Beachwood, Ohio, USA, December 4, 2020 -- Neue Auctions will conclude the year with an online auction titled Pretty Little Smalls, featuring small, beautiful, sparkly and interesting items that are easy and quick to ship for the holidays. The 322-lot sale will go live on Saturday, December 5th, at 11 am Eastern. Online bidding will be hosted on three platforms; phone and absentee bids will be taken.

“Everything in this auction is small in stature and big on quality, uniqueness and value,” said Cynthia Maciejewski of Neue Auctions. “Items include period Art Deco diamond jewelry, a collection of antique car mascots, antique toys, trains, Buddy Trucks, vintage Steiff stuffed animals, a collection of vintage watches, antique Native American jewelry, sterling silver, small scale decorative arts and miniatures. All would make perfect gifts.”

Strong candidates for top lot of the auction include a stunning, custom-made 18kt yellow gold, imperial topaz and diamond brooch of sunburst form, with undulating golden rods set with seven 2.1mm round brilliant cut diamonds (est. $12,000-$15,000); and a lovely, unusual antique Colombian emerald, gold, diamond and platinum brooch with a center oval cut emerald surrounded by 12 old European cut diamonds (est. $10,000-$12,000).

A gentleman’s Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra co-axial chronometer wristwatch having a navy blue dial with pointed steel markers, luminous steel hands, 27-jewel automatic movement and original box and papers is expected to bring $2,500-$4,500; while a Bulova supercompressor self-winding dive watch, made in 1962 and in good vintage condition, with white Arabic numerals and a leather band should realize $1,200-$1,800.

A Georg Jensen sterling silver flatware service for eight in the Acorn pattern, in a wood storage box, weighing 102.456 oz. troy (knives with stainless blades are included 25.27 oz. troy), should rise to $3,000-$5,000. Also, a group of 12 Royal Doulton flambe figures – including a penguin, two elephants, two ‘The Geisha’ seated cats, a fox, three rabbits and two ducks, ranging from 2 ¼ inches to 9 ½ inches, is expected to bring $800-$1,200.

A Southeast Asian high karat gold dragon bracelet, possibly Balinese, marked 22kt gold, also marked ‘MKP’, with lovely granulation, depicting a dragon with cabochon sapphire eyes and a small pearl in its mouth, should fetch $3,000-$4,000; and an English Victorian 15kt diamond and Persian turquoise bangle bracelet, having 9 old European mine cut diamonds set in four rows of Persian turquoise, 15 ct., has an estimate of $1,200-$1,800.

A ruby and diamond ring boasting a one-carat oval cut natural ruby of very fine color and brilliance, surrounded by 10 well-matched and nicely proportioned 10-point modern round brilliant cut diamonds, set in 18kt yellow gold, is expected to make $2,000-$3,000. Also, a pair of 18kt yellow gold and diamond heart earrings, having diamond-encrusted puffed hearts and a gold gadrooned border, weighing 12.9 grams, should hit $800-$1,200.

A whimsical 18kt yellow gold lion brooch with gemstones, depicting a seated lion with a gold mane, emerald eyes and a diamond pave nose, 1 ¾ inches tall weighing 19.60 grams, has a pre-sale estimate of $800-$1,200. Also, a silver and turquoise Cripple Creek Mine squash blossom necklace, signed with the maker’s initials (“RP”), 25 inches long, double-strand bead form with 10 turquoise inset squash blossoms, should garner $600-$800.

Internet bidding will be provided by Liveauctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted. For more information, visit www.neueauctions.com.

Daily gallery previews will be held on Thursday and Friday, December 3rd and 4th, from 9-5 Eastern time, in the Neue Auctions gallery at 23533 Mercantile Road in Beachwood, Ohio, near Cleveland. COVID-19 protocols will be observed; masks and social distancing will be required.

Neue Auctions invites everyone to be added to its email list to receive notifications and information regarding all current and future sales. To learn more about Neue Auctions and the Saturday, December 5th Pretty Little Smalls auction at 11 am Eastern time, visit www.neueauctions.com. Updates are posted frequently.

