iGavel Presents Summer Sale of Jewelry, Silver, Books, Maps & Photographs

July 21, 2009 - PRLog -- Remmey Antiques’ International Summer Sale is a Multi-Consigner Estate Sale of Fine Jewelry, Fine Silver, Photos, Rare Books and Maps. Featured in this auction are a number of historic maps and prints, including a Celestial Map by Petrus Schenk & Gerardum Valk, entitled Scenographia Mundane, as well as two maps by John Speede, circa 1660-2, depicting the cartography of France and Scotland.

Other highlights of the auction include a collection of books on the history of aviation. Works include famous aviators and scientists such as Alexander Graham Bell, Wilbur Wright, Henry Woodhouse, and Charles Fontaine, as well as an autographed aviation program from Souvenier Aeronautic, Atlantic city, circa 1920.



This diverse auction also includes some very important photographic works, including photographs by Imogen Cunningham, W. Eugene Smith, Albert Arthur Allen, Man Ray, Eugene Atget, Harry Callaghan, and Eudora Welty. Seventeen lots of antique silver items complete this auction.

Remmey Antiques & Fine Art – Carolyn Remmey, founded Remmey Antiques and Galleries in 1988 where she employed all her knowledge in appraising and auctioning. From there she was then strategically charged with the Trust and Estates Department and as Principal Auctioneer of Phillips International Auctioneers/New York.

Remmey Antiques & Fine Art
P.O. Box 197
New Vernon, NJ 07976



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Lark E. Mason - President of iGavel - is a frequent guest appraiser on the Antiques Roadshow, was formerly a Senior Vice President with Sotheby's Chinese Works of Art Department, and Director of Online Auctions for Sothebys.com.