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(Fragment)Catalogue Raisonnee Exclusion Results in Lawsuit
Florham Park, New Jersey, dealer Fred Parker filed suit in federal court in October against the Brandywine Conservatory and the Brandywine River Museum over the exclusion of his painting from the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonne.According to the suit, in 1981 Parker, a collector and dealer who specializes in 19th- and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Why People Join Museums
by Daniel GrantArt museums keep track of the number of people who visit them throughout the year. At least one, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, is looking at why people join as members. Topping the list were the social activities offered by the museum, particularly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Railroad Collectors Convene at New York Auction
Jon Lee Auction Services, Latham, New Yorkby Betty FloodPhotos courtesy Jon Lee Auction ServicesDietz A1 bell-bottom lantern, $143.Pennsylvania Railroad red globe lantern, $121.Rutland Railroad clear globe lantern, $176.The two-day auction held June 19 and 20 by Jon Lee Auction Services in Latham, New York, was a bonanza for any railroad ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: "Yawn to See Reality"
by Steve ProffittEver since I was a kid I've loved spinning tops. I love to see their colors spiral and radiate as they stand like ballerinas pirouetting in place. I love to see them slide across a table or floor, kiss a nearby object, and then quickly dance away. I ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Show Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Derik Pulito of Kensington, Connecticut, brought furniture, smalls, and paintings. The circa 1920 large oil painting of a landscape featuring cattle was painted by Daniel Wentworth, who, according to the dealer, was born in Norway, Maine, but had resided in Connecticut. Its price was $5000.Ian McKelvey of South Windham, Connecticut, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Start of Manchester Antiques Show
Promoters Tina and John Bruno with a rare windup witch from Century House Antiques & Toys, Alfred, New York.The booths were room settings.Always classy, the booth of Hanes & Ruskin Antiques, Olde Lyme, Connecticut, featured the best examples of Federal furniture and accessories.This 1890's wood and sheet iron man and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Mid-Week in Manchester: Will it Be On the Move Again?
Manchester, New Hampshireby Jeanne SchintoBaldwin House Antiques, Strasburg, Pennsylvania, asked $33,500 for the circa 1775 Chippendale open cupboard of yellow pine and chestnut, probably Virginia/ Maryland, in brown over orange paint. The circa 1650 bulbous-legged Jacobean draw table of European oak ($12,500) came from an estate in Baltimore's Roland Park. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 by Klaus Ottmann (Parrish Art Museum, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Good Fare at Goosefare
The painted tin copper teapot had just a little roughness on it and was $220. The box in the middle wasn't tin but papier-mache and had four individually painted designs; it was $350. The best, the one on the right, circa 1840, with an unusual flower design, was possibly from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Topsy-Turvy Results
Rookwood Vellum glaze plaque, On the Riva by Ed Diers, Venetian scene, 9" x 15" plus frame, very good condition, no crazing, a few burst air bubbles, $16,100.Treadway Gallery, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Treadway GalleryThink of it as a plot twist.Treadway Gallery's decorative arts auction, held June 5 ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Show: Perfect Weather, Uneven Sales
The hooked rug with roosters looked over what appeared to be acres of pottery, toys, and other smalls. R.S.P. Antiques, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, priced the hooked rug at $1850.Melissa Bourque Antiques, Garrison, New York, showed the really nice country Queen Anne drop-leaf table. The dark paint on the base ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Backing Up
by John P. Reid, e-mail: jreid@dca.netData backup and restore can use local storage, Internet storage, or both.A total computer crash! After 25 years of using personal computers, a crash had wiped out all my software and data files.Software is replaceable at a cost, but data often is not. Lost were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Painted Pennsylvania Cupboard Leads Sale
The high lot of the Evans sale was this Pennsylvania paint-decorated poplar Dutch cupboard. The two-piece cupboard features an ogee-molded cornice above two six-pane doors over a pie shelf. The interior of the upper case is unpainted and displays a mug shelf and two shelves with plate rails, one with ... (Read More)
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(Show)Changes in the Wind at Elm Bank Show
