Collectors and connoisseurs alike filled the West Coast salesrooms at Bonhams & Butterfields on August 5, 2008 for the highly anticipated summer auction of California & American Paintings and Sculpture. Simulcast to full salerooms in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, the $5.5-million two-session sale offered a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and plein-air works by preeminent American painters and sculptors.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. - A rare and stunning American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG) mushroom shade table lamp in the Aberdeen pattern by Jewel Cut Glass, with two lights and measuring 21” x 12”, sold for $14,000 at the sale of The Jim and Francis Miller Collection, held August 1-2 at the St. Charles Convention Center. The Millers were dedicated collectors of American Brilliant Cut Glass pieces.

“This was without question one of the finest quality lamps it has been my privilege to offer at auction,” said Jason Woody of Woody Auction, which conducted the two-day event. When it was all over, almost 1,000 lots had changed hands, nearly all of it American Brilliant Cut Glass. Also sold was Tiffany, art glass and other related items. The auction was dedicated entirely to the Millers' collections.

ROANOKE, Ala. - A rare and beautiful laminated rosewood bed, made around 1850 by John Henry Belter and with the original finish, sold for $33,350 at a multi-estate sale held June 21 by Grand View Antiques & Auction.

The bed, in excellent condition and with seventeen layers of lamination, featured a raised border ending in C-scrolls and fleurs-de-lis. It was the top lot of about 250 lots sold.

With more than 125 bidders in attendance and more than double that bidding online, the sale is considered a great success by all involved.

BOSTON – Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC, held its 3rd annual Sporting Sale on July 23 and 24 at the Radisson Hotel in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Outstanding results included world record prices for sporting artists Edmund Osthaus, Aiden Lassell Ripley, C.F. Tunnicliffe, and Chet Reneson. The more than 500 lots offered rang in at $3.2 million.