
(Thomaston, ME) A three-footed bronze skillet, with provenance tracking ownership to Paul Revere, sold for $2,500 to the Paul Revere House at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ 2011 Summer Fine Art, Antiques & Jewelry Auction. Live online bidding for the sale, which took place August 27, 2011, was offered by Arfact Live. The skillet is engraved on its underside “Paul Revere’s Skillet, given to John P. Reynolds by his aunt Maria A. Revere.” Maria A. Revere was the granddaughter of the famed American silversmith and patriot. Her nephew John P. Reynolds notably purchased t...

Astrid Kirchherr, the noted photographer who captured the Beatles like no other, is sharing her magnificent photographic heritage with the world in a major auction in New York City that Guernsey’s will be conducting early this fall. Following is her story. The year was 1960 and the Beatles (a club band starting to make a stir in dingy dance clubs in working class Liverpool), heard that - musically speaking - exciting things were happening in Hamburg, Germany. Packing their cases into a well beaten van and packing the van onto a steamer, the group sailed across the North Sea, eventually ...


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