A 1930s Bavarian lamp, left, and late 1940s apothecary jars, right, catch the light as Bohemian glass and other art, from the late collector Gertrude Wabnig, lies ready for an estate sale conducted by ...
Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel collectorsgallery@kovels.com Dec 6, 2025 Dec 6, 2025 There are numerous ways to decorate glassware, and 19th-century Bohemian glass artists excelled in all of them. They ...
When turn-of-the-century dandy decorator Henry Davis Sleeper started to outfit his Gloucester, Massachusetts, home, Beauport, in 1908, he assembled a wall of glass vessels, not distinguishing between ...
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware ...
Family heirlooms were a theme for our collectors this month, including Chinese vases brought home from war, a 1940s alacite lamp, a great-grandmother’s uranium glass tumblers, and a fine-quality ...
We have several problems with this description. The first is the idea that the pieces are “hurricane lamps.” They are not. A hurricane lamp is an oil or paraffin lamp (or in some cases, a candlestick) ...
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