Sheila Gibson Stoodley

Oct 4, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Sheila Gibson Stoodley

LAMBERTVILLE, NJ – Landry Pop Auctions will hold its debut sale on Tuesday, October 8. Its catalog is now open for review and bidding at LiveAuctioneers. Titled Icons & Heroes: Comics, TCG and Video Games, the sale’s lineup features 322 choice lots. The house, launched by Travis Landry, who has appeared on the American version of Antiques Roadshow since 2017 as an appraiser specializing in toys, games, and collectibles, comes into being as part of the Rago/Wright network.

Sep 30, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Sheila Gibson Stoodley

SUNRISE, FL – Englishman Paul Storr (1770-1844) has been called the greatest silversmith of the 19th century. Hill Auction Gallery has given its Wednesday, October 9 sale the one-word title EPIC. It can do that in good conscience because the lineup contains no fewer than seven works of silver by Storr. The sale catalog is now open for bidding and review at LiveAuctioneers. Storr’s career aligns with the English Regency period, the time in which the popular Netflix series Bridgerton is set.

Sep 27, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Sheila Gibson Stoodley

DAVENPORT, WA – Professional women’s baseball was a dream that became reality. As with most things that allowed women to expand their horizons in the 20th century, World War II opened the door. Most of the sport’s best male players of the 1940s traded their bats for bayonets and their tour buses for troop transports, leaving behind a baseball-starved nation. Phillip K.

Sep 26, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Sheila Gibson Stoodley

CHICAGO – A new world auction record for a work by Gertrude Abercrombie was set at Freeman’s Hindman in its September 25 Post War and Contemporary Art sale. Titled The Magician and dating to 1956, the oil on Masonite featured the mysterious Surrealist imagery for which Abercrombie (1909-1977) is known. It achieved $469,900 with buyer’s premium against an estimate of $70,000-$90,000. Full results for the sale can be seen at LiveAuctioneers.

Sep 20, 2024 | liveauctioneers.com | Sheila Gibson Stoodley

NEW YORK – If there’s a more perfect blue than that of the sapphire, good luck finding it. In this long-beloved precious stone, you can see blue in almost all its many moods, from the hue of the cornflower to that of royal robes to the depths of the ocean to the near-blackness of the night sky. But sapphires are not limited to the color blue. They also come in yellow, purple, green, pink, orange, black, gray, and clear – no color at all.