Steele & Steele, Middletown, Rhode Island, attracted a crowd with decorative items for the house and garden. David Steele reported later, "We had a wonderful show, twenty-eight sales from twenty dollars to four hundred fifty dollars."Steele & Steele's hooked rug depicting a clipper ship at sea was $325. The rustic ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Garden Party May Be Over
Roger Williams of Boat House Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine, had a different kind of story to tell from his booth. He took the opportunity to promote a heretofore unrecognized, mostly undiscovered artist. Candasa Edwards Epstein (b. 1924) grew up in Denison, Texas, and studied at the Art Students League in New ... (Read More)
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(Feature)O'Brien's 2010 Report Card: Artworks A, Decoys C+
Bull Moose was the largest of the five Rungius paintings offered. The 40" x 50" oil on canvas achieved the second-highest price of the group when it sold to a phone bidder for $373,750 (est. $200,000/ 400,000).The Rapids by Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983) sold to Donal O'Brien for $345,000 (est. ... (Read More)
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(Show)In the Trade: David and Becky Griffiths, Forestport, New York
Becky and Dave Griffiths and their dog, Tyler.The raised-panel jelly cupboard is in nice "Mohawk Valley" green over gray paint. It's just under 5' tall x 431/2" wide x 111/2" deep. "It's right as rain," Dave said, and $5800. On top are three round pantry boxes priced inversely totheir size. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Bow Lawsuit Dismissed
Zoran Stoyanovich's lawsuit against Brompton's Auctioneers of England was voluntarily dismissed on September 17 without prejudice.
On September 23, Brompton's released a press release concerning the case. It read "Brompton's Auctioneers is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Early Manhattan and South Amboy Stoneware Excels
The sale began with a large offeringof Anna Pottery items from the Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick operation in Anna, Illinois. The circa 1880 stoneware hanging basket, attributed to the Anna Pottery, survived in good condition over the years. The fresh-to-the-market pot came from a consignor in Georgia, who reportedly bought ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Round Lake Antiques Festival
Ken Woodbury of Nipper's Choice, Keene, New Hampshire, stands by his Art Case Victrola, priced at $1895.Marilyn Mullen stands by a highly carved Victorian mahogany desk priced at $1095.Round Lake, New Yorkby Betty FloodMore than 10,000 people visited the 38th annual Round Lake Antiques Festival, which is sponsored by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History and Civil War Auction
Abraham Lincoln autographed carte de visite, by Mathew Brady, clipped corners, paper loss, ink smudge, $38,775.Eggcup from the first Lincoln White House service, Haviland, Limoges, circa 1861, excellent condition, $20,562.50.Mary Todd Lincoln archive of commitment papers to Bellevue Place, Batavia, Illinois, $37,600.Whole-plate daguerreotype of Lewis Cass by Mathew Brady, numerous ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Riding Out the Storm
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSeveral months back, Andrew got an invitation to speak at the Historic New Orleans Collection's Antiques Forum. When we started discussing whether he had the time to put the talk together and to make the trip, Hollie's response was, "When someone invites you to visit ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shannon's Hires Newman to Lead New Business Development
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, has hired Joseph Newman to lead new business development. Previously with Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City, the Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut, and William Reese Company, New Haven, Connecticut, Newman brings an extensive background in American art, rare books, and history to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Famed Polaroid Photo Collection Takes in Record $12.4 Million
Andy Warhol wonders never cease. His Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed), a 1979 Polaroid Polacolor print, in a civilized 24" x 201/2" format, was estimated modestly at $10,000/15,000, but the bidding never stopped until it tipped the scales at an astonishing $254,500.Sotheby's, New York Cityby Dorothy S. GelattPhotos courtesy Sotheby'sLet's hear it ... (Read More)
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(Show)Pickers Market Draws Crowds for First Looks
Baker & Co. Antiques, Soquel, California, arranged an overflowing booth full of country accessories that looked right at home in New Hampshire. Among this array of cloth dolls and animals are some of the sought-after dolls from the Amish. The price range of the dolls was $495 to $1895.In a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast's Annual Sale Gets $2.753 Million in Manchester
