Browsing Tag Abraham Lincoln

December 21, 2018

A year of records, debuts and rediscovered works. As we reflect on 2018, we look back at an excellent year of auctions. In April we held our highest-grossing African-American Fine…

November 12, 2018

Letters from a Young Kurt Vonnegut Top Autographs Auction Collectors Drawn to Autographs of Innovators   Our auction of Autographs on Thursday, November 8 saw major interest…

October 2, 2018

Americana Continues to Out-Perform at Swann Galleries   Our September 27 auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana was the highest-earning Americana auction in the last…

July 23, 2018

Featuring The Holzer Collection of Lincolniana At Auction September 27 Complete Catalogue   Latin Americana Latin Americana will feature Juan de la Anunciación’s 1577…

January 16, 2018

On March 29 we will offer Printed & Manuscript African Americana, an array of material that encompasses a wide range of the African-American experience, from letters by…

May 30, 2017

Bernhardt Wall was an American illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. A selection of fine, early or test examples of his work were given to his lifelong…

May 12, 2014

Marco Tomaschett, Swann Galleries’ Autographs specialist, wrote this piece about clipped autographs, which appeared in Antiques & Auction News last week. Here is…

March 13, 2013

“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” declares the extraordinary document brought forth by our founders on July 4, 1776. But as we all know,…