With the New Year comes a fresh perspective on home design. For 2026, curated nostalgia and maximalism with meaning take center stage. This is not the year for rushing to big-box stores but rather about thoughtfully collected, one-of-a-kind pieces that…
The Americana sale at Pook & Pook to be held January 14-16, 2026, will feature an extraordinary array of furniture and decorative arts from five large collections and many private consignors. The sale opens with 400 lots of American Folk…
The January 14–15–16, 2026 Americana sale at Pook & Pook Auction in Downingtown, Pennsylvania is overflowing with standout material, making it nearly impossible to choose favorites. Still, my Pick of the Week is Lot 57: a remarkable Berks County, Pennsylvania…
My Pick of the Week for the upcoming January 14–15–16, 2026 Americana Sale at Pook & Pook Auction in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is a superb ink and watercolor double portrait by Joseph H. Davis (American, 1811–1865). This finely rendered 1836 portrait…
Lot 428, the oil on canvas Randerson Kills Prickett, and the lot gracing the cover of our October 2025 Americana catalog, is not only one of the finest paintings of an Old West gunslinger created, it is also one of…
Vladimir Putin is attempting to revive the legacy of Stalin as a wartime leader. He has unveiled more than one hundred new statues of the brutal dictator during his twenty-five-year reign, the most recent in a Moscow metro station. The…
Lot 473 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 particular favorite is On-the-spot meeting of the…
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…
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…
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…
When you think of a brooch, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe your thoughts drift to “outdated” or “too fussy for my style.” It’s time to challenge those old notions because brooches are making a major comeback…
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,…
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…
In the world of museums, the careful management of collections is essential for maintaining their cultural and educational missions. However, as collections grow over time, there are often items that become outdated, irrelevant, or simply take up valuable storage space.…
“We Salute you in Brotherly Love” begins a 1745 Epistle from the Quaker yearly Meeting in London. Handwritten by John Gurney, it reads like a sermon, exhorting the Friends to live in the ways of Holiness and Truth. It is…
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…