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Florida Doctor Trying to Sell 1959 Masters Jacket Thinks Golf Club's Claims to Ownership Are Bull

Last Tuesday, Dallas County District Judge Emily Tobolowsky temporary halted Heritage Auctions' planned sale of the 1959 Masters green jacket. Augusta National, the famed Georgia golf club that hosts the tournament, had sued Heritage to have the auction stopped, claiming that the jacket had been sto ... More >>

A Dallas Judge Halted Heritage Auctions' Sale of the 1959 Masters Green Jacket [Updated]

Update at 4:02 p.m.: Heritage has issued a statement: "Yesterday the Augusta National Golf Club filed suit against Heritage Auctions over the Art Wall's 1959 Green Master's jacket being offered in an upcoming sale in New York City. Prior to their filling the lawsuit, Augusta National did not conta ... More >>

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Ty, the Tyrannosaurus Sold by Dallas-Based Heritage Auctions, Gets the New Yorker Treatment

The saga of Ty, the Tyrannosaurus bataar fossil smuggled out of Mongolia and into a May 2012 sale by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, effectively came to a close last month when Eric Prokopi, the "commercial paleontologist" behind the sale, pleaded guilty to illegally smuggling the specimen into the ... More >>

Florida Man Who Sold a Tyrannosaurus Fossil Through Heritage Auctions Pleads to Smuggling the Dino from Mongolia

Back in May, Houston attorney Robert Painter got a panicked dispatch from the president of Mongolia: A 70 million-year-old Tyranosaurus bataar skeleton that had been illegally smuggled from the country was about to hit the auction block, and the sale must be stopped. Painter leaped into action. He ... More >>

Fossil Dealer Fires Back in Custody Battle Over Dinosaur Skeleton

Two months ago, a judge in New York granted a request by the U.S. government issued a warrant for the arrest of one Tyrannosaurus bataar. The dinosaur's skeleton, which Dallas-based Heritage Auctions had attempted to sell the previous month, was suspected of being in the country illegally, having be ... More >>

Homeland Security Arrests Dinosaur Believed to Be in Country Illegally

Earlier this week, a federal judge signed an order directing the U.S. government to take possession of the Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton that had been sold last month by Dallas' own Heritage Auctions. The fossil, the government said, had been looted from the Gobi Desert some time between 1995 and 2 ... More >>

Get Annie's Gun (And Hat) at Heritage Auctions on Sunday

The A.P. is reporting that Heritage Auctions, the purveyor of valuable and collectible arcana, is hawking the hat and guns of Annie Oakley, the famed sharpshooter who could split a playing card, edge-on, with a bullet. The items, which are being put up for sale by some of Oakley's California-based ... More >>

Heritage Auctions Working With Mongolia to Determine if Dinosaur it Sold is, in Fact, Mongolian

Update at 2:30 p.m.: Just got off the phone with Jim Halperin, Heritage Auction co-chairman who confirms that the Observer is a force for peace and good in the world and that it was indeed our blog post that prompted him to reach out to Painter. As for what happens if the dinosaur turns out to be M ... More >>

Heritage Auctions is Being Sued by Mongolia -- Yes, the Country -- Over the Sale of a Dinosaur

My 3-year-old son is crushed. Yesterday, his dad was about $1,052,480 shy of purchasing a 75 percent complete fossil skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, sold by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. Or at least I would have been had I put in a bid. It's just as well, though, because whoever purchased the ... More >>

Texas Lawmakers Bravely Stand For Astronauts' Rights ... To Hawk Space Souvenirs

NASA was perturbed when Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell auctioned his checklist from the ill-fated mission through Dallas-based Heritage Auctions back in December. So perturbed, in fact, that NASA general counsel asked the auctioneer to halt the nearly $400,000 sale so that proof of ownership could b ... More >>

600 Elsbeth, Site of Rotting Apartment Complex In Which Lee Oswald Once Lived, Is For Sale

​Speaking of the assassination of John F. Kennedy ...For a long while now we've written about the ongoing fight between the city of Dallas and Jane Bryant, owner of the decaying apartment complex on 600 Elsbeth near Bishop Arts where, in 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald and wife Marina briefly lived. Just ... More >>

For Sale: "Most Complete, Correct Map Ever Compiled and Drawn" of Dallas. From 1882.

