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Pook & Pook Teaming Up with Noel Barrett
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. — Pook & Pook, Inc. Auctioneers and Appraisers announces a new collaboration with the jovial, mustachioed king of toy auctions, Noel Barrett. Barrett, along with Pook & Pook, Inc.’s founder, Ron Pook, expressed excitement about joining forces, a…
Melchoir Fordney: The story of a Pennsylvania master gunsmith and one of America’s first insanity pleas.
If you met Pook & Pook, Inc.’s Vice President Jamie Shearer at a gun show or exposition recently, he has probably shown you a long rifle coming up for auction and offered to tell you the story of its maker,…
What do these things have in common: A house our first president wouldn’t live in, the oldest piece of land continuously owned by African Americans, and a war ship run aground by pirates?
On October 8th, 2016, we are excited to feature a copy of Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, formally titled The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the Year 1800. This historically important piece…
Have Auction Houses Reached a Tipping Point Online?
BY Sara Roffino, Art+Auction Devang Thakkar spent 10 years developing new products for Microsoft in the Pacific Northwest before relocating to New York in August to apply his expertise to the field of online art sales at Artsy. “The art…
The Enduring Collection of Donald Kaufman
3/20/17 – This week we are highlighting Lot 441 in April 1st’s upcoming toy auction. The Hubley cast iron Static speedboat is a rare piece and one of several notable examples with provenance from the famed Donald Kaufman collection. Kaufman’s…