A very clean Boston Queen Anne walnut highboy, 691/2" high x 39" wide, had an Israel Sack provenance and no problems. It sold at Christie's on October 5, 2000, as lot 75 where it brought $204,000. Here, ten years later, it sold at the top end of its $75,000/150,000 estimate ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Johnson Clockmakers of Sanbornton: Highly Regarded, Little Known
Figure 1A. Patent timepiece, Johnson Brothers, Sanbornton, New Hampshire, circa 1875. Courtesy Tom and Diane Bartlow, California.Figure 1B. Eight-day bronze and brass movement.Figure 1C. Rear view of the movement. Note the two "dog-ear" attachments on the rear plate.Figure 1D. Reverse-painted tablet "Constitution's Escape From a British Squadron."Figure 2A. Photo of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jane Stickle Quilt on Display
The quilt that inspires quilters all over the world will be on its yearly display at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, until October 14. Brought to the museum 60 years ago, the Jane Stickle quilt is shown only for a short time each year because of the fragility of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farnham Nautical Collection Auction
A 64" x 42" blue-back chart of "Vineyard Sound & Nantucket Shoals," surveyed by George Eldridge and published by "S. Thaxter & Son," sold for $2200. Samuel Thaxter founded the marine instrument supply company in 1792, and the Boston firm remained in business until 1919.Chart of the "Gulf and River ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneers Request Immunity
by Elizabeth DinanAttorney Harry Starbranch (left) and auctioneer Stephen Bennett in Portsmouth District Court on August 3.Two New Hampshire auctioneers, accused of rigging the bidding for the sale of an S.F.M. Badger nautical painting in order to collect a commission, have asked a judge to allow them to appear as ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration
Greg Hamilton of Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, offered this Northwest Coast gathering basket for $1500. Hamilton, who said he found the basket in an Addison, Vermont, barn, also displayed primitive wood boxes, sterling bowls, and candelabra. He sold a schoolmaster's desk to another dealer the first morning of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Korean Painting Tops American Primitive
Park Soo-Keun mixed media painting, $460,000.Oil on canvas portrait by J.B. Gregory, $46,000.Frank Shapleigh oil on canvas, $31,625.John Mcinnis Auctioneers, Ogunquit, Maineby Mark SiscoTwo paintings from polar opposites of the artistic spectrum provided the major sparks at John McInnis's two-day auction in Ogunquit, Maine, on July 16 and 17. One ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale Exhibits Irregular Pulse
The auction's top lot was the portrait of the ship Rappahannock, a 311/2" x 42" unsigned oil on wood panel that sold for $35,550 (est. $2500/3500).This was the best seller among the dozens of vanes. The 19th-century flattened full-bodied molded copper ram with weathered gilt surface and its original horns ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tilden-Thurber and The Weiss Collection
Stanley Weiss plays his Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu violin, noting that Paganini preferred a Guarneri to a Stradivarius. He seems to be accompanied by the woman at the piano in the portrait by John Blunt. Weiss said he bought the painting at a Christie's auction years ago.The fourth floor, like ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Continuing to plough my way through the summer backlog, I have focused my attention this month on record-breaking English watercolours by Cozens, Towne, and others, as well as a further group by J.M.W. Turner. The latter is also represented by a Roman panorama in oils that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antiques-a-Palooza
EditorialEight bucks will get you a ticket to the Warren County Antiques Fair & Festival on September 25 and 26 in Harmony, New Jersey. As show admission fees go, that's on the low side.Carole Deutsch, involved in managing the show, is making sure that visitors get their money's worth. She's ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Heritage Auctions Opens New York City Gallery
The new Manhattan gallery and offices of Heritage Auction Galleries opened at 445 Park Avenue (at 57th Street) on September 1."The New York City area is home to many of the top collectors and collections and the center of the art and antiques market," said Greg Rohan, president of Heritage. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sour Note: Lawsuits Filed over Pricey Bows; (Update) Suit Dismissed
Update: Suit Dismissed
Zoran Stoyanovich's lawsuit against Brompton's Auctioneers of England was voluntarily dismissed on September 17 without prejudice.
