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(Auction)The Henry Fitz Jr. Archive of Photographic History
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
When Hindman sold one of the earliest surviving photographic portraits on November 15 in Cincinnati, Ohio, it was the quiet culmination of a chain of events that mixed intrigue, luck, history, science, and a bit of disappointment. The daguerreotype, a profile view of Henry Fitz Jr. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marathon Three-Session Sale Topped by Winslow Homer Painting
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston Maine, headed by Kaja Veilleux, continues to buck the recent trend of auction houses holding smaller and more tightly curated auctions. Instead Thomaston Place is sticking to its tried-and-true strategy-mega-lot sales held over several days. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bill Traylor Work Leads Slotin Auction
Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
Self-taught artists, a.k.a. Outsider artists, and the works they produce are often thought of as being not the norm, and rightfully so. Unique, avant-garde, and bizarre are all terms used to describe such creations. But as more artists are "found," ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Record Gate at Rural Life
Rural Life Antique Show, Tuscola, Illinois
Rural Life Antique Show lost an important venue for its fall edition, held November 12 and 13 in Tuscola, Illinois, but promoter Donna Kidwell found a replacement that kept the show at three locations. It seemed a moot point to buyers, who once again crowded ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Cobbs Is a Family Affair
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy The Cobbs Auctioneers
It would be hard not to find something of interest at auctions presented by The Cobbs Auctioneers in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Bidders at the November 13 auction in the mill building along the Contoocook River at Noone Falls went home happy ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spirited Buying at Country Spirit
Country Spirit Antique Show, Arcola, Illinois
In the years that Jill Mattingly has promoted the Country Spirit Antique Show, she has developed "a thing." That extra something has varied over time and has included short Facebook videos just before the show's opening in which the dealers described a favorite piece in ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Prairie
Arthur, Illinois
Hours into A Gathering on the Prairie on November 13 in Arthur, Illinois, one antiques dealer described the abundant sales of furniture and high-end smalls that day as "crazy." It doesn't really matter who made the statement, as it could have been nearly any of the 56 dealers-business across ... (Read More)
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(Show)Homesteaders Folk Art & Antiques Show
Arthur, Illinois
After an absence of a year and a half, Homesteaders Folk Art & Antiques Show (also known as Homesteaders on the Prairie) returned to Arthur, Illinois, November 12 and 13.
The large barrel, priced at $295, was seen later that day in the back of a pickup truck at an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Civil War Collection of James C. Frasca
Hindman Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
A blanket. Hardtack. A sewing kit. Such innocuous objects carried by common soldiers during the Civil War were at the heart of the collection of James C. Frasca (1950-2019). More important items punctuated the collection, more valuable items. But the foundation for that collection ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoys and More
Guyette & Deeter, Easton, Maryland
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
It was a big couple of days for birds and carvers at Guyette & Deeter's November 10 and 11 live auction at the Talbot County Community Center in Easton, Maryland, where the seasonal migration of decoys and other folk art from one ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Flags and More: Americana at Freeman's
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's Americana sale on November 10 began with flags from the collection of Dr. Jeffrey Kenneth Kohn, an early collector, scholar, and dealer in American flags. Of the 50 lots of flags, related stands, and uniforms offered, 30 sold for some of the highest prices in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, November 2021
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Delaware Show
Delaware Antiques Show, Wilmington, Delaware
The Delaware Antiques Show, a benefit for educational programming at Winterthur, was live at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware, November 5-7, with a preview party on Thursday, November 4. During the preview, dealers and collectors were so glad to see each after ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art Show
Art Dealers Association of America, New York City
Pops of color were visible throughout the drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory for The Art Show, a four-day event organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and held November 4-7. The event was rescheduled from its customary late February ... (Read More)
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(Auction)It's No Mystery: A Van Cleef & Arpels Mystery Set Brooch
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
This Van Cleef & Arpels platinum, ruby, and diamond Mystery Set brooch, circa 1935, employs the technique patented by the company in 1933 by which stones are set with no visible prongs. The brooch, estimated at $70,000/100,000, sold for $781,250 to a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maps Mark Successful Americana Sale