About Neue Auctions:
Neue Auctions provides a bespoke experience for sellers and buyers, with items presented fully guaranteed and vetted, and combines regular online auctions with selected art exhibitions and educational opportunities. Offering consignment services for single items, estates and corporate collections, the firm assists clients in the complicated process of settling estates and general downsizing, working with private individuals, trusts, estates, museums, banks and attorneys. Neue Auctions continues the long-standing history and tradition of art collecting in Cleveland by bringing fine works of art to the market for sale, encouraging the current and next generation of collectors. Neue Auctions is accepting consignments for future sales. For purchases or inquiries about consigning, please call 216-245-6707; or send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For more information, please log on to www.neueauctions.com.

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New Rochelle, NY, USA, December 3, 2020 -- The Mahlstedt Gallery, a leading brick and mortar and online fine art gallery in suburban Westchester County, New York, has entered into a collaboration with the famous Swiss art gallery Galerie Alexander E. Räber in Zurich, one that allows the Mahlstedt Gallery to represent a rare and extensive collection of limited-edition, bronze sculptures that are numbered by the renowned Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). The Mahlstedt Gallery will fill orders for the sculptures from buyers across all of North America.

“It is our privilege to provide Dalí’s works to collectors, interior designers and art enthusiasts throughout North America,” said Oshi Rabin, founder and owner of the Mahlstedt Gallery and herself an artist. “Buyers can be certain that each work is one of a limited number created by one of history’s preeminent artists. These sculptures are limited editions; just 350 of each exist.”

A few of Salvador Dalí’s iconic sculptures available through the Mahlstedt Gallery include the following:

- Profile of Time, featuring Dalí’s iconic melting clock motif first seen in his famous painting The Persistence of Memory. The sculpture presents a watch whose face is highlighted with green patina and is liquefying from its perch on top of a tree branch.

- Adam and Eve, a work in which Dalí captures the moment Adam is deciding whether to take the apple from Eve. Between the two figures, the serpent expectantly looks to Adam while coiled in the shape of a heart. Dalí explores religion in many of his works.

- Two bronzes each boast a vibrant blue patina. The flamenco dancer depicted in Dalinian Dancer is surrounded by the swirling fabric of her blue dress. In Triumphant Angel, an angel throws its head back and trumpets its horn towards the sky.

In addition to the Dalí works, the Mahlstedt Gallery will also represent other renowned artists through the collaboration with Galerie Alexander E. Räber. They include Paul Wunderlich (German, 1927-2010), who was influenced heavily by Dalí’s work, and Bruno Bruni (Italian, b. 1935), whose work is influenced by Paul Wunderlich. Both artists have carved out successful careers of their own.

“Both of these talented and accomplished artists are largely unknown in North America,” Ms. Rabin said of Wunderlich and Bruni. “We are excited to introduce these masters of the Old World to emerging collectors of the New World. They provide a fine complement to the Dalís.”

Wunderlich’s sculptures were heavily influenced by Dalí’s work, as seen in A Game of Chess. The bronze chess set created by him features chess pieces in surreal human forms that are patinated black and gold. A tall chess table is made of walnut and myrtle. Optional to purchase are two leather chairs. The work was previously sold by the esteemed auction house Sotheby’s.

Bruno Bruni’s work often focuses on the nude female figure, as can be seen in his three bronze sculptures at the Mahlstedt Gallery. La Sorella, which translates to “the sister,” shows a woman seated on a diabase stone pedestal, hugging her legs with her head between her knees.

Zeus the Conqueror depicts a woman lying supine on the back of a bull. The scene calls to mind the Greek myth in which the god Zeus seduces Europa in the form of a bull. Venere Assoluta shows a woman standing on a diabase stone base, removing clothes from over her head.

Another artist represented by the Mahlstedt Gallery is the Italian-Swiss artist and athlete Alfredo Battistini (1953-2008). His sculpture titled Mondo Elefanti depicts a herd of elephants facing outward while forming a tight circle. The elephants stand inside of the top and bottom half of a solid sphere.