On September 23, Brompton's released a press release concerning the case. It read "Brompton's Auctioneers is one of the leading auction houses worldwide that specializes exclusively in the field of fine musical ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Success in Trying Times: NHADA's 53rd Annual Show
The set is not signed, but Jeff Cherry of Cherry Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, has had similar ones that were marked "Heywood-Wakefield." Cherry said he loves the light, airy look of them. He asked a very reasonable $2800 for the set.Frank & Barbara Pollack American Antiques & Art, Sunapee, New Hampshire, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Major Change of Hours for Brooklyn Museum
Beginning Wednesday, October 6, the Brooklyn Museum will be open to the public eight additional hours a week, including remaining open until 10 p.m. every Thursday and Friday. When the new schedule goes into effect, the Brooklyn Museum will have a greater number of evening hours than almost any other ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Footstool Hits $92,000
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc., Dover, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoLockwood de Forest footstool, $92,000.From the de Forest estate came this collection of 12 parcel-gilt, hammered sterling, and mixed metal spoons by Tiffany, circa 1880. Each was individually executed and had applied figures of a monkey, a frog, a crab, a beetle, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Reproduction
Carter Kyan Caisse was born on May 8, 2010. He's the first grandchild for Wiscasset, Maine, dealers Dennis and Natalie Louwers Antiques. "Our little salesman's sample-he's met a lot of our customers at the shop this summer here in Maine," they wrote. Originally published in the October 2010 issue of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mostly Winners in the Fine Collection
The 24" x 191/2" oil on wood portrait of a seated child in a white dress, circa 1825 and by Sheldon Peck, sold for $200,600 to dealer David Schorsch on the phone, underbid by another David who deals in folk art, David Wheatcroft, that is.The 83/4" high coffeepot was attributed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hirschl & Adler Galleries Moving to Expanded Quarters
by Lita Solis-CohenWhat has been rumored all summer was finally confirmed by gallery owner Stuart P. Feld and his daughter, Elizabeth Feld. Hirschl & Adler Galleries will move in late fall from its historic townhouse at 21 East 70th Street in New York City, where the gallery has carried on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Auction Market Rebound
by Daniel GrantDon't try this at home. In 2007 The Fine Art Fund, a London-based art hedge fund, purchased British artist Glenn Brown's 1992 painting Dali-Christ for $1.1 million; the fund sold it in June 2010 at a Christie's auction in London for $2.2 million. A 100% profit in just ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Florida Man Charged in Fake Art Sting
Luigi Cugini of Pompano Beach, Florida, was charged with committing mail fraud in a criminal complaint filed on August 19 in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida. Cugini allegedly sold reproductions of John Singer Sargent paintings that he claimed were authentic. Cugini, also known as Gino Cugini, was arrested ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ohio Valley Auction
Soap Hollow chest of drawers by Jeremiah Stahl, dated 1864, red ground with stenciled birds and flowers, some paint wear and losses, varnish darkened and partially cleaned, pet scratches, most escutcheon inlays missing, $14,100.Pair of portraits attributed to William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), oil on artist board, unsigned, 15" x 101/2" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Downsizing the Dobson Collection: A Personal Perspective
Top lot of the sale was this very early 19th-century sheet iron fish weathervane, 30" long, from Lunenburg County, that sold for $4950.This was featured on the cover of the catalog and described therein as "outstanding and rare." Bill Dobson used this whirligig from Quebec City, 23" in diameter, as ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Podcasts
Frank Farmer Loomis records his Keep Antiquing radio broadcasts as podcasts for Internet distribution. Photo courtesy station WMKV-FM.Computer Column #261by John P. Reid, e-mail: jreid@dca.netPodcasting is an odd corner of the Internet that might interest antiquers. A podcast is like a radio or television program, but it is broadcast over ... (Read More)
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(Show)White House Antiques Show: 25 Years and Counting