Withington Auctions, Inc., Hillsborough, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Withington Auctions
Back to the future or some iteration of the same occurred at Withington Auctions' pre-Veterans Day Americana auction held on November 6 in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Once again, Withington Auctions was offering fine Americana-and in the hometown of Dick Withington (1918-2008), the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)On the Market
Beneath the Surface
There must be something about humans that makes us like to critique other people's choices and to see how ours compare. That's the very essence of some of our earliest prehistoric interactions, such as games-comparing one set of skills against another. And what were acts such as putting ... (Read More)
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(Show)Raleigh Returns: The Antiques Extravaganza
Raleigh, North Carolina
The November 2020 Antiques Extravaganza in Raleigh, North Carolina, was a show without much of an audience. Poor attendance and the fear of COVID-19 by patrons and dealers led the promoters to cancel the March and July 2021 Extravaganzas. By November fear had lessened, and with 52 dealers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rockwell Painting Sells for $4.3 Million
Heritage Auctions, Dallas Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A heartwarming scene by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) of a mother and her soldier son peeling potatoes for a Thanksgiving meal at the end of World War II sold for $4.3 million (with buyer's premium) at Dallas-based Heritage Auctions on November 5. This was the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Anna Pottery Monument at Crocker Farm
More than a century before the latest reckoning on racism in this country, potters Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick were tweaking the consciences-and funny bones-of stoneware buyers and admirers. Frogs were positioned at the bottom of mugs. Pig-shaped flasks diverted liquids to the animals' rear ends. Miniature chamber pots, complete with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Patricia Stauble
Longtime antiques dealer Patricia "Pat" Stauble has many stories to tell, and after over 50 years in business she continues to write new chapters.
Pat Stauble sits at a tall desk/drawer combination in original blue. On the wall are items from the kitchen of her late mother, Doris Stauble-a painted pumpkin ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pacific Trade and Americana
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
The first week of November was Americana week at Doyle in New York City. American paintings, prints, silver, furniture, and accessories from more than two dozen consignors were offered in five sales in two days. American prints and paintings, marine paintings, and Outsider art filled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Offering 181 lots of 19th- and 20th-century marine paintings, folk art, portraits, topographical prints, Hudson River school works, Western and regional landscapes, still lifes, and a collection of Outsider art, Doyle's November 2 sale totaled $1,384,891 (including buyers' premiums) with a sell-through rate of 90%. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2021
Ranging from modestly priced items seen in provincial sales to a curious 16th-century painting that made a million dollars in London, this month's selection is most definitely a varied one-both in content and in the sums raised.
That painting, which was among lots from the collections of Jasper Conran, keeps company ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mimi Adler's Americana at Nye & Company
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Nye & Company
In the old days, collectors of Americana would haunt city shops and country markets and bid at fancy on-site estate auctions and at farm sales. Some even made the rounds of tag sales. Now collectors browse the Internet in their pajamas ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Set Records
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon's
Woman Playing a Guitar,signed and dated 1901 by Susan Watkins (1875-1913), sold for $106,250 (est. $15,000/25,000). The price was an auction record for the artist. The oil on canvas, 25" x 30" (sight size), was painted in Paris, where the California-born and New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shelburne Museum Reattributes Shorebirds to Bunn
Shelburne Museum Reattributes Shorebirds to Bunn
In the "Bunn or Bowman" decoy debate, one major museum has made a choice. The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, has reattributed five shorebird decoys in its collection to Native American carver Charles Sumner Bunn (1865-1952).
"For nearly a century, there has been confusion and controversy ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Supply Chain
In August I bought a clearance refrigerator from a big box chain at a significant discount. The sale of the floor model fridge was final-no returns. Tickled with the bargain I had gotten, I had it loaded in my Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, drove it home, and unloaded it by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brewster Portrait Stands Tall Among Americana
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
Emile Gruppe (1896-1978), Sugaring Vermont, 1972, 30" x 36" (sight size), oil on canvas, signed and titled on the stretcher, sold for $12,200 (est. $5000/7000).
