Auctions offer a moment where the sometimes-incalculable significance of an object is quantified. The price is reached through collaboration: specialists, consignors, the market, and finally, bidders convene in the room,…
“These are the times which try men’s souls…” so begins Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis, arguably his second most famous work. Tomorrow, in our annual fall Americana auction, Swann will…
Among the highlights of today’s auction of Autographs was one of 28 copies of the act making Vermont the 14th state in the Union signed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of…
The Bay Psalm Book is often described as the first book printed in America. Issued in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640, it was certainly the first book printed in the English…
Crime material has been selling well at auction lately, and today’s sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana offers a rare and fascinating lot related to Robert Stroud, known as the…
Today is opening day at Yankee Stadium, which got us thinking about a few lots in tomorrow’s auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana. Swann doesn’t sell baseball cards, but we…
This past Thursday Swann held the second of three sales devoted to the collection of Eric C. Caren, a collection of paper material that spans the entirety of US history…
Swann kicked off its fall season in grand style with the first installment of The Eric Caren Collection: How History Unfolds on Paper. This sale–just a portion of Caren’s vast and…
Two of Swann Galleries’ autumn auctions feature desirable Bibles from the collection of Mel and Julie Meadows—it is the largest offering of Bibles to come up for auction in recent…
Swann will kick off our fall season with an auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana September 17, which features an archive of material related to the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.…