According to the 25th annual White House Antiques Show program, "For 25 years, Hawken School has held the White HouseAntiques Show to raise funds for the preservation and upkeep of the historic White House. Built in 1923, the mansion was once the family home of Walter C. White, president of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Copley Library Sale Features Twain Trove and Declaration Broadside
A Declaration of Independence broadside, 17" x 14 1/8", published on July 15 or 16, 1776, in Salem, Massachusetts, sold to William Reese for $572,500 (est. $600,000/ 800,000). It is attributed to John Rogers at the printing office of Ezekiel Russell. "This is the first of the two Salem printings, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist by Debra Bricker Balken (The Boston Athenaeum, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old Tools and a Young Clock at Auction
A special and unique grandfather clock produced by inventor Charles Young of York Harbor, Maine. It sold for $1955.This double-door wall-mounted tool chest full of luthier and regular hand tools brought $6325.An elaborate and densely woven wicker desk and chair set caught a bidder's fancy to the tune of $2645.Hap ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Out of Anonymity: Ruby Devol Finch (1804-1866)
by Donald R. WaltersIn three recent consecutive preliminary articles1 for this column on "folk" portraiture in nineteenth century America an attempt has been made to construct a general framework of reference for a discussion of individual artists and their work. My aim has been (1) to place the artist accurately ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's to Sell Martin Folk Art
Carved huntsman, wearing a gray jacket with yellow buttons and holding a bird with his dog at his feet, 19" tall, illustrated in Lipman's American Folk Art in Wood, Metal and Stone, estimated at $30,000/60,000.by Lita Solis-CohenAlastair Bradley Martin and his wife, Edith, lived at a time when all sorts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old and New at Foster Folk Art Auction
Two-gallon Norton "guitar" crock, $5280.This eastern Native American ash splint basket sold for $2145.A good and early stretcher-based chair table in an old red paint with wear in all the right places and a two-board scrubbed top fared well at $2750.Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoDid you hear the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Key Lots Excite Bidders at June Auction
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(Feature)In the Trade: Jerry and Pat Jordan, Dorset, Vermont
The Jordans' shop. It looks old, but they built it recently using parts from an 18th-century Maine home. The couple is camera-shy. They're hiding inside.Part of the shop's interior.Amusing hooked rug, 29" x 27", the clock face tan and the wide outside border burgundy, $1675.Account book of tailor James Read ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Metal Restoration Center Reopens
The Antique Metal Restoration Center is reopening in East Walpole, Massachusetts. Otto Suchy has restored everything metal from suits of armor to candlesticks. A family business started in 1938 in Czechoslovakia by Suchy's father, the firm moved to the United States in 1968.Over the years Suchy has worked for museums ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in California
A Chippendale mahogany blockfront chest of drawers, possibly made by George Bright of Boston, sold to an East Coast dealer for $61,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). That was the highest price in the Americana section of the auction, although it did not come up to the chest's lower estimate. With an impressive ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Reviews: Life after Lovejoy #23
by Marilis Hornidge When it comes to mysteries with a solid antiques background these days, the gleanings are amazingly few. Best-selling glitzy thrillers of the Da Vinci Code ilk seem to have discouraged authors (and/or publishers) from the old-fashioned puzzles with class and background; the determinedly light-reading writers have been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mackle Collection Highlights Evans Glass Sale
We have often commented that no serious glass collection is complete without an example of a pressed tulip vase from the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. The collection of Larry and Sandy Mackle is no exception. These brilliant deep teal or peacock blue vases measure 11" high with a base ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 20th Anniversary of the Heartland Antiques Show
Tom Armitage Art & Antiques, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, offered the carved table for $695, the crib quilt for $1250, and the blanket chest in green paint for $2350.Halsey Munson of Decatur, Illinois, asked $5100 for the New England stretcher-base tavern table, probably Essex County, Massachusetts, 1710-40, and $2500 for the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Possible Sale of Library Rarities Raises Rancor in Washington, D.C.
