Fine Art from an East Coast Educational Institution
Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 at 9am
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UPCOMING AUCTIONS
Fine Art from an
East Coast
Educational Institution
July 16, 2025
Online Only
Toys & Decorative Arts
August 20, 2025
Online Only
Toys & Decorative Arts
Americana
Session One
October 1, 2025
Americana
Session Two
October 2, 2025
Americana
Session Three
October 3, 2025
Coins & Jewelry
October 29, 2025
Online Only
Decorative Arts
December 3, 2025
Online Only Toys & Decorative Arts Auction
August 20th & 21st, 2025 at 9AM
Wednesday, August 20th and Thursday, August 21st, 2025 at 9AM
Join us for two days of lots of toys, furniture, books, fine art, and decorative accessories. All bidding for this auction is online only. Bidding for this auction is available on PookLive or Bidsquare. The in-house buyer’s premium is 25% (28% online on third party bidding platforms). Click Here for more information.
PRESS RELEASES
Press Release – Fine Art from an East Coast Educational Institution
Pook & Pook Presents a Rare Opportunity to Acquire Exceptional Works of Modern and Post-war Art in Upcoming Auction Downingtown, PA – Pook & Pook is excited to announce an exclusive online event featuring modern art and prints. This auction…
Press Release – May 1st & 2nd Americana Auction
DOWNINGTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA — Pook & Pook presents the annual Spring Americana sale, May 1st and 2nd, 2025. The sale will be held live, with bidding in-person or online at PookLive, and also by telephone, or absentee bid. All items are…
Pook & Pook’s Spring Coins & Jewelry Auction
Pook & Pook’s Coins & Jewelry Auction on March 26th & 27th, 2025 to Feature Hundreds of Rare Treasures from the Pennsylvania Treasury Department’s Bureau of Unclaimed Property Downingtown, PA — Get ready for an extraordinary opportunity to own some…
Part II of The Pewter Collection of Dr. Melvyn & Bette Wolf
Part II of The Pewter Collection of Dr. Melvyn & Bette Wolf will start the first session of this week’s Americana Auction at 9AM on January 16th. Over a span of sixty years, Dr. Melvyn and Bette Wolf assembled the…
PICK OF THE WEEK
Cultural Revolution
Lot 473 in the July 16th, 2025 art auction is a group of colorful, joyous scenes of rural Chinese farm life in the 1970’s. Created as Maoist propaganda posters, there is more to these works than meets the eye. My…
Up to snuff
Snuffboxes came into wide circulation with the increasing importance of tobacco use in the West. Tobacco was first prized as a medicine when first imported from the New World in the late 16th century. Europeans delighted in the effects of…
A Touch of Mughal Magnificence
Lot 7875 is an antique Mughal gold and enamel bracelet, set with diamonds, emeralds, and natural and synthetic rubies. Dated to approximately 1880, this bracelet was purchased by its current owners from the Ganeshi Lall & Son Emporium in Agra,…
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