​Back in October 2010 Schutze and I really did spend a good half hour poring over The Official Map of Dallas from 1875, which Heritage Auctions never did did sell off; guess the $1,500 asking price was a bit steep, though I see here you're still free to make the owner an offer. I also see Heritage ... More >>

For Sale: A Mural Study For Frisco Done in '59 By Famed Member of Dallas Nine, Perry Nichols

eBay seller "wpa_fan"Perry Nichols' The Game, which once decorated the side of the Frisco Community Center, as you can see below​Even if the name Perry Nichols escapes you, and it likely does, the work does not. The Woodrow grad's art surrounds us even now, some two decades after his death -- at t ... More >>

Heritage to Sell Odd Bit of Cotton Bowl History. Turns Out, the City Has Its Own Stash o' Seats.

Heritage Auction Galleries​For the longest time I've had this auction item sitting on my desktop: a chair said to be from the Cotton Bowl circa 1960-'62, during the Dallas Texans' days at Fair Park. Heritage is parting with the curio this weekend, during the same auction at which it's offering the ... More >>

For Sale: Rangers Jersey Worn by Team's First Manager, Some Dude Named Ted Williams

Courtesy Heritage Auctions​Spent the better part of last night re-re-re-re-re-reading Mike Shropshire's Seasons in Hell, about the '73 to '75 Texas Rangers, which wasn't really the worst team in baseball, though it makes a great story. (The '74 Rangers finished second in the AL West, behind Oaklan ... More >>

For Sale, a Very Rare Keepsake From When The Byrds Played the Forest Ballroom in June 1968

Heritage Auction Galleries​Says here the the Forest Theater was built in '47; my father, who grew up a few blocks over on Park Row, recalls how, in the mid-'50s, Shearith Israel used the movie theater for High Holiday services when they were finishing out the synagogue's present-day location on Wa ... More >>

Hey, Times Herald Readers, Remember When Spider-Man Used to Shop at Sanger-Harris?

​While we wait for some return calls, let's set aside the heavy lifting for this never-before-seen flashback about to go on sale on Heritage Auction Galleries's website: a might-be-unreleased John Romita Sr. drawing done for a Sanger-Harris giveaway comic intended to be stuffed into a Dallas Times ... More >>

Does JOT the Dot Jog Your Memory, Oh, Longtime Local? Because Its Cels Are For Sale.

A close-up look at one of the JOT the Dot cels about to hit the auction block​I called Heritage Auction Galleries PR man Noah Fleisher about something we'd mentioned long ago when he asked, out of nowhere, "Do you remember JOT the Dot?" Oh, sweet fancy Moses. Barely."Is that the Presbyterian Perio ... More >>

Ten Sports Items From Yesterday That, In My Humble Opinion, Are Worth a Look-See

What's Favre's legacy? You tell me.​10. Christmas came early for Mavs fans, as Dallas ended the Heat's 12-game winning streak with an entertaining 98-96 victory last night in Miami. My wrap-up is forthcoming, but until then, Wilonsky over at Unfair Park showed us the team's official Christmas gift ... More >>

For Sale: Some of the Most Important Paintings in Dallas Times Herald (And Dallas) History

At left is Allen Merriman, editor emeritus; at right, James Chambers, a publisher​Speaking of fine art ...Tuesday morning, our editorial assistant got the phone call. The voice on the other end of the line whispered: Someone has just brought to Consignment Heaven dozens of pieces taken out of the ... More >>

What the Helmet? Cowboys Auctioning Off Coolest, Kitschiest Item for Salvation Army.

Three views of the same helmet. You can embiggen all you want. Still can't see everything.​Yesterday, while looking for something entirely unrelated on Heritage Auction Galleries' website, I came across this what-the-what: Dallas Cowboys 50th Anniversary Celebratory Helmet Created by 3-D Pop Artis ... More >>

Buy This: Closing the Door on Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald's Former Oak Cliff Apartment

​Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald's old Oak Cliff apartment -- the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn't officially go ... More >>

Good Godfather! Al Pacino's Bringing a Greatest-Hits One-Man Show to AT&TPAC in November.

​Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-'11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS -- quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the atten ... More >>

Still, Glenn Ford's Hideous Couch Will Really Tie the Room Together

The Flynn Flask Man

Che Guevara's Hair Sells for $119,000 to Houston Man Who Loves to Shop

Selling Stevie Ray

The Dean's List

Bob Dylan for Sale

A local auction house gets its hands on a differet sort of basement tapes

Whose Balls Are Worth More?

History for Sale

Heritage Auction Galleries made a fortune selling rare coins. Now it’s making a mint offering gems from America’s rich past.