by David HewettThe atmosphere on Capitol Hill is perpetually roiled and particularly so in this summer of 2010. There are the shooting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; verbal and print wars fought daily between the administration and Republicans, news outlets, and bloggers; the battle against those responsible for the oil ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Auction at Phillips
This rare large (10 1/8" diameter) bowl by Lucie Rie (1902-1995) in porcelain with a manganese and blue glaze with sgraffito and inlaid designs, impressed with the artist's seal, sold for $74,500 (est. $14,000/ 18,000) to a bidder in the salesroom who battled with phone bidder 1045, who had outbid ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Still working my way through the summer catalogues, I have had to make some decisions about what goes into this month's column, and what will have to wait for the October and November issues. Chinese and Japanese works of art have not been ignored but held ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Michaan's and Haines Team Up
Michaan's Auctions in Alameda, California, has partnered with decorative arts expert Reyne Haines. Their first auction will be held in November and includes 20th-century decorative arts, furniture, jewelry, and fine art from the Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, and mid-century periods. They are accepting consignments for the inaugural ... (Read More)
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(Show)Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the California Country Antiques and Folk Art Show
Donna Staggs of Donna's Antiques, Fullerton, California, asked $395 for the horse on wheels and $195 for the teddy bear wearing a sweater suit. "The bear has been in my family for a long time, and his suit has never come off," Staggs said. "This is the only good country ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design at Auction
Greg Kuharic, who worked at Sotheby's from 1988 to 2003, is now a decorative arts consultant and studio potter in Mishawaka, Indiana. He bought a pair (one shown) of Tiffany Studios Grape Trellis windows, which came from Overcliff in Park Hill, New York, for $146,500. He also bought a single ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Value of Selling
by Steve ProffittThe past two months I wrote about "negative" selling-that is, people selling themselves into bad deals.This month I write about the inverse of that concept-positioning for success through "value selling." People who sell value maximize results by gaining the best deals that yield the most lucrative rewards.Are you ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Print Shop Will Open Western Branch
by Lita Solis-Cohen"We sold our house to the first people who looked at it and signed an agreement of sale for a house in Colorado. Now I'm looking for the right space for a branch gallery of the Philadelphia Print Shop in Cherry Creek where I can set up shop ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Born under a Bad Sign
"It's not good for the town, it's not good for the church, and it certainly wasn't good for the antiques dealers," collector Mary Grothe of Gainesville, Virginia, said.We called Grothe after she forwarded a letter she sent to her local newspaper, the Fauquier Times-Democrat. It read, in part, "A couple ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XX
Overbeck vase, carved with repeating profiles of women walking amid stylized flowers, Elizabeth and Mary Frances Overbeck, marked, 14 3/8" high, light crazing, otherwise excellent condition, $17,250.Daum Nancy cameo lamp, the shade and base with cockscomb flower heads, dark purple-brown over marmalade, marked, 20" high, shade 123/4" diameter, very good ... (Read More)
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(Show)The NSADA Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
Joseph M. Hayes Antiques, Columbus, Ohio, brought the 18th-century Queen Anne secretary bookcase. It was 78" high x 36" wide and tagged $35,000. The English sterling candlesticks were $2500 for the set of four. Hayes told us that they are early 20th-century copies of a set in the Victoria and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Massachusetts Mercury Law Exempts Antique Instruments
by Jeanne SchintoAntiques dealers, auctioneers, and collectors are applauding the passage of a new Massachusetts law, S2403, "An Act Relative to the Sale of Antique Barometers, Thermometers, and Clocks," signed by Governor Deval Patrick on July 26. The legislation exempts pre-1955 "mercury-added" devices from the sales ban established by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fresh Folk Art Carvings Lead the Way