The October 24 sale at CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, brought a wide range of material from many different collections and ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Show for MADA
MADA Fall Antiques Show, Topsham, Maine
On a chilly October 23, the Maine Antiques Dealers Association launched a new one-day antiques show in Topsham, Maine. The first annual MADA Fall Antiques Show saw 28 dealers set up in two barns at the Topsham Fairgrounds. The show was a no-frills affair that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clyde Singer Painting Leads Art Auction
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
American and European paintings, prints, and sculptures, including works from the Cleveland School of Art, made up the October 23 live and online event presented by Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio. Davis is a big proponent of art from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country and Americana Auction
Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri
Photos courtesy Soulis Auctions
Despite steady interest in Americana, some intriguing items on that market still walk a narrow trail, stepping along a thin line between staying upright and stumbling. Yet there was sure footing during the country and Americana sale held by Soulis Auctions on October ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, November 2021
Ray Welch, Auction, oil on canvasboard, 22" x 28" framed. Robert Chase collection.
-Through December 18, 2021 -Springvale, Maine
Ray Welch (1915-1996), who signed his work "Ray-Welch," was a mill worker in Sanford and North Berwick, Maine. He began painting watercolor scenes in 1957 and quickly moved on to oils. His ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Doyle's $7.4 Million-plus Jewelry Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle in New York City held a 199-lot jewelry sale on October 21 that was 97% sold and realized a total of $7,468,398 (includes buyers' premiums), significantly beating presale estimates of $3,603,700/5,563,300. The sale showcased "prominent estates and distinguished collections" and had an abundance of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Solid Results and an Uptick in Buying
Antique Jewelry and Gemology
Photos courtesy Rago/Wright
Dianne Batista, director of fine jewelry, reported "really solid results and a lot of activity" when Rago/Wright, Lambertville, New Jersey, held its fall jewelry sale on October 20. She said it was a co-branded auction on the Rago and Wright platform. "We are doing that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Handwritten Journal Leads New Haven Auction
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
Something for everyone was the order of the two-day autumn Americana sale held October 16 and 17 at New Haven Auctions in Branford, Connecticut. Fred Giampietro gathered enviable antiques from a variety of collections and estates that buyers snapped up easily. While ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 47th Annual Fall Fox Valley Show-Online
Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
When we wrote about the 2021 online Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show, we introduced the pounce. That's a tactic where buyers await the exact second an online show opens to swoop in and "grab" an item. That was then. But the pounce phenomenon was notably muted ... (Read More)
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(Show)Gilman's Farm Is Becoming a Destination
Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
The fall 2021 edition of the Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show was held October 15 and 16 at Gilman's Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia. This marks the seventh semiannual Virginia Pickers sale, and its growth is obvious.
The spring show had 150 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fall 2021 Ohio Country Antiques Show
Ohio Country Antiques Show, Wilmington, Ohio
It's not necessarily been easy for Jennifer Sabin, but she's made it work. Sabin had a less-than-glorious start after she acquired the Ohio Country Antiques Show in 2020 from Bruce Metzger. The Roberts Centre, a hotel and convention complex in Wilmington, Ohio, has hosted the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, October 2021
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Endless Summer
Beneath the Surface
Or, the summer vacation that wasn't really. Back in the spring, we both got vaccinated. There were tears. A parent or two also cried in relief. The kids acted as if it was a holiday, even though at eight and (by the time you're reading this) 11, they ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Estate of Al Capone
Witherell's, Sacramento, California
Photos courtesy Witherell's
"Buyers drop more than $3.1M during auction of Al Capone's heirlooms" was a headline in the New York Post on October 12. But even before the blockbuster prices, the Witherell's auction on October 8, "A Century of Notoriety: The Estate of Al Capone," was a remarkable ... (Read More)
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(Show)The ADA/Historic Deerfield Online Antiques Show
Antiques Dealers' Association of America
The Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. (ADA), established in May 1984 as a nonprofit trade association to make the business of buying and selling antiques more professional, was one of the first to launch an online antiques show. In 2019 when COVID-19 closed shows and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Yes, "Strings" Attached at Rhinebeck
Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
Yes, "Strings" Attached at Rhinebeck
by Fran Kramer
Musical strings from a violin could be heard at the October 9 and 10 Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck's opening in the usual place, the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, buildings A, B, and C, in the small historic village of ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Record Day at Fishersville
Fishersville Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The 67th semiannual Fishersville Antiques Expo was held as scheduled, October 8 and 9, at the Augusta Expo in Fishersville, Virginia. The show is staged by Heritage Promotions, Lynchburg, Virginia. The firm is co-owned by Ray and Martha Stokes and their daughter, Lesley Bartram. Fishersville is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Western Art Sells at Heritage
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Colorful landscape vistas, sculptures of Native Americans, and paintings of the majesty of life in the American West were popular with bidders in Heritage Auctions' October 8 "Art of the West Showcase Auction."
