Nearly 1,000 lots of American folk art, in an eclectic mix of genres, will be sold on Saturday, Nov. 8, by Slotin Auction, the same firm that operates the enormously popular Folk Fest event each summer.

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.

An extremely rare Winchester New Rival 10-gage empty Christmas shell box, professionally restored and with all the labels intact, sold for $12,870 in an Internet and catalog auction held by SoldUSA.com

On April 20, bidders will vie on several lots of rare jewelry from a notable private collection going to the Madison Avenue auction block of Bonhams New York.

Fittingly, the crowning glory of Theriault’s annual summer doll auction, titled “Crowning Glories,” was the cover doll, a precious 12-inch bébé by French doll maker Andre Thuillier.

Over 500 vintage antique clocks – many of them very rare, museum-quality pieces, to include an E. Howard astronomical #61 floor regulator – will be sold in a two-session sale slated for Saturday, Nov. 8, by Fontaine's Auction Gallery

FAIRFIELD, Maine – James D. Julia’s spring lamp and glass auction boasts the overall highest quality and selection of fine glass in the company’s 40-year history.

The Donald Kaufman collection is headed for the auction spotlight at Bertoia’s, Vineland, N.J., starting with a 1,500-lot offering on March 19-21, 2009.

DALLAS – Collectors will likely mark July 15, 2009, as the day the market for Illustration Art officially changed. That the date is the same day that marked the auction of the first section of the Charles Martignette collection is no coincidence.

The Feb. 1-2 furniture and decorative arts auction at Leslie Hindman in Chicago seemed not to reflect hard times. The gallery was packed and many were standing.