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June 25, 2018|Swann News|Swann

2017-18 Year in Review

The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering works created as early as the fifteenth century and as recently as last year.…

June 25, 2018 | Autographs

Records & Results: Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler IIII

On June 21, our auction of Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler III saw a 91% sell-through rate for important autographs, letters and documents from some of…

April 20, 2018 | Autographs

A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Collection of William Wheeler III

Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler III At Auction June 21 Complete Catalogue William A. Wheeler III’s interest in history began in childhood, browsing at…

April 16, 2018 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Our auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana on April 12 was the department’s highest-grossing sale in four years, continuing an upward trajectory as each offering of Americana and African Americana…

November 18, 2016 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

The top lot of our November 17 sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana was an 1830 first edition of The Book of Mormon, which sold to a private collector for…

November 24, 2014 | Printed & Manuscript Americana

Thomas Paine’s American Crisis Makes the Albany News

“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…

Thomas Paine

2017-18 Year in Review

Records & Results: Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler IIII

A Look Inside the Catalogue: The Collection of William Wheeler III

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Records & Results: Printed & Manuscript Americana

Thomas Paine’s American Crisis Makes the Albany News

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