term United States of America was not recorded until 1776, when the words ‘U States’ were painted to this Revolutionary War-era staved wood canteen, it was a relative novelty. The pattern is one used [...]
Press from Antiques & The Arts Weekly: GRADE 5 ‘FANTASTIC FOUR’ GETS FANTASTIC RESULT AT BRUNEAU & CO
CRANSTON, R.I. — A whopping 770 lots were featured in Bruneau & Co’s February 24 Winter Comics, Sports, TCG & Toy Auction. By the time the last lot crossed the block, the highest result was $23,125 for the November [...]
Press from ArtDaily: Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers to offer four important single–owner collections
CRANSTON, RI.- Four important single-owner collections – of museum bandboxes and hatboxes; figural creamers; massive original baseball-themed murals; and police equipment – will all come up for bid on Monday, March 18th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and live in [...]
Where Did They Come From? Musket Flints in Massachusetts
After writing a few articles about our live-fire studies of Revolutionary War-era arms, one was shared on an archaeology social media page and a question was asked about flints: Were the flints being used here when the American Revolution [...]