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Press from ArtFixDaily – Beautiful Chinese Qing Dynasty tapestry brings $12,500 in Bruneau & Co.’s Jan. 28 online auction
(ARTFIXdaily.com) CRANSTON, R.I. – A beautiful Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) or earlier embroidered tapestry, depicting three Buddha figures seated on lotus thrones, sold for $12,500 in an online Estate Fine Art & Antiques auction held January 28th by Bruneau [...]
Antiquing 101
The most important thing for any aspiring antiques dealer in today’s auction world is education. But you don’t necessarily need to go to college. Whether you want to learn about period American furniture, contemporary art, or thirteenth century Korean [...]
The Story a Badge Can Tell
While looking at a collection of police and fire badges a few weeks ago, one caught my eye. It was a small silver shield that I instantly recognized not as a badge for police or fire, but a Civil [...]
Press from Antiques & The Arts Weekly – Bruneau’s Pop Culture Sale Makes Grades
CRANSTON, R.I. – A single-owner collection of Fantastic Four comics, rare Hasbro toys that never left Rhode Island, and rising stars in the trading card realm combined to tally $286,400 at Bruneau & Co's January 9 sale. See Press [...]
What’s on Your Garage Walls?
As we learned before in the antiques and auction world one of the hottest collectibles that has been and always will be is automobilia. Everybody loves their car, and when you have the perfect car you want the perfect [...]
Press from Auction Central News – Maritime painting tip of the iceberg in Bruneau sale Jan. 28
CRANSTON, R.I. – An online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique auction packed with over 375 lots of paintings, decorative arts, furniture, jewelry, silver, Asian arts and collectibles pulled from prominent estates and collections across New England is planned for [...]
Relics of the Revolution
After a battle when the armies moved along, people came to visit the sites to see for themselves what they had read about in the papers. Inevitably some of them picked up relics and took them home as a [...]
Let the Speculation Begin!
It is 2021 people! A new month, a new year, and things are looking up. Beyond all the actual life seriousness 2020 taught us, it also showed us that people bored and working from home also caught the collecting [...]