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Vandals Swipe Joan of Arc’s Sword, Capone Letter Sells for $62K, and More Fresh News

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Joan of Arc statue in Meridian Hill Park, Washington, D.C. Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Joan of Arc statue in Meridian Hill Park, Washington, D.C. Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • National Park Service officials are trying to find out who stole the sword from the Joan of Arc statue in Washington, D.C.’s Meridian Hill Park. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time the statue has been vandalized. [Read more from the Associated Press]
  • Believe it or not, Al Capone had a softer side. A letter the mobster wrote to his son from Alcatraz, which he signed “Love & Kisses, Your Dear Dad Alphonse Capone,” has sold at auction to a Chicago-area collector for $62,000. [Read more from the Chicago Tribune]
  • The glamour of a Concorde flight will be revisited in November with the auction of 1,000+ lots of in-flight mementos ranging from menus to life jackets. Even lavatory sinks and a Concorde-branded toilet seat will be up for grabs. [Read more from Conde Nast Traveler]
  • A collection of hundreds of teapots amassed by a man who “never touched a drop” has sold at a UK auction for more than $100,000. Teapot fanciers bid from as far away as Japan and Taiwan. [Read more from BBC News]

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