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Churchill’s False Teeth (Really)

July 26, 2010

Winston Churchill’s false teeth will be up for auction in London. Keys Auctions is selling one of three sets of dentures the former Prime Minister always had around.  They’re guessing it will go for between $6,000 and $7,5000.

Update:  Churchill’s teeth sold for $23, 723.

The denture is be consigned by the son of the technician who made it.  Also scheduled for auction is an armband worn at his funeral. Earlier this year, one of Churchill’s half-smoked cigars went for $6,800.

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Rare Colonial Cabinet Leads Americana Sale

January 15, 2013

Back in 2005, the Metropolitan Museum in New York held an exhibition of the work of John Townsend, one of the highest regarded Colonial cabinetmakers. Just a few blocks away, in the townhouse of a family that had owned it since around 1770 but no longer had any sense of its value or provenance, sat one of Townsend’s rarest pieces. It was a four-shell kneehole Chippendale bureau table, discovered a visit last fall by Christie’s John Hays. One of only seven examples known to exist, it’s expected to sell for $700,000 -$900,000 at Christie’s Americana sale later this month in New York.

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Noted Garden Collection Of Tiffany Glass To Sell

November 13, 2012

Until quite recently, one of the world’s premier collections of Tiffany glass was located at the Garden Museum in Japan. Over the past couple of decades Takeo Horiuchi assembled the selection of lamps, windows, art, blown glass, and ceramics from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933). Now the collection has been acquired by California-based Michaan Auctions, which will offer it on November 17th. Among the most valuable pieces is a Cobweb Table Lamp, which has been exhibited at the Smithsonian and Metropolitan Museum in New York. No estimate was released for the lamp. although other items in the sale are expected to sell for as much as $2m.

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Bonhams Herds Carousel Horses To Los Angeles

September 21, 2012

When the circus comes to Bonhams in early December, a carousel Hippocamp—part horse, part fish– will be leading the parade. The fanciful figure with a coiling, serpentine posterior, carved and painted by Daniel Carl Muller, rides into the Carousel & Circus Memorabilia auction in Los Angeles with an estimate of $35,000-$45,000.

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