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Thanks to a partnership with GoAntiques, Inc., which has just signed contracts with Phillips de Pury & Company, Stanley Gibbons Auctions, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Rago Arts and Auction Center, Price It! Antiques & Collectibles is the only product that offers land-based and online auction pricing . These bricks-and-mortar auction houses join a host of online sites, such as eBay, GoAntiques and TIAS.com, to provide users with specialized valuation data on sales of art, collectibles and antiques.

Phillips de Pury & Company, founded in 1796, is one of the world’s largest auction houses. They have conducted sales for many notable historical figures, including Marie Antoinette, Beau Brummel and Napoleon. They also are the only auction house to have held a sale in Buckingham Palace.

From a fledgling auction house holding its first auction in October 1901, Stanley Gibbons Auctions has grown into one of the largest and most respected auction houses in the United Kingdom. They handled the ‘Mey’ collection of Great Britain's King George VI and The ‘Romano’ collection of  King Edward VII, as well as the Ashanti’ Gold Coast collection which realized £85,000 and included rare items of postal history.

Rago Arts and Auction Center was established by David Rago, a leading dealer in American art pottery and an appraiser for the hit PBS television show Antiques Roadshow, in 1995. Rago Arts & Auction Center is one of the foremost auction houses in the country specializing in decorative arts, furnishings, fine art and jewelry.

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers has been one of the Midwest’s leading fine art auctioneers since 1982. In 1997, the firm was acquired by Sotheby’s and the founder, Leslie Hindman, went on to host two highly-rated, nationally-televised programs on Home and Garden Television (HGTV), ‘At the Auction with Leslie Hindman’ and ‘The Appraisal Fair.’ Hindman returned to the auction business in July 2003.

Other land-based auction houses with data included in the Price It! Antiques and Collectibles database include:

• Premier Auctions, specializing in sports memorabilia
• Manitou Galleries, specializing in contemporary representational art encompassing the traditional styles of realism, impressionism, expressionism and stylistic interpretation
• East Australian Trading Consolidated, specializing in international tribal and aboriginal art, artifacts and antiquities
• Westbridge Fine Art Auction House, a division of Westbridge Fine Art Ltd. Auctioneer, specializing in 19th and early 20th century paintings
• Diverse Equities, specializing in coins and numismatics

Price It! Antiques and Collectibles is the most comprehensive antiques and collectible pricing tool in the world, delivering more than 10 million images, 125 searchable categories and intuitive search functionality, and more than 20 million realized prices on treasures nearly 30 percent of Americans collect, buy and trade.

For more information, contact Vanessa Birch at 248-699-8193 or vanessa.birch@cengage.com.

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