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10/05/2026

Congratulations to the new owners of these treasures from the October 2nd Gallery Auction. Alex Cooper is now accepting consignments of art and more for upcoming auctions.⁠
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10/04/2026

Congratulations to the new owners of these treasures from the October 1st Gallery Auction. Alex Cooper is now accepting consignments of Jewelry and more for upcoming auctions.⁠
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09/30/2026

Dale Chihuly "Roman Red Seaform Pair," Lot 1504

Thin as a shell and just as unwilling to sit still.
Chihuly began the Seaforms in 1980, working out of the ribbed molds he had been using for his Basket series. The corrugation was a structural trick as much as an aesthetic one. Those undulating lines let him blow the glass thinner than it had any right to be while keeping the walls from collapsing, which is how a piece this delicate holds a shape that looks like it is still moving. He nested the forms inside one another, one vessel cradling the next, so the light has to pass through two layers of red before it reaches you.
This pair comes from the American master's studio inscribed Chihuly PP06 and includes its original display case. Exterior form approximately 3 3/4 in. H, 11 1/2 in. Diam. Interior form approximately 4 1/2 in. H, 10 in. W, 8 1/4 in. D.

Estimate: $3,000 to $5,500
Auction Day: October 2

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09/30/2026

Herend "Chinois Shanghai" Tureen with Underplate, Lot 1453

Hungary's answer to the Chinese export porcelain that filled Europe's cabinets for two hundred years.
The Herend manufactory opened in 1826 in a village west of Budapest, and by mid century it had built its reputation on a particular kind of ambition. Aristocratic families across the Habsburg empire owned incomplete services of Chinese and Meissen porcelain, pieces broken or lost over generations with no way to replace them. Herend made the replacements. The painters studied the originals closely enough to match them, and in doing so absorbed the chinoiserie vocabulary into patterns of their own.
Shanghai is one of those. Every element here is hand painted, the gilding applied by hand as well, with branch form handles at the sides and crowning the lid. Marked on the bottom, underplate #2102 SH, tureen #2007 SH. Underplate 1 1/2 in. H, 15 in. L, 11 in. D.
Estimate: $1,000 to $1,200
Auction Day: October 2

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09/29/2026

Riker Brothers Art Nouveau Dragon Bangle, Lot 150

Dragons the whole way around. No front, no back.
Riker Brothers worked out of Newark, which by the 1890s was turning out more fine jewelry than anywhere else in the country. They get remembered for their plique-à-jour enamel, but the mythical creatures were the real signature: griffins, basilisks, serpents, dragons. Here they alternate with scrolling stations across the full circumference of a 14K yellow gold oval bangle, so the pattern never breaks. 10.2 mm wide, 17.8 grams, 2 5/8 in. interior diameter. Signed.

Auction Day: October 1
Estimate: $1,200 to $1,600

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09/27/2026

Enamel Tiger Brooch with Emerald Eyes, Lot 2036

Two emerald cabochons set into a tiger's head that weighs nearly three ounces.
The gold is engraved all over to read as fur; the stripes are laid in with black and white enamel. Italian workshops built their reputation on exactly this in the mid-century: animal jewelry that appears whimsical from across a room and becomes obsessive up close. 18K yellow gold, 2 3/4 in. across, 86.1 grams. It has a double-pronged pin back with hooks so the piece can also hang from a chain.
From the collection of Thomas J. DePrince, who spent a lifetime buying for beauty, rarity, and workmanship. Antiques were the hobby. Fine jewelry and watches were the obsession.

Auction Day: September 30
Estimate: $6,000 to $8,000

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09/22/2026

Gottlieb "James Bond" 1980 Pinball Machine, Lot 1006

The clock decides when your game ends, not the ball count.
Gottlieb shipped this in October 1980 with an idea nobody asked for. You started with 50 Time Units and kept playing as long as the clock held out. Players hated it. Operators tried to send the machines back, and Gottlieb eventually cut new ROMs to convert the game to normal three or five ball play. Only 3,625 were built. It's a widebody cabinet with four flippers, art by Doug Watson, and Roger Moore era Bond across the backglass with Jaws lunging in from the corner. The thing that sank it in 1980 is most of why collectors want it now.

Auction Day: October 2
Estimate: $1,000 to $2,000

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09/21/2026

1987 Australian Nugget Two Coin Proof Set, Lot 602
A tenth of an ounce and a quarter ounce of .9999 gold, housed in a box made from the Jarrah tree, which grows in only one corner of Western Australia.
The Nugget series was one year old in 1987, and the early issues earned their name honestly with famous Australian gold nuggets on the reverse. Kangaroos didn't arrive until 1990. Proofs were struck in much smaller numbers than the bullion strikes, and only 2,690 of these two coin sets exist.

Auction Day: October 1
Estimate: $1,500 to $2,000

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