Unlike many key baskets, this example is not marked with the name of the harness or saddle shop where it was made. The 7" x 10" x 4" oval leather basket is decorated with three rows of simple hammered punch impressions. The padded leather handle is affixed to the body ... (Read More)
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(Show)Eighth Annual Shaker Village Antiques Show
Nettie Jarvis of Bloomfield, Kentucky, showed a beautiful cherrywood tester bed with canopy. It was purchased in Kentucky and priced at $6500. Partially seen at right is a customer examining a No. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: A Collector by Any Other Name
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondYou can imagine our surprise when a recent letter to the editor opined that there are no longer any collectors, that there have, in fact, not been collectors since the early 90's. We can't comment much on the early 90's, as our concerns at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)USArtists Moves to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
by Lita Solis-CohenUSArtists, to be held October 1-3, will be a different show this year. This major show and sale of American art is leaving the gymnasium-like space at the 33rd Street Armory and moving to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), in a new gallery space in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Snavely Eagles Soar at Sale
This George Hoff, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,30-hour movement withpewter dial in a country Chippendale softwood tall case sold for $16,500. The clock had some restoration, and the light brown- and yellow-painted decoration on the case was old but not original.The pair of Carl Snavely spread-wing eagles with finely detailed cross-hatching and feather ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Glass Museum Opens
The grand opening celebration of the New Bedford Museum of Glass (NBMOG) will be held the weekend of September 10-12. More than 1000 examples of the glassmaker's art are now housed in 50 monumental display cases at the new facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts.Collection highlights include a core-formed Eastern Mediterranean ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Watercolor Scroll Tops Auction
A Chinese watercolor scroll by Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), depicting an eagle standing on a rock, 20th century, 67" x 231/2", generated the highest bid of the auction, $203,150.A color aquatint, Bacchanale, after PabloPicasso, circa 1959, framed 251/2" x 301/2",sold for $10,755.A Steuben plum jade glass vase, created in the 1920's, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Burton Antiques Market Is Back
Dealers were set up outside and inside the track and on the infield at the June 12 Burton (Ohio) Antiques Market. The fall show will be held September 25.Phillip Ball, the business manager for Dr. W.H. Smith Antiques, Butler, Pennsylvania, shows how a patient would have been positioned when one ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Sentenced
Anthony Bonneau, 46, former owner of T's Family Auction in Cairo, New York, was sentenced to two and one-third to seven years in prison after Bonneau failed to pay Valerie Ducos after auctioning her art.According to Greene County District Attorney Terry Wilhelm, Ducos had commissioned Bonneau to sell some artwork ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sorger Sale at Freeman's
by Lita Solis-CohenThere is an old adage that auctions held on site bring a third more than in a salesroom. With this in mind, Freeman's in Philadelphia is doing the next best thing: holding the presale exhibition for the estate of the late Joseph Sorger in his elegant townhouse at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Santa Comes to Town and Bags $161K
Althof, Bergmann & Co. Santa sleigh and goat team, $161,000. Julia photo.Tin equestrian toy attributed to Althof, Bergmann & Co. by Julia, $26,450.James D. Julia department head AndrewTruman predicted that this double Caillemachine with the original music would goover the top, and it did. It was retrieved from Kentucky where ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highs and Lows, Hits and Misses at Inuit Art Auction
The catalog cover lot, Hooded Figure by John Pangnark (1920-1980) of Arviat, was his best minimalist carving among the eightin the sale. Auctioneer Duncan McLean praised its "beautiful size and strength." Estimated at $6000/9000, the 71/4" high sculpture earned $14,400 ($14,209).Polar Bear and Cub in Ice, a skin stencil print ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spring American Paintings Auctions
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Off Shore, 1967, signed lower right, tempera on masonite, 211/4" x 511/2", $6,354,500 (est. $1.2/1.8 million). The three men, one of them Wyeth's neighbor, are going clam digging on the Georges River in Cushing, Maine, which was the view from Wyeth's front lawn. A large painting, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Civil War Auction Hits $1.16 Million
Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman's presentation flag, the inscribed sword he was wearing when killed at the Battle of Champion Hill in 1863, and his sword belt generated the top bid of the auction, $59,750. These artifacts had been in the possession of the direct lineal descendants of General Tilghman ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Oregon Auctioneer/Dealer Charged with Unlawful Trade Practices
by David HewettOn July 22, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced that the state had filed a lawsuit in Multnomah County against Lucy Leffler Knopf. Knopf and her auction firm, AAA Team Auctions, Antique & Art Dealers, LLC, are charged with several violations of Oregon's Unlawful Trade Practices Act and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fancy Mantel Leads Farmer Sale
The star of the Farmer sale was this painted Virginia folk art mantel. Unfortunately, no photograph can do justice to this magnificent piece of craftsmanship. It is profusely decorated with three-dimensional medallions and sunburst carvings, and the columns are intricately marbleized. The chimneypiece measures 621/2" x 851/2" overall, with an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Estate of Nicholas Colella
Western landscape attributed to Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), unsigned, $21,850.Carved marble fireplace supposedly from the home of Leonardo da Vinci at Chateau du Cloux, $34,500.Kelly & Ben Schultz Auctioneers, Syracuse, New Yorkby Charles WennerPhotos courtesy Schultz AuctioneersThe estate of Nicholas E. Colella (1920-2008) was sold on March 20 at an unreserved ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Pure and Simple Antique Show
Cast-iron ram shooting target, fresh to the market, $3850, and one of two Mott Foundry benches, circa 1865, $2250 the pair from Don and Marta Orwig of Corunna, Indiana.Mike and Marti Korba of The old Shed, Russiaville, Indiana, had already sold the sawbuck table, but the jelly cupboard (center) in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Standing Room Only at Slotin Folk Art Auction
After about two hours of "warmup," the section that the Slotins call the "Masters" was offered. It included two examples by Mattie Lou O'Kelley of Banks County, Georgia, both from the Karen and Werner Gundersheimer collection. Her Spotted Cat, 24" x 18", had been illustrated in a 1980 Life magazine ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
Carlson & Stevenson, Manchester Center, Vermont, asked $1400 for the trundle bed (it would make a nice coffee table with a piece of glass on top) and $850 for the circa 1910 double birdcage. The early 20th-century watercolors of ships by a California artist are in period frames and were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art Auction
A Haida or Tlingit eagle effigy bowl, estimated at $50,000/80,000, was the auction's top seller at $146,000. The bowl "went overseas," purchased by a dealer who was not necessarily the end user, Jim Haas said. He said that bowls like this-"a great early classic example of Northwest Coast material"-were "exceedingly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Oriental and Decorative Strong at Northeast Sale
The 5 7/8" diameter Chinese porcelain bowl had lovely color and form, and the seal of Daoguang on the base dated it to 1821-50. A similarly marked pair of 123/4" high vases in a Famille Rose pattern brought an astounding $902,500 at Christie's on September 15, 2009. They were from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Canadian Reference Book Pieces Achieve Solid Prices at Auction
The tall clock by Simon Willard, circa 1810, had a great deal going for it and became the top lot of the Ingolfsrud collection, selling at $63,250. May 16.A walnut blanket box with dovetailed construction and bracket ogee feet soared to $10,350, leaving its $150/250 estimate far, far behind. May ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Bad Selling Redux
by Steve ProffittLast month I wrote about one of my sharpest peeves-how we frequently "sell" ourselves into bad spots. We make bad buys, get into bad jams, fall for bad scams, suffer bad losses, and get bitten by bad deals. No one holds a gun to our heads. We do ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Brandywine Show 2010
Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut, asked $3750 for the unsigned Thomas Willis school silk and paint picture of boats in a tramp art frame. The bowl on the William and Mary chest was $3350, and the mirrored sconce is one of a pair for $3350 the pair. The table ... (Read More)
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