Ancient Resource Auctions

A one-owner coin and antiquities business in the Los Angeles area, Ancient Resource is run by Gabriel Vandervort, who the firm says worked as a producer and writer for the History Channel before it began^1,5. Its start date varies by source: the homepage says 1998, the contact page 2004, and the Better Business Bureau gives 31 October 2003^1,2,7. LiveAuctioneers states that it was incorporated in 2008 as a live auction house³. The office is in Glendale, by appointment, with a mailing address in Montrose². The firm is a charter member of the Association of Dealers & Collectors of Ancient & Ethnographic Art, and trade press names the entity AR Auction Group, LLC^1,8.

Its specialities are Roman and Greek coins and Egyptian, Roman, Medieval, Byzantine and Pre-Columbian antiquities¹. Cypriot lots appear in its sales from 2013 to 2021, numbering 35 in 2013 and 12 in 2021 on the Invaluable records⁴. They are mostly Red Polished and White Painted juglets and bowls, Late Cypriot bilbils and tankards, Bichrome jugs, and terracotta warriors, riders, chariot groups and heads, with estimates usually between USD 150 and 1,250⁴. A Cypriot alabaster dish was a top lot of Auction 85 in 2020⁸. Cypriot lots from Auction 88, held on 2 and 16 October 2021, appear on the firm's unsold-lots page⁶.