Landscape paintings by art professor Birger Sandzen and the bronze sculptures of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Art Sale
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Auction Galleries
For the third time in 18 months Swann Galleries held its African American art sale online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This time the sale, held on October 7, resulted in the auction house's highest-grossing event.
At the end of the six-and-a-half-hour ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Little Objects Were a Big Deal
Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, Saint Louis, Missouri
Photos courtesy Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers
Joyce Schoedinger of Columbus, Ohio, had the right idea. Collectors love to collect, but ardent acquirers eventually run up against this hobby's greatest roadblock-space. Just how much stoneware can one house hold? Yes, there's always room for one more ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artemus USA and Edelman Arts Sued Over Lease
Art leasing and art finance companies Artemus LLC and Edelman Arts, Inc., are being sued in the Supreme Court of the State of New York for allegedly not paying rent on a seven-story townhouse at 111 East 70th Street in New York City. The suit was filed by the Permanent ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Sandy Smith
One might expect antiques show impresario Sanford "Sandy" Smith to have a colorful background. He does.
His mother named him for the polo player Stephen "Laddie" Sanford, whom "she was impressed with," as he put it.
At Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, New York, he edited the yearbook and was business manager for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Atten Collection of Pilgrim-Century Objects
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Pilgrim-century and early 18th-century antiques gathered by Marion P. Atten of DeWitt, Illinois, came to market on October 6 at Skinner's gallery in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Atten (1944-2020) was a collector and a knowledgeable dealer in early decorative arts who owned Antiques at Hillwood Farms ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Black River Antique Show
Ludlow, Vermont
The fall foliage was not even close to peak (blame the warm weather evenings), but the annual Black River Antique Show, October 1 and 2, was, as usual, the place to find good buys. There was some brisk business, according to show manager Steve Sherhag of Ohio.
Steve Sherhag's booth ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at the Ice House
Ludlow, Vermont
We knew that Vermont has ski resorts and lodges, but an ice house? In Ludlow, Vermont, one of the annual fall antiques shows was held in what most of us would call an outdoor ice skating rink. Jackson Gore Lodge at Okemo Mountain is a high-end resort with an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$3.5 Million Sale at Pook
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
A Mickey Mouse print by Andy Warhol sold for $196,800 (including buyer's premium); a Harriet Whitney Frishmuth bronze fountain sold for $147,600; an Elie Nadelman bronze head of a man wearing a jaunty hat sold for $116,850; and four bronze 1992 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
An Andrew Clemens sand bottle sold for a record $956,000 (including buyer's premium) against an estimate of $100,000/150,000 during the Hindman auction of American furniture, folk art, and decorative arts on September 30 and October 1 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wes Cowan, vice chair of Hindman, said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Sweet Suite of Potomack Company Sales
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its recent suite of targeted sales in five sessions, spaced over a three-day period, September 28-30, at its Alexandria, Virginia, galleries. Potomack has settled comfortably into a groove of offering these smaller, more precisely curated auctions in series. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hindman's Fall Fine Art Sales Online
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
We love these salad days in the auction biz, and still they continue. This September in a series of three days (September 27-29), each with a cataloged fine art sale, Hindman Auctions in Chicago realized over $7.5 million. In the process, more than 15 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Weston Antiques Show Canceled Again
The Weston Antiques Show in Weston, Vermont, has been canceled; it was scheduled for September 30-October 2. It is the second year that COVID-19 has canceled the show, which is part of the annual Vermont Antiques Week.
