Freeman's Hindman

US auction house Freeman's Hindman was formed after the merger of two of America's top regional firms, Freeman's and Hindman. The first sales under the new brand took place in early 2024.

With multiple salerooms and regional offices, it claims to have ‘the largest, coast-to-coast presence of any auction house in the United States’.

Freeman's was founded in Philadelphia in 1805 (America’s oldest auction house) and the company remained in the hands of the Freeman family for six generations until a management buyout in 2016. Hindman was founded by Leslie Hindman in Chicago in 1982 and, as well as operating elsewhere in the US, held its first sales series in New York in October 2023.


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Chinese ‘aubergine’ cup ascends well above estimate

26 May 2025

Guided at $60,000-80,000, a Yixing stoneware ‘aubergine’ cup was the breakout star of Freeman’s Hindman (26% buyer’s premium) Asian Works of Art sale in New York, held during the Spring 2025 Asia Week.

Abraham Lincoln gloves

Record for Lincoln memorabilia as bloodstained gloves take $1.2m

23 May 2025

A consignment of historic material relating to Abraham Lincoln drew extensive interest at Freeman's Hindman in Chicago on May 21. The sale included a pair of the gloves that posted an auction record for any artefact related to the US President.

Abraham Lincoln's gloves

‘One of the most important Lincoln collections ever brought to market’

19 May 2025

Auction house Freeman's Hindman is offering an extensive collection of historic materials relating to US President Abraham Lincoln.

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Key text by Locke takes $120,000

12 May 2025

A recent Freeman’s Hindman (28/27% buyer’s premium) sale in Chicago included a first edition of John Locke’s foundational text on civil society and the nature of government 'Two Treatises of Government….'

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'Hidden in a skirt' to escape the Nazis, now sold at auction

31 March 2025

Carl (1883-1946) and Rosa Askonas (1891-1980), were the toast of 1920s Austrian society.

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Man’s best friend is best seller as canine art stars in US saleroom

31 March 2025

The February 14 sale at Freeman’s Hindman (27% buyer’s premium) was dubbed Interiors featuring a Collection of Canine Art.

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Asian works bring thrills to Freeman’s Hindman debut at Asia Week NY

28 March 2025

Freeman’s Hindman is represented in 18 cities across the United States and operates six salerooms, more than any other auction house in the country.

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Latest Movers & Shakers including a new marketing chief at Freeman’s Hindman

14 January 2025

The latest jobs moves and appointments across the world of art and antiques

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First known ‘romantic’ photograph of an interracial couple in the US comes to auction

03 October 2024

On October 26, Freeman’s Hindman in Cincinnati will offer what is believed to be the first American photograph of a romantically posed interracial couple.

Bastille sketch

Contemporaneous sketch of the demolished Bastille makes $1.6m at Freeman’s Hindman

10 September 2024

A sketch which was given by the Marquis de Lafayette to the first American president George Washington sold for $1.6m (£1.22m) at an auction in Philadelphia earlier today.

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Album evokes memories of Ulysses S Grant

02 September 2024

The top lot in the American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online sale at Freeman’s Hindman (27/21/15% buyer’s premium) in Chicago was an album published in 1886 to mark the death of President Ulysses S Grant.

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Huntsmen vase rides to over 40 times estimate

05 August 2024

This unusual famille rose ‘cong’ form vase is finely painted with scenes of huntsmen, two with camels and two on horses.

The Destruction of the Bastille drawing

Lafayette’s gift to George Washington: Important visual record of the Bastille comes to auction

30 July 2024

A sketch of the Bastille executed only weeks after it fell during the French Revolution has emerged at auction in the US.

Sotheby’s Global Fine Art team

Movers & Shakers: the latest art and antiques appointments including a shake-up in Sotheby's fine art team

15 July 2024

Changes to Sotheby's Global Fine Art leadership team feature among the latest recruitment, promotions and business updates

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Poetry work that awakened the genius of John Keats

15 July 2024

Only 29 books from the library of John Keats are recorded - among them a 1679 printing of the collected works of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser given to him by the artist Joseph Severn (1793-1879).

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Illustration done on a grand scale: fantastic fish watercolours from naturalist Sarah Bowdich Lee

15 July 2024

Naturalist produced a fish-focused work featuring nearly 3000 original watercolours across 50 copies

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Franklin found in Italy bears striking similarity to well-known portrait

03 June 2024

Recently found in Italy, a previously unrecorded portrait of Benjamin Franklin sold at Freeman’s Hindman (27/21/15% buyer's premium) in Philadelphia for $30,000 (£24,000).

Limoges panel

Super Bowl founder’s Limoges plaques fly to 34 times estimate in Florida auction

29 May 2024

An exceptional pair of 16th century Limoges enamels attracted remarkable interest after emerging for sale in Florida.

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Memphis Milano made its mark

27 May 2024

The Memphis Miliano design movement was born on the evening of December 11, 1980, when architect-designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) invited young creators and architects to discuss the future of Italian ‘post-modern’ design.

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Chinese vase goes over the moon with 140-times estimate price

29 April 2024

The stand-out performance in the March series of Asian art sales was a Qing monochrome clair-de-lune bottle vase offered by Freeman’s Hindman (26% buyer’s premium) in Chicago on March 24.

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