Chamblee’s Antique Row will host its annual Christmas Open House on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6-7 with free refreshments and special sale prices. Chamblee’s Antique District is the largest and most distinctive antiquing community in Georgia.

CHICAGO — With nearly 49,000 visitors, steady sales and strong programming, Art Chicago and “NEXT” (the invitational exhibition of emerging art) brought together curators, and both experienced and new collectors, from April 30 to May 4.

DENVER, Pa. – On Aug. 13-15, Dan Morphy Auctions will conduct the biggest cataloged sale in its history – a 3,000-lot no-reserve absolute auction featuring long-held private collections of Kentucky rifles, fine dolls and toys, mechanical music boxes, decorative art, jewelry and gold coins.

The New York Ceramics Fair launches its tenth annual appearance New York’s Winter Antiques Week with a preview opening on Tuesday, Jan. 20, followed by a Jan. 21-25 run at the National Academy Museum.

CALABASSAS, Calif. – For the first time in its 44-year history, the Hollywood Wax Museum is offering hand-sculpted wax figures and original costumes for auction.

There will be no rest for the weary at Philip Weiss Auctions, which concluded a banner year in 2008 and looks forward to continued success through the first half of 2009 and beyond.

For the first time in the United States, researchers have undertaken an extensive study of a 15th-century Spanish cathedral altarpiece, and in the process, have unlocked 500 years of secrets involving art, literature, history and religion.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Skinner’s July 25 science technology and clocks auction features several important pairs of globes by Newton, a sextant by Ramsden, an octant by George Jones, equinoctial dials, astrolabes, chronometers, microscopes and nautical antiques.

A complete and authentic vampire killing kit – made around 1800 and complete with stakes, mirrors, a gun with silver bullets, crosses, a Bible, holy water, candles and even garlic, all housed in a handsome American walnut case with a carved cross on top – hammered for $14,850 at the Jimmy Pippen estate sale