Buyers can visit the Mahlstedt Gallery at 415 Huguenot Street - New Rochelle, New York 10801 by appointment only. Their entire gallery can be viewed online and purchases can be made at www.art415ny.com. For more information, call 914-246-0526 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

About The Mahlstedt Gallery:
The Mahlstedt Gallery is a full-service art gallery based in New Rochelle, N.Y. The gallery is located in a historic, neoclassical, two-story structure originally built in 1920 for the J. A. Mahlstedt Lumber and Coal Company. Since its founding in 2012, the Mahlstedt Gallery has been providing an art-buying experience that is easy, affordable and accessible for everyone. Even with the Mahlstedt Gallery’s new high-profile additions, their mission to provide accessible art remains. Buyers can find affordable, quality works from respected artists at the gallery. This includes sculptures by Swiss artist Rolf Ziegler (b. 1955) and Ukrainian artist Igor Grechanyk (b. 1960), as well as paintings by Italian-Swiss artist Pasquale Gigliotti (b. 1957) and American artist Maurice Sapiro (b. 1932), whose Turner-inspired work is exclusively represented by the Mahlstedt Gallery. Buyers can visit the Mahlstedt Gallery at 415 Huguenot Street - New Rochelle, New York 10801 by appointment only. Their entire gallery can be viewed online and purchases can be made at www.art415ny.com. For more information, call 914-246-0526 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada, December 3, 2020 -- A made-in-Canada Black Cat Cigarettes porcelain sign from the 1940s, a Depression-era Pace’s Races 5-cent horse race slot machine, and an early 20th century C. Cretors & Co. floor model popcorn and nut machine are a few expected top lots in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.’s online-only Advertising, Toys & Historic Objects auction slated for Saturday, December 12th, starting at 9 am Eastern. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted.

The auction is packed with 677 lots of advertising signs, toys, breweriana, coin-ops, historic objects, general store, agricultural collectibles (including patent models and salesmen’s samples), telephones and more. “Lovers of the rare, lovers of the unusual, lovers of those inspiring historic objects that pop up once-in-a-decade will delight in what we’re offering here,” said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. “It’s a rare opportunity to invest, collect and enjoy.”

The Black Cat Cigarettes porcelain sign, measuring 50 ½ inches by 48 inches and boasting a pre-sale estimate of $9,000-$12,000, is seen as one of the most attractive porcelain signs in Canadian advertising history. A green-eyed black cat is shown with the statement, “They taste better”. It’s marked “St. Thomas Metal Signs” on the lower edge (all prices quoted are in Canadian dollars).

Also expected to cross the finish line at $9,000-$12,000 is the Paces Races 5-cent horse race slot machine, made in the U.S. “When Paces Races debuted in 1934 it quickly became the fastest coin-operated money-maker of its day,” Miller said. “The game is a riot, and this example is as good as it gets.” The machine has been professionally restored, mechanically and cosmetically.

The C. Cretors & Co. floor model popcorn and nut machine, made in America in the 1910s, is expected to fetch $4,000-$6,000. It features a steel frame case with wood trim doors set with beveled glass. It was professionally restored, to include refinished wood trim, repainted case and nickeled trim. The top has two electric lights and an animated clown that turns a glass cylinder.

Breweriana collectors will be amazed by rarities in the lifetime beer tray collection of Andy Cottrell. Toys from the Flynn collection are also worth paying attention to. “The Cottrell breweriana collection has collectors reeling,” Miller remarked. “Never before in the Canadian market have so many rare beer trays surfaced at a single time.” A few lots include:

- An oval Huether’s Lion Brewery tray, Canadian, circa 1890s. The 13 ¼ inch by 16 inch tray is marked, “Standard Adv. Co. Coshocton. O.” lower inner rim (est. $4,000-$6,000).

- A rare ‘Berlin’ Lion Brewery tin litho sign, Canadian, 1901, the only example known, 14 inches by 19 inches (sight, less oak frame), the center depicting a lion’s head cartouche flanked with hop leaves. Scripted “C.N. Huether, Prop.” at bottom (est. $4,000-$6,000).

- A Dawes Lachine Brewery single-sided porcelain sign, Canadian, circa 1890s. 30 inches by 19 inches, with excellent color and gloss. An early, pre-Dawes Black Horse Brewery sign, says “Dawes Lachine Ales & Porter” with black horse graphic (est. $4,000-$6,000).

- A Kuntz’s Brewery ‘Bologna Girl’ beer tray, Canadian, 1900s. Lithographed steel and marked, “Kaufmann & Strauss Co. NY 1277”. 13 inches diameter (est. $3,000-$5,000).

An 1878 agricultural patent model for the “Lady Dufferin” reaper – a painstakingly sophisticated working scale model of a reaping machine, with functioning sail blades, fans and height setting, made by C.A. Davidson (Mount Forest, Ontario), should reach $4,000-$6,000; while a Sawyer-Massey 1-inch scale plowing engine working model, made in the 1950s out of steel and brass by W.E. Deering of Surrey, B.C., still in its original custom case, has an estimate of $3,500-$5,000.