"There were COVID-19 concerns expressed by dealers and some of the volunteers who manage ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2021
Things tend to get a little quiet in the London rooms in late July and early August, and this month's "Letter" once again moves into the provinces for some of the lots that make up this latest selection.
That is not to say that big money spinners from the capital are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Camp Cups Story: A Correction and a Follow-Up
In the story about the set of camp cups cataloged as having been owned and used by George Washington that were withdrawn from Nate D. Sanders Auctions' July 29 sale (September, p. 137), the camp cups were compared with documented camp cups in museum collections illustrated in catalogs or posted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Broadside Brings $275,000
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A broadside offering a $100,000 reward for the capture of one of America's most notorious assassins sold for a record $275,000 (including buyer's premium) at Heritage Auctions' September 25 and 26 Americana and political auction. Issued by the U.S. War Department on April 20, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cordier Auction Benefits Art Association and Humane Society of Harrisburg
On September 26 Cordier Auctions & Appraisals, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted an online auction of art from the collection of Raymonde "Re" DeSabres Plaut (1925-2020); the sale benefited the Art Association of Harrisburg and the Humane Society of Harrisburg Area. The artist loved art and animals, and one of her final ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors Appreciate Whitman's Scholarly Focus on Block Prints
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Collecting interests are limitless. From vintage carrot bags (yes, it's a thing) to works by old world masters, there are as many collecting areas to delve into as there are people collecting.
For Robert Whitman (1934-2020), a Wisconsin scholar, American block ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art House to Open in New York City
New York City will welcome a new venue at the former Barneys flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue in Manhattan in November when Art House takes over five floors of the marble-covered, wood-paneled, windowed space strategically located between 60th and 61st Streets.
"We knew that New York has the highest concentration ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century and Modern Design Sales
Rago/Wright, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago/Wright
"We don't have a $3.7 million Tiffany Dandelion lamp to make this another $10 million sale like our sale in May, but in just four months we put together works made of even greater quality than our spring sale," said David Rago as he watched ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Sues Florida Couple and Company over Alleged Fakes
Sotheby's wants its money back. The privately held auction house claims that several consigned Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) lots were fake, as were the provided provenance documents.
On August 5 Sotheby's filed suit in federal court against Frederic Thut, Bettina Von Marnitz Thut, and FAAM LLC (Fine Art Auctions Miami).
According to court ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Shot in the Arm
Two years ago-with the antiques market seemingly mired in the doldrums-we described the annual shows that make up Antiques Week in New Hampshire as a firewall. If the widely anticipated and well-attended Americana shows floundered, it would point to a larger downturn.
In the end, the firewall held, and the 2019 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vase with Missing Neck Sells for $2.45 Million at Doyle
The sale for $2,450,000 (includes buyer's premium) of a "unique imperial masterpiece" at Doyle New York on September 20 created a sensation. The vase, 4 7/8" high x 4" wide overall, with a "missing" neck, attracted some 30 phone bidders to the lot, number 189 in the sale.
$2,450,000. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Show)Battersea Foundation's Second Annual Show
Battersea Antiques Show & Historic Trades Fair, Petersburg, Virginia
The second annual Battersea Antiques Show & Historic Trades Fair was held September 18 and 19 on the grounds of Historic Battersea in Petersburg, Virginia. The event is sponsored by the Battersea Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 whose purpose is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Carlsen Gallery Celebrates 30 Years of Auctions
Carlsen Gallery, Freehold, New York
Photos courtesy Carlsen Gallery
In September 1992 the Carlsen family held the first auction at their new gallery. There were no computers, no websites, no Internet, and no smartphones. Carlsen's buyer's premium was 5%. George Bush was president. The average annual personal income was $22,000. Gasoline was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Decorative Arts, and Fine Jewelry
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
Garth's Auctions held a sale of Americana, decorative arts, and fine jewelry September 9-19. The online-only event was unusual because of its large size (874 lots) and the diverse mix of material, from Windsor chairs to Haitian paintings.
