The weather may have been iffy but the Mancuso New Hope Winter Antiques Show was a sure bet for patrons who bought family treasures at this Bucks County event.

Focusing on the Twentieth Century renaissance of printmaking, “Presses, Pop and Pomade: American Prints Since the Sixties” is the subject of an exhibit currently open at Vassar College.

Hefty end-of-year bonuses, mild weather, and more receptions and special events than ever triggered a boom in attendance and sales at the 52nd Winter Antiques Show.

Sotheby’s Americana Week Sales Total $24,693,680

At the Birchwood Manor Antiques Show on January 6-8, art glass, silver, jewelry, fine art, Asiatic, bronzes, lighting and Continental furniture were fit to be seen.

Years from now collectors will hark back on the January 7 auction in Newport Beach conducted by Theriault’s as perhaps the most significant doll auction of its time.

Native American, pre-Columbian and tribal art was offered and sold by Bonhams & Butterfields, setting world-record auction prices for multiple lots from a noted private collection.

The Providence Athenaeum copy of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America was purchased by an American private collector at Christie’s for $5,616,000.

The two-session Christie’s sale of the Wildenstein collection of French furniture, objets d’art and tapestries on December 14 and 15 realized $38.8 million.

The Hispanic Society of America is exhibiting watercolors, gouaches and illustrations of Daniel Urrabieta Vierge (1851-1904) from February 16 to April 23.