Lifesize store display mannequins of the iconic American toy dolls Ken and Barbie, each one 75 inches in height and made around 1960, will be sold as one lot, with an estimate of $3,500-$5,000. Also, a model of the Bassett-Lowke Model ‘S’ class destroyer (English, 1930), featuring a solid wood hull and lead keel, moveable guns and torpedoes and a clockwork mechanism, 36 inches in length and displayed in a custom case, carries a pre-sale estimate of $2,000-$3,000.

A Space Models UK scale cutaway model of an Air Canada Boeing 767 plane, made in England in the 1980s (at an original cost to Air Canada of $32,500), 65 inches long, made from Fiberglass and repainted, with all glass perfect and interior components secure, should fly away for $4,000-$6,000; while a “one-off 7-foot scale model of the celebrated Wardair Canada Boeing 747, also by Space Models UK, made in England in the 1960s, 76 inches long, should hit $3,500-$5,000.

A National Cash Register Company floor model 106-6-A, one of NCR’s most visually impressive and complex machines, built for “D.W. Henry, Springfield, Ont.”, 65 inches tall, fully functioning and professionally restored, is estimated to cash out at $3,500-$6,000. Also, a rare and early Bell Canada mahogany 3-box magneto wall telephone containing the early “Blake Transmitter” invented in 1878 by Francis Blake, circa 1880s, is expected to bring $2,000-$3,000.

Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and MillerandMillerAuctions.com. A safe-viewing preview (where all COVID-19 protocols will be in place and observed) will be held December 9-11, from 1-5 pm Eastern time in the Miller & Miller Auctions gallery located at 59 Webster Street, New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Masks will be required of all those attending.

To learn more about Miller & Miller Auctions and the Advertising & Historic Objects online auction scheduled for Saturday, December 12th at 6 pm Eastern time, please visit www.MillerandMillerAuctions.com. Updates are posted frequently.

About Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd.:
Miller & Miller Auctions is Canada’s trusted seller of high-value collections and is always accepting quality consignments. The firm specializes in watches and jewelry, art, antiques and high-value collectibles. Its mission is to provide collectors with a trusted place to buy and sell. To consign a single piece, an estate or a collection, you may call them at (519) 573-3710; or, e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. To learn more about Miller & Miller Auctions, please visit www.MillerandMillerAuctions.com.

Säm Wilder’s first project, Homebound, is an eight-track EP, composed of songs he wrote while in the US.

Hollywood, CA., November 27, 2020 -- Sam Wilder’s first project, Homebound, is an eight-track EP, composed of songs he wrote while in the US. He experiments with his many voices in music driven by a wide range of instruments, including synth keys, bossa nova samples, electric guitar, and larger-than-life vocal harmonies. Lead singles “Overtime”, “Fiending”, and “Sunlight” were just a taste of his unique approach to music. 

All tracks on Homebound could be classified as pop, but Säm keeps finding original ways to showcase his understanding of arrangement and progression throughout the EP, leading to every track having a different form of innovative songwriting and structure. With the number of unconventional elements in the songs, Homebound could easily be labeled as a genre-bending effort, with mixes that sound massive and radio-ready. Säm Wilder shows how wildly eclectic he can be here, and that’s working in his favor to establish a unique sound we’ve never heard before.
 
The message of Homebound can apply to everyone who has been affected by being stuck in their own house or away from their family because of quarantine. The main theme is perseverance found in the helplessness of things beyond your control.

On Homebound, Säm sings about being away from those you love, confused by the position you’re in, but never portray any real hopelessness. Instead, e.g. on the closer “Bring it Home,” Säm sings about how he can’t give up, and that he will relentlessly keep pursuing his dreams, regardless of any unexpected circumstances. Säm hadn’t seen his family in years, but he knew he would one day. The same can be said to everyone bound to their home by today’s pandemic – bide your time and don’t lose hope. Eventually, you’ll get what you’ve been waiting for.
 
Homebound speaks to us all musically and lyrically. It is a release you should not miss out on this year.

Listen and Purchase Homebound: https://smarturl.it/samwilder_homebound

Contact:
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Sam Wilder
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