Chinese porcelain vase and bowl, both with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Photographic Pieces of the Past
One Source Auctions, Canandaigua, New York
Every buyer of an old home dreams of a "find," a treasure in the attic, a rare piece of history. But to find an entire "time capsule" with hundreds of items untouched for 100 years from an American cultural movement and its historical figures, along ... (Read More)
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(Show)Chicagoland Decoy Show
Lombard, Illinois
Assume, for the sake of elucidation, that you are on the board of directors of a nationwide ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fresh Kensett Painting Tops $1 Million
A September 18 online sale described as "small ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, October 2021
William Doriani (1891-1958), Flag Day, 1935, oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sidney and Harriet Janis collection. Digital image (c) The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York.
-Through December 11 -Atlanta, Georgia
The High Museum of Art presents Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught ... (Read More)
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(Show)The York Show: This Is What We Missed
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
Photos by Kathy Lesieur
There was a good gate on Friday, September 17, at what show manager Melvin Arion called the 177th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale even though the last one held, pre-COVID-19, January 31-February 2, 2020, was the 174th. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Spanning over a Century at Clars
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Clars Auction Gallery
The fine jewelry and timepieces sale on September 16 at Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, "offered a beautiful selection of diamond, colored gemstone, and signed jewelry spanning over a century," according to Lauren Della-Croce, director of jewelry. "Prices were strong for signed jewelry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Oppenheimer Collection of Meissen
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
On Tuesday, September 14, in a Sotheby's salesroom, 21 collectors and connoisseurs, including several members of the trade, and a lawyer from Tel Aviv representing the consignors of 117 lots of Meissen porcelain filled the chairs arranged in pairs, 6' apart, for social distancing according ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gentlemen, Start Your Bidding
A circa 1909 Marklin clockwork limousine, estimated at $7500/25,000, sold for $48,875 (includes buyer's premium) at Stony Ridge Auction in Lemoyne, Ohio, on September 12. The buyer was Doug Prendeville of Train Collector's Warehouse and Tin Toy Gallery in Parsippany, New Jersey. The underbidder was on the phone.
$48,875. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Premier Sale with Adjustments
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions' "Premier" sale in Asheville, North Carolina, on Saturday, September 11, was a day when, in the words of American fine art specialist Nan Zander, the history of American painting was on display. In addition, major collections of American furniture and Delft ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Part Two of Schroeder Collection Brings $2.6 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
September 10 and 11 found the gallery of Bertoia Auctions once again filled with the ultimate antique toy fantasyland, compliments of the Aaron and Abby Schroeder collection. This autumn event was round two. The first auction to disperse the couple's collection took place ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record Price Paid at Wiederseim
An oil on canvas by Xanthus Russell Smith (1839-1929), estimated at $5000/7000, sold for a record-breaking $106,250 (with buyer's premium) at Wiederseim Associates in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, on September 10. We could find no other work by Smith selling for a higher price at auction.
The buyer, according to Ted Wiederseim, was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dave Drake Stoneware Jar Sets Record at $1.56 Million
The Zipp family of Crocker Farm sold a 25-gallon poem jar by Dave Drake, among the most important items of American stoneware the firm has sold in its career, for $1.56 million (with buyer's premium) in an auction that closed on August 6. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Southern Sale with Exceptions
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
Jeremy Wooten displayed his Palmetto State pride at the beginning, middle, and end of the September 4 Wooten & Wooten online sale. He led with Depression-era artists from the South Carolina Low Country. Midway, he brought out a massive French chandelier ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Questioning the Canon
Beneath the Surface
This summer, in an attempt to encourage reading something other than Calvin and Hobbes comics (which, don't get us wrong, we love and which are great for vocabulary), we decided to create a summer reading challenge. The idea was pretty straightforward. Each kid got a list of 25 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rago/Wright Merges with Los Angeles Modern Auctions
Rago/Wright will merge with Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA). All three independently owned houses will continue to work under their individual names while sharing technology, expertise, and marketing efforts. Richard Wright will continue in his role as CEO of the combined companies.
