Offered will be English and Continental antiques, clocks, fine jewelry, watches, silver, porcelain, antiquities, fine art, modern design, antique carpets and luxury items, starting at 10 am Pacific. Online bidding will be on three platforms.By: Andrew Jones AuctionsFrench ebony and marquetry commode, Francois LinkeContactAileen Ward***@andrewjonesauctions.comPhoto:https://www.prlog.org/ 13080513/1 Aileen WardEnd-- Andrew Jones Auctions Design for the Home and Garden auction on Wednesday, June 25th, will feature over 350 lots of English and Continental antiques, clocks, fine jewelry, watches, silver, porcelain, antiquities, fine art, modern design, antique carpets and luxury items.The auction will begin at 10am Pacific time, live in the Andrew Jones Auctions gallery at 2221 South Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles, and via telephone and online, at AndrewJonesAuctions.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Previews will be held in the gallery June 23and 24, from 10am-5pm both days.The fine jewelry selection features pieces by Asprey, Bvlgari and Cartier, including a Bvlgari diamond, silver, 18K gold and Roman coin Monete necklace, expected to bring $15,000-$20,000;and a Cartier carved emerald bead, diamond, sapphire, ruby and 18K gold necklace with a pre-sale estimate of $8,000-$12,000.Wristwatches will include a Jaeger Le Coutre Reverso Duoface 18K rose gold strap wristwatch with an estimate of $4,000-$6,000;a Breguet watch, and a minute repeating 18K Audemars Piguet pocket watch expected to realize $6,000-$8,000.Gilded Age furniture, decorative arts, sculpture and clocks will be led by an important early 20century Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted kingwood, bois satiné, ebony and marquetry commode à vantaux by François Linke, index number 559 bis, the mounts designed by Leon Messagé (estimate: $50,000-$70,000). A version of the piece highlighted Linke's gold medal-winning display at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. It's believed to be the fourth and previously unknown example of the model to come to auction.Also included are a pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted acajou moucheté and ebony side cabinets by Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley, late 19th century (estimate: $10,000-$15,000);and a Napoleon III gilt bronze and porcelain mounted inlaid tulipwood art case upright piano, the case by Monbro, the movement by Erard (estimate: $2,000-$3,000)There is a plethora of bronze and marble sculpture of Classical and mythological subjects, including a white marble bust of Helen of Troy after Antonio Canova, 19th century (estimate: $700-$900); a Roman marble torso fragment of Diana, probably 1st-2nd C.E. (estimate: $10,000-$15,000);and a dramatic French patinated bronze figural group of the Trojan priest Laocoön and his two sons (estimate: $4,000-$6,000)To learn more about Andrew Jones Auctions and the Design for the Home and Garden auction on June 25th, visit www.AndrewJonesAuctions.com, or call 213-748-8008

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Featured: German SS general's uniform, WWII Japanese general's uniform and USMC Korean War flamethrower from Virginia military museum; engraved WWII Luftwaffe dagger, MacArthur dog tagWILLOUGHBY, Ohio, June 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- American military history, from the Civil War through Vietnam, will be revisited and honored on June 29 at Milestone's Premier Military Auction, with all forms of remote bidding available in addition to in-person bidding at the gallery. The 700-lot selection is topped by a US Navy D-Day archive whose centerpiece is a 48-star Ensign #10 American Battle Flag flown on LCI-538 during the "first wave" to land at Omaha Beach during the Invasion of Normandy, on June 6, 1944.Historically important US Navy D-Day grouping including D-Day Ensign #10 American Battle Flag flown on LCI-538 during first wave at Omaha Beach, Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. Provenance: Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class Frank R Maratea, who was aboard the ship during the invasion. Includes WWII US Navy Commission streamer flag, Maratea’s Honorable Discharge, original photographs on deck of LCI-538 and on Omaha Beach, 50th Anniversary Reunion ephemera, more. Estimate: $40,000-$60,000 US Marine Corps M2-A1 flamethrower, variant of, and successor to, the model used extensively in the Pacific Theater in WWII. This example is fitted with M2-2-style hourglass-shape backpack frame, improved valves, regulators and capacity