Upcoming Art Auction a ‘Rare Opportunity’ for Collectors
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A look into the world of art glass paperweights as we preview an upcoming auction.
“A fragment of a dream” is how Truman Capote described a glass paperweight. There are hundreds of those pieces of dreams in the famous Rubloff Collection of Paperweights at the Art Institute of Chicago. Now a local art gallery is preparing to auction off a portion of that collection, with the sales going to the museum and a nonprofit. “Chicago Tonight” got a preview of this uncommon event.
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Upcoming Art Auction a ‘Rare Opportunity’ for Collectors
Clip: 9/5/2016 | 4m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
“A fragment of a dream” is how Truman Capote described a glass paperweight. There are hundreds of those pieces of dreams in the famous Rubloff Collection of Paperweights at the Art Institute of Chicago. Now a local art gallery is preparing to auction off a portion of that collection, with the sales going to the museum and a nonprofit. “Chicago Tonight” got a preview of this uncommon event.
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