LAMA, founded in 1992 by Peter Loughrey (1968-2020), was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VADA Dissolved
On July 27 the eight-person board of the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association (VADA) met at the Middlebury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont, and voted unanimously to dissolve the association.
"The board voted to disband the organization after reaching out to membership. It came down to a lack of interest and a lack ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, September 2021
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Second Half of Splendor
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
From August 27 to 29, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries presented a marathon three-day sale that brought in over $3 million after several post-sale deals were finalized. Titled "Splendor, Part II," the sale presented a wide variety of antiques and art. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Conducts Huge Summer Americana Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
When covering antiques and collectibles auctions, our reports often refer to the "wide range" of items that were offered "across many categories." This is an attempt to give the reader an idea of the overall scope of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Online Wildfowl Auction
Decoys Unlimited, West Barnstable, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Decoys Unlimited
The Decoys Unlimited online sale held on August 28 was the third of the summer wildfowl auctions. At this auction, miniatures by Anthony Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) were the hot lots. Some 37 lots by Crowell were offered.
It is fitting that Crowell works performed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Are They or Are They Not George Washington's Camp Cups?
On August 20, 1777, George Washington gave Philadelphia silversmith Edmund Milne (1724-1822) 16 silver dollars weighing 13 ounces 18 dwt. to make a dozen camp cups to serve wine to his officers in the field. Milne's charge for making them was 8 pounds 8 shillings.
According to the bill to "His ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2021
Though I have in recent times started and hope to continue to include appealing and unusual lots from country sales on these pages, this month's selection is very much a "Letter from London" and features lots that are both very rare and, generally speaking, very expensive.
There are lots of pictures, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Dismisses "Net to You" Contract Lawsuit
On July 26 Judge Joel M. Cohen dismissed a lawsuit filed against Hirschl & Adler Galleries and Stuart Feld by collector and hedge-fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt.
The suit, filed in New York Supreme Court in November 2020, concerned a full-length portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart-the so-called Munro-Lenox portrait-that Hirschl ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with William Secord
If one has a question on a particular breed of dog and how the standards have changed since the late 18th century, William "Bill" Secord probably has a book on it. In fact, his collection of antique books on dogs, ranging from 1785 to World War II, numbers some three ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cape Cod Glass Show in New Location
The 33rd annual Cape Cod Glass Show and Sale will be held in a new location. It will now be located at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts (use exit 75-old exit 8-on the Mid-Cape Highway).
Sponsored by the Cape Cod Glass Club, a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)If the Price and the Recontextualization Are Right
On July 10 the Charlottesville, Virginia, City Council voted unanimously to remove Their First View of the Pacific, a sculpture by Charles Keck (1875-1951) depicting Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea that was installed at the intersection of West Main and Ridge-McIntire Street. The city had previously removed statues of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 2021
Before and after images of a portrait of Mary T. Holbrook Cheever, donated by Kimberley Leach, a descendant of the sitter. Identified by scholar Deborah M. Child as the work of Edwin Plummer (1802-1880).
-Through October 11 -Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth Treasures: A Century of Collecting at Portsmouth Historical Society at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Antique American Indian Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Antique American Indian Art Show ran August 17-20 and closed out Antique Week in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Like its sibling show, Objects of Art, it ran concurrently with a companion virtual show (August 9-31) featuring material available at the show and online offered by dealers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Arts Sale
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Eldred's maritime arts sale held August 19 and 20 under the tent at the East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery brought historical objects to market from a variety of collections, including those of Ian R. MacKenzie and New Yorker Michael Gill, who acquired much of his collection ... (Read More)
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